This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Food Tank explores permaculture — agriculture-based design science that incorporates a number of sustainability practices — and how it’s had an impact in communities around the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Nathan Hurst explains how research reveals the environmental consequences of individual garments throughout their lifecycle – revealing opportunities to reduce environmental impact. • How can this sort…
Giving Compass’ Take: • According to Global Citizen, more people around the world have a mobile phone than a toilet, but a new campaign from Harpic is hoping to change…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Mismanagement of water has led to water crises all around the world, but The Conversation explains that when citizens monitor their local water supplies, they are…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Angela Howe at the Surfrider Foundation explains that there has been movement on federal plastics legislation with the Save Our Seas Act being passed through Congress and…
Giving Compass’ Take: • This video from the Surfrider Foundations explains the potential impacts of the Trump Administration’s repeal of the existing National Ocean Policy to be replaced by a policy favoring business.…
Giving Compass’ Take: • A public health organization called Swasti, helped a village in Karnataka, India, to get access to clean water by building a water filtration system in the community and teaching…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. After decades of progress, the United Nations recently reported that global hunger and acute food insecurity are on the rise for the third year in a row. Hunger levels have returned…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Kate Wheeling and Jim Morris report that Californians are working to increase regulations on oil companies following a series of incidents that revealed inadequate regulation and oversight…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • This Food Tank article explains how aquaponics (raising aquatic animals along with plants in a symbiotic environment) allows small farmers in South Africa with disabilities to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • United States Forest Service scientists found that urban trees are on the decline, despite the high number of benefits trees have on reducing energy costs, improving human…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The world is still far off track to achieve Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6 – ensuring availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all. Consider some figures on…