We are all part of a global community, and in that spirit we take each Friday to spread the love to others who’ve inspired us. In our Great Discoveries series, we feature the most interesting articles, a must-watch video and the most inspirational quote we discovered this week. Please spread the love and enjoy your day!
 Green Spaces Make Kids SmarterA new study finds that vegetation around schools cuts down on air pollution and boosts memory and attention. [Read @ The Atlantic] |  Here’s why you should worry if a woman just got promoted to a top position at your companyIt might not mean what you think. [Read @ Business Insider] |
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 13 Important Pieces Of Life Advice From CatsWith accompanying can’t-miss photos, of course! [Read @ The Dodo] |  Fortysomething parents are not alrightStill waiting to have kids? You’re not the only one. [Read @ Quartz] |
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Love these articles and as a parent of a small toddler in the forestschool system, I couldn’t agree more with the one about green spaces making children smarter. We started the school candidly thinking the whole thing was a little nuts – as it turns out, it’s the most “non-nuts” thing we’ve ever done for her – it’s amazing how much children really do love being outside and how much our traditional schools are increasingly set up to take that away from them.
Great round-up! Reall enjoyed reading each of it, as well as the video! Already a subscriber of Prince EA’s YouTube channel. He has so many other inspirational stuff there. Must check it, if you haven’t. 🙂
Great work, guys! Awesome finds especially for thos who have children! I’m not a mother yet, but even I enjoyed it. Sharing this page on my Facebook for my friends to read too! 🙂
Great research skills! All these articles (and the video) are AWESOME! Thank you for compiling and sharing these to us, your readers!
Great finds from around the web! My comment is particularly for article on the benefits of vegetation around schools.
Here in dense, urbanized San Francisco, our public school district and its community allies are committed to removing asphalt on schoolyards and creating gardens and green spaces. You don’t need acres of land to have a thriving pollinator garden, grow vegetables, or plant some trees. These small patches of green benefit children’s learning and emotional development — and they also benefit our local environment. It’s a win-win all around. Kids don’t have to attend school “in the middle of a forest” to benefit from nature on school grounds.
Just sharing 😉
Performance was great, message was even better but I don’t see how this video helps solving the global problem we face to save the trees. Why do I get the feeling that the website behind the video is gathering money for temporary ransom to pay to forest owners or local communities. I bet as soon as this organisation fails to gather enough money for those communities these so called saved trees are eventually gonna be cut down. Instead of those grandiloquent words to describe what a great thing we are doing here by buying those certificates, would be great if you enlighted us if it really matters and how.
Those Trees are not going to be cut down because the solution to avoid resorting to that would have been in place by empowering the community with the meager $10 you and I give it. Stand for Trees has numerous places you can donate to solidify a community of your choice, we are millions, at $10 per person can come up to a lot to eradicate the problem of Deforestation. Please let’s not be cynical, denial is not a river! In Stand for trees website they SPELL IT OUT for you, completely, you just need to read it and as a French person in love with French words, Grandilloquence is attributed to Moliere or Marivaux in their Grandilloquent plays and hardly describes PrinceEA to the Heart words who are profound, insighful and directed AT THE PEOPLE! VIVE LES FORETS!! JE SUIS UN ARBRE!!!
I’m on the process of establishing schools and it’s great to be aware of the educational benefits of nature for students.
Life in developed countries’ congested cities and in poor city neighborhoods is truly deprived of green living space. They are also deprived of decent schools.
However, I’m skeptical of this claim. Look at the many jungle-sited African cities and villages there (not the desert areas). See how African people are waging tribal wars and still doing slave labor in a few areas. Notice the unintelligent ways they reacted to Ebola: no decent educations are available. Yet the jungle is near, often only a stone’s throw from the villages and fields. Green spaces can’t automatically produce intelligence! More factors are needed.
Drunkenly rescued a kitten from being trampled in the middle of a large festival crowd a few years ago when I was 18. She seems like she never forgot that. She also still thinks she`s the baby of the house. 🙂
Why do articles like this always assume that older parents “postponed” having kids because they were just too darn busy with their high-powered careers, etc.? I would have loved to become a mom at, like, 26, 28, 30, 32, but I had a hell of a time with dating. I had a boyfriend for 5 months when I was in college, then about 10 years of dead-end very-short-term dating scenarios (go a few dates, then it wouldn’t work out; meet another guy a few months later, then that wouldn’t work out, and so on), followed by a 2-year relationship with a guy I was madly in love with and thought was The One, who then cheated on me and dumped me and left me devastatedly heartbroken. Several more years to recover from that and endure more dead-end dating scenarios, but this time through Match, eHarmony, etc. Finally, at 37, I met a good guy who wanted to stick around and we got pregnant three months after getting married (when I was thirty-nine). “Postponed” parenthood? I gladly would have traded years of loneliness and heartache to start a family sooner.
I agree wholeheartedly!! Like you, I had a lot of relationship dead-ends and lame men in general. I didn’t even want kids because I just couldn’t see doing so with the relationships I had experienced. Like a lot of women, I suffered abuse, cheating etc. Then I met my husband in my 30s and we got married when I was 36. We tried to get pregnant but it wasn’t easy at all and we ended up having to get some help with a fertility doc (drugs, IUI) to make our kids happen at 39 & 41. So it wasn’t a choice but our reality, and I’m totally ok with it!! I love my girls and I feel blessed. Statistics mask real life and the stories of us in them.