🌎 ESG is good business (but don't call it ESG)

This week:

Fighting over ESG is stupid, risky, and bad business. Let’s move on.

Plus: RSV vaccines, the E-BIKE Act, Skittles (?), deepfakes, allergies, and a new season of DRILLED

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Health & Medicine

The FDA recommends 2 RSV vaccines for older adults — a huge public health win
We can learn a lot about how to eradicate homelessness from Houston and Helsinki
The 988 suicide hotline isexpanding LGBTQ services with 24/7 chat and text - huzzah!
We really should celebrate the enormous —ENORMOUS — impact the President’s Emergency Program for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) has had (and the thousands of people who fought for it)
The best and worst American cities for allergy-sufferers

Climate

The E-BIKE Act was reintroduced in Congress and I AM SO EXCITED
Thenew season of Amy Westervelt’s incredible “Drilled” podcastis out, and this year it’s a cross-over with Damages, as they explore Guyana’s oil reserves, and how ExxonMobil is exploiting them
I LOVE the “Third Act” protesterswho came after after the big banks who fund fossil fuels
The final rules on EV tax credits are coming — andeveryone is both excited and annoyed

Food & Water

Can we make and popularize toilets that don’t use running water?
California might ban Skittles (if this isn’t our most clicked on link, I don’t know what the point is)
We desperately need a new economics of water

Beep Boop

COVID

A new Medicare designation may save the most vulnerable rural hospitals that are failing after COVID
From Atul Gawande: The aftermath of a pandemic requires as much focus as the start