This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Brooklyn-based chef and artist Jen Monroe is addressing food sustainability through art. Combining innovative cuisine and visual displays, Monroe’s project Bad Taste explores the impact of consumption on modern culture and climate…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Maggie Anderson teaches sixth grade at Greenfield School. Her principal, Paul Wilson, thinks she does a great job and is happy to have her. But until recently Anderson, a Vermont…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. While the bipartisan infrastructure package is likely to include benefits for rural areas, such as funds to improve roads, bridges, and waterways, so far it does not include support for…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Manipulating RNA allows plants to yield dramatically more crops and increases drought tolerance, researchers report. In initial tests, adding a gene encoding for a protein called FTO to both rice…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Green recovery – a COVID era buzz-phrase – has achieved instant stardom. It creeps into every discourse on the economy and the post-COVID state of the world. Although its definition…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. “Small business” is an unhelpfully broad segment. This brief focuses on small businesses with fewer than 100 employees, with the acknowledgement that smaller businesses have experienced particular challenges during the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Debates about how much the federal government should influence local-level infrastructure are not new, and as the negotiations over the American Jobs Plan have shown, these debates are often contentious. These…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. During the pandemic, homebound Americans more than doubled their food delivery orders, largely through third-party apps like Seamless and UberEats. COVID-19 lockdowns may have hastened the apps’ growth, but economists have tracked a dramatic…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Since 1970, the number of US workers roughly doubled, increasing from 77 million to more than 150 million. But over the same period, the number of transit commuters increased by…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In recent weeks, catastrophic floods overwhelmed towns in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands, inundated subway tunnels in China, swept through northwestern Africa and triggered deadly landslides in India and Japan.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Efforts to push low-carbon lifestyles and green energy to curb climate change will fail unless many people see benefits — and the poorest and most vulnerable should get the biggest gains,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Interest is growing in the potential of fintech to address pressing societal challenges, including access to health care. Fintech brings together finance and digital technologies and is a fast-growing sector. It…