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June 26, 2023

🌎 The Inevitable Future

This week: Is the future inevitable? Plus: A lack of OB-GYN’s in a post-Roe world, some new bills for agrivoltaics, the best in climate journalism, the link between COVID and Alzheimer’s, misinformation, and more Here's What You Can Do: • ⚡️ Our algorithms and technology are only as good as…

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June 13, 2023

10 Questions to Ask Before Using AI

With new AI products emerging daily and the humankind jumping into using all of them, protecting our data and asking questions has become more important than ever. This video includes a list of standard questions you and everyone should ask these AI revolutionaries before you even download their software, much…

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June 9, 2023

🌎 Start Over (Again)

This week: Got fired? Start over. Plus: More young people are getting cancer, the rise of solar power, new YouTube misinformation rules, getting paid to bike to work, and more Here's What You Can Do: • ⚡️ If apocalyptic skies and hazardous air quality reports are making your climate anxiety…

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June 7, 2023

🌎 10 Questions You Need to Ask Right Now

This week: Ask these questions before you click on ANYTHING. Plus: Gut inflammation news, California insurance gets harder to find, 750k adults just lost Medicaid, what (non-vaccinated) COVID actually does to your lungs, and more Here's What You Can Do: • ⚡️ PFAS (“forever chemicals”) have been linked to serious…

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May 29, 2023

Best of: How to Protect Yourself from Wildfire Smoke

What's in wildfire smoke and how can you protect yourself from it? Those are today's big questions, and my guest is Dr. Mary Prunicki. Dr. Prunicki is the Director of Air Pollution and Health Research at Stanford University under the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research. Her…

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May 24, 2023

How To Keep Up With The Evolving World?

👉 Find the blog version with action step links: https://www.importantnotimportant.com/p/life-comes-at-you-fast 👉 Find out more: https://www.importantnotimportant.com or become a Member at https://www.importantnotimportant.com/Membership. 🎧 You can listen our newsletters and podcasts on: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7d1bcYSKPF19PQDLi7mJS3 Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1336515208?mt=2&ls=1 Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5jYXB0aXZhdGUuZm0vaW1wb3J0YW50LW5vdC1pbXBvcnRhbnQv Castro: https://castro.fm/podcast/3dd79317-d048-4527-a9b8-a49d21536b5b 📲 Follow us on social media: TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@importantnotimportant Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/importantnotimportant/…

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May 19, 2023

🌎 Gradually, and then all at once

This week: Things feel pretty out of control. Get used to it. Plus: The Canadian West is burning, Oregon bans PFAS, ChatGPT plugins for everyone, the All We Can Save project is hiring, and more Here's What You Can Do: • ⚡️Wildfire smoke exposure is directly linked to myriad health…

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May 17, 2023

Health Care Is A Human Right

Is healthcare a human right? That's today's big question, and it clearly shouldn't be a question, but here we are. My guest to help explain the obvious today is Dr. Sheila Davis, the CEO of Partners in Health. Sheila entered the global health arena in 1999, responding to the global…

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May 16, 2023

Dr. Sheila Davis: Global Healthcare, Human rights & Ebola | #INI 159

Is healthcare a human right? That's today's big question. It shouldn't be a question, but my guest today is Dr. Sheila Davis and she's the CEO of Partners in Health. Sheila entered the Global Health Arena in 1999, responding to the global HIV and AIDS pandemic. A few years later,…

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May 16, 2023

🌎 COVID has ended (or has it?)

This week: COVID is over (as far as we know it). What did we learn, and what’s next? PLUS: Gay blood donations are a go, wind power in the UK, social media guidelines, millions for Black farmers, water report cards, and more Here's What You Can Do: • ⚡️ Discover…

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May 11, 2023

What would aliens think of Earth?

👉 Find the blog version with action step links: https://www.importantnotimportant.com/p/never-tell-me-the-odds 👉 Find out more: https://www.importantnotimportant.com or become a Member at https://www.importantnotimportant.com/Membership. 🎧 You can listen our newsletters and podcasts on: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7d1bcYSKPF19PQDLi7mJS3 Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1336515208?mt=2&ls=1 Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5jYXB0aXZhdGUuZm0vaW1wb3J0YW50LW5vdC1pbXBvcnRhbnQv Castro: https://castro.fm/podcast/3dd79317-d048-4527-a9b8-a49d21536b5b 📲 Follow us on social media: TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@importantnotimportant Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/importantnotimportant/…

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May 8, 2023

Former Apple Employee Invents Advanced Garbage Bin ft. Matt Rogers

Matt Rogers started at Apple, building the software team for 10 generations of the iPod. He was one of the first engineers on the original iPhone and involved in the development of 5 iPhone generations, and the first iPad. He is also the Co-Founder of Nest thermostats, Founder of insight.org,…

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May 8, 2023

Fighting Food Waste With The iPhone of Trash Cans

How much food do you throw away every week? And do you have to? That's today's big question, and my guest is Matt Rogers. Matt is a former Apple iPod and iPhone engineer. The Co-Founder of Nest thermostats, Founder of incite.org, and former Chairman of Carbon180. He is now the…

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May 5, 2023

🌎 Never Tell Me The Odds

This week: Solutions to our biggest problems shouldn’t be so perplexing. On the other hand, washing our hands wasn’t obvious for a couple hundred thousand years, and my kids STILL don't want to do it. Plus: Seasonal allergy news, a new Barbie, non-profit grocery stores, climate hackers, the SEC, the…

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May 3, 2023

What Makes Jobs “Important”?

