This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The current imagination of safe drinking water is limited to surface water-based drinking water supply schemes and installing large-scale water treatment systems. But these solutions are infrastructure-focused; time- and cost-intensive.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Climate change and water scarcity are front and center in the western U.S. The region’s climate is warming, a severe multi-year drought is underway and groundwater supplies are being overpumped…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Jenny Price, historian, artist, author, and Ivy League academic, thinks most environmentalists are sabotaging their own cause. Shouldering their tote bags through the organic aisle at the grocery store, they…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The United Nations General Assembly week in New York in September was a global stock-taking exercise aimed at understanding where the world collectively stands on progress toward the Sustainable Development…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. University of Michigan students know a little something about how difficult it can be to get a resistant administration to stop investing in fossil fuels. It took years of demonstrating,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Chagos Archipelago is one of the most remote, seemingly idyllic places on Earth. Coconut-covered sandy beaches with incredible bird life rim tropical islands in the Indian Ocean, hundreds of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. President Joe Biden’s American Jobs Plan calls for a major investment in EVs and electrified transit, with a focus on what a senior administration official described as “infrastructure for the future.” But the labor groups…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When Philadelphia’s offices, museums, and shops all shuttered in March 2020, at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the city’s Indego bike-share service saw its total ridership plummet. Downtown commuters began working…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. According to the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Asia Pacific region still has 490 million hungry people in their midst, more than any other region. Furthermore, in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Most of our research, research we have funded, and resources we provide advocates have been related to helping farmed animals. We consider addressing the suffering caused by industrial animal agriculture to be a high-impact…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For 149 years, Americans have marked Arbor Day on the last Friday in April by planting trees. Now business leaders, politicians, YouTubers and celebrities are calling for the planting of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Around 11 a.m. on April 3, an emergency alert flashed on residents’ cell phones in Manatee County, Florida. “Evacuate area NOW,” it read, according to a screenshot later published by the Tampa Bay…