This week:
How can we better protect farmworkers?
Plus, the news:
• A free online summit for eco-anxiety from RITA
• A new era for Alzheimer’s treatments
• Inflated prices of packaged food
• Saving lives with better weather forecasting
Here's What You Can Do:
• Donate to the Food Chain Workers Alliance, a coalition dedicated to improving working condition (https://foodchainworkers.org/?utm_source=importantnotimportant.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=farm-to-table)s for workers in every stage of food production, and to the Native CDFI Network (https://nativecdfi.net/donate/?utm_source=importantnotimportant.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=farm-to-table) to improve access to capital and credit for Indigenous farm workers.
• Volunteer to build a climate resilience hub (https://www.usdn.org/resilience-hubs.html?utm_source=importantnotimportant.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=farm-to-table) so your community can better respond to extreme heat events and other disasters.
• Get educated about how to protect yourself and your community (https://www.vox.com/even-better/23196757/summer-disaster-weather-preparation-community-hurricane-wildfire-drought-heatwave-flood?utm_source=importantnotimportant.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=farm-to-table) from heat and other extreme weather.
• Be heard about building heat-resilient communities and share the Heat Action Platform tool (https://onebillionresilient.org/heat-action-platform/?utm_source=importantnotimportant.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=farm-to-table)and U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit (https://toolkit.climate.gov/case-studies?utm_source=importantnotimportant.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=farm-to-table) with your city officials.
News Roundup
Health & Medicine
• Cost Plus Drugs is utilizing strategic partnerships (https://workweek.com/2023/07/08/cost-plus-drugs-key-updates-from-h1-23/?utm_source=importantnotimportant.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=farm-to-table) to improve affordability and accessibility of prescription drugs
• Pregnant? The Pregnancy Workers Fairness Act says that your boss now has to accommodate you. Here’s everything you need to know (https://19thnews.org/2023/06/pregnant-workers-fairness-act-employer-accommodations/?utm_source=importantnotimportant.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=farm-to-table).
• FDA approval of lecanemab begins a new era of Alzheimer’s treatment (https://www.vox.com/policy/2023/7/7/23784663/alzheimers-drug-lecanemab-leqembi-full-fda-approval?utm_source=importantnotimportant.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=farm-to-table)
• 18 million doses of the first-ever malaria vaccine (https://www.who.int/news/item/05-07-2023-18-million-doses-of-first-ever-malaria-vaccine-allocated-to-12-african-countries-for-2023-2025--gavi--who-and-unicef?utm_source=importantnotimportant.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=farm-to-table#) are rolling out in 12 African countries
Climate
• Despite growth in renewables, global emissions (https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jun/26/greenhouse-gas-emissions-from-global-energy-industry-still-rising-report?utm_source=importantnotimportant.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=farm-to-table) from the energy industry are 👏 still 👏 rising 👏 . We can, and must, do better.
• How to prepare for and survive (https://heatmap.news/climate/heat-wave-blackout-power-outage?utm_source=importantnotimportant.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=farm-to-table) during a black out in extreme heat
• Join the Resilience in the Anthropocene (https://www.ritasummit.org/?utm_source=importantnotimportant.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=farm-to-table) free online summit from Aug 8-10 to discuss eco-anxiety and climate distress with leaders from frontline communities.
• If you’ve (however reluctantly) made the transition to Threads, start rebuilding your following list with these climate solutions experts (https://www.threads.net/t/Cuma5rHo5Kr/?igshid=NjZiM2M3MzIxNA%3D%3D&utm_source=importantnotimportant.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=farm-to-table).
Food & Water
• Food industry giants are responsible for plastic pollution (https://civileats.com/2023/07/06/op-ed-plastic-recycling-has-failed-food-companies-need-to-step-up/?mc_cid=d902be5107&mc_eid=ed7cc43286) (and “compostable” alternatives (https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/07/compostable-plastic-trash/674626/?utm_source=importantnotimportant.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=farm-to-table) might not be much better) and need to be held accountable
• Some cities are leaving toxic lead pipes (https://apnews.com/article/toxic-lead-pipes-epa-providence-health-bc793dea64ab59d26e27620d3c2338c9?utm_source=importantnotimportant.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=farm-to-table)in the ground
• Need one more reason to prioritize fresh food? Inflation is still causing packaged food prices to soar (https://www...
