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The weekly tent-pole essay, plus Action Steps. 10/10, you're welcome.
July 8, 2022
Newsletter #283: What Google's hiding (for you)
This week: What's a chief heat officer? Fixing schools in the time of COVID Why plant-based meat is a massive 80/20 move for the climate (and your health) Uh, Juul is back? Google's hiding your "sensitive" location data Get m...
June 24, 2022
Newsletter #281: What to eat and where to get it
This week: The SEC's coming for greenwashing in a real way BA4: Endgame and BA5: Infinity War are here and immune evasive Eat more local veggies Bye-bye vapes (and nicotine?) A digital privacy bill might actually see the ligh...
June 17, 2022
Newsletter #280: What's next for Alzheimer's?
This week: Where do gas cars go when we buy electric? A bunch of COVID updates The Colorado River's next chapter What's next for Alzheimer's Holy shit Facebook's tracking pixel is more invasive than expected, which is saying ...
June 10, 2022
Newsletter #279: Moderna's got a new booster
This week: Biden's going it alone on electrification Moderna's got a new booster Why food is so expensive An unbelievable cancer result Apple's saying goodbye to passwords Get more: Get more news, analysis, and Action Steps a...
June 3, 2022
Newsletter #278: The deal with monkeypox
This week: SEC climate risk reporting gets closer to reality What's the Paxlovid rebound? How to make strawberries last weeks longer What the hell is monkeypox? Mastercard wants to give you variable interest rates in exchange...
May 27, 2022
Newsletter #277: Why EV batteries are suddenly SO expensive?
This week: Lithium is expensive AF because it's in wildly short supply Paxlovid and Long COVID, a thing? Global breadbaskets are getting hotter and/or wetter and/or laced with explosives Fuck guns Healthcare info privacy is n...
May 13, 2022
Newsletter #276: Who gets Long COVID?
This week: Water in the West Who will get Long COVID? The baby formula shortage, explained Drug overdoses and gaslighting Data privacy improvements Get more: Get more news, analysis, and Action Steps at newsletter.importantno...
May 6, 2022
Newsletter #275: How Hot is it in India?
This week: India's heat continues When a surge is not a surge Antibiotics (still) in meat Abortion Email cybersecurity is...lacking Get more: Get more news, analysis, and Action Steps at newsletter.importantnotimportant.com G...
April 29, 2022
Newsletter #274: Is Wind Power Unprofitable?
This week: Wind isn't profitable Kids vaccines on the hold up The kitchen sink answer to food waste, it's metaphors galore today Menthol cigarettes are all smoked out America's new AI chief Get more: Get more news, analysis, ...
April 22, 2022
Newsletter #273: Where Batteries Come From
This week: Should we mine the ocean? Mask mandates are over, what else? Split up the FDA Alzheimer's trials are very white Ronan Farrow comes for Pegasus spyware Get more: Get more news, analysis, and Action Steps at newslett...
April 15, 2022
Newsletter #272: Is carbon removal real?
This week: Carbon removal: Hope is not a plan. A bajillion dollars might be! COVID and diabetes is the new Bennifer Walmart's regenerative farming pledge is about dirt PFAS in food wrappers, not delicious How hospitals get cy...
April 1, 2022
Newsletter #271: What is the climate gap?
This week: The climate tech gap, explained Free COVID tests, over (for some) The future of freshwater Millions of nurses, lost Facebook, unregulated, still Get more: Get more news, analysis, and Action Steps at newsletter.imp...
March 25, 2022
Newsletter #270: Did you hear about ecstasy?
This week: The SEC's new climate rule, summarized J&J's COVID shot, redeemed? How to protect food workers in the climate age PTSD and ecstasy Russia's lack of cyber warfare, hypothesized Get more: Get more news, analysis, and...
March 18, 2022
Newsletter #269: The ESG Bubble
This week: ESG's crumbling COVID on the rise, funding vanishes California's breadbasket at risk Gene therapy pricing Your biometric data for sale, part 73 Get more: Get more news, analysis, and Action Steps at newsletter.impo...
March 11, 2022
Newsletter #268: This is the transition in real time
This week: Putin's oil, rejected The lives we write off What "sustainable" really means, or, nothing Lead pipes, still Microsoft's new cancer bot Get more: Get more news, analysis, and Action Steps at newsletter.importantnoti...