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Livin’ Good Currency Ep. 29: Carrie Rich on How to Show Up, Learn, and Listen to Make Entrepreneurial Good in the World
The Lesson: Expressing genuine interest in learning, in a job, in what other people have to say, in showing up even when you aren't necessarily...
Aztecs Used the Mountains to Create Sophisticated Farming Calendar that Even Accounted for Leap Years: Study
Without clocks or modern tools, ancient Mexicans watched the sun to maintain a farming calendar that precisely tracked seasons and even adjusted for leap...
Livin’ Good Currency Ep. 27: Alex Amouyel on Starting a Life Impact Audit
The Lesson: Everyone can make an impact if they give 10%—effort, time, money, etc. to ensuring that across all dimensions of life they are making...
Livin’ Good Currency Ep. 26: Saga Elmohtasen on the Numbers Game of Hollywood
The Lesson: Numbers don't speak untruths, and for a female minority in a bro-business like Hollywood movie production, they're sexy that way. Saga Elmohtasen has...
Otherworldly Scenes Show Plants Breathing in Close-Up Detail: A Long Sought Discovery
It looks like a scene from a horror movie, but eerie research shows plants breathing in close-up detail.
A new study reveals biologists are gaining...
Livin’ Good Currency Ep. 25: Gene Gurkoff on Making Charity as Easy as a Walk in the Park
The Lesson: What if donanting to charity was as simple as walking your dog? Oftentimes when things become easier, more people can participate, but it...
Livin’ Good Currency Ep. 24: Rachel Gerrol on Forming a Next-Generation Justice League of Young Future Philanthropists
The Lesson: Philanthropy comes in many forms, and from many faces. Whether it's the lifestyle we try to live, the purchasing decisions we make, the...
Livin’ Good Currency Ep. 23: Miriam Nelson on Wielding the Power of Fresh Food to Help Kids
The Lesson: Newman's Own brand pizzas, pasta, lemonade, salad dressing, etc. has raised $600 million through its for-profit operations and its purpose-driven foundation, in what...
A Fruit So Sweet, Yet Grown Indoors: Will the Japanese Cultivar Become This Tesla of Strawberries?
A pair of talented agri-scientists have developed a strain of exquisitely-tasty, melt-in-your-mouth strawberries that are putting a foodie spotlight on the capabilities of vertical...
Livin’ Good Currency Ep. 22: James Rouse on Giving Yourself Permission to be Well
The Lesson: Wellness isn't just about getting enough sleep and exercise. Some maladies need our permission—our precise focus, attention, and sympathy, in order for our...
Sharp-Shooting Farm Robot Can Treat 500,000 Plants Per Hour With 95% Decrease in Chemical Sprays
With 50 spray nozzles and a sophisticated computer system, tractors out in California's central valley are towing artificially-intelligent robots behind them that look set...
Livin’ Good Currency Ep. 21: Zoe Chance on How to Make Friends and Influence Others–and Embrace Intuition
The Lesson: Making friends and influencing people, as Carnegie described it, can be approached in several ways, but Zoe Chance feels that the modern influential...
Livin’ Good Currency Ep. 20: Rabbi Robbie and How Your Passions Speak to Each Other
The Lesson: Listeners will know that Tony and Tobias feel that blending professional, personal, and spiritual passions is the key to aligning them to...
This Startup Uses Volcanic Rock Dust to Capture Carbon on Farms
An ag-tech startup is spreading basalt rock dust on farmers' fields as both fertilizer and an ingenious way to not only capture carbon, but...
The Humble Potato Could Hold the Key to Beating Hospital Superbugs as Well as Crop Diseases
The humble potato, which contains a natural antibiotic that destroys harmful bacteria, could hold the key to beating hospital superbugs in the future, according...
Good Gardening Week 9: Fall Jubilee — Plus Last Week’s Tips for Seed Saving
Welcome back to Good Gardening! In our Week 8 discussion, we wanted to know how many readers and gardeners saved their own seed for...
Australia’s Ocean Kelp Forest is Growing at Light Speed–Rivaling the Mighty Amazon for Absorbing CO2
Great forests of ocean kelp were found in a recent study to be between 4 and 11-times more productive than the most productive crops...
Bridgestone Tire Gets Rubber from Desert Guayule Plant Which Doesn’t Require Irrigation
Bridgestone has invested $100 million into farming a desert-dwelling herb to replace the rubber tree for rubber production.
Guayule (Why-OO-lee) produces rubber as a form...
Getting Plants ‘Drunk’ Insulates them Against Drought, According to New Research
Main crop plants thrived when their soil was soaked in ethanol alcohols even after two weeks without water, report scientists.
Climate change may be affecting...
Innovation in Organic Solar Cells Promise Low-Cost, Bendable, and Efficient Panels
Korean researchers have created electrodes designed for use in all-organic solar cells using inexpensive zinc oxide, promising a dramatic upgrade in photovoltaic energy.
Organic solar...