This week, I decided to take action to eliminate something that I felt was a growing problem in my life: increasing smartphone use. I’ve never considered myself to be a heavy smartphone user: I can’t stand scrolling through Instagram for more than a minute or two, Twitter I get into from time to time but usually end up falling away […]
Veeral Hardev is the VP of Strategy at Ubiquitous Energy. He has over a decade of experience commercializing novel nano-materials products for the electronics industry. Why’s that important? Because Ubiquitous Energy and the group of MIT and MSU scientists that started it, are looking for new ways to reduce humanity’s carbon footprint by seamlessly integrating solar power technology into everyday […]
How the normalized human experience has become completely unnatural When you bike instead of drive, you start to notice a lot more about your neighborhood: shops you didn’t realize were there, some cool wall art or flower patches you hadn’t noticed, or how much litter is all over the place. One of the things I noticed recently has really gotten […]
Neil Sims is a marine biologist with a professional commitment to “softening mankind’s footprint on the seas”. After working in fisheries management he began to recognize the need for us all to move “more towards a culture of nurture” of marine resources rather than a purely extractive approach. As marine finfish stocks worldwide continued to decline, Neil and his partners […]