- Down and Out in New York’s Bowery
- Sustainable (non-animal) foods are finally taking market share via taste and value (instead of guilt). This is a tipping point.
- How bad is it in Venezuela? So bad that the indigenous people (you know, the people who have lived there for thousands of years) are fleeing. That says something about their adoption of modern life styles (consumption), but also about the loss of their traditional means of mitigating risk.
- Turkey’s dam projects are destroying the environment and thousands of years of heritage to deliver profits to construction companies. (The photographer was arrested for a month by Turkey’s paranoid government, which imprisons more journalists than any other country.)
- Bitcoin miners are on track to use all the world’s electricity. Something will change, but I have no idea.
- What happens when women win election? Good stuff. Keep going, I say!
- The war on sugar — an interesting podcast
- If you want to learn more about water (conflict) between Israel and Palestine, then I suggest reading this very interesting paper on wastewater management in the region. The authors are also looking for feedback, so free free to contact them!
- Plan on dying at 75. Your life will be more enjoyable and less hopeless. Related: Genes determine only about 6 percent of life expectancy.
- I’m pleased to see an initial international effort to police ocean pollution