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In the context of market economies and the fragmented societies they often yield, well-being can seem like an individual pursuit. Yet as the articles in this series, “Centered Self: The…

The Plastic Solutions Fund is working to build a world in which only truly necessary and non-toxic plastics are produced, and even those are reused, repaired, or recycled. A sponsored project of…

Foundations must focus on inflation, transparency, shifting award requirements, and sustainability for charitable growth in 2023…

Before Russia invaded Ukraine, projections estimated global economic growth in 2022 would be around 5 percent. But the war in Ukraine contributed to slowed economic growth in 2022 and a slowed recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Collaboration across sectors has the power to transform philanthropy into a more valuable instrument for social welfare. This has never been more important than in the aftermath of Covid.The impact of Covid on education ……

A new algorithm calculates how to effectively repurpose existing drugs that could be used in future pandemic outbreaks.

Humans generate a lot of trash, but there are cheaper and safer ways to handle it than loading it on rockets.

Since the 1990s, it has become increasingly normal to take environmental (E), social (S), and governance (G) factors into account when considering investing decisions. Yet the roots of what we…

The  impact of the current COVID-19 pandemic on women and girls is disproportionate and devastating. The familiar patterns of gender inequality embedded in the world’s political, social and economic systems have only…

Researchers at the University of Cambridge announced Monday that they had developed the first-ever solar-powered system that could convert two types of waste into two different chemicals at the same time, in this case, carbon dioxide and plastics.

Throwing soup on a van Gogh. Blocking roads. Deflating SUV tires. Here’s why climate protests are getting so confrontational.

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