This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Madeleine Keck reports that chefs from around the world gathered in Kuala Lumpur to address food waste, citing hunger that could be solved and environmental degradation that could…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • A combination of low natural gas prices and a boom in solar and wind power has rendered nuclear reactors unable to compete in states with price competition…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • This piece from the New Food Economy explores how milk supply chains for Hawaii differ from those in the continental U.S. and what one all-female enterprise…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Andrew Spicer and David Graham Hyatt report on the successes and failures of Walmart’s attempts to become more sustainable. • How can other companies learn from Walmart’s…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Luis Hestres explains how climate activists decided on the “keep it in the ground” strategy to fight fossil fuel infrastructure development, and the success they have had…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Jessica Eise and Natalie White describe the climate threats that Colombian coffee farmers report, including drought, landslides, increased pest and disease, and irregular seasons. • How can…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The Conversation explores recent Trump administration policy intended to prop up the fading coal industry, and offers an alternative: Retrain those workers for solar energy jobs,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Native American leaders in Montana believe the Keystone oil pipeline puts their health and access to clean water in grave danger, but they are up against…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The Conversation explores how much costs for fire suppression have damaged the budget of the U.S. Forest Service. Congress tried a fix, but there seems to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Three decades of studies have shown that elevated carbon dioxide and temperatures can lower the nutritional quality of certain plants, and decrease the ability of plants…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • TriplePundit reports on a new initiative called the GeoFootprint Project, which aims to gather data on crop production to inform more sustainable practices in the agriculture…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Here, Global Citizen talks about a novel way to respond to frustration over a lackluster political response to environmental issues: paying for trees planted for every…