It’s a familiar scene; people turn 50 years old, and suddenly there’s a sports car in the driveway, amongst other splurges. Though many might attribute this sudden change in behavior as “the midlife crisis,” several University of Alberta researchers disagree. A team of researchers from several universities headed by Department of Psychology professor Nancy Galambos authored a study on the change in net happiness from late adolescence to early adulthood. Concluding that happiness actually increases consistently across this period, Galambos and her team posit that the midlife crisis >>>

Every product has a narrative. Someone harvested its fibers or manufactured it in a factory. Someone created the design. Someone calculated its value, demand and supply. Someone carried it. Someone distributed it. Someday it may be used by someone else. Someday it could be fated for a landfill. A world in a product. So much so that we have a new necessity: to think globally, but act locally. Time and again, this refrain has gone unheard. In a globalized economy, the ethical dilemmas that accompany foreign sourcing and environmental resources continue to persist. Yet despite the tools of social >>>