This week:
Can little-old-you really make a difference? Hell yes you can.
Plus: cheaper insulin, cleaner camping gear, a new (lidless) coffee cup, good news on BetterHelp, and maybe even some paid leave.
Here's What You Can Do:
• ⚡️ Help your local farmers sell online (https://link.mail.beehiiv.com/ss/c/0Cf1srzExyTE9bt2YpTLVnpxKuMAKyWqcN1JEOqFG1A/3u6/CLSxUex1SreFa8nzPyY2RQ/h17/Dd2fMW__TXGe6FKM2N1ff6DiZkzU-pIOoPcKLRVO5UI)— not just at farmer’s markets — with GrownBy.
• ⚡️ Help people worldwide get clean, safe, accessible drinking water (https://link.mail.beehiiv.com/ss/c/I1vdo-7CUlzCAiV8jz_iiUY5mYtS6sN9L0UgtOmGneTfM_P2LkGruRtQvzTL8MBQ/3u6/CLSxUex1SreFa8nzPyY2RQ/h18/7L5ZqainHOkUhIaZNVeoEW-igxrNZwO1CBez5Hf2uMA)with charity: water.
• ⚡️ Support Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson’s Urban Ocean Lab as they write the future of ocean policy (https://link.mail.beehiiv.com/ss/c/FFlQiBe9XTLQxJSOy6Aupqo-lg67tkdwuAcpit_tZGcZImtJX3I2TNue24qtuqfq/3u6/CLSxUex1SreFa8nzPyY2RQ/h19/xcHq_yWjGkPx6GBN8ZJFziYyJSIxqKtgvzHTkY-wAps).
• ⚡️ Stay ahead of water news with the award-winning Circle of Blue (https://link.mail.beehiiv.com/ss/c/I1vdo-7CUlzCAiV8jz_iiRiuuAkzRSM-MLjNUCJ8je8skRiowTN6QShAge6RpHIF/3u6/CLSxUex1SreFa8nzPyY2RQ/h20/htqrhgGb4izgktxpU9ZjvlJ7EAbRhH9KFEub73AJgIY) non-profit newsroom
• ⚡️ Queer student journalists: Apply to be a member of the 2023 Nat’l LGBTQ Journalists’ Conference Student PROGRAM, a week-long all-expenses-paid (https://link.mail.beehiiv.com/ss/c/I1vdo-7CUlzCAiV8jz_iiXkViTdqhavZxeVllR5qqug9P6bnz6CZg7xqJbSCfNQGm6_LOagub0pr8mDnqt2B8_hZWI9fbt-FJM2AiMQF-jk/3u6/CLSxUex1SreFa8nzPyY2RQ/h21/IHIeh3z7i5fmgFHx7qesByWBkQgOu726OGP8YDfn2oc) reporting intensive
News Roundup
Health & Medicine
• REI has committed (https://link.mail.beehiiv.com/ss/c/I1vdo-7CUlzCAiV8jz_iiTSbIC_xmN9TTAi085-2m01sOayBY9RAAcLwr0hkQ4uLyXbUNqmZ_PAXdo8282mVbCT-XDKuaY6D3lOFS_1fjgrVEyzsTmYRhzg6W68GLBsnVBaX7CrZgRx4Hz5WXS_7JA/3u6/CLSxUex1SreFa8nzPyY2RQ/h24/arPQbyLeJW-AEZ5S9Vx2ul6XD3kzqqO7RxpBNxNnvl0) to stop selling products with forever chemicals
• Eli Lilly will cut insulin prices (https://link.mail.beehiiv.com/ss/c/I1vdo-7CUlzCAiV8jz_iiZGvgG6nunhttBw5MFpQ3ON6MELVX-ElsADUX_gzhdo7xVu__bSfJjZUJ4LTgdaCx7FBUNJmJJD0gFhuuIKIYFol4b5vBWyT9BAoO1nDcbHq/3u6/CLSxUex1SreFa8nzPyY2RQ/h25/Rd-z1744srqurYFZj52Pcic9uiCVq5AGKaNJyEyPg4E) to $35, should still be regulated
