In 1985, I decided to move from New York to California without knowing anyone in the state. I was caught up in the hype of what I saw on TV.…
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A few weeks ago, while visiting friends in San Francisco, I stopped by the Linda Brooks-Burton Branch Library in the city’s Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood. Rather than checking out books,…
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It was the face that launched a thousand plastic straw bans. The video begins with a close up of the turtle’s head, its dark green, pebbled skin out of place against the…
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In northern Nevada, east of Reno, a mountainous desert unfolds like a pop-up book. Wild horses on hillsides stand still as toys. Green-grey sagebrush paints the sandy land, which is…
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It might be time to throw your preconceptions about recycling in the garbage. A decades-long effort to educate people about recycling has mostly backfired, according to new research. The study,…
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New research digs into why the paths of meandering rivers change over time and how climate change could affect them. The researchers first looked at the Mississippi River before adding…
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Spanning 12,500 hectares, the East Kolkata Wetlands in India serves multiple purposes, from fish farming, agriculture, and rice cultivation to functioning as the world’s largest wastewater-fed aquaculture system. By employing 60,000 farmers,…
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A little over a year ago, the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust and its allies began a new campaign to let more Bay Area foundations know about a little-known way of…
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In this report we present strategies to help increase workforce participation of working-age women in urban India.
Read the full article at: www.fsg.org
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In this blog, Eric Arellano explains why they are allocating 40% of their donations to ending animal agriculture as a promising and still neglected strategy to mitigate the climate emergency.
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Over the last two decades, state regulators have allowed companies to release more than a billion pounds of excess pollution.
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The changes would allow a broader swath of companies, including many startups, to participate in renewable energy development.