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    How Sensory Pollution Can Endanger Animals

    Futurity Mar 18, 2020

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Research indicates how sensory pollution from light, noise, and chemicals can be harmful to animals.  • How can communities take steps to reduce sensory pollution in…

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    Cleaning the World’s Most Polluted Rivers Through Solar Power

    Eco-Business Mar 18, 2020

    Giving Compass’ Take: • The Interceptor OO1, created by the Netherlands-based nonprofit organization, The Ocean Cleanup (TOC), run by solar power, is trying to prevent trash from washing out into…

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    The Importance of Urban River Conservation

    Nonprofit Quarterly Mar 16, 2020

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Jenny Hoffner, writing for Nonprofit Quarterly, explores the four critical components for urban river conservation.  • How so urban rivers impact the communities around them?  • Read…

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    How Warming Oceans are displacing Fish and Harming Economies

    Grist Mar 15, 2020

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Sierra Garcia discusses the damaging effects of warming oceans displacing fish and harming tropical economies. • What are the global impacts of displacement on the fish…

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    How Coronavirus Has Pushed Businesses Away from Zero Waste

    TreeHugger Mar 15, 2020

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Katherine Martinko recaps certain shops’ and stores’ policy changes to disallow personal containers. • How might the coronavirus affect businesses around the world permanently? How can…

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    Using Active Learning to Engage Difficult Students

    Education Dive Mar 14, 2020

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Lauren Barack, in a brief for Education Dive, explains the importance of making an effort to engage difficult students with active learning methods. • How important…

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    How Feminine Leadership Can Help Advance Clean Energy

    GreenBiz Mar 13, 2020

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Feminine leadership can help address issues in climate change and propel the clean energy movement forward. Here are three traits of female leadership that current leaders…

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    Human Impacts on the World’s Oceans

    Futurity

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Jenny Seifert discusses the various ways that humans are impacting the world’s oceans including climate change and pollution.  • How can you address the impact humans have…

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    Youth-led Climate Strikes Go Digital

    TreeHugger Mar 12, 2020

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Greta Thunberg encourages Fridays for the Future climate protesters to pivot to the digital world, as experts recommend that people not gather in public spaces to…

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    Bleached Coral Reefs Change Local Fish Communities

    Pacific Standard

    Giving Compass’ Take: • John C. Cannon explains how bleached coral reefs change local fish communities, especially if bleaching is combined with fishing and other stresses.  • How can funders work…

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    What Do We Need to Make Solar Work for Low-income Communities?

    Smartcities Dive Mar 11, 2020

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Warren Leon outlines the barriers to effectively implementing solar in low-income communities and what can be done to overcome them.  • Which communities in your area would…

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    Research Highlights this Extremely Resilient Coral Reef

    Futurity Mar 10, 2020

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Corals in the Gulf of Aqaba, at the northernmost portion of the Red Sea, are particularly resilient against the effects of ocean warming compared to most corals. …

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