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Impact Fast Company Human rights experts condemn U.K. plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda IRS tax deadline 2022: extensions, stimulus credits, and other last-minute questions answered 169-year-old Steinway & Sons piano maker tunes up for an IPO These are the most popular Easter candy brands on Amazon this year Elon Musk paints his hostile Twitter takeover as a bid to save democracy These are the winner-take-all startups poised to dominate their markets Ukraine’s railway workers offer leadership lessons from the front lines Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter in $43 billion hostile takeover bid Texas-based Excelerate Energy defies IPO dry spell with an impressive NYSE debut People are excited about NFTs, but still don’t know what to do with them, UTA survey finds Why Coinbase is making a crowdsourced film trilogy with Bored Ape Yacht Club Why is there a baby formula shortage? Your questions answered Robinhood just added Shiba Inu, Solana, Polygon, and Compound crypto tokens Swingers crazy golf is coming to New York City Shopify stock split: When, how much, and what to know about the new ‘Founder share’ UNESCO project aims to digitally preserve Ukraine landmarks facing damage by war If the metaverse is the future of social media, teens aren’t convinced The IRS could owe you an old refund, but you have less than a week to claim it How bad reviews can work in your favor, according to science Warner Bros. Discovery begins trading: WBD stock price, ticker, and more Here’s what a nuclear war would do to the planet, according to scientists Want your company to offer a green 401(k) option? This startup can help Athletes Unlimited is the first public benefit pro sports league. What does that mean for the players? Apple invested in this solar farm to help clean up your power use at home 68% of U.S. execs admit their companies are guilty of greenwashing All Impact Stories This startup fights climate change by growing algae in the desert Bill Gates wants to create a global pandemic first response team Code for America will help states redesign their public benefits systems How residents of a slum in India redesigned their neighborhood Meet a climate scientist who just risked arrest to save the planet How ‘choice architecture’ can help fight climate change Tomorrow’s COVID safety guidelines will be different from today’s—but that doesn’t mean yesterday’s were wrong Revolutionary changes in transportation could slow global warming—if they’re done right, IPCC says This prefab ‘second skin’ makes outdated apartment buildings net zero 3D-printed tortoise shells could help save this threatened species This company’s conference room is now a classroom for Ukrainian refugees Some companies make us less healthy. This list ranks them best to worst This startup designed an electric cargo ship to cross the ocean This company is cutting single-use plastics from cleaning products We need to redesign cities to tackle climate change, IPCC says Nike’s new VP of digital design hails from Twitter and Netflix This giant balloon will take you to the edge of space—for just $50,000 How to avert a branding identity crisis Four years after SESTA/FOSTA, a new bill investigates its harm 3 ways to determine if you’re ready to be a manager Resting while stigmatized: 7 ways to ensure marginalized workers get time to recharge Homepage Co.Design Work Life Podcasts Recommender Innovation Festival 360 Subscribe Boston Scientific Deloitte Elevate Prize Genpact Klarna Logitech Square Verizon AWS FastCo Works Fast Government Most Innovative Companies Most Creative People World Changing Ideas Innovation By Design The Future of Hybrid Cloud Most Innovative Companies Summit The big ideas that are changing the world ‘Migrant offshoring’ has been attempted elsewhere, including by Australia, proving cruel and inhumane. Regardless, the model is picking up steam. Only 4.7% of 401(k) plans offer the choice of an environmental, social, and governance fund, according to the Plan Sponsor Council of America. Athletes receive childcare benefits, donate to nonprofits of their choosing, and serve on executive committees to make sporting decisions on behalf of their fellow players. Apple is one of the first companies to begin supporting renewable energy to cover what happens in customers’ homes. And two-thirds of executives globally questioned whether their company’s sustainability efforts were genuine. Per unit area, the company claims to capture as much carbon as a rainforest can. At the 2022 TED conference, Gates urged global leaders to create a team of pandemic first responders who would help identify and track emerging viruses. It used to take an hour to apply for public benefits in Minnesota. After Code for America redesigned its platform, that dropped to 13 minutes. The neighborhood, called Sanjaynagar, has been in place for more than 40 years. Living conditions are often dire. NASA climate scientist Peter Kalmus was arrested for chaining himself to a Chase Bank in Los Angeles. He thinks more people need to engage in climate disobedience, too. Technology and policy change aren’t enough to stop climate change—individual choices matter too. Behavioral design can help. Policy changes aren’t a sign of mistakes. Rather, they show that for the most part, policymakers are getting things right over and over again. Transportation accounted for 23% of energy-related carbon dioxide emissions worldwide in 2019. One of the great challenges of transitioning to a net-zero world: a supply of outdated, inefficient buildings, which are a major source of global climate emissions. Biologists are using 3D-printed, fake tortoises to learn more about raven attacks and discourage the predators from feasting on desert tortoises. “We had all those mothers sitting in someone’s guest room, alone with their children and their thoughts and worries.” The Building H Index evaluates 37 companies in four industries that are closely linked to consumer’s daily health decisions. Until recently, most experts would have argued that battery-electric ships weren’t feasible for traveling across oceans. Cleaning products are comprised of more than 90% water. So why are we buying new plastic hand soaps and cleaning sprays every time? Municipal leaders need to quickly enact a whole scale of changes, from retrofitting buildings to handling urban waste differently.
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