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The New Year has rung in, and it might have been quite a while since you signed up for our newsletter (our apologies for not delivering on our promise sooner!), but we at FSI have had a fruitful year, reaching high and low, committing and getting closer to our goals of youth empowerment, community building, scaling social impact, and helping our social companies build capacity.
With one foot already in the year 2019, we will be further strengthening our rolesasenabler, fundraiser, and adviser to our portfolio of social companies with their respective groundbreaking projects in people empowerment, environmental conservation, sustainable design, education, anti-slavery, fair employment, and many more.
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The IPCC report last year shocked the world with the dire warning that we have just 12 years left to keep global warming to 1.5C. We need not be paralyzed with fear, for we live in an intriguing time of innovations (Eco-Business), but climate change will not be mitigated if we all think someone else is going to take care of it. We owe it to the young generation and young activists like Greta Thunberg (watch her speech here).
If you are still in two minds about your New Year’s Resolution, make it eating less meat (The Guardian) to help cut carbon footprint and deforestation, as well as reduce the risk of mass animal extinction. Carnivores don’t have to feel deprived, however. Depending on where you are, your craving for meaty texture and flavor will be duly satisfied by plant-based options the likes of Omnipork, Beyond Meat, and The Dutch Weed Burger, which is a social enterprise that cultivates its own seaweed with wind power, and its headquarters at the cleantech playground De Ceuval powered by the sun. Concerned about your protein intake? Have a go at eating insects (The Guardian), hailed as a solution to global food shortages and carbon emission reduction. Get your Cambodian friends and their deep-fried tarantula to ease you through insect-eating.
For some of us though, eating meat is simply not an option. Learn about the alpha-gal allergy (Mosaic Science) that makes individuals worldwide vegans by infection.
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PRODUCTIVITY
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NATURAL
HIGHS
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Certainly, you would want the New Year to be an even more productive year. Whether your vice is smoking, drinking, or unnamable substances, you are better off kicking the habit. Turns out these addictive habits can be got rid of by naturalhighs, or getting high on your own brain chemistry. The method has given Iceland the cleanest-living teens in Europe (Mosaic Science), with the percentage of 15- and 16-year-olds who had been drunk in the previous month plummeted from 42 per cent in 1998 to 5 per cent in 2016.
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There is never a dearth of social initiatives happening at FSI. If you have a brilliant social business idea that you would like to explore further, or if you would like to volunteer your knowledge, time or financial resources for our various education programs or to give our budding social entrepreneurs a leg up, get in touch with us! We can even meet at “Peak Impact”, our coworking space where big ideas are brainstormed and realized.
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