Archivi annuali: 2021

Technology has been a saving grace for small business owners who have had to adjust to working from home and the lack of customers shopping in brick and mortar stores. According to a new poll, thirty-one percent of small business owners said embracing new technology helped their business during COVID-19. The survey of 1,000 small

A kind-hearted plumber has spent $77,000 during the pandemic helping thousands of vulnerable families fix their heating and plumbing for free. In 2017, James Anderson was called to a home for a second opinion and caught a heating company who’d attempted to con an elderly and disabled man out of £5,500. Disgusted and disheartened by

A third-year English design student has—”quite simply”—attached a four-layer air purifier to a bicycle wheel, allowing cyclists to clean the air pollution in any city where they pedal. Called Rolloe, the filter could purify more than a quarter million square-meters of air if merely 10% of London cyclists fitted it to their front wheel. Armed

Around the world, individuals have found all kinds of innovative ways to support each other during the coronavirus pandemic—but so have governments. In Arizona, the city of Phoenix has managed to save dozens of farms and restaurants, while also getting free meals to those who need it most. Between July and December in 2020, the

Singer-songwriter activist Joan Baez turns 80 years-old today—and you can join her for a live streaming event tonight that celebrates a new phase in her life. After retiring from live performing in 2019, the musician whose 1975 hit, Diamonds & Rust, was written about former lover, Bob Dylan, has turned to painting full-time. Her new