Many of us tend to downplay the horrors of commuting, falling prey to a phenomenon called “commuter’s bias” when it comes to the prospect of earning more money. However, spending more time standing on a crowded train or sitting in mind-numbing traffic can make you feel just as bad as earning less money, even if you aren’t.

Mentoring the whole person takes more effort, more time, and more thought, but the payoff is bigger and better for emerging leaders and the future of leadership. What practices can a mentor follow in order to make sure they’re doing well?

Working from home continues to grow in popularity in our surrounding digital era. Plenty of people do it successfully and many others wish they could. It’s the best of both worlds, right? Living where you want, working how you want. Matt Haughey shares some advice on what he’s learned over 16 years of working remotely.

Not everyone is an artist, but art making has been shown to reduce stress levels, even if you aren’t good at it. If you enjoy it, make time for it, and reward yourself with some great health benefits, too!

An estimated 90% of genetic hearing loss is caused by problems with hair cells or damage to the auditory nerves that connect the hair cells to the brain. According to Angelika Doetzlhofer, Ph.D., “These hair cells are a major player in hearing loss, and knowing more about how they develop will help us figure out ways to replace hair cells that are damaged.”

Modern technology makes us consumers instead of creators. We tend to think that knowing about things and events makes us smarter. But how much of what you consume do you actually even remember? Most knowledge worth having comes from practice. It comes from doing. It comes from creating. And when we compile knowledge in these ways, we actually gain wisdom, too.

Shipping pallets are used everywhere, which means millions of trees are cut down each year to make them. Humans have been slow to develop alternatives but CocoPallet has started making transportation pallets from coconut husks, which means that the material is 100% organic and it also being recycled from a waste product.

A puffy pink seaweed that can stop cows from burping out methane is being primed for mass farming by Australian researchers. Even a small amount of the seaweed in a cow’s diet was shown to reduce the animal’s gases by 99%!

“There are estimates of anywhere from a few thousand fibers in a single load of laundry to as much as 10 or 12 million fibers per load of laundry,” says Peter Ross, vice president of Ocean Wise in Vancouver, British Columbia. The good news is that there are many different opportunities to use plastic wisely whether it’s in terms of food safety or beverage safety, or products that are reusable, recyclable and retain that value. The first step is to be informed and make decisions from that place of awareness.

The company is launching a new material that could reduce the time, materials, and space required to ship products by 50%.

Meet Silvio Gesell, who inspired a worldwide movement to create money that expired. It’s an interesting idea and after nearly a century, is making a comeback. Is this something you would stand behind? Do you think it would be sustainable in our modern world?