Laura Pike Seeley
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Laura Pike Seeley
Building new urban homes from wood instead of concrete and steel could save about 10% of the carbon budget needed to limit global heating to 2C this century.
Timber cities ‘could cut 100bn tons of CO2 emissions by 2100’
Intense response to interpersonal strife is known as an amygdala hijack: it’s your brain telling you to fight, run away, or freeze, even though there’s no actual physical threat.
Jasmine Quinn-Atlassian • Your brain can actually hijack your success. Here’s how to retrain it
We often think about relationships on a spectrum from positive to negative. But the most toxic relationships aren’t the purely negative ones. They’re the ones that are a mix of positive and negative.
Adam Grant • Opinion | Your Most Ambivalent Relationships Are the Most Toxic
Zhuangzi argues that we must first be disorientated by language to discover that higher knowledge is beyond words.
Finding your essential self: the ancient philosophy of Zhuangziexplained
Building a Second Brain
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elected leaders continue to insist that well-being be measured mostly by economic growth, and when the U.S. media breathlessly reports quarterly economic growth data, with increases deemed “good” and decreases deemed “bad.”
Why shouldn’t free time and its benefits be included in the equation? Why aren’t figures on the social costs of unlimited... See more
Why shouldn’t free time and its benefits be included in the equation? Why aren’t figures on the social costs of unlimited... See more
Gary Cross • Why is free time still so elusive?
Regenerative Agriculture in Mexico Boosts Yields While Restoring Nature - Regeneration International
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There will always be hierarchies in schools, many that the schools themselves actively promote and reward. And this makes it hard when a student feels worthless because they stand at the bottom of these hierarchies. It makes the claim that each student counts or matters sound hollow, because students know where they stand: near the middle of the... See more