BY: EDITORS When talking about the environment, oftentimes we tend to focus on the bitterness of men rather than the people playing to win, despite the poor hand they were dealt. “I’m a 14-year-old kid going up against a multi-million…
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Liberland is the world’s newest self-proclaimed micro-nation where taxes are optional
BY: TJ MOREY As general knowledge, it’s a preconceived notion today that there is no piece of land that exists that is not already bound by the shackles of any particular nation. Either the land is already owned by a…
5 places on the Internet where you can educate yourself for free
BY: DANIEL KORN Everybody is self-taught. Whether you’re a guitarist who’s never taken a lesson or an engineering undergrad at the University of Wherever; regardless of its level of formality, all education hinges on the student’s ability to internalize concepts…
I was below Everest Base Camp when the avalanche hit and buildings started collapsing around me
BY: MATTHEW MCLOUGHLIN “I was just below Everest Base Camp when the avalanche hit. I just barely escaped two collapsing buildings.” At just 19-years old, Dylan Sartor stood in the shadow of the Himalayas, uninjured among the flattened houses and…
The California Bill banning date rape drugs ignores the largest cause of date rape
BY: JESSICA BEUKER A California Bill is aiming to reverse the war on drugs by making specific drug possession a felony. The bill will ban the possession of a trio of drugs, known as date rape drugs, in an effort…
How Reddit’s citizen journalism could have led to an innocent 22-year-old’s suicide
BY: MICHAEL LYONS Bulletin board site Reddit describes itself as the “front page of the internet,” a sobering concept for anyone who has ever actually been on the Internet. These days, Reddit is the newsmaker. In one 24-hour news cycle,…
As environmental issues get worse, farmer suicide rates are getting alarmingly high
BY: JESSICA BEUKER It’s been three decades since the height of the farm crisis, when farmer suicide rates were at an all time high. Today the suicide rates among farmers are still high—the second highest of any job right now.…
Norway’s prison island treats inmates like they’re at a resort
BY: MATTHEW CHIN When I think of prison, I think of orange jumpers, hands and ankles shackled together with the chains scraping against the concrete floor and the terrible sound of rattling jail cells as batons graze against the metal…
Drug abuse in Portugal has dropped by half since their government decriminalized all drugs
BY: DANIEL KORN A couple months ago, I wrote about the war on drugs. After looking at some data, I concluded that treatment programs were both a more cost-effective and long-term tool for curbing drug addiction than police crackdowns and…
Why North America needs to adopt the four-day workweek.
It’s a tale as old as time—no matter how you organize your weekends there just doesn’t seem to be enough time to get stuff done and relax. If only there was a day between Saturday and Sunday. If only the…
Wolfie is a 6-year-old gender-independent boy fighting for the right to wear a dress (Video)
Written and imaged by: Annie Sakkab Gender role is subconsciously defined by our society and cultural background. Wolfgang Skinner, nicknamed Wolfie, is a gender independent six-year-old boy. He is fortunate to have three parents and three siblings who are supportive in…
Vancouver just solidified plans to run on 100% renewable energy
BY: JESSICA BEUKER In a time of climate crisis, any step is a foot forward. Understanding that cities and urban areas are responsible for 70-75 per cent of global C02 emissions, Vancouver has decided to join the face of change.…
Less than 1% of Swedish trash ends up in a landfill
BY: ZOE MELNYK It’s difficult to imagine a world without trash, but Sweden seems to be heading in the right direction with less than one per cent of its trash actually reaching landfills. When compared to the United States’ 34.5…
Badass farmer asks oil and gas commissioners to drink U.S. groundwater that’s contaminated by fracking
BY: SINEAD MULHERN James Osborn, a farmer from Nebraska recently turned up at a Nebraska Oil and Gas Commission meeting to talk about a proposal for fracking waste water. The issue is about whether or not to turn an inactive…
Good Guy CEO cuts his $1 million salary to make the minimum wage $70,000
BY: TYLER FYFE Dan Price started his business out of his college dorm room on the standard student diet of stale wonder bread and pizza pops. Now the Founder and CEO of a privately owned credit card payment-processing firm, Price apparently…
This TV show made fashion bloggers work in the sweatshops their clothing came from (Video)
BY: ROB HOFFMAN A month long reality TV series was recently produced by Norway’s largest newspaper, Aftenposten, in which popular fashion blogger, Anniken Jørgensen, and avid consumers, Frida Ottesen and Ludvig Hambro, were taken on a surprise trip to Cambodia…
Can Justin Trudeau support the environment and Oil Sands expansion? (Video)
BY: TYLER FYFE PHOTOGRAPHY BY: CONNOR BRIAN The Liberal Party is Canada’s centre party, but when it comes to matters as controversial as blanket surveillance and climate change, the middle ground is not a safe place stand. While Trudeau pushes…
This photographer wants to show you what electronic waste really looks like (Photos)
For several years Italian photographer Valentino Bellini has been traveling through India, China and parts of Africa telling the hazardous story of e-waste. Bellini’s photo story BITROT focuses on our extreme consumerism but also highlights the green alternatives that many…
Armed rangers fight to protect the last male northern white rhino left on Earth
BY: JESSICA BEUKER In the last 50 years, the rhino population of Africa has dropped 96 per cent. This is largely due to the greed and ignorance of poachers. Rhino horn has two main uses – ornamental use and traditional…
Leo DiCaprio is building an eco-island to conserve Belize’s forestry and aquatic life
BY: JESSICA BEUKER If you didn’t fall in love with Leonardo DiCaprio when he portrayed Jack Dawson in Titanic, or that time he made a powerful address at the UN summit meeting on climate change, or even when he created…