hedonismnoun living and behaving in ways that mean you get as much pleasure out of life as possible, according to the belief that the most important thing in life
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The Progress Paradox – Life Gets Better Yet We Continue to Feel Worse
When More is Not Enough We live in an era of unparalleled material abundance. Compared to every generation before us, people in just about every part of the
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Change is Possible – The Acid Rain Story
In the face of acid rain, eco-deterioration in the 1970s prompted significant societal change by the 1990s through cap-and-trade and cleaner fuels. This narrative parallels other movements, like same-sex marriage and smoking reduction, emphasizing the power of grassroots mobilization, changing norms, and diverse coalitions to inspire lasting transformations for a sustainable future.
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Free to Learn – Why a year out of school might be the best thing we could do for our kids.
“Children come into the world burning to learn. What extinguishes that flame is often school.”— Peter Gray, Free to Learn At Sudbury Valley School in Massachusetts, there are
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Book Review: Less is More
Living Better by Doing Less Imagine a world where neighbourhoods hum with shared tools and laughter instead of traffic. Where food grows in backyards and balconies. Where work
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Sapiens, Simplicity, and the Surprising Science of Joy
What Yuval Noah Harari’s bestseller taught me about living more with less. When I first read Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari, I expected a sweeping history of humankind