The Future of Science Innovation

Welcome to the week.

Last week was a tough one.

State and community-level engagement and organizing are more important than ever. We have Lyndsey Gilpin on the pod this week to talk about her essential work as Grist’s community engagement manager, finding new and creative ways to get communities the information they need. Listen now!

This week’s news:

• 🌍️State-level climate action

• 💊Amazon’s health business

• 🚰Groundwater experiments

• 🗳️ Voter doxxing

• And more

Stay safe out there,

— Willow

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Last week, we asked: Based on your interest in climate change, we'd like to understand which related areas you're most interested in learning about. Which of these topics would you most like to hear more about?

You said:

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Public health (24%)

“Heat domes and extreme drought and flooding and their effects on farming and the risk of landslides.”

🟨🟨🟨🟨⬜️⬜️ Food (16%)

“How is climate change affecting global production, and how are those in third world countries faring in regards to food security, child nutrition and incidence of death due to starvation?”

🟨🟨🟨🟨⬜️⬜️ Water (16%)

“Since most tap water in the US is not drinkable, I'd love to hear about ways that the sciences are developing to make clean water available, laws forcing industry to clean up, and home filtration systems that make it foolish to buy bottled water (and thus stop much plastic pollution).”

🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ Biotech (8%)

🟨🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ Tech (10%)

🟨🟨🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️ Medicine (11%)

🟨🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ AI (10%)

🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ Other (send us your ideas!) (5%)

“Housing related to climate change ... for example: should you rebuild after a storm decimates your home and/or neighborhood? If you move, what happens to what you owned (land, buildings, etc), and who pays for that loss and how. Related - how is insurance handling this issue and claims?”

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