This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Writing for TriplePundit, Alegria Partners’ Nikki Pava discusses two obstacles to good sustainability practices in business (paralysis and over-ambition) and how to overcome them. • Are…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Fast Company reports on MIT Media Lab’s artificial intelligence shipping container that is growing crops in place of outdoor farms that are consistently being affected by climate…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The Atlantic reports on volunteers in Iceland who literally use measuring tape to see how much the country’s icebergs have melted over the years — the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The ocean covers nearly four-fifths of our entire planet — but it has gotten less than one percent of all philanthropic funding since 2009. Why? The answer is enormous. “It’s…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • As there have been numerous floods in Houston, city planners are figuring out ways to structure and redesign the city so that it will become more resilient. …
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Daniel Bernhard from the Toronto consulting agency Mushroom Cloud discusses ways that nonprofits can attract younger talent to their ranks: Embrace innovation. • How many organizations…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • It has been over a year since the Trump Administration pulled the U.S. out of the Paris climate agreement. Since then, federal efforts to address climate…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The Philanthropy Workshop talks about how environmental scientists should take the occasional “strategic pause” in their work in order to look at the big picture and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The UN released the TEEB for Agriculture & Food (TEEBAgriFood) report outlining the health and environmental cost of food production around the world. • How can…
Giving Compass’ Take: • On this episode of the Climate One podcast, host Greg Dalton discusses environmental issues and climate disruption with three prominent California gubernatorial candidates: Travis Allen, Gavin Newsom…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Devex reports on the growing humanitarian crisis in Somalia, Kenya and other East African nations, where food security is low, droughts are constant and diseases plague the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The threat of superstorms caused by climate change lends urgency to the need to upgrade New York’s aging water infrastructure. • How can philanthropy help cities…