Can The Wild Relatives of Our Domestic Crops Help Battle Climate Change?
Wild relatives of our domestic crops already cope with harsh conditions and resist disease. Can we use them to help our preferred crops adapt? Earth is getting hotter. Huge amounts of greenhouse gases are warming the planet and altering the climate. Heat waves are harsher. Droughts are longer. And some diseases and pests are stronger […]
Leaders of Hope: Greta Thunberg
There’s a sense of disbelief when you consider that Greta Thunberg was unknown less than two years ago. Within this short space of time, she has grown a global climate movement and is now broadening her activism to include children’s rights during the pandemic. She has been recognized and praised worldwide by heads of state […]
Leaders of Hope: Jay Shetty
“No one wants to hire you when your resume says ‘served as a monk for three years,’” says Jay Shetty, who at 26 years old, was $25,000 in debt and living with his parents. He was directionless, depressed, and confused about his purpose and working 80-hour weeks. He felt like he wasn’t living up to […]
Leaders Giving Us Hope: Peter Diamandis
Peter Diamandis is the founder and executive chairman of the XPRIZE Foundation, which leads the world in designing and operating large-scale incentive competitions. If there’s one thing Diamandis understands about innovation, it’s that it needs to be incentivized. Since 1994, the XPRIZE has launched over $140 million in prize purses, including the $15 million Global […]
Leaders of Hope: Sage Robbins
Being an author and speaker, and holding seminars with her husband, Tony Robbins, is a large part of what keeps Sage Robbins motivated during tough times. With the external world reeling from the isolation of a global quarantine and everyone’s daily lives disrupted beyond recognition, what gives Robbins hope is knowing that life is always […]
Leaders of Hope: Maria Menounos
American entertainment reporter, television personality, professional wrestler, actress, and businesswoman, Maria Menounos knows how to keep variety in her life. When the pandemic started, she began a daytime show, Better Together, as a weekly journey through health, wellness, spirituality, career, relationships, and finances. “What I want to do is expose people to top experts and […]
Leaders of Hope: Tim Ballard
The founder of Operation Underground Railroad (OUR) is on a mission to end child trafficking and slavery. For a decade, Tim Ballard worked in the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force as a special agent for the Department of Homeland Security. He has successfully dismantled dozens of trafficking organizations and rescued countless children from sex […]
Leaders of Hope: Fabien Cousteau
Fabien Cousteau’s hope for our planet lies in a revolutionary underwater research station and habitat where the world’s best thinkers can address humanity’s most pressing concerns. As a renowned third-generation ocean explorer and environmentalist, Cousteau’s PROTEUS™ project, in conjunction with his non-profit, the Fabien Cousteau Ocean Learning Center, will work on viruses and cancers, examining […]
Leaders of Hope: Natalie portman
Actress Natalie Portman has set out to change the conversation on women’s sports by investing in the first women majority-owned and led soccer team. Venture capitalist Kara Nortman of Upfront Ventures and actress Natalie Portman are leading a group that will bring a National Women’s Soccer League expansion team to Los Angeles in 2022. The […]
Leaders of Hope: Melinda Gates
The world has many pressing issues, and the Gates Foundation is actively supporting solutions to many of them. But recently, the challenge closest to the heart of Melinda Gates is gender equality. Following her announcement in October of last year that she is committing $1 billion over the next decade to “expanding women’s power and […]
