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Doing Good Together Makes it Easy to Teach Kindness
One of the most important things that these chaotic pandemic years have taught us is that everyone needs compassion. According to a study conducted by the Center for Healthy Minds, compassion is just like any muscle. The more you practice compassion, the more it grows. And this is even truer with children. Realizing the lack… Read More
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DoSomething Makes Volunteering Easy and Rewarding
DoSomething is a nonprofit exclusively for young people and social change with millions of members. Its mission is to fuel young people to change the world by taking action on the issues that are most pressing to them. Through various campaigns and opportunities, DoSomething members can begin their civic engagement journey through volunteering, making a… Read More
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Global Volunteers Calls Students to Join Volunteer Abroad Programs
For high school and college students, volunteering provides not only life-changing experiences, such as opportunities to give back and make positive impacts on the world, but also practical benefits, such as career development and service-hour requirements. One of the biggest short-term volunteer organizations, Global Volunteers calls students to join its short-term service abroad programs that… Read More
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UPchieve Offers Free Tutoring and Volunteering Opportunities
UPchieve is a 100-percent free online tutoring and college counseling platform for high school students. The organization seeks to democratize access to academic support so all students can have an equal opportunity to finish high school and attend college. Whether you’re looking to get or offer tutoring, UPchieve offers not only a sharing of intellectual… Read More
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Globe Aware Makes Volunteering Easy, Safe and Fun
For students in high school and college, volunteering is beneficial in many ways. Through volunteering, not only can you make meaningful impacts and learn to live as a part of a wider community, but also network with people from various career paths and improve your school applications. Of course there are numerous local volunteering opportunities… Read More
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How ThinkerAnalytix Helps Students Hone Logical Reasoning Skills
Logical thinking, the ability to analyze a problem and come up with a rational solution, is crucial for student success. You need it for mathematics and computer science, to name just two obvious academic subjects, but the reality is that you can’t do well in school (and through life) without the ability to reason logically. … Read More
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Hey Sophomores, You Just Got Some Free Time To Make Junior Year Easier for You – Study for the SAT or ACT Now
With schools closing and social distancing in place to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus, high school students suddenly find themselves with a lot of free time given that there are no sports, clubs or other extracurricular activities. If you are a sophomore, you should consider using some of your newly found time to… Read More
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Life on Hold – Coronavirus In South Korea
On a lazy Sunday afternoon, the sun felt too warm and the spring breeze too fresh to stay indoors. For the first time in a long time, Eunji Kim, 31, who lives in South Korea, drove in her new MINI Cooper (in pretty solaris orange) to grab a late lunch with a few friends. Before… Read More
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7 Brands Making Earth-Friendly Shoes
What happens to your shoes after you throw them out? They will most likely end up in landfill and contaminate our air and water for more than 30-40 years to come. It may sound too harsh for throwing out a pair of shoes. But, the reality isn’t just a single pair of shoes. Annually, about… Read More
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Sustainable Makeup for Your Skin and Our Planet
Makeup is fun. Like with anything that is fun, though, the industry and its consumers have been tagged with terms that sound excessive, or even wasteful, such as “cosmoholic” or “makeup hoarder.” Recently, however, both the industry and consumers are coming up with new terms that sound very different from their past — “zero waste”… Read More
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New AI Tool Helps Flag Fake News
During the last few years, the term “fake news” has been so popularized and even weaponized by multiple parties that it’s almost too hard to define the term exactly. However, one thing is clear. Fake news is a massive problem in our modern society. According to a 2019 survey by Pew Research Center, Americans rate… Read More
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How Sustainable Is Your Jewelry?
“A diamond is forever,” is the iconic tagline from De Beers. But, as we approach 2020, over 70 years after the tagline was first used, consumers are responding, “so is our Earth.” Younger consumers are asking the jewelry industry how they are making their jewelry, where the materials come from, whose lives the process affected… Read More
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Brands Respond to Demand for Sustainable Skincare
From Kesha revealing her natural face full of freckles to Kardashians sharing no-makeup videos, 2019 is the year for a natural, makeup-free kind of beauty. As celebrities embraced their natural selves online, social media soon followed and hashtags like #nomakeup, #nofilter went buzzing. Naturally, consumers started to invest in skincare, but not just any skincare.… Read More
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Innovative Ideas in Sustainable Fashion
According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, more than 65 percent of all types of textiles generated in 2015 ended up in landfills, meaning they were unable to be composted or recycled among humans. Think of it like this — if your room were the Earth, your entire floor would be piled with trash that… Read More
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University and Community Group Join Forces to Offer Students a Tuition Discount
With soaring college tuition and lingering student debt, if someone offered to give you a 10-percent tuition discount upon enrollment only, you’d put on your skeptical face and ask, “What’s the catch?” But, if you’re a member of Momentum Aroostook, a community group in Aroostook County, Maine, and are choosing to enroll in any of… Read More