👉 Find the blog version with action step links: https://www.importantnotimportant.com/p/what-would-you-say-you-do-here 👉 Find out more: https://www.importantnotimportant.com or become a Member at https://www.importantnotimportant.com/Membership. 🎧 You can listen our newsletters and podcasts on: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7d1bcYSKPF19PQDLi7mJS3 Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1336515208?mt=2&ls=1 Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5jYXB0aXZhdGUuZm0vaW1wb3J0YW50LW5vdC1pbXBvcnRhbnQv Castro: https://castro.fm/podcast/3dd79317-d048-4527-a9b8-a49d21536b5b 📲 Follow us on social media: TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@importantnotimportant Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/importantnotimportant/…

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May 3, 2023

Natural disasters destroying homes #shorts

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May 2, 2023

Wildfires, Insurance Policies & Companies ft. Brianna Sacks

Brianna Sacks is an extreme weather and disaster reporter for the Washington Post where she explores how climate change is transforming the United States through violent storms, intense heat, widespread wildfires, and other forms of extreme weather. We're having this conversation today because last month Brianna revealed how insurers have…

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May 1, 2023

Check Your Insurance Policy

You've got insurance, right? Are you sure? That's today's big question, and my guest is Washington Post reporter Brianna Sacks. Brianna's an extreme weather and disaster reporter for the Post where she explores how climate change is transforming the United States through violent storms, intense heat, widespread wildfires, and other…

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April 26, 2023

🌎 What Would You Say You Do Here

This week: Is what you’re working on important? Plus: The cleanest produce, a mosquito factory, lots of rooftop solar, autonomous GPT, maybe, and the latest with the Colorado River Here's What You Can Do: • ⚡️ Climate change and mental health are inextricably linked. Get some help with the Climate…

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April 25, 2023

Disarming Climate Change Bomb ft. Heidi Roop

👉 Watch the full podcast: https://youtu.be/Im8aT0LUr6s 👉 Find out more: https://www.importantnotimportant.com or become a Member at https://www.importantnotimportant.com/Membership. 🎧 You can listen our newsletters and podcasts on: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7d1bcYSKPF19PQDLi7mJS3 Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1336515208?mt=2&ls=1 Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5jYXB0aXZhdGUuZm0vaW1wb3J0YW50LW5vdC1pbXBvcnRhbnQv Castro: https://castro.fm/podcast/3dd79317-d048-4527-a9b8-a49d21536b5b 📲 Follow us on social media: TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@importantnotimportant Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/importantnotimportant/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/important-not-important/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/importantnotimportant/…

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April 24, 2023

Getting Ready for Disasters and Climate Change ft. Heidi Roop

Dr. Heidi Roop is the author of The Climate Action Handbook, the Director of the University of Minnesota Climate Adaptation Partnership and an assistant professor of climate science and extension specialist at the University of Minnesota. She also serves as the Director of Knowledge Transfer for the NSF-funded COLDEX Science…

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April 24, 2023

Every Climate Action Matters

What can I do? The simple question is the underlying premise of everything we do here. It's often the easiest one to help people answer for themselves, but from the outside, it's often the most imposing. All of which is why we keep coming back to it, and why I'm…

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April 21, 2023

Why Do Human Necessities Cost Money?

👉 Find the blog version with action step links: https://www.importantnotimportant.com/p/this-isnt-rocket-science 👉 Find out more: https://www.importantnotimportant.com or become a Member at https://www.importantnotimportant.com/Membership. 🎧 You can listen our newsletters and podcasts on: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7d1bcYSKPF19PQDLi7mJS3 Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1336515208?mt=2&ls=1 Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5jYXB0aXZhdGUuZm0vaW1wb3J0YW50LW5vdC1pbXBvcnRhbnQv Castro: https://castro.fm/podcast/3dd79317-d048-4527-a9b8-a49d21536b5b 📲 Follow us on social media: TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@importantnotimportant Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/importantnotimportant/…

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April 18, 2023

🌎 This Isn't Rocket Science (Unless It Is)

This week: A very basic way to use a mental model, you’re welcome. PLUS: Mosquitoes, overseas abortion pills, healthy ice cream, German nuclear power, electric school buses, and more. Here's What You Can Do: • ⚡️ Interested in community solar? Check out Wattbuy’s (https://link.mail.beehiiv.com/ss/c/I1vdo-7CUlzCAiV8jz_iiRIKwkr-c5Qm8D_nodB0Jhp5vQsymVQO-h_o61XFxLwNDQNTvX0UkzVddrPcFdAb5V3r5qh6rb5dP7ys0pnCE6dXCh2JZXFw_fIgn4MEkpK2uOOtBRLcGQvUvGRDGBPTABgkYDrzN3z8zTSTRepD5lRyjDqOK3FagygvqB0RCN_R/3vc/cdegTWCxTEiCd6rWDieusg/h17/4jFtrx6nV0yU1s0WvFYpiokE7emwaMqj2wDr9GT1yJk) tools to get some. • ⚡️…

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