This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought up tons of data questions — what information should we be collecting, what can it tell us (and what does it fail to tell us)…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Diversity, equity, and inclusion are three words perpetually bound together in our modern lexicon to convey the ideal components of a fair and just society. In theory, they provide a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Urban and commercial planning, office market, transportation and many other areas in the last decade revolve around the principle of cooperatives. Shared workspaces, shared scooters and bikes, and shared vehicles…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Urban Alliance, launched in 1996, is building a diverse next-generation workforce by providing job skills training, mentoring, and paid internships to high school youth from under-resourced communities, predominantly youth of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Ecdysis Foundation is launching a study that aims to investigate regenerative agriculture across the United States. The 1000 Farms Initiative is one of the largest projects to date that will gather data on…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Tucked next to the 105 Freeway, just east of the Los Angeles International Airport, is the Lennox Community Garden. Once an agricultural hamlet, Lennox is now a densely built neighborhood cornered by…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Part two in a multi-part series. Read parts one, three, and four. It’s time to rethink how we create economic prosperity in our neighborhoods. In cities across the U.S., rapid development often…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Droughts occurring at the same time across different regions of the planet could place an unprecedented strain on the global agricultural system and threaten the water security of millions of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Severe heat kills more people in the United States than any other hazardous weather-related event. As climate change accelerates, the sweltering heat will become much more extreme, and the associated mortality rate will…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The last few years have seen significant victories for the guaranteed income movement — the push to simply give people cash with no strings attached. Pilot programs in places ranging…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. How many formerly incarcerated people are jobless at the moment? A good guess would be 60%, to generalize from a new report released by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). The report…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected Native American, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian homeowners. According to the US Census Bureau, there are 2.1 million Native households in the United States. Of these,…