🌎📰 Climate Economics: The Math Isn't Mathing

Welcome to the week.

And thank you to everyone who participated in our podcast giveaway. Winners will be contacted later today!

This week:

• 🌊 Offshore wind setbacks

• 🧑‍🍼 Increasing mother & baby mortality rates

• 🍎 Climate resilient apples

• 📝 The A.I. Executive Order

• And more

Have a great week,

— Willow

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⚡️ Climate change:

• The economic models underlying climate mitigation proposals don’t consider the extreme risk or uncertainty of climate change

• As Danish company, Orsted, pulls the plug on two offshore wind projects in New Jersey, Biden has approved the largest offshore wind farm in the US off the coast of Virginia

• The Israel-Hamas War complicates climate action

• NASA’s new solid-state battery could be a new frontier for air travel

• Here’s the current status of a direct air capture facility, 2 years in

🦠 Health & Bio:

• Maternal and infant mortality rates are increasing, signaling the dire need to invest in maternal health

• Gene therapy can restore hearing in children, and China wants to lead the race

• A possible key to preventing dementia? Improving deep sleep

• Distributed solar is keeping Kenya’s hospitals open during its longest nationwide power blackout

• The viruses that might catalyze the next pandemic

💦 Food & Water:

• The heat-resistant apples of the future

• The Farm Bill is essential to helping companies form sustainable supply chains

• Tribal nations are working with Feeding America to build food sovereignty

• The EU is slashing pesticide use by 50% by 2030

• El Niño puts global food security at risk

👩‍💻 Beep Boop:

• Biden’s A.I. Executive Order appears to be good news for A.I. openness, but it’s complicated

• Why isn’t Congress doing more to protect kids online?

• The U.K. A.I. Summit warns of catastrophic consequences for humanity

• New evidence that YouTube “rabbit holes” driving polarization may be less prevalent than originally thought

• The National Weather Service is experimenting with A.I., and it could save lives

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Last week’s most popular Action Step was learning what products are free from forever chemicals using this list from PFAS Central.

• Donate to Girls Who Code to help close the gender gap in computer science.

• Volunteer for research studies and clinical trials to advance Alzheimer’s research to find better treatments and a cure.

• Get educated about electric bike rebate and tax rebates in your area with this worldwide list from Ride Review.

• Be heard about climate policy at your company with resources from ClimateVoice.

• Invest and bank with ATMOS to allocate more capital to climate solutions.

What is immunotherapy?

A relatively new field with limited research, immunotherapy is a promising treatment for cancer that has way less terrible side effects than chemotherapy.

But it only works for a small number of patients, and there’s still a lot to learn. Understand the basics with our immunotherapy explainer 👇️ 

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