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This is what your life will be like when the world hits a dangerous climate tipping point

Fast Company Tech

That may not sound like much, but a 5-degree rise will affect almost every aspect of human life, in ways both large and small. What will life be like in this much warmer world? Air-conditioning will be a literal life-saver, and the number of people with air-conditioning will increase dramatically.

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Blog Action Day 2010: Water

Amy Sample Ward

The first step in making change in your life, local community or world is to learn. Hulhumale Maldives. As hand-held mobile devises connected to the internet spread to cities, villages, remote communities around the world, we need to continue finding ways to use these tools to make a positive impact. 350 action in Oman Dive Center.

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An Unconventional 3-Step Plan To Save the Oceans

Saleforce Nonprofit

The oceans give us life. Plastic already falls from the sky, suffocates sea life, and is carried by currents and winds to every nook and cranny of the earth. We have all the knowledge, tools, and imagination we need to turn things around and protect our life-giving ecosystem. In return, we treat them like a garbage can.

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Inside the secretive Silicon Valley startup trying to save the oceans with tech

TechCrunch

Queensland’s CoralBots are now being put to work in Australia, the Philippines, Vietnam and the Maldives. The website also now details how Oceankind has spent more than $121 million funding a broad range of projects related to marine science, technology, animal life and climate. They’ve been absolutely a dream funder.”.

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The most innovative companies in corporate social responsibility of 2025

Fast Company Tech

In the Maldives, for example, Six Senses Laamu reduced Styrofoam waste by establishing chicken farms to produce local eggs instead of flying them in in Styrofoam crates. To help prolong their life and improve the companys long-term sustainability, it is focusing on ways to make them more repairable.

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Myspace Tom got it right

The Verge

If you are an entrepreneur in the psycho Silicon Valley tradition — that is to say, you are capable of perceiving a functional, quality-of-life difference between net worths of $100 million and $100 billion — then perhaps you too envy the lives of Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg. Today it simply says, “Enjoying the good life.”

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