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World Changing Ideas

New workplaces, new food sources, new medicine--even an entirely new economic system.

When refugees need emergency help with a language barrier, this app connects them to a translator

Tarjimly already has a large network of volunteer translators on Facebook Messenger. Now it’s opening up to allow more ways of helping.

When refugees need emergency help with a language barrier, this app connects them to a translator

The Green New Deal is a people-first approach to solving climate change

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s proposal to address climate change and close the equity gap leans on progressive models to ensure a fairer economy.

The Green New Deal is a people-first approach to solving climate change

These probiotics for plants help farms suck up extra carbon dioxide

A mix of fungi and bacteria added to the soil makes agriculture more productive–and helps stop climate change.

These probiotics for plants help farms suck up extra carbon dioxide

There are now 5 generations in the workforce–can they work together?

How to get your boomers and your gen-Zers (and everyone in between) on the same page, despite very different styles.

There are now 5 generations in the workforce–can they work together?

73 blockchain projects that could actually have social impact

Breaker Magazine nods to dozens of nonprofits and companies that are cutting past the shady veneer of the crypto world and trying to use the technology for good.

73 blockchain projects that could actually have social impact

2018 was the fourth hottest year on record

The last five years are the five hottest years since we started measuring in 1880.

2018 was the fourth hottest year on record

Lyft’s new Green Mode lets you request an electric vehicle

The company wants to push EV adoption and convince drivers they can save on fuel costs by going electric.

Lyft’s new Green Mode lets you request an electric vehicle

This clothing factory cuts waste by machine-knitting sweaters on demand

In Brooklyn, a company is trying automating knitting sweaters and making them to order instead of making thousands that then have to be trashed if no one buys them.

This clothing factory cuts waste by machine-knitting sweaters on demand

This tech company is giving half a million to fight homelessness

Okta is the latest tech company to decide it’s time to try to solve some of the underlying effects of the industry’s massive growth.

This tech company is giving half a million to fight homelessness

Most U.S. companies say they are planning to transition to a circular economy

But the definition of circular economy remains unhelpfully broad.

Most U.S. companies say they are planning to transition to a circular economy

This new personal care company ditches single-use plastic for refillable containers

By Humankind sends your first deodorant in a plastic dispenser. After that, you just get refills.

This new personal care company ditches single-use plastic for refillable containers

USPS is launching a test of electric delivery trucks

In one of the most polluted parts of the country, the mail will soon arrive in 15 electric trucks.

USPS is launching a test of electric delivery trucks

I rode the 300-pound electric tricycle that could be the future of urban deliveries

Piloting Rad Power Bikes’ hefty e-tricycle was intimidating at first, but it was quickly clear what an important tool it will be in replacing vehicles in cities.

I rode the 300-pound electric tricycle that could be the future of urban deliveries

This new credit card helps build a credit score for people who don’t have one

Petal looks at a person’s overall financial history to issue credit cards to people like immigrants and low-income Americans who often struggle to access them.

This new credit card helps build a credit score for people who don’t have one

Future pills will be personalized and 3D printed, just for you

Meet the scientists using 3D printers to deliver safer, more effective tablets for children.

Future pills will be personalized and 3D printed, just for you

This little robot helps care for people with chronic conditions

Mabu is a small robot that talks to patients and helps them remember their medicine and monitors their health.

This little robot helps care for people with chronic conditions

This company has found a way to retrofit planes so they fly with electric power

Ampaire will begin test flights later this year.

This company has found a way to retrofit planes so they fly with electric power

This zero-waste grocery service delivers by bike

At the Wally Shop in Brooklyn, your deliveries come with zero emissions, and all your packaging gets sent back for reuse.

This zero-waste grocery service delivers by bike

This school is built specifically to help homeless kids–because they helped design it

In Oklahoma City, Positive Tomorrows helps homeless kids get back up to speed so they can enter the public school system. All of its elements are made to give kids what they say they’re missing without a home of their own.

This school is built specifically to help homeless kids–because they helped design it

Lyft and Juno are suing to stop New York City’s revolutionary new minimum wage for drivers

After a two-year fight, New York approved a minimum wage for app-based drivers. But Lyft and Juno are now suing the city to stop the law–though they say they just want to change it.

Lyft and Juno are suing to stop New York City’s revolutionary new minimum wage for drivers

Impact

In Berlin, there’s now one app to access every mode of transportation

Will there be a market for the coming explosion of electric cars?

Gifts from the 50 biggest donors dropped by half in 2018

Creativity

Finally! Doritos makes a chip bag that cleans your dusty fingers

The fallout from NYT’s Ryan Adams exposé has already arrived

Home Page is being rereleased, like a time capsule from the internet’s early days

Co.Design

This revolutionary fabric could make flying economy less terrible

The major source of plastic pollution you’ve probably never heard of

Can architecture help you live forever?

Work Life

How to ask effective questions

The quest for affordable childcare is crippling U.S. workers

5 reasons why you’re still sleeping terribly