2014 was, by any account, not a great year. In looking back at the stories that drew the most interest from our readers, we found a few moments of inspiration and joyousness to cut through the constant drumming of bad news. But even so, there’s one overarching theme to most of our most popular stories: That we’re quickly running out of time to alter the course our planet is on toward total environmental meltdown, and we’re starting to come to terms with what that destruction is going to look like.
We’ve tried to take a positive view of what London will look like after climate change (lovely beach weather!) and started preparing for the new layout of some of our cities once most of them are underwater. And the exact cause of this future is all too clear, in photos showing exactly how bad the pollution is in China.
All hope is not lost, though: 2015 is a new year with–we hope–better news. And even this year has seen its share of ingenious solutions, the kind we’ll need more of (here is what we talked about at the end of 2013, to compare). So take note of a doll that doesn’t make girls feel horrible about their body, or a sustainable apartment building that looks like a tree, or a water bottle that doesn’t need a bottle at all. More of all of these, please.
All our concerns aren’t so lofty, though. We all have to go to work and eat, and both of those tasks also held your attention. In terms of work, we’d like to do less of it–at this office that forces you to stop working at the end of the day–or at least enjoy it, like they do in Denmark. As for food, well, we’d like to learn how to eat without it killing us, so check out this helpful slide show of what 200 calories look like, and why not counting those calories might have bad implications for your intelligence.
Here’s the full list. The stories you read, shared, and commented on the most in 2014:
We’ve tried to take a positive view of what London will look like after climate change (lovely beach weather!) and started preparing for the new layout of some of our cities once most of them are underwater. And the exact cause of this future is all too clear, in photos showing exactly how bad the pollution is in China.
All hope is not lost, though: 2015 is a new year with–we hope–better news. And even this year has seen its share of ingenious solutions, the kind we’ll need more of (here is what we talked about at the end of 2013, to compare). So take note of a doll that doesn’t make girls feel horrible about their body, or a sustainable apartment building that looks like a tree, or a water bottle that doesn’t need a bottle at all. More of all of these, please.
All our concerns aren’t so lofty, though. We all have to go to work and eat, and both of those tasks also held your attention. In terms of work, we’d like to do less of it–at this office that forces you to stop working at the end of the day–or at least enjoy it, like they do in Denmark. As for food, well, we’d like to learn how to eat without it killing us, so check out this helpful slide show of what 200 calories look like, and why not counting those calories might have bad implications for your intelligence.
Here’s the full list. The stories you read, shared, and commented on the most in 2014:
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