McDonald’s serves 69 million people daily in 37,000 restaurants located in over 100 countries around the world. Due to their scale, environmental-protection efforts (and lack of effort) have significant influence in worldwide progress. How are they taking on this responsibility?

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The thing I like best about the Enneagram is it’s unparalleled depth of motion and fluidity into the human psyche. I think that people hear ‘personality test’ and they instantly think, “You’re trying to box me in. I can’t be labelled.” And trust me, as the resident enigma, I feel you, and am here to tell you, the Enneagram does anything but. It goes as deep, and gets as complicated as you’re willing to take it. When all is said and done every person has a main type, which stays the same throughout your life and determines both of your wings (yes, you have two—so you can fly!), your stress type and your integration type, as well as your stacked instinctual variants, for a grand total of five types per person actively at work in the hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, etc. In addition to this there are nine levels of health to disintegration within each type, which are described in depth, and when you move within these levels in your main type, you move to the same level in all of your periphery types. This accounts for an insane amount of human diversity. With that said, I have never met a person who didn’t fit perfectly into their type, even if it took a little digging and truth seeking to figure out where exactly they were situated within their type at the moment.

Rail transportation is considered one of the most environmentally friendly and efficient modes of transportation. While it has a relatively have a low carbon footprint, there may be more to the story. Tracing back to where rail companies are investing their money reveals a whole different side to the industry–a much less environmentally friendly one.

UW-Madison is one of 59 campuses across the country and the world who participated in Fossil Fuel Divestment Day (F2D2). Students from various universities share disappointment with the lack of urgency and response to growing concern over climate change.

Have you been going through a hard time by yourself? Do you think it's time to let it all out and lay it down? God always wants to connect with you, especially when you're going through hardships, but what's better than one? That is being better together. This way, you can encourage and comfort each other within the Body of Christ.

The New England Aquarium in Boston, Massachusetts, has partnered with Draper, an engineering and research company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to monitor whales with satellites in a project fittingly named “Counting Whales from Space.”

Whether from outward circumstances, inward struggles, or seemling no reason at all, many of us go through seasons of depression. We often try to find hope, but it can be difficult to connect with God. Here are ways to help you connect with God's heart so he can help you walk your path.

Spiritual growth is a lot of Christian's goal during their spiritual journey. Sometimes we don't know what is actually holding us back or not during this journey, but once we find out what's holding us back, it can be hard to abandon them. Today, I will be sharing how materialism, gossip, jealousy, drama, and competition is keeping us away from spiritually growing our relationship with God.

Have you been going through a hard time by yourself? Do you think it's time to let it all out and lay it down? God always wants to connect with you, especially when you're going through hardships, but what's better than one? That is being better together. This way, you can encourage and comfort each other within the Body of Christ.