This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As public libraries across the nation begin handing out Covid-19 testing kits and N95 masks, librarians have become the latest frontline workers. Melanie Huggins, president of the Public Library Association,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. LISC is committed to furthering racial equity through our Project 10x initiative. Project 10x is laser focused on using LISC’s resources to upend the racial health, wealth, and opportunity gaps that…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Zero Waste Campaign by One Step Closer (OSC) is working to inspire companies and consumers to reduce and eliminate single use plastics from products, packaging, and personal lives. The campaign features an action…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When she was arrested on drug charges in 2017, Ciera Saxby-Smith told herself she’d do anything to go home to her two kids. A few days after she got to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon hit an historic high for January with rates nearly five times higher than they were in January 2021. The news is a continuation of a troubling, decade-long…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. If it was not clear before COVID-19, it is obvious now that achieving the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals and the World Health Organization’s Triple Billion Goals will be impossible without universal health…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The study, published in Nature Sustainability, highlights the global inequality in emissions between people in rich and poor countries. For example, it finds that the average carbon footprint of a person…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Just over one year ago, a coup threw Myanmar into further chaos and violence, as the world watched. The military unleashed violence through excessive use of force, including indiscriminate killing,…
It’s been twenty-six years since the International Conference on Population and Development affirmed women’s reproductive health as an essential human right. In this episode of A Deeper Look, I sit down with…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Long before the COVID-19 pandemic made supply chain snags a topic of dinner table conversation, the U.S. was already struggling with broken production systems in a key industry: housing. The…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The atmosphere has changed in Beijing since the Chinese capital’s last Olympics in 2008. While the Summer Games 14 years ago were meant to be a forward-looking celebration of China taking its…
Extreme heat is already the deadliest climate and weather-related hazard in the United States and cities are getting hotter because of climate change and the urban heat island effect. Communities…