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    Can Do-It-Yourself Processing Machines Help Combat Plastic Pollution?

    NextBillion Oct 26, 2018

    Giving Compass’ Take: • This NextBillion post details the work of a Dutch engineer, who created an open-source platform for anybody to make their own plastic processing machine.  • It’s…

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    Time For Kids To Get Away From All The Screens

    Children & Nature Network

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Screen-Free Week encourages kids to detach from technology and instead spend time outside, participate in family activities, or build on other interests. • Research shows that excessive…

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    Meat and Fish Companies Threaten Implementation of Paris Agreement

    The Guardian Oct 26, 2018

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Bibi van der Zee and Andrew Wasley report that meat and fish companies are threatening the implementation of the Paris agreement through their failure to accurately report their emissions.  •…

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    Movement on Federal Plastics Legislation with Save Our Seas Act

    Surfrider Foundation Oct 25, 2018

    Giving Compass’ Take: · Angela Howe at the Surfrider Foundation explains that there has been movement on federal plastics legislation with the Save Our Seas Act being passed through Congress and…

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    The Trump Administration’s Impact on National Ocean Policy? [Video]

    Surfrider Foundation Oct 25, 2018

    Giving Compass’ Take: • This video from the Surfrider Foundations explains the potential impacts of the Trump Administration’s repeal of the existing National Ocean Policy to be replaced by a policy favoring business.…

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    How Climate Change is Greatly Impacting the Health of India’s Rural Cities

    RAND Corporation Oct 24, 2018

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Climate change and extreme weather are continuing to having a drastic effect on the world’s poor. Unfortunately, the perils for India’s rural communities are only growing larger…

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    The Indian Women Campaigning for Clean Water [Video]

    News Deeply Oct 23, 2018

    Giving Compass’ Take: • A public health organization called Swasti, helped a village in Karnataka, India, to get access to clean water by building a water filtration system in the community and teaching…

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    Short Film Highlights the Impacts of Climate Change on Women

    Global Citizen Oct 23, 2018

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Dulce explores how climate change and sea level rise will impact a mother and daughter who are supported by a mangrove forest in Colombia. • How…

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    Reconnecting Kids With Nature In Chile

    Children & Nature Network Oct 22, 2018

    Giving Compass’ Take: • This Children & Nature Network post highlights Josefina Prieto, who has dedicated her time to Fundación Ilumina, a nonprofit organization in Chile working to promote early…

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    The Unusual Reason Silicon Valley Billionaires Are Looking to New Zealand

    The Guardian Oct 20, 2018

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Silicon Valley billionaires are supposedly apocalypse-proofing themselves by buying up land in New Zealand on the Pacific Ring of Fire, the horseshoe curve of geological fault lines…

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    Why We Need Action on Climate Change Now

    Fast Company Oct 19, 2018

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Responding to the recent UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, Fast Company sounds a note of hope that progress is still possible — but it will…

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    Can We Improve Materials to Increase Efficiency in Combustion Engines?

    SharedImpact Oct 19, 2018

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Bob North argues that a reasonable way to avert catastrophic climate change is to replace internal combustion parts to reduce energy waste.  • Is it feasible and…

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