Prince William left, and the naturalist Sir David Attenborough in Davos, Switzerland, in 2019. Mr. Attenborough is on a council overseeing a new environmental prize.
Fabrice Coffrini / Agence France-Presse & Getty Images
Prince William on Thursday announced the establishment of a major environmental prize to reward climate change solutions over the next 10 years, saying it was an effort to “turn the current pessimism surrounding environmental issues into optimism.”
Five £1m prizes will be awarded each year for the next 10 years, aiming to provide at least 50 solutions to some of the world’s environmental problems.
Sir David Attenborough, the naturalist behind dozens of documentaries chronicling the planet’s biodiversity, has joined a council overseeing the prize and helped promote its debut.
🌕 Inspired by John F Kennedy’s ambitious “Moon Shot” lunar program, the prize is centered on five “Earthshots” – simple but ambitious goals for the planet. These are:
Protect and restore nature.
Clean our air.
Revive our oceans.
Build a waste-free world.
Fix our climate.
🌱 Individuals, people-powered movements, business cities, and countries can be nominated for the prizes. Learn more on the project’s website.
→ Watch “A Life on Our Planet” on Netflix
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Reading
▪ What’s a circular bioeconomy and how can it save the planet?
Marc Palahí & Justin Adams | World Economic Forum
▪ The collective brain: where does innovation come from?
Anne-Laure Le Cunff | Ness Labs
▪ Spatial Memory: Why It Matters for UX Design
Page Laubheimer | Nielson Norman Group
▪ Google’s new logos are bad
Devin Coldewey | Tech Crunch
▪ Why Life Can’t Be Simpler
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TED Talks
Where does all the carbon we release go? | Kristen Bell + Giant Ant
A brief answer to one of the key questions about climate change: Where does all the carbon we release go? (Written by Myles Allen, David Biello and George Zaidan)
This animation was part of the Countdown Global Launch on 10.10.2020.👀 Watch the full event:
Countdown is TED's global initiative to accelerate solutions to the climate crisis. The goal: to build a better future by cutting greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030, in the race to a zero-carbon world.
👉 Get involved: https://countdown.ted.com/sign-up
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The badly thought-out use of Microsoft's Excel software was the reason nearly 16,000 coronavirus cases went unreported in England.
Trump administration announced an overhaul of the H-1B visa program for high-skilled foreign workers that will require employers to pay H-1B workers significantly higher wages, narrow the types of degrees that could qualify an applicant, and shorten the length of visas for certain contract workers.
The changes, introduced by the Departments of Labor and Homeland Security on Tuesday, will likely make it tougher to qualify for one of the coveted visas.
Google is giving data to police based on search keywords, court docs show.
Twitter is working on a fix for its automated image cropping.
The World Health Organization partnered with Estonia—a country that allows citizens to vote via the internet—to create “digital vaccination certificates” powered by blockchain. It’ll start with a 12-week pilot.
Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna have won this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Read more about the pair’s pioneering research into CRISPR gene-editing tools. It was the first time the award has gone to two women.
The Great Barrier Reef has now lost more than 50% of its corals since 1995, due to warmer seas caused by climate change.
Microsoft is letting more employees work from home permanently.
So what happens now?
Artwork: Glenn Thomas
Every choice we make has an impact on the planet. While individually, this impact seems small, when you add everyone up and zoom out – the picture starts to look very different.
Respecting the earth is making a choice to understand the gravity of our actions, and to think about the planet we stand on when we’re making them.
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