March 8, 2023
🌎 A living act of resistance
This week:
Can little-old-you really make a difference? Hell yes you can.
Plus: cheaper insulin, cleaner camping gear, a new (lidless) coffee cup, good news on BetterHelp, and maybe even some paid leave.
Here's What You Can Do:
- ⚡️ Help your local farmers sell online — not just at farmer’s markets — with GrownBy.
- ⚡️ Help people worldwide get clean, safe, accessible drinking water with charity: water.
- ⚡️ Support Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson’s Urban Ocean Lab as they write the future of ocean policy.
- ⚡️ Stay ahead of water news with the award-winning Circle of Blue non-profit newsroom
- ⚡️ Queer student journalists: Apply to be a member of the 2023 Nat’l LGBTQ Journalists’ Conference Student PROGRAM, a week-long all-expenses-paid reporting intensive
News Roundup
Health & Medicine
- REI has committed to stop selling products with forever chemicals
- Eli Lilly will cut insulin prices to $35, should still be regulated
- There’s a new bipartisan push for paid family and medical leave
- Endovascular thrombectomy will (eventually) save millions of lives
Climate
- The Interior Department released guidance on how states can claim $500 million to clean up oil wells
- The world swore they’d eliminate fossil fuel subsidies. Funny story! They doubled them (it’s complicated)
Food & Water
- This new coffee cup is entirely compostable (and cool as hell)
- The Mediterranean diet is, one, delicious, and two, may improve a person’s response to immunotherapy
Beep Boop
- The FTC will ban BetterHelp from sharing mental health data for ad targeting, which, I don’t know, sounds pretty damn obvious
- Instead of legislative bodies, judges are making consequential tech policy, and, look, nobody’s prepared for this stuff
COVID
- This is the first at-home COVID and flu test
- Why forest clearing doesn’t just release emissions — it helps viruses jump to humans
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