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CNN currently is running 3 good articles on climate change (I say articles, because I’ve disabled CNN’s video autoplay and usually just read them) Climate change: The more we know, the worse it seems https://edition.cnn.com/2019/01/25/opinions/climate-change-getting-worse-intl/index.html How to solve the world’s plastics problem: Bring back the milk man https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2019/01/business/loop-reusable-packaging-mission-ahead/index.html Teen activist tells Davos elite they’re to …

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“The problem with our society is not that it values material things too much but that it doesn’t value them enough ” https://aeon.co/essays/we-should-love-material-things-more-than-we-do-now-not-less

Haemin Sunim is the Buddhist monk whose hugely successful self-care advice books have made him a celebrity https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/jan/20/the-mega-monk-who-wants-us-to-slow-down-and-embrace-our-imperfections-haemin-sunim

“Shoshana Zuboff’s new book is a chilling exposé of the business model that underpins the digital world.” https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jan/20/shoshana-zuboff-age-of-surveillance-capitalism-google-facebook

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/01/16/health/coffee-species-extinction-climate-study-trnd/index.html

http://www.coffeeresearch.org/

‘Planetary health diet’ would prevent millions of deaths a year and avoid climate change https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/16/new-plant-focused-diet-would-transform-planets-future-say-scientists

“Scientist Brad Lister returned to Puerto Rican rainforest after 35 years to find 98% of ground insects had vanished” https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/15/insect-collapse-we-are-destroying-our-life-support-systems

https://www.fordfoundation.org/about/library/reports-and-studies/roads-and-bridges-the-unseen-labor-behind-our-digital-infrastructure (PDF download) Our modern society runs on software. But the tools we use to build software are buckling under increased demand. Nearly all software today relies on free, public code, written and maintained by communities of developers and other talent. This code can be used by anyone—from companies to individuals—to write their own software. …