Category: People Making a Difference

Impact Lab > People Making a Difference
Breakthrough Thinking, Food, People Making a Difference, Shopping

Toronto pay-what-you-can store aims to tackle landfills and hunger

IMG_7614

Initiative aims to reduce dumping of ‘waste’ and sell it at prices set by buyers.

In a bright, airy Toronto market, the shelves are laden with everything from organic produce to pre-made meals and pet food. What shoppers won’t find, however, is price tags. In what is believed to be a North American first, everything in this grocery store is pay-what-you-can.

The new store aims to tackle food insecurity and wastage by pitting the two issues against each other, said Jagger Gordon, the Toronto chef who launched the venture earlier this month.

Continue reading… “Toronto pay-what-you-can store aims to tackle landfills and hunger”

Amazon.com, Business, Employment, People Making a Difference

Amazon is recruiting people to start delivery businesses. Here’s why I think some people could get rich

IMG_7602

There’s risk in any business. But if you asked me to invest in a business with these built-in advantages, I’d certainly listen.

I know a lot of people who have made a ton of money on Amazon.

Now, Amazon says it wants to recruit entrepreneurs to build a national network of small, independent delivery companies–driving leased vans with Amazon branding. If you’ve aspired to start your own business, and you have leadership ability and access to a relatively small amount of capital, it could be well worth looking at.

Continue reading… “Amazon is recruiting people to start delivery businesses. Here’s why I think some people could get rich”

AI, Big Problems, Human Behavior, People Making a Difference, Science & Technology News

How data scientists are using AI for suicide prevention

IMG_7343

The Crisis Text Line uses machine learning to figure out who’s at risk and when to intervene.

When horrible news — like the deaths by suicide of chef, author, and TV star Anthony Bourdain and fashion designer Kate Spade, or the 2015 Paris attacks — breaks, crisis counseling services often get deluged with calls from people in despair. Deciding whom to help first can be a life-or-death decision.

Continue reading… “How data scientists are using AI for suicide prevention”

government, Human Behavior, People Making a Difference, Science & Technology News

How the world’s first loneliness minister will tackle the sad reality of modern life

Loneliness Report Launched In Memory of Murdered MP Jo Cox

A woman holds the report of the Jo Cox Commission on December 15, 2017 in Batley, England. The report has highlighted that the UK should appoint a “minister for loneliness.”

Tracey Crouch knows what it’s like to feel frighteningly alone. After giving birth to her first child, Freddie, in 2016, the British lawmaker says that despite having a “network of friends, family and a wonderful partner,” she began feeling cut off from the world. It wasn’t a new sensation; Crouch says she also suffered from depression six years earlier, when she first became a member of parliament. It felt like she was “in a very dark place, a very lonely place” she recalls.

Continue reading… “How the world’s first loneliness minister will tackle the sad reality of modern life”

Biotech, Health & Fitness, Medicine, People Making a Difference

Life… UNLIMITED: Beating ageing is set to become the biggest business in the world, say tycoons

2018 Vanity Fair Oscar Party Hosted By Radhika Jones - Arrivals

Silicon Valley billionaires are investing in slowing the ageing process

They include PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos

Investor Jim Mellon is leading the anti-ageing race on this side of the Atlantic

Continue reading… “Life… UNLIMITED: Beating ageing is set to become the biggest business in the world, say tycoons”

Breakthrough Thinking, cutting edge, Engineering, Future, New Inventions, People Making a Difference

XPRIZE Founder Peter Diamandis: ‘We’re Living at a Time When Individual Entrepreneurs Are More Powerful Than Governments’

The Venture Final Pitch Sponsored By Chivas

Peter Diamandis is the founder and executive chairman of the XPRIZE Foundation, which designs and operates large-scale incentive competitions to, in essence, change the world.

In the words of its own criteria, an Xprize must be bold, audacious, and achievable. It must target market failure, drive investment, and give birth to a new industry. And, of course, it must give other innovators hope.

Continue reading… “XPRIZE Founder Peter Diamandis: ‘We’re Living at a Time When Individual Entrepreneurs Are More Powerful Than Governments’”

Great New Product, Inventions, People Making a Difference

These cheap paper water filters remove lead, arsenic, and bacteria

IMG_5824

Just pour water through the Mesopaper and it does the rest.

On a visit to Bangladesh in 2011–where an estimated 20 million people are exposed to arsenic in local drinking water–scientist Liangjie Dong worked with a team to teach residents how to use a filtration system he designed that could make the water safe. The technology worked, but it wasn’t self-explanatory: it required training in how to use a special cartridge, and special instructions for how to dispose of it after use.

Continue reading… “These cheap paper water filters remove lead, arsenic, and bacteria”

Business, DaVinci Institute, Education, Futurist, People Making a Difference

DaVinci Institute to launch world’s first “freelance colony” at its Westminster, Colorado HQ

Freelance Colony 1

On October 16-20, 2017 the DaVinci Institute will host its first ever Freelance Academy course as a kickoff for the world’s first Freelance Colony, a coworking community inside the Institutes Westminster headquarters.

A recent report by MBO Partners showed that 3.2 million freelancers are earning more than $100,000 annually. This is up 4.9% from 2016.

Continue reading… “DaVinci Institute to launch world’s first “freelance colony” at its Westminster, Colorado HQ”

Animals, Big Problems, Biotech, Breakthrough Thinking, Crazy Stuff, cutting edge, Future, Healthcare, Ideas, Latest News, Medical Breakthrough, New Discoveries, People Making a Difference, Science & Technology News

Scientists built an external womb to help premature infants survive

a

For expecting parents, 24 weeks is an important milestone. It’s a little more than halfway through pregnancy, and it’s at this age that the fetus has at least a fighting chance of surviving outside its mother’s body. The odds of survival aren’t great—only about half of babies birthed at this age survive—but it’s possible.

Continue reading… “Scientists built an external womb to help premature infants survive”

Discover the Hidden Patterns of Tomorrow with Futurist Thomas Frey
Unlock Your Potential, Ignite Your Success.

By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.

Learn More about this exciting program.