We shouldn’t have to fly to Rome to feel healthy again, and a good start for those of us who must eat on this continent is to buy fresh, locally-grown, ideally organic food and make as many as possible of our meals at home.
One way to help cool buildings is to install green roofs – living rooftops covered by plants that can transform heat-absorbing rooftops into cooling solutions.
“This is what’s working,” report nine indigenous leaders from around the world on biodiversity and climate solutions in their communities. Mongabay interviewed these diverse leaders to mark the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples on Aug. 9.
Many of us live with a nervous system that is constantly on alert. We move quickly from one responsibility to the next, often carrying worry, grief, self-judgment, or emotional exhaustion without realizing how deeply these experiences affect our body and spirit.
Quieting the mind often means speaking the language of your body and spirit first. Experiment with these techniques to find what helps you feel a little lighter, and eventually you will discover the peace you've been seeking has been there all along.
A realistic starting routine looks like this: hip flexor stretch, both sides, morning and evening; glute bridges, ten to fifteen reps, two to three sets, once daily; and a movement break every 30 to 45 minutes during long periods of sitting.
If demanding spatial thinking protects the brain, then how societies design schooling, professional training and retirement all become questions of brain health.
New Jersey governor Mikie Sherrill has announced statewide housing resources and a coordinated support system that ensure no veteran has to go homeless in the state. Now, more veterans consistently enter housing in New Jersey each month than enter homelessness.
Working to dry up the fluid caused by wet AMD, my TCM practitioner compounded an effective combination of herbs that directly addressed the issues I was experiencing, treating both liver and eyes, and balancing my entire body.
To fully harness the power of journaling, it is important to understand it’s a two-way street. It’s not just dumping and dumping and dumping (although it can be seriously useful for that). It’s a learning process, too.
Zero roadkill has been recorded as Amazon canopy bridges secure 15,000 wildlife crossings, and Brazil’s federal transport department officially designates the rope bridge design as the recommended national standard for highways to curb the millions of wildlife deaths recorded on roads annually.
For five seasons beginning in 1959, Serling appeared on American television in a black suit, holding a cigarette, introducing stories about the impossible. The episodes ran in front of millions of viewers. The sponsors sold their products in the commercial breaks. The network executives watched the ratings with satisfaction.
Cloud gazing works because it slows the brain down long enough for that quieter voice to surface. I found that the sky often feels most helpful when I stop asking it for answers and simply let myself notice what appears.
We are not just the sum of this lifetime, or a lifetime of sequential lifetimes. Our lives are multidimensional simultaneous lifetimes which allow us to view and interact with our essential nature in order to heal, learn and grow from these experiences.
A man dressed as Spider-Man helped a person in a wheelchair cross a busy street in Arkansas. A traffic camera caught it on video and the Jonesboro Police Department posted the footage on social media hours later.
Cooperation in nature isn’t the absence of self-interest. It’s what happens when self-interest discovers, over and over, across billions of years, that the partners who work together tend to outlast the ones who only fight.
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August 1: For many souls today is a relaxing summer idyll. The waning Pisces Moon promotes mellow moods. Tap into the spirit of the season and enjoy the passing hours. A lunar aspect to Mercury encourages stream of consciousness thinking…
Home sharing can’t solve the housing crisis, its fans acknowledge. But it could make a dent, potentially unlocking thousands of spare bedrooms across the country without requiring new construction that would change the character of neighborhoods.
The sacred art of grief reminds us that love is larger than absence and that the deepest part of every life is not measured by what we accumulated or achieved, but by the love we awakened in others.
Four states — Utah, Virginia, Idaho, and Oregon — just made it easier to build wildlife crossings, and the bipartisan effort is being called a 'blueprint.' Conservationists are celebrating.
A muscle that's become too long and weak needs to be strengthened. A muscle that's become too short and tight needs to be released and lengthened. Restoring the body's natural balance doesn't require complicated procedures, expensive equipment, or a lifetime of pain management.
Since the Roswell incident of 1947, we have increasingly heard credible testimony that we are not alone in the universe. This evidence has come from reliable military whistleblowers, twelve of whom have now testified under oath to the US Congress about the existence of these beings.
Women are healing our inner wounds, and learning to express our feminine being without fear or shame. Women have a need to get to know ourselves, after long centuries of being subjugated and twisted by patriarchal expectations.
On this historic semiquincentennial birthday, we look back at the brilliant tapestry of innovation, culture, and community flourishing for two and a half centuries and offer 250 reasons to love America on her 250th birthday.
