News anchor paid off $1 million in medical debt for his viewers A Washington state news anchor, Jesse Jones, who is a cancer survivor – along with the local station that he works for – is paying off over $1 million in medical debt for their viewers. The randomly selected viewers will be received yellow…
Meet 5 entrepreneurs fighting food waste In our modern world, waste food is unacceptable and some entrepreneurs are doing their part to bring about sustainable hunger, sustainable agriculture practices, and sustainable consumption and production to fruition. These five individuals have a serious impact on food waste chain from farming and agriculture to supermarkets retail, all…
Scientists have created nanorobots that would be able to shrink cancerous tumors by cutting off their blood supply without harming healthy cells. By cutting off their blood supply, the nanorobots are starving them out. In a recent study published by in Nature Biotechnology, scientists were able to cut-off the blood supply to breast cancer, ovarian,…
The National Farmers’ Union has elected Minette Batters as the first female president in the organization’s 110-year history. Batters, a Wiltshire beef, sheep and arable farmer who has also diversified her business into weddings and catering, was previously the NFU’s deputy president. She becomes the first woman to hold the top job at the organization,…
LA, give with a smile The six counters put into operation in the county look like exuberant parking meters. The goal is to solve the poverty crisis in light of the latest figures from the Los Angeles City Council. Helping the homeless Earlier this week, cities and county representatives from Los Angeles unveiled six new…
The movie “Blach Panther” is an important movie for the black community all around the world, this is one of the reasons why Frederick Joseph started the Black Panther Challenge before the coming out of the movie. It allowed him to raise money so that kids were able to go watch the movie when it…
New Yorkers are coming up with innovative ways to help solve the housing crisis, which has been going on for years, through community land trusts (CLT). A $1 million donation from Citi Community Development has helped to start New York City’s first CLT, Interboro CLT. The project will start with developing 250 affordables units, with plans…
Obesity rates in Chile have been growing for the last years. A war against unhealthy food has been declared in the country. Marketing restrictions, packaging redesigns, labeling rules, everything is made aiming to change the habits of 18 million people. Nutrition experts say it’s a substantial change in the world, and it is an ambitious attempt to…
Scientists have been developing for the last few years a brain implant that would boost memory, called in their jargon an implantable “cognitive prosthetic”. This new development could be useful for many people even to the cynical. The implant works like a pacemaker, it constitutes an array of electrodes embedded deep in the brain and…
St Mungo’s and Changing Lives, charities that provide specialist support services for homeless and vulnerable people across the UK, are the first organizations to receive investment from Big Issue Invest’s Outcomes Investment Fund. Outcomes-based contracts are a type of public sector commissioning where a central or local government department commissions a provider to deliver support…