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Here’s one way to plant 175 million trees within a year: get young people to do it for school.

On May 15, the Philippine Congress officially passed a Bill stating that all students from elementary school, high school, and college (roughly equivalent to primary school, secondary school and university) must plant at least 10 trees in order to graduate, CNN reported.

The trees can be planted in either forests, mangroves, reserves, urban areas, abandoned mining sites, or in indigenous territory, according to the Bill.

Source: New law states students in the Philippines must plant trees before they can graduate – INSIDER

“When we’re sick, we go to the doctor. When our dental health is failing, we go to the dentist. When our car breaks down, we go to the mechanic. When we need to build/repair machines, we call on electrical engineers. When we need buildings erected and roads repaired, we call on architects and structural engineers. When our computer breaks down, we call our computer technicians. When we need a task automated, we call on programmers and software engineers. When we need to plan a space mission, we call on astrophysicists and aerospace engineers. When we need to find solutions to environmental and agricultural problems, as well as problems relating to animals/crops/plants/human biology, we call on biologists, geologists, geneticists, genetic engineers, zoologists, and botanists. Notice how all of these problem solvers fall under the field of science. In other words, they’re all scientists.

Yet, when it comes to running society and the world (which involves/entails all of the aforementioned affairs above), somehow, we think it’s okay to look to politicians.” ~ Jacque Fresco

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For most restaurants Monday’s are a busy day filled with a lot of customers coming in and out, but for Dallas restaurateur Paulette Johnson this is a day reserved to serve the homeless. Every Monday starting at noon Johnson uses her South Dallas, Texas restaurant to give the less fortunate hot meals, toiletries and clothes.

Source: Black-owned Dallas Restaurant reserves Mondays to serve the homeless – The Black Detour

Our obsession with early achievement shortchanges people of all ages. Research shows that our brains keep developing deep into adulthood and so do our capabilities.

Source: It’s Never Too Late to Start a Brilliant Career – WSJ

Shaw, along with five other black teenage boys, became media sensations after they were charged in 2006 with attempted murder after getting into a fight with a young white man at their high school in the town of Jena, La. Supporters said the six young men were being overcharged, and noted that the fight came after a series of racially charged incidents at the school, including the hanging of nooses from a tree on the campus.

Source: Theo Shaw, One of the Jena 6, Is Now Officially a Lawyer

Your boyfriend is not your child’s babysitter. Investigate your potential mate thoroughly before you bring him into your child’s life.

Source: Your Boyfriend is NOT Your Babysitter; Watch Your Own Kids – Six Brown Chicks Media

The world’s most polluted river is literally shocking on plastics… (shot on the Citarum river in March 2018)