This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Maria Westerbos highlights the ways that the Plastic Soup Foundation connects the Sustainable Development Goals and fighting plastic pollution. • What role can funders play in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Global Citizen reports on a new discovery for turning polypropylene, a common plastic waste, into fuel. If this enterprise becomes successful large scale it could greatly…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Regenerative agriculture practices like soil carbon sequestration is becoming a topic for farmers and politicians alike, but pesticides can damage soil biotic communities. • How can…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · In order to reduce the chances of exceeding a 2 degree Celsius increase in global temperature, the latest IPCC report suggests revolutionizing agricultural practices to reduce…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The CEO of one of the nation’s leading food and agriculture companies, Land O’Lakes, Chris Policinski, has an important message for us: “To move the planet forward, farmers must lead…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. One day early last June, a group of journalists of color from newsrooms around the country gathered for the first time—on a Zoom call, naturally. The gathering marked the inaugural…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The 2018 Symposium on ‘Youth for Growth’ brought food leaders together to discuss how young people can be involved in global food security and sustainable agriculture. • How can…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Catastrophic floods — such as those caused by Hurricane Harvey — are on the rise, especially in the East and Midwest. Climate change, which brings supercharged storms and sea-level rise as…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Natural disasters in recent years have left many districts facing months and years of recovery, and recently record-breaking numbers of tornadoes have touched down in the Midwest. Other parts of the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Members of the University of Michigan’s Sustainable Food Systems Initiative reviewed recent academic papers that discuss the United Nations goal of ending hunger and malnutrition worldwide by 2030. They reviewed…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It’s hard to remember, in the midst of a calamitous global pandemic, that people around the globe are healthier now than they were just a few decades ago. We’re smoking less,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The window of opportunity to harness nature’s own power to protect us from climate change is closing swiftly. As the Amazon burns, coral reefs die and polar ice caps melt,…