Stop, breathe and read – all for a good cause! Greater Western Sydney
boasts 10% of Australia’s population. That’s 1 in 11 Australians!
Booktober™, an annual fundraising event launched by premier arts
literacy organisation WestWords is held from 1st to 31st October,
bringing stories of diverse Nationalities to life in the region.It’s a simple process.
People nominate how many books to read during October and opt in to raise funds
to support WestWords provide books and literacy programs to those who
may never have owned a book before.
Ready to start reading?
Visit www.booktober.org.au
Local FinTech scale-up, InDebted, has switched to a four day working week for all employees, making it one of the first local companies to adopt what has been up to now a broader (yet still nascent) global trend.Founder, Josh Foreman, is looking to bolster productivity by having fresher, less burnt-out, employees, as well as stand out from the crowd to prospective new-hires.The tech debt management business is in hyper-growth phase and recently raised $25m in its Series B funding round. Foreman hopes it can maintain this trajectory by becoming a workplace-of-choice as employees fully recharge.https://www.smartcompany.com.au/startupsmart/news/indebted-four-day-work-week/
Wind turbine manufacturer Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) has
announced the launch of the “world’s first” recyclable commercial
turbine blade. Wind turbines generate electricity without using fossil fuels or
producing particulate matter pollution, but they do create waste: they can last as long as 25 years, and up to now turbine blades could not be recycled, piling up in landfills
at the end of their life. However, now the Spain-based renewable energy company
Siemens Gamesa says it has finally designed a recyclable wind turbine
blade.https://www.fastcompany.com/90674645/this-giant-wind-turbine-blade-can-be-recycled
Australia is among the least
cooperative countries in climate change negotiations. But we can reverse that
and become a leader in global cooperation at the forthcoming COP26 meeting in
Glasgow. The current negotiating framework in use under the Paris Agreement unfortunately
cannot stop global heating. Australia can propose a Motion to replace it with
one that can stop the heating. A new basis for negotiations – one in which countries
work out how to fairly share the remaining safe total tonnage of emissions – is
a game changer. See why and how it can be done. https://www.austcfp.com.au/post/australia-can-lead-the-world-to-fix-climate-change
Social prescribing is a new buzz term in the fight against poor mental health. The purpose of social prescribing is to link patients in primary care with other sources of support from within the community to improve quality of life outcomes.This novel approach to supporting poor mental health has a lot of potential.But the key to its success will be how it's implemented. A properly setup social prescribing network has the potential to offer much needed support to a lot of people.Interested in finding out more? Then click the link:https://unwantedlife.me/how-can-social-prescribing-benefit-your-mental-health
