Sanitation Worker Creates Public Library from Discarded Books

Bogota-based Jose Alberto Gutierrez has been collecting discarded books for two decades. Hi collection—which is upwards of 20,000—is made up mostly of books he picked up during his rounds as a sanitation worker. Taking up a few rooms in his family’s home, the books are lent out to the community in an effort to encourage a passion for reading in low-income families. “Although poverty meant …

21 Sustainable Vacation Destinations

Environmentally friendly and contributing to local communities, sustainable and conscious hotels, lodges and resorts are (thankfully) only getting more common. From Botswana to Belize, the Seychelles and Sri Lanka, National Geographic has found 21 of their favorite destinations to visit if travel is as important as caring about the planet and its inhabitants. Each place isn’t only kind to locals and nature, they are also …

Look Inside the Super Nintendo World Theme Park

Thanks to what appears to have been a ceremony hosted inside of a faux Super Mario level at the forthcoming Super Nintendo World Theme Park, we finally have teaser images. The theme park, affiliated with Osaka, Japan’s Universal Studios, isn’t scheduled to open until 2020—but the teasers hint at what’s to be expected—nostalgic stylings loyal to our memory. Other Universal locations are also planning Nintendo …