Today’s Solutions: November 22, 2024

Education

Great minds lead to great solutions. Our education section features solutions and innovations directed at strengthening educational systems around the world.

the way through the woods

The Way Through the Woods, a unique memoir juxtaposing grief and mushrooms

Long Litt Woon’s memoir is not a typical tale of loss. Woon’s compelling memoir beautifully combines her grief, following the passing of her husband, with a passion for mushrooms cultivated in her time of mourning.  The New York Times review of the book notes, “Long tells the story of Read More...

Photographer Yevhen Samuchenko took this image in the Himalayas in Nepal at Gosaikunda Lake

The beautiful duet of science and photography

Photographer Yevhen Samuchenko took this image in the Himalayas in Nepal at Gosaikunda Lake Science and art are often seen as vastly different and even opposing fields. However, their overlap can produce harmonious works of utter brilliance. The Royal Photographic Society has started their Read More...

Mushrooms can be leather

Meat from Plants, Milk from Oats, and Leather from Mushrooms!

Leather has been worn for centuries and remains an iconic material for fashion today. But leather is not perfect. It requires livestock which requires many resources and the foul treatment of animals and produces millions of tons of waste per year. The word “leather” is quickly becoming Read More...

Avoiding College Burnout

Beating the Burnout: How to Get Back in the College Groove Without Losing Your Mind

With the start of fall semester right around the corner, college students may soon be facing an awful enemy: burnout. Burnout is that feeling of defeat, the “there’s no point in doing this anymore” and “my life is going nowhere”.  While college can be the best days of someone’s life Read More...

Second Chances

This restaurant is giving inmates a chance at reinventing their lives

EDWINS, which stands for “education wins”, is a restaurant in Cleveland, Ohio that is creating success for itself and for the inmates that make up the staff. Brandon Chrostowski pulled himself out of crime and is now channeling positive change by creating this restaurant. One of the Read More...

Colorful basketball courts for

Colorful basketball courts for a brighter future

It is no doubt that sports and outdoor activities can have beneficial effects on a community. Rainbow Recreation Center in Oakland, California is taking the benefits to a new level. Dan Peterson has begun fixing up basketball courts in urban communities to bring people together and make the area Read More...

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Starting the school year off with school supplies for all

Starting today in many communities, school is back in session!  For many around the world though, the simplest things, like pencils, notepads, books, and erasers are beyond reach.  This nonprofit is doing something that makes perfect sense: donating used school supplies to teachers in need. While Read More...

Why you should reread the clas

Why you should reread the classics you read back in high school

Too often, the books that you’re required to read in high school English don’t feel especially relevant. Maybe it’s the way they got taught to you, or the fact that many of them were written so long ago, or maybe you just weren’t in the right headspace to try to figure out what Darl Read More...

A major university just banned

A major university just banned beef products from its campus

Goldsmiths, a major University in London, just made a colossal statement after banning the sale of beef in campus food outlets in order to tackle the climate emergency. Under the new ban, beef products will no longer be available in the institution’s cafes and shops when the academic year begins Read More...

Make your home a greener place

Make your home a greener place with this terrarium table

If you want to add more greenery to your home but don’t necessarily have space, we have the perfect solution for you: BloomingTables, which has a new design that serves as both a table and planter. It’s somewhat difficult to explain this new design, but basically, it’s a terrarium that you Read More...