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Onx Homes aims to bring its prefab houses to communities around the country. Can it succeed where Katerra failed? Onx CEO Ash Bhardwaj remembers how when he first came to the United States, American homes shocked him. One difference in particular stood out. In Europe and Asia, homes are often built with concrete or brick; in the U.

During a weeklong stay, they learned about an agricultural method that prioritizes soil health and ecosystem balance. As the head of an association of winemakers in southern Ukraine, Georgiy Molchanov knows a lot about how to cultivate grapes; not so much how to grow them amid undetonated mines.

In 1969, 22 years after sailing his balsa raft 4,300 miles across the Pacific Ocean to Polynesia, explorer Thor Heyerdahl set off on a new adventure, attempting to cross the Atlantic in a papyrus reed boat modeled after ancient Egyptian drawings.  He successfully sailed from Morocco to Barbados on his second try.

We all know multitasking can kill your productivity. But there are ways to do it more effectively, if you change how you’re thinking about it. Many of us define a successful day as one where we get a lot done. To check more tasks off your to-do list, it’s tempting to try multitasking, but that’s a counterproductive strategy.

With Congress polarized and gridlocked, new federal wetland-protection laws are unlikely to be enacted in the next several years. Wetlands aren’t the most eye-catching ecosystems. They include swamps, bogs, fens, and other places where soil is covered by water most of the time. But they perform a huge range of valuable services, from soaking up floodwaters to filtering out pollutants and providing habitat for thousands of species of mammals, fish, reptiles, insects, and birds.

Advocates for unhoused people argue these kinds of anti-camping laws effectively make homelessness a crime. Should cities be allowed to outlaw sleeping in public, even when there are no beds available in local shelters? This is what the U. S. Supreme Court will decide in its review of the case Grants Pass v.