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    Utilities: The Solution to Comprehensive, Safe Water Access in Cities

    Skoll Foundation

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Neil Jeffery explains how utilities provide the best option for comprehensive, safe water access in urban communities.  • How can funders work to expand access to safe and…

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    Training Youth is Key to Growing African Agriculture

    Food Tank

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Food Tank profiles the West Africa Agricultural Productivity Program (WAAPP), which helps African youth get involved with farming and find pathways to employment. • How can…

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    The Challenges of Balancing Sustainable Development

    Stanford Social Innovation Review

    Giving Compass’ Take: • In an excerpt from The Sustainable State: The Future of Government, Economy and Society, Chandran Nair explores the challenge of balancing the immediate and long-term needs of communities. …

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    This Tool Will Help Develop Building Energy Efficiency

    Smart Cities Dive Sep 23, 2020

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Sidewalk Labs revealed a new tool that will help buildings manage energy use, prioritizing efficiency to address climate change.   • How can donor capital help drive…

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    The Elements of a Meaningful a Net-zero Pledge

    Grist Sep 22, 2020

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Emily Pontecorvo discusses the Science Based Targets initiative to make a net-zero pledge gold standard that incorporates all of the elements of a meaningful program.  • What…

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    The Compounding Crises Involved in Securing Land Rights

    Skoll Foundation Sep 21, 2020

    Giving Compass’ Take: • The COVID-19 pandemic and climate change are both crises that threaten the security of land rights for vulnerable populations, specifically Indigenous peoples.  • How can donors…

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    With Ecological Destruction Comes Economic Instability

    India Development Review Sep 20, 2020

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Ranjit Barthakur implores readers to start talking about ecological destruction and economic health as interconnected entities. • How has COVID-19 made abundantly clear the impact of…

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    Rising Temperatures Continuously Trigger Worldwide Migration

    Eco-Business Sep 20, 2020

    Giving Compass’ Take: • At Eco-Business, Paul Brown reports on how extreme weather and rising temperatures trigger migration on an exponentially increasing scale. •What can you do to support conservation…

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    Collaboration Is Key for Ranchers and Environmentalists

    YES! Magazine Sep 19, 2020

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Virginia Gewin writes about how ranchers and environmentalists are working together in Florida to conserve important open land. • Why are ranchers and environmentalists often referred…

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    The Importance of Driving Investment, Infrastructure and Innovation in Ocean Plastics [Video]

    GreenBiz Sep 18, 2020

    Giving Compass’ Take: • The panel on this webinar discusses innovative strategies regarding infrastructure and investment in curbing ocean plastic pollution, and that starts with re-imagining sustainable supply chains.  •…

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    The Phrase ‘Natural Disaster’ is Going Up in Flames

    Grist Sep 17, 2020

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Kate Yoder at Grist argues that the term “natural disaster” should not be used when talking about the mass wildfires happening because she believes climate change…

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    California’s Wildfire Recovery Shouldn’t Amplify Inequities

    Grist Sep 17, 2020

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Yvette Cabrera writes about the perennial gaps in equity across California’s wildfire recovery efforts and how to address them. • Which communities suffer the most from…

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