• There’s a new bipartisan (https://link.mail.beehiiv.com/ss/c/I1vdo-7CUlzCAiV8jz_iiUp9Xgis_hKFOlh9bYYza8DwZD82aBuk5ggz7fYdsAOLiZrp4hY4ZM-mxhk8kx5qNmV09-a2e8MQFAwD9a353rYWVppvl_npz_ULREl45-Lb/3u6/CLSxUex1SreFa8nzPyY2RQ/h26/LmJ9hS8NUJ93HhfwMuMOpdA-Ip3mCQ-GcgaGjPwUdkQ)push for paid family and medical leave
• Endovascular thrombectomy will (eventually (https://link.mail.beehiiv.com/ss/c/I1vdo-7CUlzCAiV8jz_iiZGvgG6nunhttBw5MFpQ3OPB1hl9hJIohBeeYT3PR0JIfxL8poU8Bm9UDJIAC0tExjbsXD0L8mz_9iylSohT8D8/3u6/CLSxUex1SreFa8nzPyY2RQ/h27/dGwrFpQmXaUUnB7voEJwFhwJW-zYHOGB7KS2dqcE7dg)) save millions of lives
Climate
• The Interior Department released guidance on how states can claim $500 million (https://link.mail.beehiiv.com/ss/c/I1vdo-7CUlzCAiV8jz_iiVBI6W0uiSEqujf_Hc1b0gWujt7QLBolngA7mL8u8VpoDsSqyXSff-HOF7I6jnLpltJpLBi9khVjZR9chAvVM-ci_Pjn6pONl2VtT2Un3mCReQWzhbjH-x8ijs17oL4yQXA7s4Oil7XzPpWydrSUM-M/3u6/CLSxUex1SreFa8nzPyY2RQ/h28/_qmHFNaBnhU2mZ12go5vHZ9WxtXjZ9oydsAyf1GCTw0)to clean up oil wells
• The world swore they’d eliminate fossil fuel subsidies. Funny story! They doubled them (it’s complicated (https://link.mail.beehiiv.com/ss/c/fEw1cIZxS-IK_iL3eiKqk-x2rtOZXztnS_g7POLcZAL8udn6H9QFWmBfBA6qFHcg_QDezdVabIguDsRMvYO3WsKfmfea7n6enWu5HEa-fZg/3u6/CLSxUex1SreFa8nzPyY2RQ/h29/hbc_z3NdhF6OCqrn_GgzbPBq-JYczeh8BW0BWVa5XmM))
Food & Water
• This new coffee cup (https://link.mail.beehiiv.com/ss/c/I1vdo-7CUlzCAiV8jz_iicZpr7HgFJkfrh_Hw-snubB8n-YdOHp0JLNcYlHhvIB-D5Yf138pTt9tXbkog0pfka1cprUWlCaBH5OKzkBI8658s9-LN-XeXcncg1rp5wEZwCbHGYpRwj6FZdvwJM8TBA/3u6/CLSxUex1SreFa8nzPyY2RQ/h30/mf-78jSEue6Fg-gXAHi_h5UtX9B3ZOhtbykFrEyxjdE) is entirely compostable (and cool as hell)
• The Mediterranean diet (https://link.mail.beehiiv.com/ss/c/I1vdo-7CUlzCAiV8jz_iiSejKHwW6oOq56dRiw5W1JQ2NwebEd3ddtyliVa3H3ubpAcRpyPx9JxqGvBjunUZlg/3u6/CLSxUex1SreFa8nzPyY2RQ/h31/1fwVfSEp8LmnJzlXtDQYZahBbJDWSZ9kROJip1HQZIU)is, one, delicious, and two, may improve a person’s response to immunotherapy
Beep Boop
• The FTC will ban BetterHelp from sharing mental health data (https://link.mail.beehiiv.com/ss/c/I1vdo-7CUlzCAiV8jz_iiRy_wRXCmCcBnkJVygkt4fsc71I7ABtFc9ycmwYc5L0pgbUp8eTLtXgvVplzPcxNNdXJJwGcpvnHWAYfiu0hsmBjTiyf-VNsAIhJDg-9g87P8kCcVOqOWbWpk4KJHPzfMNoQ4cvrr4AdOjNXJsYuKuQ/3u6/CLSxUex1SreFa8nzPyY2RQ/h32/YqdWy37xRZTyJWyh8_lkTZJ9I7qpqEIMgBvLkQuWi6s) for ad targeting, which, I don’t know, sounds pretty damn obvious
• Instead of legislative bodies, judges are making consequential tech policy (https://link.mail.beehiiv.com/ss/c/I1vdo-7CUlzCAiV8jz_iiTPQyJKsgma2qWwvD2Pz2dwgBxWkyk7SRlmg9FVcdzrm49XETTeI8ELXzZe...
