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Corporate donations shouldn’t be Band-Aids. Big bets on social enterprises will make more change

Companies should think beyond charities when making their donations.

The border wall is destroying ecosystems. Biden can fix it

The miles of wall built by the Trump administration have interrupted animal migration paths and caused enormous ecological damage. Even if Biden won’t remove it, he can take actions to mitigate the problem.

7 climate actions that Biden could take on his first day

From rejoining the Paris Agreement to stopping the Keystone Pipeline to restoring the Bears Ears monuments, some of the Trump administration’s most public environmental rollbacks can be easily reversed by a new president.

This state-of-the-art indoor farm is transforming Appalachia into an agricultural powerhouse

Can AppHarvest bring new jobs in high-tech farming to coal country?

This new service lets you earn rewards points for offsetting your emissions

You can redeem them at Patagonia, Toms, or other like-minded retailers

Why we need to “rewild” our environment

By changing how we feed the world—with plant-based burgers, bioreactor-grown dairy, and more efficient indoor farms—we could turn land now used for agriculture back into wilderness.

Reddit’s former CEO is now in the forest-planting business

Yishan Wong is building a system that can transform desert land into fertile ground for the trees we need to help stop climate change.

From King to Warnock: How the Ebenezer Baptist Church became a center of Black organizing

The church where Martin Luther King Jr. helped lead the civil rights movement just sent its pastor, Raphael Warnock, to the U.S. Senate.

The simple reason West Virginia leads the nation in vaccinating nursing home residents

The state has mobilized all its pharmacies (not just big chains) and offered smart incentives. It’s seeing results.

People with disabilities have been disproportionately affected by the economic impact of COVID-19

Job loss and financial hardship from the pandemic have fallen on some groups more than others.

Paris is turning its iconic street into pedestrian gardens

The Champs-Élysées is getting a major renovation—one that will remove most of the cars.

7 ways the circular economy will grow in 2021

From more reusable packaging to more companies taking back used products to more empowered designers, 2021 will be a key year in the development of new, less wasteful systems.

The pandemic recession could cause an enormous spike in homelessness

This helpful little Volkswagen robot will roll up and charge your electric car

We’ll need to install millions of electric charging points to complete the transition to EVs. This prototype offers another way to do it.

Why Ikea just bought an 11,000-acre forest in Georgia

The company now owns more than 100,000 of acres of U.S. forest that it’s working to sustainably manage as part of its climate goals.

How many people need to be vaccinated before COVID-19 transmission starts to drop?

Experts say at least 50% of the U.S. likely needs to be vaccinated before the infection rate starts to change. But there are more complicated factors to consider.

PepsiCo says it will reach net-zero emissions by 2040

In two decades, the giant food and beverage company plans a major shift to renewables and changes throughout its supply chain.

There’s a disturbing nexus of organic food and white supremacists

One of the Capitol rioters asked to be served only organic food in jail. It’s not just a weird personal quirk.

Giving people money turns out to be an incredibly effective tool in ending homelessness

A Vancouver study gave $7,000 each to 50 people living on the street. The effect was immense.