BY: ROB HOFFMAN Who’s to blame for a city that kills 10,000 dogs a year in the name of a good meal and celebrating the onset of summer? The most shocking aspect of the Yulin Festival celebration founded in 2009…
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This UK grocery store saves £140,000 per year by being powered entirely on food waste
BY: LAURA ROJAS Founded in 1869, Sainsbury’s in the UK is a large-scale grocery store chain that has vowed to do away with conventional business practices in exchange for more sustainable ideas. In 2011, their Hyde store in Kent became…
NYC is adopting solar green roofs as a part of the public school curriculum
BY: ROB HOFFMAN In Manhattan’s original beatnik neighbourhood of Greenwich Village, New York City public school, PS 41, has developed a rooftop garden and solar panel setup spanning 15,000 square feet. Photo by Carla Brown Vicki Sando, a parent of…
Nigerian government sets example by legally banning female genital mutilation
BY: JESSICA BEUKER The Nigerian government recently took a big step forward by prohibiting the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM). The practice involves removing part or all of a girl’s outer sexual organs for non-medical purposes. Goodluck Jonathan, Nigeria’s…
There’s a secret country cabin with a private meadow hiding on a roof above Manhattan
BY: EDITORS In New York City, perched above bustling Greenwich Street atop the sixth storey sits a cabin with a grassy meadow and a southern-inspired porch like a Mark Twain wet dream. According to the New York Times, David Puchkoff…
A man rode his bike from Oregon to South America to prove that routine is the enemy of time (Video)
In the 1970s Jedidiah Jenkins’s parents walked across America, ending their journey in Oregon. Years later, Jenkins decided it was his turn to find adventure, so he quit his job to bike around the world. Starting his journey where his…
Urban algae farm eats highway pollution and turns it into organic fuel
BY: MATTHEW CHIN With road transportation being the greatest contributor of global warming in the atmosphere according to NASA, accounting for more than half of the carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxide levels emitted into the air, the amount of pollution produced…
How Ken Kesey used LSD and a travelling bus of hippies to start the 60s psychedelic revolution
BY: ROB HOFFMAN Ken Kesey took his first tab of acid in a government control room. “How did the substance make you feel?” Asked the nurse. “I felt like I discovered a hole in the centre of the Earth and…
UK’s largest supermarket chain “Tesco” vows to give away all left over food to empty stomachs
BY: ZOE MELNYK Following close in France’s footsteps, the largest UK grocery store chain, Tesco, recently decided to donate any edible leftover food to charity instead of throwing it away to rot in a landfill. The decision came from the…
In 1998, the real life Forrest Gump went for a walk and hasn’t stopped since
BY: JACK M. November 1st, 1998 was a Sunday. Depending on where we were at the time, most of us were probably doing something very ordinary—shopping, watching the football game, walking the dog or making breakfast. It was, however, no…
7 reasons why experiences will make you happier than material things
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Whenever I ask a friend if they would like to accompany me on one the magnificent trips I’ve planned in my head, the answers range from, “It’s just so expensive to fly anywhere,” to a definitive…
This tick’s bite will turn you vegetarian by making you allergic to meat
BY: TJ MOREY Many of us love to devour the charred flesh of animal carcasses, so much so that the animal kingdom presumably hates our existence by now. While feasting on our four-legged and feathered comrades is considered to be…
How your clean ass is coming at the expense of the environment
This article is sponsored by: BY: THE PLAID ZEBRA From corncobs to fruit skins, to moss and seashells, depending on the region, the less advantaged would wipe with just about anything they could get their hands on. Wealthy segments of…
The Church of Cannabis is now a legally recognized religion and weed is its holy sacrament
BY: MATTHEW CHIN In Indianapolis, Indiana, following the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, a controversial law that has been known to deliberately suppress LGBT rights, has unintentionally helped The First Church of Cannabis become a legitimate establishment. The RFRA states that…
Stanford just drafted the perfect plan to get America running on 100% renewable energy by 2050
BY: TYLER FYFE A new study by Mark Z. Jacobson of Stanford University in collaboration with U.C. Berkeley is the first guidebook for all 50 states to run on 100 per cent renewable energy by 2050. If progressive politicians at…
An underground movement of monks is using street art to fight for human rights in Burma
BY: TYLER FYFE Jeffrey Durkin is trying to avoid security on the rooftop of a mid-construction San Francisco parking garage as we talk on the phone. It’s not a situation that’s entirely out of the ordinary. With a history in…
New Zealand just made cosmetic testing on animals illegal, punishable by 6 months in prison or a $125,000 fine
BY: ZOE MELNYK New Zealand recently passed a bill banning animal testing and other types of animal cruelty. Talk of banning animal testing around the world has posed as a controversial debate for decades between two different interpretations of the words…
Will VR porn devices replace your girlfriend or improve your long-distance relationship?
BY:JOHNATHAN MOSS Three naked women sprawl out before me on the bow of a luxury yacht. One moans while clutching her legs behind her head. The other two, who are giggling and bouncing up and down, are sensually massaging her.…
Aldous Huxley’s wife wrote this letter about injecting him with LSD right before he died
BY: TYLER FYFE On the same day President Kennedy was assassinated, the world lost a second giant in time. Aldous Huxley, the author of Brave New World and other stunning works of literature died after a 3-year battle with cancer.…
A woman quit the NYC fashion scene to build these epic sustainable bamboo homes in Bali
There is a sustainable material that could be used to build houses that has the compressive force of concrete, the strength-to-weight ratio of steel, could be produced quickly, and lasts a lifetime. It’s not some sort of advanced artificial substance,…