This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Nicole Wetsman, writing for CityLab, explains how communities are building psychological resilience against natural disasters as climate change grows more severe. • The author notes that social…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Peter Sands, executive director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, declared that climate change is posing challenges for global health professionals to end epidemics. …
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • California is proposing to intentionally shut off power as a practical way to combat and prevent wildfires, but planned outages might end up doing more harm…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • According to research from Michigan State University, the spatial arrangement of crop fields, forests, and grasslands does a lot to determine how many critters like spiders…
Giving Compass’ Take: • Researchers report that climate change may cause a dramatic drop in rice production in major growing regions because of an increase in arsenic. This production decline…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Amy Mayer and Madelyn Beck explain how climate change is affecting weather around the world, including increasing precipitation levels. · How can farmers adapt with the…
Giving Compass’ Take: • Katie Couric interviews Christina Figueres, Founding Partner of Global Optimism, and former Secretary of the UN Climate Convention to discuss the trajectory of her fight against…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Fast Company discusses a new report from the Center for American Progress detailing how a massive transformation to 100% renewable electricity could take place in America. …
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Climate change and subsequent damage to water, land and clean air affects women differently than men. Women walk farther when water and firewood runs out, work harder for less when erratic…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • To combat climate change, there are now more ways to support sucking carbon from the air in an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. • Scientists…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Lloyd Alter explains the principles of sustainable building: don’t build, build minimally, and use the right materials. • Alter emphasizes not building when avoidable. What are viable…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The Climate Reality Project explains that the 1.5 degrees Celcius threshold for climate change is a rough boundary between destructive and catastrophic climate change. • How can…