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"Password security has long been considered the most fundamental way of keeping company data safe. But recent research revealing the world's most popular passwords - including "123456" and "password" - reminds us of what we already knew: that most people still don't understand the most basic principles about secure passwords. "

Located in the breathtaking Pamohi area of Guwahati, Akshar is a very unique school which takes just plastic waste when it comes to its fees! Yes, you read that right. This eco-friendly school lets the little kids connect with the Mother Nature in a thoughtful and amazing way. Parmita Sarma, the co-founder of the school stated "We wanted to start a free school for all, but stumbled upon this idea after we realized a larger social and ecological problem brewing in this area. I still remember how our classrooms would be filled with toxic fumes every time someone in the nearby areas would burn plastics. Here it was a norm to burn waste plastic to keep warm. We wanted to change that and so started to encourage our students to bring their plastic waste as school fees". The school is a brainchild of Parmita and Mazin Mukhtar and they together founded the school in the month of June 2016.

The mental functionality around creative problem solving has been studied back to the days of the invention of the wheel and the first spear created. With the current immersion of technology by our youth, is technology preventing the focus and long term gratification required to use parts of the brain that sharpen problem solving and creative solutions?

This article reports cyber attacks on major websites like Twitter and Netflix. What's frightening is that attackers used "hundreds of thousands of internet-connected devices like cameras, baby monitors and home routers that have been infected - without their owners' knowledge - with software that allows hackers to command them to flood a target with overwhelming traffic." These are attacks that can easily reach into my daily life. I've felt (falsely) "immune" to random attacks like the shootings and bombings we hear of in other major cities (besides my Chicago), but I'm not immune to these. However, it's better than a bomb in the subway!

I am an environmental justice activist and organizer and the telling effects of technology on our most vulnerable communities in both the US and World is haunting. How do we solve our 21st century problems for a more sustainable and meaningful world?