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    Why the U.S. Should Invest in a High-speed Rail System

    GreenBiz Aug 29, 2021

    In the $1 trillion infrastructure bill passed by the U.S. Senate, just $66 billion was proposed for rail infrastructure over eight years and $39 billion for public transit over eight…

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    What is the Difference Between B Corps and Benefit Corporations?

    B the Change

    According to the nonprofit B Lab, the benefit corporation is “a new legal tool to create long-term mission alignment and value creation,” which is then protected during “capital raises and…

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    Restoring Fish Passages to Save Salmon in Washington

    The Counter Aug 28, 2021

    The first thing you see when you enter Camp Colman, is The Lagoon. Speckled with docks and nestled in the woods just south of Joemma Beach State Park, it’s an integral part…

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    Conservation Plan Threatens Indigenous Food Security

    Food Tank Aug 28, 2021

    In October 2021, the High Ambition Coalition (HAC) plans to push for the formal adoption of the 30 x 30 agenda to preserve 30 percent of the Earth’s land and sea by…

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    Will PG&E’s Plan to Bury Power Lines Prevent California Wildfires?

    Grist Aug 28, 2021

    On July 18, California’s Pacific Gas & Electric revealed that its electrical equipment might have sparked the Dixie Fire, a blaze that has since become the second-largest in the state’s…

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    Investigating the Kentucky State Police’s Fatal Shootings

    The Marshall Project Aug 28, 2021

    Just before sunset on Oct. 22, 2015, 53-year-old Stephen Brock was walking up and down the narrow gravel road near his trailer home, yelling, cursing and praying. Neighbors later told…

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    The Importance of Solidarity Investing in Cooperatives

    Sharable Aug 27, 2021

    Earlier this year, the Vermont Solidarity Investing Club hosted its fifth annual meeting to take stock of its assets, including investments in a Vermont-based grocer, a pickling company in Massachusetts, and a…

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    The Path to High-Quality Professional Learning

    Getting Smart Aug 27, 2021

    As instructional leaders craft professional development in any format, it is important to assess the flow and structure of what you are creating. Like all endeavors, practice fuels improvement. Just as…

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    Leadership That Pivots to Meet the Moment is Necessary in a Crisis

    Forbes Aug 27, 2021

    In February of 2021, I wrote about why we need to move from a state of fear to being fearless as we navigate through the Covid-19 pandemic and into a new reality.…

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    Farmers in Rural Illinois Want Renewables, Not a New Gas Pipeline

    Grist Aug 27, 2021

    Pembroke Township, population less than 2,000, is the last historic Black farming community left in Illinois. And at one time, it was the largest such community in the northern United States. Founded in the…

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    How MacKenzie Scott’s Gifts to Leaders of Color Fuel Transformation

    Chronicle of Philanthropy Aug 27, 2021

    This op-ed by Bianca Casanova Anderson was previously published on July 16, 2021 in the Chronicle of Philanthropy. Reprinted with permission. As a Black woman who serves as co-executive director of…

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    These Energy Storage Technologies Can Help Solve the Challenge of Moving to Renewable Electricity

    The Conversation Aug 27, 2021

    In recent decades the cost of wind and solar power generation has dropped dramatically. This is one reason that the U.S. Department of Energy projects that renewable energy will be…

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