For years now, experts have been encouraging kids to engage in physical exercise and abandon their x-box, even just for an hour a day, with slogans like “get outside”, while we, as adults, workout either within the confined spaces of our living rooms or at the nearby gym. However, there’s now reason to believe that humans of any age should: get outside!
Four enterprising Harvard University students have come up with a brilliant way of using a soccer ball as an energy source. Grouped together because of their experience in the developing world and with global health, the team of four women designed a product called the “s0ccket” in engineering science class.
Hyun Joo Lee and Eu Tteum Lee have developed a prototype skipping rope that features a LED flashlight built into one of its handles. It converts the boundless energy of your daily workout into electricity.
Non-stick cookware! Stain-repellant clothing! Technology seems to know no bounds. But it all comes with a price. The dangers to our overall health and wellbeing are even more overwhelming.
The decision is in: the jobs of the future must be green – economically and ecologically. This past Saturday the Good Green Jobs for All Conference took place in Toronto.