Advances in neuro-science have recently confirmed that something as simple as a walk through a natural setting produces significant changes in the portion of our brain known as the subgenual prefrontal cortex (sgPFC).
Speaking through top Hollywood talent and visually gorgeous cinematography, the individual videos convey the message that nature, in all her magnificence, doesn’t really give a damn whether the human race survives, and in fact might prefer it didn’t.
NASA’s photographs motivated the award-winning director and composer to musically explore how humans and nature, art and science are all connected.
Cheap fashion rides on the back of workers—predominantly woman and often children—in countries such as Bangladesh and India who earn less than $3 a day and live with toxic byproducts of manufacturing.
The chemicals in fragrance are known to cause infertility, birth defects, diabetes, learning disabilities and cancer, and can mutate DNA. Yet because of the fragrance loophole, the manufacturers can completely hide these ingredients.
If you tried to picture the exact opposite of the L.A. River, you might imagine something that winds and flows, with lots of reflected light—something like the artwork of Frank Gehry, who designed the Disney concert hall, the Bilbao Guggenheim and other magnificent buildings.
The kind of trust fund that Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, have in mind is one that benefits all the children of the world.
They say it is as safe for humans as farmed salmon, [but] considering the hazards of farmed salmon—viruses, saturated fat, disease, antibiotics, sea lice, 11 times more dioxin than wild salmon—it’s not much of an endorsement.
More than 50 puppy friendly pet stores throughout the greater L.A. area have signed the Humane Society pledge.
People spend billions of dollars talking to psychologists, attending self-improvement seminars and seeking out various “masters” who suggest they know “the way.” The reason for our occasionally desperate search for answers is that our consumer culture is removed from raw nature