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College towns and big coastal cities top our ranking of the metros where it’s easiest to live without a car. Source: The Best and Worst U.S. Places to Live Car-Free
If regulations allow them to, e-bikes could genuinely create a whole new category of transportation. Machines that are mild-mannered enough to poke along in the bicycle lane as cheap, efficient commuters, but that can be uncorked at the push of a button to become powerful trail blasters, or even opened enough to share the highway…
Big tech claims AI and digitization will bring a better future. But putting computers everywhere is bad for people and the planet Source: To decarbonize we must decomputerize: why we need a Luddite revolution | Technology | The Guardian
Sometimes the best things in life are actually free. We spotlight a powerful free resource for photos you can use in any of your projects. Source: Unsplash: An incredible free-to-use collection of images for your projects | ZDNet
Unless it’s covered in animal feces or chemicals, soil is a healthy snack. Source: Parents Should Let Kids Eat Dirt for Gut Health and Immune Protection | Fatherly
“It’s like using long passwords. It’s one of those things where we should be doing it, but we never get around to it.” Source: Here’s how to make a signal-blocking cell phone pouch like the ones protesters are using at the Republican National Convention — Quartz
Expensive moss walls are the latest trend to combat air pollution in major cities, but can a few square metres of plant matter really solve the problem? Source: Cities are using walls of moss to tackle air pollution from traffic | New Scientist
A brave band of scholars set out to save us from racism and sexism. What happened? Source: How Cultural Anthropologists Redefined Humanity
This microbe preys on people with lowered immune systems and gut bacteria altered by antibiotic use. Source: A new species of superbug is emerging—and it loves when you eat sugar
The father of modern linguistics is still opening up new kinds of questions and topics for inquiry. Source: On Language and Humanity: In Conversation With Noam Chomsky
A hot room won’t usually kill you, but a hot planet will. If you feel sweaty, just imagine how your grandchildren are going to feel Source: Ditch your air-conditioning. You’ll be fine | Franklin Schneider
A Harvard scholar says viewing science and technology with a critical eye can make the world a better place Source: We Should All Be Science Critics – Scientific American Blog Network
New research shows that downsizing to a tiny home can cut your ecological footprint by 45%. Source: Now There’s Proof That Tiny Homes Are Better Homes
The Earth is in the grips of what scientists have dubbed the “Sixth Mass Extinction” with the global rate of species extinction at least “tens to hundreds of times higher” than the average over the Source: Indigenous Lands Have Highest Biodiversity: ‘We Must Manage a Larger Fraction of World’s Area in Ways That Protect Species’
Five diseases with telltale odours – though you might not smell them yourself. Source: What does disease smell like? – BBC Science Focus Magazine
On a recent trip around Vancouver Island, the rhythms of van life soothed our family’s souls. Source: Beyond the hashtag: A love letter to #VanLife
Do you live in such a place? Source: Map Shows The Few Places in America Where You Can Still See a “Pristine” Night Sky
Rent the Backyard will get a tiny house into your backyard in a matter of weeks—and hopes it can add some cheaper apartments in cities to help alleviate the housing crisis. Source: Rent the Backyard wants to put a free tiny house in your backyard
In 1986, a Swiss artist set out to document insects from regions affected by the Chernobyl disaster, and science is starting to catch up with her Source: Chernobyl’s Bugs: The Art And Science Of Life After Nuclear Fallout | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian
IKEA introduces a really nice looking induction hob that might change the way we think of kitchens. Source: TreeHugger
Only 30 per cent of the world’s primary forests are still intact. Deep in the interior of British Columbia, an ancient temperate rainforest that holds vast stores of carbon is being clear-cut as fast as the Amazon Source: Canada’s forgotten rainforest | The Narwhal
Six people who live in tiny houses were able to significantly reduce their housing costs, double their savings, and take on new opportunities. Source: 6 people on how living in a tiny house has changed their finances, from going debt-free to saving six figures
How to keep buildings cool without air conditioning – according to an expert in sustainable design http://flip.it/0hfsX3
Four alternatives to drywall that don’t turn to mush Source: TreeHugger
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