Young Americans may not want to have children for personal reasons, but if their decision to go childless is driven by fears of climate change, society and our leaders should urge them to strongly reconsider.
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Actor Matt Damon Scales Up Clean Water Venture With $200 Million Climate Infrastructure Plan
"To date, WaterEquity and Water.org have reached 58 million people through its small loan programs, which are paid back at a rate of 98%, according to the founders. White said they are targeting returns of 6-8% on the $150 million they raised in an oversubscribed fund last year, and then 10-12% for this latest infrastructure fund. The main populations they serve are India, Indonesia, Cambodia, the Philippines and Kenya, where the WaterEquity founders say women are disproportionately impacted by issues of clean water scarcity."
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Bobcat Company Funds Parks Through New Partnership
America’s parks are a wonderful thing. Thanks to Bobcat’s generosity, five communities across the country will get to enjoy the outdoors even more.
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Sponsor an ocean? Tiny island nation of Niue has a novel plan to protect its slice of the Pacific
"Niue will buy 1,700 sponsorship units, representing one for each of its citizens. Other launch donors include philanthropist Lyna Lam and her husband Chris Larsen, who co-founded blockchain company Ripple, and U.S.-based nonprofit Conservation International, which helped set up some technical aspects of the scheme."
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Labeling innovation as ‘greenwashing’ diminishes the climate fight
"The truth is that environmental groups and energy firms today are natural allies in the fight against climate change. That’s why it’s so important for both to continue working together for constructive progress and realistic solutions. No matter what the incentives may be for a few bad eggs, now is simply not the moment to waste valuable time advancing the fiction that energy producers aren’t actively fighting climate change when the record shows they are."
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Football’s Sustainable Powerhouses Recognized by Play to Zero
Kickoff might be around the corner, but cheering for more sustainable football is something that all fans should root for.
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Volunteers head off plastic waste crisis by removing tons of rubbish from Hungarian river
"The volunteers, who camp in a new spot each night as they make their way downriver, collect an average of 70 tons (around 154,000 pounds) of waste from the Tisza each year. The group estimates it has removed nearly 4 million plastic bottles from Hungarian waterways, and all recyclable materials — around 60% of what they collect — is sent to recycling facilities for processing, while the rest is transported to landfills."
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Oppenheimer’s Case for Nuclear Energy
The next best thing to undo the mistakes of history is to stop repeating them. Perhaps films like Oppenheimer can inspire more policymakers to put themselves on the right side of history.
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Don’t Give Up on America
Chris Barnard and Kai Weiss write in National Affairs about the exceptionalism of America. “The American economic model of limited government, private initiative, and free enterprise unleashed and helped sustain the dynamism and proactivity of its people. Even today, with rising economic competition across the globe, 45% of start-ups and 50% of unicorns (start-ups valued...