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Each week, we bring you interesting stories from around the web. Here’s what caught our eye this week!
HUMANITY
Walls Of Kindness: The Charitable Movement In Iran
The spread of grassroots charity has also sparked a debate about the failure of the Iranian government to support its poor, so many of whom have been hit hard by the country’s ongoing recession. Nevertheless, the simple act of one anonymous philanthropist, the re-appropriation of ‘the wall’ as a tool for inclusion rather than division, has become a powerful symbol for citizenship and solidarity across the Middle East and beyond.”…Read Full Article
From The Culture Trip
POLITICS
In battle over new Canadian pipeline, it’s Trudeau vs. tribes
The ghost of the Keystone XL pipeline is hovering over every new fossil fuel project — and it’s haunting the Canadian prime minister’s office…Read Full Article
From grist
TRANSPORTATION
Watch this straddle bus eat cars as it speeds down the highway- transportation
Six years ago we showed the crazy Chinese 3D fast bus and everyone thought it was silly vaporware. Three years ago we showed an updated version, the Land Airbus which got to the animated video stage. Now it appears that it is at the model stage, zipping through the International High-tech Expo in Beijing the other day…Read Full Article
From Treehugger
HAPPINESS
Baby Boxes Cut Infant Mortality in Finland
In 1938, the Finnish government presented a gift to impoverished expectant mothers: a box. This gift would transform parenting in the Scandinavian nation. Measuring roughly 27.5 inches long, 17 inches wide, and 10.5 inches tall, each box contained a sturdy mattress and essentials for the first few months of infancy: blankets, clothing, pacifiers, and bibs. Today, the boxes are showing up all over the world, representing much more than a collection of baby items…Read Full Article
From Yes!magazine
PLANET
Choosing a President in a Time of Climate Crisis
The dangers of runaway climate change make this U.S. presidential race pivotal. Our next president must be someone who understands the science, can build support for a clean energy future, and is independent enough from the fossil fuel industry and its investors to make the right choices…Read Full Article
From Yes!magazine
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