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This summer saw vast tracts of parks and lawns scorched by drought in the UK, but more watering is not a sustainable solution. Patrick Barkham asks what the ...

I hug myself to see it growing out of the corner of my eye; ankle, and then shin-high, delighted that I’m doing my bit by doing as little as possible. The British fascination with lawncare is older than we might presume, but it was doubtless raised to something like a high science by Capability Brown, the 18th century landscape architect whose “pleasure gardens” for the great and good of English society turned a passion into a fervor. “We can retain the moisture, and that’s something that farmers will need to be keen on in the UK in the future.” Grasslands that we use for leisure in cities and for food in the countryside will change in an era of rapid global heating. The good news is that the foremost pleasure of rewilding is the fact that, for once, the morally correct thing to do might be ‘less than you were doing before’. After eleven years in London, my wife and I are finally renting somewhere with a garden, which means I am lawn-adjacent for the first time in my adult life, and resentful of the responsibilities this entails. “For me the hope is that these new grasslands can be productive and resilient – that’s what we really want.” “We are very familiar with grasses, and there is a very tight bond between humans and grasses and grasslands,” says Gonzalo Irisarri, an agronomist studying the impact of the North Atlantic Oscillation weather system on hay production. “Having daisies and other species is really lovely and slowly moving away from a single species of grass that you mow to death is a positive thing.” “Three species of grasses provide us with 50% of the calories we consume worldwide – wheat, corn [maize] and rice.” There’s a “substantial minority” of farmers who are investigating alternatives to ryegrass monocultures, says Norton, who works with farmers in northwest England. We rely on grass in cities and in the countryside.

If you need any further proof that electric vehicles (EVs) are taking over the world then consider the fact that my 86-year-old father already drives one.

We use this to push us to think outside the box to have more innovation. People do need to have a different perspective on the Net Zero economy. The net zero transition will be able to empower humanity with not only sustainable energy, but with the cheapest energy. So we are using green electricity to produce a battery, but not only for ourselves; I will also bring my suppliers into the Net Zero Park. China and the U.S. The Chinese government has made a lot of bold, ambitious climate pledges such as reaching peak carbon by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060. Because today there is a rush for electrification, but once new demand reaches a [steady] level in time, the pace of refineries and mining facilities will increase. I think after 2030 when batteries start to recycle into the value chain we can reduce dependence on lithium and nickel mining. Because I care about history, I care about the future. They need top quality batteries, competitive prices, advanced technology, and they need the supply adjacent to them. So companies like BMW, Mercedes, Nissan, Honda and Renault are our important customers—they have huge pressure to decarbonize their supply chain, and also to have the most advanced batteries. If you look at Envision’s character, we are a company to solve challenges; it’s not about discussing, it’s not about debating, we take real action.

DBS CEO Piyush Gupta, speaking at the TIME100 Leadership Forum in Singapore, said energy and supply chain crises will ultimately lead to more investment in ...

[Alia Bhatt](https://time.com/collection/time100-impact-awards/6215686/alia-bhatt-time100-impact-awards/); computational geneticist [Dr. will also [keep its coal power plants open](https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/britain-keep-coal-fired-power-plants-open-this-winter-2022-07-29/) during the winter to avoid an electricity shortage. [extending the use of some coal-fired power plants](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/08/germany-reactivate-coal-power-plants-russia-curbs-gas-flow) to curb its energy crisis as it works to find alternatives to Russian natural gas. The TIME100 Leadership Forum, held at the National Gallery of Singapore, brought together CEOs and other business leaders from across the globe to discuss how they are using their platforms to build a better world. But Gupta believes any pullback in the green transition is temporary. “When you’re going into winter, and you have people who are not going to have energy for heating and food, then you start rethinking your posture on coal versus other possibilities,” he said.

How can we better plan, strategize and come up with new innovative ideas in our post-COVID world?

And when we focus on what matters, we can build the lives we want, in the time we’ve got.” Currently, in the fall of 2022, many organizations struggle to find time for such get-togethers for a variety of reasons, and it is too bad for them. They studied 35 very successful people in the Moroccan desert and saw that after only a few days without technology, the group experienced: One more: I like this TED Talk (video below) on “How to gain control of your free time” by Laura Vanderkam, which has been viewed almost 7.5 million times since 2017. If a person already had nerve pain due to a neuropathy (a general term for nerve dysfunction) or spine injury, a case of COVID-19 was quite likely to aggravate the pain and leave it worse than before. Even if we are busy, we have time for what matters. During my 17 years in Michigan state government (all pre-COVID), we often planned off-site meetings to brainstorm, strategize and build plans. Finding the time is a challenge — he and co-CEO Trevor Bezdek collectively manage more than 700 employees at a company with a $2.43 billion market capitalization, as of Friday evening.” The list has some great examples to reduce stress and reward yourself — and not just add more pressure to a crowded schedule. Recent studies have found that entirely new, painful, small fiber neuropathies and new cognitive impairment can be triggered by COVID-19 infection in patients of any age, even in those that had only mild symptoms at the time of the infection. Likewise, a person with mild memory impairment of aging will likely find themselves with a significant decline in thinking abilities for several months after recovering from the initial infection. Back in 2016, I wrote about our need to get away,

For years – to justify spending billions of dollars on prison expansion – governments across Australia have parroted the line that prisons support ...

Victoria must now follow the lead of the ACT and commit to raising the age. All that is missing is the political courage to do what is right and chart a different course. Third, the government must raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility from 10 to at least 14 years old. Stopping the pipeline of people into prisons starts with repealing the reverse onus provisions in the bail laws. With the state election two months away, now is the time for major parties to make a stand and commit to ending mass imprisonment. [Data](https://www.corrections.vic.gov.au/monthly-time-series-prison-and-community-corrections-data) consistently shows that well over half the women in Victorian prisons are unsentenced for what they were arrested for. The November state election comes at a critical juncture, against the backdrop of a criminal legal system in dire need of overhaul. Yet Victoria remains in the midst of a mass imprisonment crisis. Second, the government must fix laws that needlessly drive people into prisons. The alarming growth in the prison population in recent years is the result of ill-considered political decisions, with successive Victorian governments enacting discriminatory and dangerous laws to appear “tough on crime”. For the people who survive, prisons do not remedy disadvantage; they compound inequality. The time to end mass imprisonment is now.

Eric Schmidt, the former Google CEO, said at the TIME100 Leadership Forum in Singapore that he is concerned about the misuse of artificial intelligence to ...

Pardis Sabeti](https://time.com/collection/time100-impact-awards/6215050/dr-pardis-sabeti-time100-impact-awards/); [Gregory L. [Alia Bhatt](https://time.com/collection/time100-impact-awards/6215686/alia-bhatt-time100-impact-awards/); computational geneticist [Dr. “We’re going to end up lowering the price of intelligence because there’s going to be a lot more of it.” he said. For the same reason, using automated systems in on-the-ground warfare could be catastrophic to human life, he added. “The problem in the cyber-war is, it’s possible for AI to get it wrong,” he said. The COVID-19 pandemic laid bare the social and economic impact of a global health crisis.