Remember a time in your life when imagination came to you as a free and easy way to create the world around you — perhaps, when you were a child without a care in the world or other moments of clarity and excitement you may have experienced. Think back on those days of daydreams.
The American colonists were friends with affliction and shared their suffering socially, in writing and conversation.
Whether pets are joining summer adventures or staying home with a sitter, preparation and heat awareness can go a long way towards helping pets stay safe and comfortable throughout the season.
Sounding sacred tones and mantras affects the physical body, including our nervous system, our cells, our molecules, and even our DNA. Sound can resonate and affect our chakras and related aspects of our subtle anatomy. The power of sound to influence us should not be underestimated.
Climate.us launched the full version of its new independent, nonprofit climate information website last week, creating a public-backed home for trusted climate science at a time when access to federal climate resources has become increasingly vulnerable to disruption.
Choose the right tool for the task. Not every job needs the most powerful AI model. Sometimes a smaller tool, search engine, calculator, or even your own brain is enough. Ask yourself: is AI adding any value here, or am I using it out of habit?
We need to receive natural light through our eyes in the early hours of the day, and again as the sun is going down. Our hormonal systems, nervous systems — in fact, our whole wonderfully orchestrated inner terrain — relies on the signals provided by the different qualities of light at those times.
Over time, The Buddha Project evolved from a photography project into a personal exploration of presence, silence, impermanence, and the search for peace in a world that rarely slows down.
On the bright afternoon of June 15th, twenty-one people gathered with a shared purpose in Sherborn, MA. Some were strangers, others had known each other for decades, but all stood together for peace.
Given just 8 months to live, a teen graduates cancer-free 4 years later thanks to a doctor’s promise. Watch the CBS video and see the moment at the end of the ceremony.
More people are recognizing the significance of emotional well-being and actively seeking practical ways to regain balance. They are asking deeper questions: How do we remain centered while living in a world that often feels unstable?
July 1: Early risers are all business under the hardworking Capricorn Moon. Get organized and plan your day. The pace slows noticeably by midmorning due to Luna’s void of course status. The Moon’s late afternoon arrival in community-oriented Aquarius lifts…
Ikea stopped selling "quartz" countertops in 2025. Home Depot, Lowe’s and Costco are still selling crystalline silica products as of June 2026. Consumers are generally not aware of the alternatives.
“Your generation has far more power than you may realize. And if you harness that power, if you find your leadership, your issues, your voice, the world will not be able to ignore you.”
Japan's Samurai Blue fans cleaned up before they left the stadium in Dallas, using their blue bags to uphold a cleansing World Cup tradition after their team scored a late-tying goal for a draw against the Netherlands.
Over time, fungi have adapted an incredible resilience that allows them to survive in extremes. Humans have done something similar. Humans belong on this planet. We are a part of the interconnected web of life.
Behind every belief, we hold a perspective on life and our self-image. From there, we create self-judgments and interpretations about ourselves, which remain in our minds continually. Then, they move to our subconscious and manifest automatically.
The eventful summer season includes an important sign change for Jupiter, planetary retrogrades and two eclipses. Seize the opportunities. Relish each pleasure and learn from the obstacles. Whatever comes your way, embrace it fully.
Dutch kids declared the world's happiest (again) in the latest World Happiness Report. Which begs an obvious question: what are the Dutch doing right?
The forest doesn’t feel like a place. It feels like someone. Or, more accurately, like many — a standing community of beings that knows you’re there before you know how you feel about being there.
Trauma imprints occur in individuals’ minds and bodies at the moment they first feel shocked, surprised, and/or frightened during a traumatic experience. Regardless of what caused the trauma, the imprint remains frozen in the body until the person uses techniques for clearing trauma from the body.
The growing movement toward mercury-free dentistry is gaining ground. There is an action alert at the end of this article. A national push to ban mercury fillings is underway, and public comments to federal regulators could help decide whether this outdated practice finally disappears from U.S. dentistry.
With New York and Illinois joining the growing number of states allowing medical aid in dying, nearly one-third of Americans will soon live where terminally ill patients have access to this end-of-life option.
An area of the Everglades known as the Picayune Strand, that was drained in an attempt to convert it to suburbia in the 50s, has seen huge rewilding success through an ongoing restoration project over the past 20 years. The restored Picayune is expected to help several endangered species, including the red-cockaded woodpecker and the Florida panther.
When you feel a smile starting to form or a laugh bubbling up, resist the urge to immediately move on to the next thing on your to-do list. Stay with it for a moment, let yourself fully see the humor, the silliness, the sweetness, or the beauty of what just happened.
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