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Newsletter #284: How to beat plastic
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Newsletter #284: How to beat plastic

July 15, 2022

This week: Manchin fuels more heat waves COVID reinforcements on the way India and California fight plastic How we fight monkeypox Wow Ring doorbells are not great Get more: Get more news, analysis, and Action Steps at newsl…

Newsletter #283: What Google's hiding (for you)
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Newsletter #283: What Google's hiding (for you)

July 8, 2022

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 …

Newsletter #281: What to eat and where to get it
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Newsletter #281: What to eat and where to get it

June 24, 2022

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 lig…

Newsletter #280: What's next for Alzheimer's?
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Newsletter #280: What's next for Alzheimer's?

June 17, 2022

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…

Newsletter #279: Moderna's got a new booster
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Newsletter #279: Moderna's got a new booster

June 10, 2022

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 …

Newsletter #278: The deal with monkeypox
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Newsletter #278: The deal with monkeypox

June 3, 2022

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 exchang…

Newsletter #277: Why EV batteries are suddenly SO expensive?
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Newsletter #277: Why EV batteries are suddenly SO expensive?

May 27, 2022

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 …

Newsletter #276: Who gets Long COVID?
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Newsletter #276: Who gets Long COVID?

May 13, 2022

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.importantn…

Newsletter #275: How Hot is it in India?
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Newsletter #275: How Hot is it in India?

May 6, 2022

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 …

Newsletter #274: Is Wind Power Unprofitable?
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Newsletter #274: Is Wind Power Unprofitable?

April 29, 2022

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,…

Newsletter #273: Where Batteries Come From
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Newsletter #273: Where Batteries Come From

April 22, 2022

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 newslet…

Newsletter #272: Is carbon removal real?
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Newsletter #272: Is carbon removal real?

April 15, 2022

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 c…

Newsletter #271: What is the climate gap?
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Newsletter #271: What is the climate gap?

April 1, 2022

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.im…

Newsletter #270: Did you hear about ecstasy?
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Newsletter #270: Did you hear about ecstasy?

March 25, 2022

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, an…

Newsletter #269: The ESG Bubble
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Newsletter #269: The ESG Bubble

March 18, 2022

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.imp…