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Conservation

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    Changing Our Meat Consumption Habits For Our Planet

    Fast Company

    Giving Compass’ Take: • The Reducetarian Solution is an anthology that discusses how you can eat less meat through gradual cutbacks rather than force yourself to give it up completely…

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    Recycling Rates Improve When People Know What Items Will Become

    TreeHugger Oct 10, 2019

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Katherine Martinko at TreeHugger reports on researchers conducting experiments to see if getting people to think about the products made out of recycled material could motivate them…

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    Gender Equity as A Business Imperative for Sustainability

    Stanford Social Innovation Review Oct 7, 2019

    Giving Compass’ Take: • For corporate social responsibility programs, businesses need to understand the importance of gender equity and women’s empowerment as part of sustainability issues. • What companies are…

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    The Future of Fentanyl [Video]

    RAND Corporation Oct 7, 2019

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Bryce Pardo and Beau Kilmer discuss the future of fentanyl in the U.S. and what can be done to minimize deaths.  • How can funders partner with organizations…

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    Bringing Diversity to Nature Photography

    Grist Oct 3, 2019

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Kate Yoder explains that Dudley Edmondson is working to increase representation in nature photography, where he felt unwelcome as a black man.  • How can funders help to…

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    Caring About Conservation: A Family Philanthropy Tradition

    Audubon

    Giving Compass’ Take: • The George and Audrey Rasmussen Family Foundation’s grantmaking focuses on conservation and combatting global warming.  • What can individual donors learn from the habits of family philanthropists? …

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    How Will We Turn the Tide for Texas’ Water?

    The Mitchell Foundation Sep 26, 2019

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Laura Huffman at The Mitchell Foundation discusses four ways and solutions to the problems that Texas is facing with their water.  • What are the drinking water infrastructure…

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    How to Be a Conservationist

    National Geographic

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Photographer and ecologist Jen Guyton passes along some key advice for those aspiring to dedicate themselves to conserving biodiversity. • The main takeaway: You don’t have…

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    Saving Rainforests with Indigenous Rights-Based Conservation

    Skoll Foundation Sep 14, 2019

    Giving Compass’ Take: · Writing for the Skoll Foundation, Suzanne Pelletier, Executive Director of the Rainforest Foundation US, discusses her work and the role indigenous rights play in the fight against climate change. · How is…

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    Five Ways You Can Reduce Food Waste

    Food Tank

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Danielle Nierenberg shares five strategies for preventing food waste in American households.  • How can funders raise awareness and spur action around food waste?  • Read about other ways…

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    Researchers Uncover Just How Damaging Fires and Logging are to Forest Soil

    Pacific Standard Sep 2, 2019

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Pacific Standard writes on new research that shows the detrimental effects logging and fires cause to forest soil and the impact on our forests eco-system.  • What…

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    Why the Free Market Can’t Fix Overfishing

    The Atlantic Aug 21, 2019

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Rebecca M. Bratspies at The Atlantic argues that catch-shares fishing, the latest solution to the world’s overfishing crisis, is not ultimately as sustainable as it’s cracked up…

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