This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • YES! Magazine explores the mental health component of natural disasters (exacerbated by climate change) and how it’s being addressed by several community-based programs around the U.S.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Robinson Meyer discusses research the suggests that fracking causes significant, localized health consequences. • How can funders protect communities from the health impacts of fracking? • Learn…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The author explains in detail the challenges Indians have in accessing reliable electricity and the potential solutions for eliminating energy poverty in India. • How can philanthropists work with the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Smart Cities Dive discusses how many cities may need to prepare for wildfires as year-round events, not just contained to a single season. • The preparation…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • News Deeply reports on efforts by scientists to extract uranium from the ocean, in hopes that it can be a renewable source. But plenty of obstacles…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Leon Panetta, Chairman of the Panetta Institute for Public Policy, explains how U.S. National Security is impacted by climate change and renewable energy. • How can funders…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Governing Magazine explains how the CERT (Community Emergency Response Teams) program is training thousands of individuals around the county to be volunteer responders for natural disasters. …
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Joe McCarthy reports that Trumps’s attempt to prevent teens from suing the government over climate change, which will disproportionately impact youth and future generations, has been denied. •…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Over the last decade and a half there have been tremendous gains in global education enrollment. Nevertheless in 2014 the United Nations reported there that while more children than ever are going…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The Atlantic discusses the recent saga of an orca that lost a calf and the remarkable grieving process witnessed by scientists: This opened up a discussion…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Scientific American examines the rise of diseases transmitted by ticks and mosquitos each summer, and finds that climate change could be making things worse. • This…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Many of the most pressing global issues are connected at the source. Here, Health & Environmental Funders Network discusses the connections between health and environment solutions and explains…