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The Cost of Remote Work in a Technology-Centered World

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A 2018 article published in the Labor Law Journal looked at the legal implications of working after-hours, discussing how smartphones give employees easy access to their work emails at all hours of the day. Although this may allay anxiety for those work expectations, it likely also promotes strain on relationships and mental health.

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This Digital Nomad Couple Sold Everything to Travel the World in a Sailboat—Here’s What They’ve Learned About Life, Goal Setting and Relationships

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Before officially shoving off in 2018, Ellison and Darsy led what some might call typical lives. They met on Tinder in 2015 while living in Sweden as expats: Ellison, an aviation sales director from Des Moines, Iowa, and Darsy, a human resources systems specialist from Paris. These are five of those lessons.

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How Churchill Northern Studies Centre Is Bringing Food Sovereignty to the Arctic North

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Churchill Northern Studies Centre and Rocket Greens are making a difference Erin Greene, a Churchill resident since 2015, became one of the first subscribers to Rocket Greens’s CSA program when it launched in 2018. Since then, the project has harvested and sold more than 80,000 units of fresh produce.

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Chance the Rapper on Achieving Goals as an Independent Artist & Paying It Forward

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And as that fame grew, so did his fortune—which he immediately started giving away, first in a hefty donation to Chicago Public Schools in 2017, then to the county’s mental health services. In 2016, he co-created the Warmest Winter project, which created coats that doubled as sleeping bags for the homeless.

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One way to create cooler, cleaner megacities: Plant rooftop gardens!

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According to the World Health Organization, outdoor air pollution kills 4.2 From 2015 to 2017, Egypt borrowed $1.03 Founded in 2018, the organization partners with sponsors to provide hydroponic gardening supplies to low-income families for free and sells these same supplies to other customers. Tending to community health.

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The four day week and a case of less is more

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Between 2015-2019, Iceland ran two large-scale trials of a reduced working week of 35-36 hours with no reduction in pay. An increase in productivity levels of one-quarter (25 percent) as well improvements in employees’ health, led to a permanent arrangement. Global trials. Instead, look at the results.”.

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How big a deal is 1.5°C vs. 2°C of global warming? Significant — here’s why

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Secretary-General António Guterres said back in 2018 in his address to the UN General Assembly — a statement that in hindsight now rings especially true. A United Nations report in 2018 concluded as much, saying back then that average global temperatures will likely reach 1.5°C Health impacts. The widely publicized “1.5°C

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