Time 'Off'

Google allow their employees one day in five to do what they want – so long as they record the results. 50% of their new stuff comes from this day; not just ideas – products.

Eight years left of landfill

Britain will run out of landfill space in less than eight years' time - unless recycling rates are boosted and the amount of rubbish dumped in the ground is reduced. http://www.lga.gov.uk/lga/core/page.do?pageId=12347120

Biophilia

A somewhat controversial hypothesis put forward by Edward Wilson is the idea that humans evolved as creatures deeply enmeshed with the intricacies of nature, and that we still have this affinity with nature ingrained in our genotype. http://www.wilderdom.com/evolution/BiophiliaHypothesis.html