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    Meet The New Platform That Makes it Easy to Offset Your Plastic Footprint

    Causeartist Dec 3, 2019

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Grant Trahant at Causeartist highlights Vera, a new platform that allows members to easily offset their plastic foodprint for $3/month.  • How does waste management, or lack there…

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    Animal Welfare: 2019 Charity Recommendations

    Animal Charity Evaluators Dec 3, 2019

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Animal Charity Evaluators highlight effective charities working to protect animal welfare around the world.  • Do any of these organizations align with your philanthropic goals?  • Learn…

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    Pregnant Women Have a Higher Risk of Delivering Early on Unseasonably Hot Days

    The Conversation Dec 2, 2019

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Alan Barreca, Professor of Environmental Economics at UCLA, believes that higher temperatures caused by climate change are causing pregnant women to deliver their babies earlier.  • How can…

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    The Tricky Business of Measuring Toilet Use

    India Development Review Dec 2, 2019

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Radhika Menon at IDR gives some highlights from impact evaluations of low-cost interventions across four Indian states that revealed interesting findings on how to accurately measure toilet…

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    Researchers Lay Groundwork to Accelerate Clean Energy Transition

    Smart Cities Dive Dec 2, 2019

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Gloria Gonzalez covers the National Renewable Energy Lab’s work on the impacts of turbulence on wind turbines, and development of new integrated battery systems. • How can funders…

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    Vancouver Bans Foam Food Containers

    TreeHugger Dec 2, 2019

    Giving Compass’ Take: · According to Katherine Martinko at TreeHugger, the city of Vancouver will implement a ban on foam food containers in the coming year, with future goals to reduce…

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    How An Ecological Paradigm Can Advance Systems Change

    Alliance Magazine Dec 2, 2019

    Giving Compass’ Take: · Kiley Arroyo takes a look at how different disciplines are adopting an ecological paradigm to advance transformative justice and influence positive change in living systems.  ·…

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    The Rise of Asia’s Urban Farmers

    Eco-Business Dec 1, 2019

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Tim Daubach and Neo Chai Chin talk with three urban farmers that seek to fight climate change and feed city dwellers using less land, water, and energy.…

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    How Do Americans Feel About Government Climate Action?

    Pew Research Center Nov 30, 2019

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Cary Funk and Meg Hefferon unpack American’s opinions about government climate action. Sixty-seven percent say the government isn’t doing enough.  • How do American’s opinions shape government…

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    The Bonds Between People and Animals

    Inside Climate News Nov 29, 2019

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Neela Banerjee at Inside Climate News writes on how people express their ideals caring for animals amid crises such as hurricanes, flooding and otherwise.  • What are the…

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    What Can Twitter Tell Us About Our Neighborhood’s Health?

    The New Food Economy Nov 29, 2019

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Researchers at the University of Michigan in Detroit are probing connections between health outcomes and how communities tweet about food. • How do these tweets correlate…

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    How Los Angeles Plans to Get Hundreds of Thousands of People Out of Cars

    Fast Company Nov 29, 2019

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Adele Peters at Fast Company reports on Los Angeles’ new road map to drastically cut transportation emissions by 2028 through using alternative methods.  • How can we…

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