BY: TYLER FYFE I sit at my desk, strained eyes broiled by the white light of my laptop screen, mouses constantly clicking like an insolent metronome. I’m thinking about all the stories that are being left untold—the important stories just…
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A groundbreaking food company just raised $200 million for this epic plant-based cheeseburger
BY: TYLER FYFE One of the hardest parts of being vegetarian is that the menus of most major city restaurants are designed against you. To add insult to injury, dinnertime with meat-lovers inevitably turns into debate club. So ex-Stanford biochemistry…
This manager’s mobile office space lets you work out of a new location every day
BY: ROB HOFFMAN There can be a balance between a realistic income and idealist lifestyle. Freedom means autonomy of travel—thousands of office-jockeys with the stale taste of uniform life have driven a demand for smaller, mobile workspaces, which are happily…
Turns out earthworms are doing more to fight climate change than most people
BY: SYDNEY MCINNIS Climate change – it’s a dirty job, but someone has to do it. In this case, that someone is the misunderstood, soil-dwelling earthworm. Microbes, which are tiny, single-celled organisms, live alongside worms, buried beneath the earth’s soil.…
In order to avoid online dating, I tried stone-age Tinder— also known as Speed Dating.
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Since about the time it came out, I have remained heavily anti-Tinder. Of course I would never pass judgment on those who actually use it, I just personally have zero interest in receiving dick pics from self-righteous…
Sweden makes moves to completely discontinue fossil fuel use and run entirely off renewables
BY: ROB HOFFMAN Sweden just released its 2016 budget, which is likely to break a few hearts in the oil sector. The budget, which was made public a few weeks back, reveals plans to spend an additional $546 million (US)…
This 28-year old pro surfer lives out of a 20-foot, self-sustaining yurt with his dog in California
BY: ROB HOFFMAN Chadd Konig is the poster child for a simple, sustainable and incredibly fulfilling lifestyle, which includes catching surf in the cold Northern California Ocean and maintaining his three-acre farm and 20 foot cylindrical yurt. To complete the…
California puts an expiry date on SeaWorld by banning the breeding of killer whales
BY: JESSICA BEUKER On Thursday, the California Coastal Commission approved a $100 million expansion of killer whale tanks in SeaWorld San Diego—but with conditions. In a last minute amendment that followed the daylong meeting, the commission banned the breeding…
How to become a confident public speaker with this simple 5 minute technique
BY: ROB HOFFMAN **This article is the first instalment of a weekly column that explores effective techniques of communication, persuasion, and self-help using a background of NLP (Neuro-linguistic programming) to understand and influence the subconscious language patterns of the people…
There are no guards in this prison—instead it’s run by the world’s most violent gang (Photos)
BY: M. TOMOSKI When the family members of inmates come to the Penal de Ciudad Barrios in El Salvador for their routine conjugal visits the police stand guard outside the prison walls and only outside. In 2013 British photographer Adam…
They told me to go after my dream— too bad I wanted to be a female Hollywood director
BY: ANGIE PICCIRILLO When you walk the hallways of any elementary or middle school, the walls are lined with inspirational posters pushing kids towards higher education, and reminding them to “follow your dreams.” The pessimist in me is somewhat sad…
Photos tell the disturbing yet intriguing stories of feral children from around the world
BY: CONNOR BRIAN Images © Julia Fullerton-Batten There has long been a fascination with feral children, who in their earliest stages were neglected by their parents, lost to the wilderness, and raised by animals. They live isolated in the woods…
Here’s what happens when average people are forced to face their own carbon footprint
BY: CONNOR BRIAN All Photos and Captions: © Neil Baird As we point our fingers, aiming our blame for climate crisis at governments and corporate giants, is there an unseen area that we suppress from our field of vision? It…
The golden era of skateboarding in 1970s California (photos)
BY: CONNOR BRIAN In the mid-1970s an endless summer struck Southern California, evaporating water in drainage ditches and suburban swimming pools, catalyzing what would change the face of counter-cul- ture forever. Maybe it was the dehydration, or maybe it was…
Dispensaries are giving wildfire survivors free weed in Northern California
BY: TYLER FYFE Two Northern California dispensaries understand the trauma of watching your home and entire property rise in plumes of smoke. This why Care By Design and AbsoluteXtracts medical marijuana dispenseries are attempting to ease the burden of stress with…
Sex, alcohol and golf carts: the hedonistic Disneyland for old folks
BY: JESSICA BEUKER There is a gated community in Florida where 100,000 residents roam freely in an area the size of Manhattan. There are no cars or trucks – instead everyone cruises around in golf carts, many of which have…
After visiting 100 off-grid homes, this is the barebones truth about life in the pathless woods
BY: TYLER FYFE In a frostbitten valley in the deep bush of Northern Saskatchewan lives the most isolated couple in North America—100 km away from the nearest unpaved road. The only way in or out is by float plane. Ron…
The family album of a 2-year-old and her addict parents shows that love exists in dark places
BY: CONNOR BRIAN Wandering the moonlit streets of St. Petersburg, Russia, in search of subjects for her latest project, photographer Irina Popova noticed a young tattooed woman pushing her daughter in a stroller while stumbling with a drunken swagger. After…
This vagabond-extraordinaire is re-claiming America on a green cafe racer named Battle Cat
BY: ROB HOFFMAN The romance of a road-trip on two wheels has long inspired the bold, adventurous and freedom-loving, including iconic thinkers like Che Guevara, Hunter S. Thompson and Bob Dylan. After all these years the appeal of a motorcycle…
Meet Claudette, the 76-year-old champion cyclist, husband, and hermaphrodite prostitute
BY: CONNOR BRIAN “I’d rather sell my ass than my soul, it’s harder but much cleaner,” she tells photographer Malika Gaudin-Delrieu. Claudette is a grandfather, award winning cyclist, a campaigner for sex workers’ rights, and a happy husband who has…