In order to reduce the usage of plastic straws, last year, Starbucks launched their sippy cups. The coffee chain also announced that they plan on removing plastic straws from their stores by the year of 2020. They aren’t just making straws from alternative materials, but cups with an innovative lid […]
Unfortunately, according to a study published in the Journal Nature, 15.3 billion trees are cut on a yearly basis and 46 percent of the trees in the world have been removed in the past 12,000 years. But, coconut husks may hold the key to ceasing tree cutting. Even though for […]
If you’re a parent and believe that looking after your kids is more challenging than being at work, you could actually be right because a poll also found this to be true. The poll was done by AVEENO Baby and surveyed 1500 parents from the UK. Believe it or not, […]
In order to reduce children distractions, Reddam House Private School in Sydney decided to remove electronic devices such as iPads and go back to regular books. This choice is quite controversial taking into account the takeover of electronics. The return to hard copy happens 5 years after the primary and […]
Kayla Filoon is a student who’s a volunteer dog walker in an animal shelter in Philadelphia. One day, when she saw Russ, a pit bull in the dog shelter, she knew she needed to adopt him. She says she felt a special connection between them. The dog was a stray […]
Unfortunately, new findings acquired by a WWF report show that the average individual consumes 5 grams of plastic on a weekly basis or the equivalent of a credit card. The researchers point out that people consume up to 102,000 pieces of plastic that are smaller than one millimeter which is […]
Jon Stewart isn’t just one of the most popular TV show hosts and comedians of our time, but he’s also a hero of animals. Together with his wife, Tracey, they turned a 45-acre farm into a sanctuary for rescued and abused animals. The approval did take some time to be […]
Indeed, not all heroes wear capes- some wear covers over their heads. This is at least the case with one witty mother who was told to cover up while she was breastfeeding her baby while on a vacation in Mexico. Melanie Dudley who’s a mother of three from Austin Texas […]
Millions of citizens along the east coast of the US from Florida to North Carolina remained under a threat from a deadly Hurricane Dorian strike which ravaged and caused hundreds of people missing in the Bahamas. After making landfall on September 1 and flattening homes and killing at least 50 […]
Playgrounds that are specially designed for elderly people are being installed throughout Europe and Asia and they include low-impact exercise tools like static bikes, body flexors, and elliptical machines. The goal of these playgrounds with gym equipment is to help elderly boost their flexibility and balance. It’s considered that a […]
