Our culture is obsessed with happiness, but what if there’s a more fulfilling path? Emily Smith offers four pillars of a meaningful life in this Ted talk.
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Building a better world with Booko: Low Tox Life
Ever stopped to read the list of ingredients in the products you use every day? In Low Tox Life, activist and educator Alexx Stuart gently clears a path through the maze of mass-market ingredient cocktails, focusing on four key areas: Body, Home, Food and Mind.
Building a better world with Booko: A Sustainable Home
Sustainable Home is an inspirational and practical guidebook to maintaining a more environmentally friendly household. It’s our pick for today’s Building a Better World series.
Building a better world with Booko: A Family Guide to Waste Free Living
A Family Guide to Waste-free Living makes it simple and sustainable for families to eliminate waste in the home, at work and out in the world. It’s our pick for today.
Three anti-social skills to improve your writing
You need social skills to have a conversation in real life but they’re quite different from the skills you need to write good dialogue. Educator Nadia Kalman suggests a few “anti-social skills,” like eavesdropping and muttering to yourself, that can help you write an effective dialogue for your next story in this animated Ted Ed lesson. Click to watch.
Building a better world with Booko: Home for the Soul
Home for the Soul is about creating a considerate and sustainable home that sparks happiness and reflects the spirits, passions, and tastes of its inhabitants.
Building a better world with Booko: Home by Natural Harry
Home By Natural Harry is a modern reference for anyone who wants to ditch their joyless supermarket habit, reduce plastic waste and save money along with the world.
Building a better world with Booko: What Can I Do?
What Can I Do is a call to action from Jane Fonda, one of the most inspiring activists of our time, urging us to wake up to the looming disaster of climate change and equipping us with the tools we need to join her in protest.
Building a better world with Booko: Climate change and how we’ll fix it
We know what we need to do – so why don’t we just sort out climate change? Many kids (and quite a few adults) have asked the question; Climate Change and How We’ll Fix It will answer it, with a positive but realistic vision of what the solution to our global crisis looks like.
Building a better world with Booko: No-Waste Organic Gardening
Conquering the increasingly important art of responsible gardening is a whole lot easier than you might think, with help from No-Waste Organic Gardening.