This month's news lessons

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Business News Lessons: Putting people above profits

We have all shown how grateful we are for those working In the pandemic but have companies been grateful enough?

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Stoked! Surfboard lost in Tasmania turns up 2,700km away in Queensland

Read about how a surfboard managed to travel 2,700km all by itself and, eventually, back to its owner.

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‘It’s radical’: the Ugandan city built on solar, shea butter and people power

Can the perfect city grow from a nut? Read how the people of Okere City are transforming their hometown.

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The funds that maintain the White House’s ‘museum quality’

How is the White House maintained and renovated and who pays for all of this work?

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‘A role model’: how Seville is turning leftover oranges into electricity

Seville creates a whole new kind of juice from waste oranges—electricity! Read how the city uses fruit for power.

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Business News Lessons: Coffee shops take a hit in Silicon Valley

Our new virtual world hurts the tech community as it loses physical places to meet, present, make deals, and brainstorm.

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‘When I tell people, they might laugh’ – George Clooney and the men who sew

More and more men are using their time in lockdown to start the hobby of sewing—George Clooney included!

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New rewilding project teaches tour guides to offer fresh look at travel

Want to explore somewhere new? By reintroducing animals to the wilds of Europe, this project introduces tourists to unseen sights.

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Off-road, off-grid: the modern nomads wandering America’s back country

More and more Americans are moving into their vehicles and becoming nomads.

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Business News Lessons: Can we save the environment with economics?

If nature is given a financial value, do people start to believe that it is worth protecting?

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How creating wildlife crossings can help reindeer, bears – and even crabs

Different countries around the world are reconnecting animal habitats by building ways for wildlife to cross our roads.

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Turkey embarks on cultural mission to preserve its fairy tales

Once upon a time, the people of Turkey sent fairytales to academics so they could organize the stories and help them live happily ever after.

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‘Lived experience’: finally, a disability reporter who has a disability

A television company has made a key change—reporters whose connection to race or disability helps viewers truly understand the story.

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Business News Lessons: Air travel—the shape of things to come

What will the planes of the future look like?

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Milan’s bicycling bookseller takes on the online giants

A former bookshop owner keeps his business alive, and fights online booksellers, with a personalized delivery service.

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New demand for TV presenters to include climate in forecasts

Australian TV presenters could lead the way in making the public aware of how climate change affects our weather.

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Zacharias not Zeppelin: Germany to scrap Nazi-era phonetic table

For over 80 years, most Germans have been using a Nazi-era spelling system without knowing its dark history. Not any more.

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Business News Lessons: Advice for the modern boss

Work has changed—what do bosses need to do now?

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31st December 2020: “Big cat” country? New Zealand’s obsession with giant feline sightings

Since the 1960s, there have been reports of a mysterious, monstrously big cat in the south of New Zealand.

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10th December 2020: Ecotricity founder to grow diamonds “made entirely from the sky”

The world’s most environmentally friendly diamond using carbon dioxide taken straight from the sky.