🌎 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.
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- ⚡️ Help your localfarmers sell online— not just at farmer’s markets — with GrownBy.
- ⚡️ Help people worldwide get clean, safe, accessible drinking waterwith charity: water.
- ⚡️ Support Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson’s Urban Ocean Lab as theywrite the future of ocean policy.
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- ⚡️ 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
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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 bipartisanpush for paid family and medical leave
- Endovascular thrombectomy will (eventually) save millions of lives
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Climate
- The Interior Department released guidance on how states can claim $500 millionto clean up oil wells
- The world swore they’d eliminate fossil fuel subsidies. Funny story! They doubled them (it’s complicated)
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Food & Water
- This new coffee cup is entirely compostable (and cool as hell)
- The Mediterranean dietis, one, delicious, and two, may improve a person’s response to immunotherapy
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Beep Boop
- The FTC willban 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
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COVID
- This is the first at-home COVID andflu test
- Why forest clearing doesn’t just release emissions —it helps viruses jump to humans
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