Local people come together for beach clean-up in Mumbai to tackle the plastic waste menace
Versova Beach in Mumbai, India has never looked cleaner – and it is due to the efforts of local people, including children, who have undertaken the task of cleaning a 3-kilometer stretch of the beach every weekend. The good samaritans have already collected more than 12,000 tonnes of plastic waste that gets washed ashore since 2015. While considerable areas of the beach are still polluted by plastic, the...
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By 2040, all short-haul flights in Norway would be electric
Norway is all set to become world’s first country to switch entirely to electric air transport for short-distance flights. The nation’s public operator of air transport hopes to achieve this target by 2040. State-owned Avinor, which operates most of Norway’s civil airports, is aiming to be the “first in the world” to switch to electric air transport, according to its chief executive Dag Falk-Petersen. “We...
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This pit bull is being credited with saving the lives of her owners
Pit bulls are known for their protective nature and tenacity and this pit bull recently proved that dogs are man’s best friends indeed. A couple in Lakeview, New York, has credited Ruby, their pit bull, for saving their lives. “Typically she only barks for one reason, and that’s if someone is at the door,” Ronene Ando told CBS News. So Thursday night, when Ruby wouldn’t stop...
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This Iraq war veteran is still helping out Puerto Ricans, 4 months after Hurricane Maria devastated the island
Four months ago, Hurricane Maria caused massive destruction in Puerto Rico, while plunging its residents into a deep humanitarian crisis. There was no electricity for weeks and people struggled for basic necessities like food and drinkable water. Since then, Jason Maddy has been on a mission – he and other veterans rushed in supplies to the remote western parts of the island to help those in need. One of...
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Scotland bans the use of plastic-stemmed cotton buds
In a new move to curb the growing problem of marine plastic pollution, Scotland has become the first country in the world to ban the production and sale of plastic-stemmed cotton buds. The move follows concerns about the number of buds being washed up on beaches after being flushed down toilets. Hundreds were recently found on a 100 m stretch of Gullane Beach. Plastic cotton buds are consistently listed in the...
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Elon Musk’s brother wants to introduce #RealFood to students across 100,000 American schools
Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s brother Kimbal Musk is all set to introduce students across 100,000 American schools to growing and eating real food. His nonprofit organization, The Kitchen Community, is expanding into a new, national nonprofit called Big Green which aims to build hundreds of outdoor Learning Garden classrooms across America to teach kids garden skills and healthy eating habits. The Kitchen...
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Man carves 5-mile long road so children can attend school without any difficulty
A man named Jalandhar Nayak, living in a remote eastern Indian village, did not like the fact that his three sons had to spend three hours walking down a rocky path to reach school every day. So he did the unthinkable–the man picked up a chisel, a garden hoe and pickaxe and began building a shorter, easier-to-navigate route. His efforts came to the attention of government officials this week when he was...
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This woman comes up with an interesting solution to rising rents
With rents in big cities like Vancouver going through the roof, finding affordable housing has become quite a task. The arrival of AirBnb rentals has made things worse by causing an acute shortage of rental vacancies. To cope with these issues, a woman named Atli has transformed her van into a comfy home for herself. As a transit bus driver, Atli lives and works in Vancouver, which has one of the most expensive...
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8-year-old cancer fighter gets an overwhelmingly warm welcome at school
Bridget Kelly, an eight-year-old student at Merrymount Elementary School in Quincy, Massachusetts, was going back to school after a hiatus of fifteen months. She had spent the time fighting cancer and undergoing a stem cell transplant. The little girl was in for a big surprise on January 2, when she finally returned to school. As Bridget walked in, she was met by hundreds of students, parents, teachers and...
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This Brazilian company taught its illiterate cleaning staff how to read
Nataly Bonato, the owner of Sao Paulo-based company WeWork, wanted to address office cleaning issues and asked the janitors to provide some very basic information like name of the janitor, which room they cleaned, why a particular room wasn’t cleaned (if any), and how much time was spent in each room in the form of a report. When the first report took a week to be turned in and the answers weren’t even accurate,...
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