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Brighter, Episode 3, A Simple 3-step Recipe for Success

Brighter transcript: Episode 3 – A simple 3-step recipe for success

This is a transcript of ‘Episode 3 – A simple 3-step recipe for success’ by Adam Dorr. The entire series is available on YouTube. The book on which the series is based, “Brighter: Optimism, Progress, and the Future of Environmentalism” is available on Amazon. Hi everyone, Adam Dorr from RethinkX here. Thanks for joining me. …

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Brighter transcript: Episode 2 – Mistakes in conventional thinking

This is a transcript of ‘Episode 2 – Mistakes in conventional thinking’ by Adam Dorr. The entire series is available on YouTube. The book on which the series is based, “Brighter: Optimism, Progress, and the Future of Environmentalism” is available on Amazon. Hello everyone, Adam Dorr from RethinkX here. Thanks for joining me. In this …

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Brighter transcript: Episode 1 – The future of the environment is brighter than you think

This is a transcript of ‘Episode 1 – The future of the environment is brighter than you think’ by Adam Dorr. The entire series is available on YouTube. The book on which the series is based, “Brighter: Optimism, Progress, and the Future of Environmentalism” is available on Amazon.   Hi everyone, Adam Dorr from RethinkX here. …

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It’s possible for Berlin to reach net-zero emissions by 2030. Here’s how.

RethinkX believes it is possible for Berlin to reach net-zero emissions by 2030. In our 2022 report ‘Germany’s Path to ‘Freedom Energy’ by 2030′ we showed how converting Europe’s largest economy to 100% clean energy would usher in a new era of clean prosperity, self-sufficiency and environmental restoration. We concluded that net zero for electric …

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Şanlıurfa/Haliliye earthquake February 7, 2023

A Plan for Türkiye: Recovery from this Disaster and Preparation for the Next

by Çiğdem Özgen, guest contributor Şanlıurfa/Haliliye, Türkiye. 7th of February, 2023. Photo by Ömer Çörten   From the city of Gaziantep in southern Türkiye (the country formerly called ‘Turkey’), close to the epicenters of the strong earthquakes that recently killed thousands of people, it is easy to think, “it all started here.” And by “it …

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Cell-based meat approved in the US for the first time ever

Earlier this week it was announced that the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has declared UPSIDE Foods’ cultured chicken safe to eat. This approval came in the form of a No Questions Letter from the FDA in response to the application for GRAS, or Generally Regarded as Safe, status submitted by UPSIDE Foods. …

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Oral Contraception Doubled the Sales of Ballpoint Pens (The Pattern of Disruption, Part 9)

Russell Marker was a man who was good at finding answers and, in late 1941, he found in the book of a botanist friend an answer he had been seeking for a long time. Dioscorea mexicana, or the Mexican yam, is found throughout Mexico and down to Panama and can grow to several hundred pounds …

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Rocket to the Cristal (The Pattern of Disruption, Part 8)

By all accounts the crowds were buzzing with excitement one day in late October 1945 at Gimbels department store, located in Manhattan near the Empire State Building, to see the shiny new “Reynolds Rocket”. With a silver-plated steel body and refillable chamber, an estimated five thousand people showed up on the day it debuted for …

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An image of a future Sri Lanka

Clean technology disruptions can springboard Sri Lanka from economic collapse to unthinkable prosperity

Sri Lanka is deeply embroiled in a crisis. Fuel shortages have led to protests. Food protests have led to riots. The President fled the country and then resigned by email. A new President was just elected on Wednesday, July 20, but he is no outsider – he has been Prime Minister six times already. The …

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Dropping Silk Stockings Created an Oral Health Revolution (The Pattern of Disruption, Part 7)

For most of human history, it was not routine for people to brush their teeth. But by the 1960s, majorities of most Western countries had a daily oral hygiene routine. Because oral hygiene is so central to wider health, the mainstreaming of dental care had a huge impact on the global disease burden, reducing the …

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