Exothermic is the leader in self-reliance brand marketing, but we like to share our wisdom with the world. Here are the top stories we’ve identified this week in our markets:

Survivalism

• What you need to know about the WannaCry Ransomware, The WannaCry ransomware struck across the globe in May 2017. Learn how this ransomware attack spread and how to protect your network from similar attacks.
• Deere beats across the board and raises its profit forecast, Revenue came in at $8.29 billion, topping the $7.27 billion that analysts were anticipating.
• Home Depot beats across the board and raises guidance, Home Depot Inc reported higher-than-expected quarterly profit and same-store sales, driven by increased customer traffic and more average spending at its stores amid a strong housing market.
• Bill Gates Has Seven Predictions for the Future, Bill Gates has been almost prophetic in his past predictions: his 1999 list was hauntingly accurate, foreseeing the advent of price comparison websites, smartphones, social media, and bots.
• Nuclear Experts Form International ‘Nuclear Crisis Group’, On Friday, an elite group of the world’s nuclear experts and advisers launched a Nuclear Crisis Group, to help manage the growing risk of nuclear conflict.
• Honeywell recalls fire alarm gateway that can’t detect fires, You had one job.
• Rising Seas Set To Double Coastal Flooding By 2050, Says Study, Coastal flooding is about to get dramatically more frequent around the world as sea levels rise from global warming, researchers said Thursday.

Sustainability

• China & India Surpass USA As World’s Most Attractive Renewable Energy Countries, China and India have both surpassed the United States in EY’s Renewable energy country attractiveness index, pushing the US down for the first time since 2015 in the ranking of the top 40 countries.
• Los Angeles Says It’ll Stay In the Paris Climate Agreement It Isn’t In, Los Angeles, where Eric Garcetti is mayor, has a population of over 10 million people, a quarter of California’s humans, and the busiest port in the United States. Sea level rise and pollution matter there.
• 75% of eastern tree species moving west, White oaks, sugar maples,

  

  American hollies and other common trees have been shifting their population centers west since 1980.

• Public To EPA On Cutting Regulations: ‘No!’, As part of President Trump’s executive order to review “job-killing regulations,” the Environmental Protection Agency last month asked for the public’s input on what to streamline or cut.
• How Boring Old Pension Funds Might Curb Global Warming, For all their fiscally conservative stodginess, the people tasked with safeguarding your nest egg are forcing the financial world to pay attention to climate change.
• Former SolarCity CEO will leave Tesla, SolarCity founder Lyndon Rive, who steered the dramatic growth of the biggest U.S. residential solar company before driving its sale to Tesla, is leaving the electric vehicle maker in June.
• Mercedes-Benz and Vivint want to power your solar home, Looks like Tesla is about to get some competition.
• Many Of California’s Salmon Populations Unlikely To Survive The Century, Wild Chinook salmon, probably the most prized seafood item on the West Coast, could all but vanish from California within a hundred years.

Self-Improvement

• Lowe’s exoskeletons help workers carry what you can’t, The prototypes could spare warehouse staff a lot of pain.
• A healthy fast-food joint that got panned by a New York Times food critic is crushing it, The biggest restaurant story of the year has arguably been New York Times critic Pete Wells’ withering review of Locol, a fast-food

  

  concept that brings high-quality, affordable food into urban neighborhoods.

• The ancient game that saved a village, Fifty years ago, Marottichal was rife with alcoholism and illicit gambling, but everything changed after one man taught the town to play an ancient game of strategy.
• Duolingo releases a Japanese language course for iOS, Rather than using romaji, which are Japanese words spelled out with Roman letters (ie, “kawaii” or “Hi de koroshimasu”), this language course will teach you to understand 100 Kanji and all the Hiragana characters.
• Whose Parents Pay for College?, We wanted to know just how much hindrance student debt is causing today’s graduates, and which groups are affected the most. And does student debt have a differential impact by gender or race?
• Colleges Are Using Price Discrimination—Here’s How to Fight It, Price discrimination is the strategy of selling a product at a range of prices to maximize profits, and usually, that price is whatever the customer is willing to pay.
• Under Armour’s retail expansion strategy won’t make up for financial loss, says analyst, Last month, sportswear brand Under Armour announced its first quarterly loss since 2005.
• Creating financial wellness solutions that consumers can trust, There’s a massive chasm between what financial instutions offer, what their customers need and what their customers want.