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How to See The Forest

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Saving Democracy From The Bottom Up

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The Wheels on the Bus Go Round and Round

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2023 Review: What Just Happened?

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How To Make Ethical Decisions

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The Creepy Reality of Consumer Tech (Privacy Not Included)

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🌎 Coffee: Back To The Future

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Do You Know Where Your Water Comes From?

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🌎 The Long Defeat

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Turning The Tide On Microplastics

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The Next Big Test

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Best of: Peer Pressure Works

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How To Access Better Maternal Mental Health Care

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⚡️Electrify Everything: What Does The Pace of Progress Look Like?

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🌎 Why I Don't Eat Animals

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🌎 Life, Liberty, and Solar Panels

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🌎 The Inevitable Future

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🌎 10 Questions You Need to Ask Right Now

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🌎 Never Tell Me The Odds

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Check Your Insurance Policy

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🌎 What Would You Say You Do Here

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Every Climate Action Matters

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🌎 This Isn't Rocket Science (Unless It Is)

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Where In The World Are All Of The Electricians?

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<p>Aluminum. It’s everywhere!</p><p>And we’re going to need a hell of a lot more of it in the future.</p><p>Aluminum is a primary ingredient in solar, wind, hydro, concentrate...

Newsletter #299: How to save 1.3 million lives

<p><strong>This week: </strong></p><ul><li>Global climate news roundup beyond COP27</li><li>The human cost of vaccine inequity</li><li>Water runs dry</li><li>Chatbots aren't y...

Breaking Bread with the Korean Vegan

<p>There’s nothing quite like breaking bread with family and friends, old or new. By mid-2020, we’d have all taken the opportunity to break bread with just about anyone.</p><p...

Why is Environmental Justice Journalism Important?

<p>It’s always worth revisiting the inarguable fact that<strong> our country was designed to be inequitable</strong>.</p><p>And while much progress has been made over time, th...

#298: What they're *not* teaching kids today

<p><strong>This week: </strong></p><ul><li>Climate change in the curriculum</li><li>Increasingly divergent subvariants</li><li>Cell-cultured meat</li><li>RSV vaccines are comi...

Introducing Climavores: "Our first Climavores guest is a big one: Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack"

<p>Climate change is a touchy topic in farm country. But <strong>one third of greenhouse gas emissions come from food and agriculture</strong>, so it’s crucial that the indust...

Newsletter #297: Your neighborhood's about to get much cleaner

<p><strong>This week: </strong></p><ul><li>$1 billion for electric school buses</li><li>A potential "tripledemic" sandwich (not as delicious as it sounds!)</li><li>One person'...

You get an XPRIZE, and YOU get an XPRIZE!

<p>Throughout history, kings, queens, governments, churches, and donors have funded contests and awarded prizes for solving the most difficult problems of the day.</p><p>Today...

Newsletter #296: Fake meat, fake profits?

<p><strong>This week: </strong></p><ul><li>Plant-based meat stocks</li><li>Another COVID winter is coming</li><li>A long-term plan for the baby formula shortage</li><li>The un...

Automated Synthetic Biology (I'm sure it's fine)

<p><strong>Let's talk robots.</strong></p><p>But first: There’s a very particular bottleneck where groundbreaking science is more applicable than ever but inaccessible to many...