A town in Finland is offering cake, free transport tickets and other rewards to locals who cut their carbon emissions. Lahti, situated 100 kilometres north of Helsinki, has developed an app that tracks residents’ CO2 outlays based on whether they travel by car, public transport, bike or on foot. The app, called CitiCAP and developed […]
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Finnish town offers locals cake (and other rewards) for cutting CO2 emissions
Finnish town offers locals cake (and other rewards) for cutting CO2 emissions
A town in Finland is offering cake, free transport tickets and other rewards to locals who cut their carbon emissions. Lahti, situated 100 kilometres north of Helsinki, has developed an app that tracks residents’ CO2 outlays based on whether they travel by car, public transport, bike or on foot. The app, called CitiCAP and developed […]
The Big Picture – Right to Try Bill Passes Congress & Cord Cutting to Save
The Big Picture – Right to Try Bill Passes Congress & Cord Cutting to Save By The Big Pictureyoutube.com Holland Cooke discusses the Right To Try bill which house lawmakers passed, clearing the path for the President to sign. Then, have you cut the cord yet? The future of how you watch television is changing […]
Grandfather Scales Tree, Erects Mid-Air Camp To Stop Kinder Morgan Clear-Cutting
Grandfather Scales Tree, Erects Mid-Air Camp To Stop Kinder Morgan Clear-Cutting Above Photo: From Risingtidenorthamerica.org Coast Salish Territories (Vancouver) – Early this morning Terry Christenson, a 70-year old Grandfather of two, and former Juno nominee, scaled a tree on the inside of Kinder Morgan’s fence (Westridge terminal side) and erected a mid-air camp suspended from its […]
Cutting Assange off from the world is ‘torture,’ ‘attack’ on mental health – ex-Ecuadorian president
Rafael Correa, who was in office when Assange found refuge in the Ecuadorian Embassy in the British capital in 2012 and has since supported the whistleblower, called his current isolation a “clear violation of his rights” in an interview with the Intercept. “Basically torture,” the former Ecuadorian leader said, referring to Assange’s living conditions at […]
Cutting Capitalism Out Of Our Relationships
Cutting Capitalism Out Of Our Relationships Above Photo: Olaser / Getty Images “People get so involved with playing the game of being important that they exhaust themselves and their time, and they don’t do the work of actually organizing people.”—Ella Baker Capitalism does not just rule over the large-scale functions of the society we live in. […]
‘Go After A White Man… We Are Cutting The Throat of Whiteness’: South African EFF Leader Julius Malema
By Chris Menahan Julius Malema, the leader of South Africa’s Economic Freedom Fighters, championed the expropriation of white owned land without compensation which the SA parliament moved forward on last week. In 2016, Malema said he wasn’t “calling for the slaughtering of white people,” then added, “at least for now.” He’s been arrested for singing “Kill the Boer (white […]
Picasso’s secrets: Cutting edge tech reveals what lies beneath ‘Crouching Woman’ (PHOTOS)
In 1957, Picasso pondered whether x-ray technology might one day reveal the secrets of his technique, reports National Geographic. Now, teams from the Northwestern University/Art Institute of Chicago Center for Scientific Studies in the Arts (NU-ACCESS), the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), and the National Gallery of Art, Washington appear to have proven him right, […]
UNRWA starts cutting aid to Palestinian refugees
UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) has started cutting aid offered to Palestinian refuges in the Middle East, informed official told Safa News Agency. The official revealed the UNRWA sent 100 refugee workers in Amman away as part of its plan to rationalise its spending. About the reason for the cuts, the official said that […]
Trump Suggests Cutting Aid To Palestine After ‘Taking Jerusalem Off The Table’
After announcing that the US would halt aid to Pakistan because Islamabad is “not doing enough” to combat terrorism, Trump followed up with tweets that the US is getting “no appreciation or respect” from the Palestinians though it sends “hundreds of millions of dollars” a year. “They don’t even want to negotiate a long overdue […]
Pipeline Company Illegally Cutting Trees, Threatening Eagles
Pipeline Company Illegally Cutting Trees, Threatening Eagles Above photo from Protect Orange County Facebook page. Footage of Resident Alleging Millenniums Hired Eagle Expert is Lying to D.E.C. and US Fish and Wildlife December 8, 2017 Town of Wawayanda #LIVE feed #BreakingNews Orange County NY Residents who oppose Millenniums 7.8 Mile pipeline called VLP or Valley […]
Israel to move checkpoint deeper into West Bank, cutting off Palestinian access to spring
Residents in al-Walaja are well versed in Israeli planning law. The small village has been in legal battles against Israel’s separation wall, land confiscation and home demolitions for decades. This week Israeli authorities added another battle to the ongoing lists of obstacles faced by the rural village. On Nov. 12, Israeli forces issued notices to […]
8 Cutting Edge Minds Answer the Question – What Happens After We Die?
Buck Rogers, Staff WriterWaking Times What happens after death, no one knows for sure. It is a question of theory and imagination mixed with ancient wisdom and intuitive guesses. Most of us can agree, however, that the human being is a soul which lives for a time in a physical body. The soul feels […]
Federal Reserve Will Continue Cutting Economic Life Support
September 20, 2017 By Brandon Smith I remember back in mid-2013 when the Federal Reserve fielded the notion of a “taper” of quantitative easing measures. More specifically, I remember the response of mainstream economic analysts as well as the alternative economic community. I argued fervently in multiple articles that the Fed would […]
14 Cutting Edge Tech Firms Funded By The CIA
Next Story The CIA has its own investment capital firm called “In-Q-Tel,” and it’s been funding innovative tech firms for years. This is both good news and bad. One the one hand, it allows the CIA to invest in technologies they deem useful for the intelligence community; however, some of these technologies are a little creepy […]
Cutting sugar consumption for just two weeks found to dramatically improve the health of children
(Natural News) Nutritionists have observed that simply cutting sugar intake drastically improved the metabolic function among children in only two weeks. These results were published in The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association (JAOA) and ends with a call for parents to take a stronger stance on their children’s diet. Authors of the nutritional […]
Every residential home could be its own power station, dramatically cutting dependence on the power grid
(Natural News) Utilizing solar power can save homes around 600 British Pounds ($775) in electricity bills every year. This was the conclusion made by a team of researchers from the Swansea University who found that installing solar storage technologies in buildings could cut energy consumption by more than 60 percent. The concept has already […]
Trump Thanks Putin For Cutting US Payroll
Trump is grateful to Putin for large-scale expulsion of US diplomats from Russia. On Thursday Trump told reporters at his New Jersey golf club “I want to thank” Russian President Vladimir Putin for ousting hundreds of US embassy employees “because we’re trying to cut down our payroll.“ Sputnik reports: The business-savvy president said the move […]
US ambassador voices ‘strong disappointment & protest’ at Russia cutting diplomatic staff
US Ambassador John Tefft “expressed his strong disappointment and protest” at the Russian retaliatory move on Friday, as cited by Russian news agencies and Western media. READ MORE: Sanctions retaliation: Russia tells US to cut embassy staff, stop using storage facilities Tefft referred to Moscow’s decision to reduce the number of US diplomats in Russia to […]
Macron proposes cutting French parliament by third
“I am convinced that this measure will have positive consequences for the quality of parliamentary work. This reform is essential,” Macron said. With the reduction of one third, the French parliament will be “less numerous, but strengthened in its means. “It is a Parliament… that works better,” Macron said. If the reform is approved, the National […]