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  • A Beginner’s Guide to Impact Investing

    Stanford Social Innovation Review Oct 6, 2023

    What’s the best way for small individual investors to generate returns and deliver impact?(Spoiler: It’s probably not an ESG fund.)…

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  • The Disproportionate Impact of Child Care Closures on Latinas

    The 19th Oct 6, 2023

    Latinas are more likely to be child care providers and to have children in the home who need care. The end of federal funds could hit them hard.

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  • How Climate Change Makes Storms Wetter and More Damaging

    EcoWatch Oct 5, 2023

    The storm that brought a deluge of rainfall to New Jersey and New York on Sept. 29 was made 10 to 20% wetter due to climate change.

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  • The Green Revolution is a Warning, Not a Blueprint

    The Conversation Oct 5, 2023

    Did the Green Revolution, which brought high-tech agriculture to developing nations in the 1960s, prevent famine? Recent research takes a much more skeptical view.

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  • Sugary Drink Cravings Vary Based on Where You Live, Study Finds

    Futurity Oct 4, 2023

    The consumption of sugary drinks worldwide increased at least 16% since 1990, but regional intake widely varied, researchers report.

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  • Push to Increase Breastfeeding Hurt Women’s Careers

    Futurity Oct 4, 2023

    “…the US has really focused on pushing breastfeeding as a goal, but we have done that without thinking through all of the relative costs…”…

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  • How to Make the Hiring Process More Accessible

    Mashable Oct 4, 2023

    From institutionalized discrimination to pandemic lay-offs, people with disabilities have struggled to retain stable employment. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the employment rate of Americans with disabilities was 17.9 percent by the…

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  • Women Scientists Are Fighting For Safer Spaces in Fieldwork

    The19th Oct 3, 2023

    In recent years, women in the geosciences have developed new trainings, like the FieldSafe program, to make the work more inclusive and equip researchers with strategies to intervene.

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  • Impact Investment Models in Small Agriculture

    Stanford Social Innovation Review Oct 3, 2023

    How an innovative stakeholder-shareholder investment model is helping smallholder farmers grow and thrive.

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  • How Communities Are Helping Each Other After Maui Wildfires

    YES! Magazine Oct 2, 2023

    The people of Lāhainā are centering local voices to design a future that is more sustainable for the land and its people.

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  • Will Having So Many Disasters Happening at the Same Time Affect Donations?

    The Conversation Oct 1, 2023

    The scramble to assist the thousands of refugees who fled Afghanistan is on as the humanitarian crisis in that country grows more dire. Haiti’s recovery from an earthquake on Aug.…

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  • The Impact of a Remote Workforce on Sexual Harassment in the Workplace

    The19th Oct 1, 2023

    In-person employees are more than twice as likely to experience sexual harassment at work compared to remote employees, a new 19th News/SurveyMonkey poll shows.

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