The banker saving an ancient rainforest
After moving to Australia’s Northern Rivers region with his wife Rowena three decades ago, retired banker Tony Parkes was blown away when someone took him into a remnant of…
Texas inspires Iowa’s Joppa Village
The Community First Village in Austin, Texas, which launched a blueprint for tiny home solutions, is inspiring folks elsewhere in the USA, including Des Moines, Iowa. Joppa Village is…
An orchard fights climate change
An orchard is both a climate change solution and a peacebuilding project in a teaching hospital in northeastern Nigeria, which has experienced both extreme heat and entrenched conflict, Borno…
When a problem becomes an opportunity….
When billionaire Elon Musk gleefully put USAID in the woodchipper, Village Health Works in Burundi was down to its last 20 packets of Ready-to-Use-Therapeutic-Food, a peanut butter-based porridge used…
Bringing an English river back to life
Ancient maps and modern technology have brought Northumberland’s River Breamish back to life and reconnected it to its flood plains, after several hundred years of being restrained into a straight line for agricultural purposes and…
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Medical totems bring virtual care to remote Amazon
Even in the most remote parts of the Amazon, telemedicine has been making it possible to offer remote lung, heart and eye exams. Now remote diagnostics has taken a big leap forward, and it will…
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‘Free stores” offer an alternative to spending money
Americans spend more money in December than in any other month, and create 5.8 million tons of additional waste. Gift returns peak in the first week of January, with many going straight to the landfill.…
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The women celebrated by tunnel boring machines
I was working on a story about the new Elizabeth line in London and how it helped rebuild a wetland in Essex when I became fascinated that the tunnel boring machines were all named after…
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