🌎 Life, Liberty, and Solar Panels
This week:
Texans have a huge opportunity to get even MORE liberty — from the sun.
Plus: Diabetes is expected to double, the state of carbon removal, A.I. detection tools, future
pandemic prepping, BEES?!, and more
Here's What You Can Do:
⚡️ It’s getting hot out there. Direct your city officials to the Heat Action Platform Policy Tool to explore existing heat adaptation solutions for your community.
⚡️Thinking of becoming a nurse? Bless you, and thank you. Here are some resources including FAQs about education requirements, salary, and benefits.
⚡️ Representation in books helps kids build self-esteem and increase self-acceptance. Find kid-affirming books for your family or classroom with a ColorPop Book bundle.
⚡️ Defend rights to digital privacy all over the world by donating to The Electronic Frontier Foundation.
⚡️ Align your money with your values by finding a financial institution near you with sustainable banking services.
News Roundup
Health & Medicine
- Scientists are engineering microbes to benefit our health and the environment
- A new research model is allowing researchers to gain new insights into human embryonic development
- The number of people with diabetes is expected to double by 2050 — to 1.3 billion people
- Our terrible health care system, explained by a nurse
Climate
- Extreme heat will result in $1 billion in health care costs this summer alone
- How you can prevent power outages during a heat wave
- UK ad regulators are clamping down on greenwashing
- Understand the current state of carbon removal (and the need to regulate it) with these fun charts
- Can we blame heat and wildfires on the jet stream?
Food & Water
- 3M is paying out a $10.3 billion settlement for contaminating public water supplies with toxic forever chemicals
- Beekeepers are keeping US honeybee colonies “relatively stable” after nearly half of colonies died last year
- How real people are being impacted by cuts to the food safety net
- Refilling rivers is beyond what rain can provide. Here’s the case for desalination
Beep Boop
- Your drugstore is telling Facebook when you buy sensitive items online, like Plan B or an HIV test
- Experiencing online harassment? The Supreme Court isn’t going to do anything about it
- Do A.I-Detection tools really work?
COVID
- When should you get your next COVID booster?
- The EU has made a deal with Pfizer to stock up on vaccines to prepare for future pandemics
- The pandemic has been linked to a surge in children and youth with diabetes
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