Racial justice progress spans more than two centuries of hard-won milestones — from Britain abolishing the slave trade in 1807 and South Africa ending apartheid in 1994, to the U.S. Supreme Court upholding Black voting rights in 2023 and Bloomberg’s $600 million gift to Black medical schools in 2024. This guide maps the legal, political, and reparative advances reshaping equality worldwide.
Reforestation is transforming landscapes on every continent — from China’s 170-million-acre planting program to Brazil’s 50% drop in Amazon deforestation. This guide covers the biggest forest restoration and protection wins worldwide: the trees planted, the policies passed, the communities leading the way, and what the science says is actually working.
The aspiring hero takes on lofty ambitions for what they do in the world. In contrast, the antihero learns to cultivate humbler aspirations.
Peace requires active, daily tending, not because we are broken but because the world we live in is relentlessly trying to disrupt us, relentlessly beckoning us to want and do more.
Antiheroes claim their peace not just as an act of self-care, but as a deeply liberatory and revolutionary act. Their peace is not only a precondition for their change work; it itself becomes the change they offer the world.
Even in the wildest hurricanes, the depths of the ocean remain calm, tranquil, unmoved. The ocean is so vast and deep that its core state remains undisturbed. This is the kind of peace antiheroes are after.
As antiheroes, we first and foremost strive to cultivate a foundation of peace. Peace, in its fullest sense, is not merely the absence of conflict — it is the absence of whatever creates suffering, whether out in the world or within ourselves. In the absence of such things, a state of calm arises. But that calm is often like a pond on a spring day. That pond can certainly be tranquil under the right conditions. But as soon as a storm comes through, that peace is quickly disturbed. The entire state of the pond transforms from peaceful to agitated. This kind […]
For the antihero, the foundation of their journey is cultivating lasting peace within themselves. This is not an act of turning their back on a world in need. It’s an act of turning toward and confronting themselves.
The antihero begins in the extraordinary world, striving for greatness, exhausted and lost. But one day, they hear the call to peace, beckoning them to put down their weapons, to put down their ambitions, to put down their need to go it alone and save the world, so they can finally restore that aliveness they lost long ago.
Electric vehicle adoption is reshaping transportation on every continent. From China selling one-in-four new cars as battery-electric to Norway’s EV fleet outnumbering gas cars, and from hydrogen trains in Germany to all-electric buses in Sub-Saharan Africa, this hub tracks the milestones, policies, and technologies driving the fastest energy transition in transport history.
