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☆ Is your hotel sustainable? Not if these two things are in your room, says Soneva’s founder
  + stars: | 2023-10-30 | by ( Monica Pitrelli | Harriet Akinyi | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +5 min
A quick-and-easy test is to look for two items, said Sonu Shivdasani, founder of Soneva and Six Senses hotel brands. First, sustainable hotels should not have branded water of any sort, he told CNBC Travel. "Governments can create the context, but businesses need to make the change," Shivdasani told CNBC Travel. Source: SonevaShivdasani said he decided to institute a guest environmental levy after the company measured its "scope 3" emissions. Shivdasani said that after Soneva determined that 85% of its carbon emissions were "scope 3" emissions, the company introduced the 2% carbon levy.
Persons: Sonu Shivdasani, Soneva, Shivdasani, that's, It's, it's, Eva, Soneva Shivdasani, Kelvin Law Organizations: CNBC Travel, Nanyang Technological University, CNA, Soneva, World Health Organization Locations: Maldives, Thailand, British, India, Myanmar, Darfur, Sudan
☆ The GPT college classroom is almost here, but professors say AI isn't the real threat
  + stars: | 2023-08-23 | by ( Kai Xiang Teo | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +7 min
But some educators say the real threat isn't AI, but a "lagging and outdated approach to education." Rebecca Tan, a political science lecturer at the National University of Singapore, told Insider AI detection tools can be "notoriously inaccurate." Instead of relying on AI detection tools, educators need to get innovative as AI tools become ubiquitous — through ideas like having students submit the introductions to their essays first, Tan said. AdvertisementAdvertisementJonas said the key is to embrace AI tools in the classroom and teach students how to fact-check ChatGPT's responses. The real threat to education isn't AI, it's boring lessonsWhen asked about threats to education, Nanyang Technological University's Ang said: "AI tools are not the threat — a lagging and outdated approach to education is."
Persons: Madison White, Ian Chong, Rebecca Tan, OpenAI, Tan, Chong, Michael Rivera, Shannon Ang, Kai Jonas, Jonas, We've, Joana Cook, Ang, National University of Singapore's Tan, Hong Kong University's Rivera Organizations: Stetson University, Wall Street, National University of Singapore, Schools, Hong, Singapore's Nanyang Technological University, shouldn't, Maastricht University, Leiden University, Johns Hopkins University, Nanyang Technological, National University of Singapore's Locations: Florida, Singapore, Netherlands, Hong Kong, United States, Nanyang, Hong
☆ A fire just razed a slum in the heart of one of Korea's ritziest neighborhoods. It highlights the vast wealth gap and tight proximity in which Seoul's richest and poorest live.
  + stars: | 2023-01-20 | by ( Cheryl Teh | Amanda Goh | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +6 min
On January 20, a fire tore through the shantytown of Guryong village in Seoul. Firefighters and rescue workers clean up the site of a fire at Guryong village in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Jan. 20, 2023. ED JONES/Getty ImagesGuryong feels like a world away from Seoul, but it's very close to where the most well-heeled people in South Korea live. Around a fifth of single-person households in Seoul live in spaces under 14 square meters, or 150 square feet. But for now it's still Guryong village — a smoldering scar on the sparkling facade South Korea would rather have you looking at instead.
☆ Xi warned about Taiwan interference — but don't expect an imminent invasion, analysts say
  + stars: | 2022-10-18 | by ( Su-Lin Tan | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +5 min
watch nowChina will continue to work toward becoming more self-reliant, but don't expect President Xi Jinping to move on Taiwan by force, analysts said. In a nearly two-hour speech, Chinese President Xi Jinping outlined his vision for the country for the next five years. Xi Jinping has made very clear what his intentions are: he wants a private sector that is controllable, that is manageable. He said Xi's speech, consistent with Beijing's comments in recent months, suggested the government viewed a more state-dominated economy as the pathway to stability. "Xi Jinping has made very clear what his intentions are: he wants a private sector that is controllable, that is manageable."
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