Today's Cool is Yesterday's Scorching

Welcome to the week.

And Godspeed to everyone struggling through Daylight Savings today.

Quick note before we get to the news: This week we launched a new project called Unfinished, where we will be platforming the stories of public servants, scientists and humanitarian workers who’s work has been cut short by the current US administration.

If this is you (or someone you know!), and you’d like to share a 500-800 word essay about your unfinished work, please submit a ready to publish version here. We can’t publish every submission, but we’ll share as many as we can.

Ok, let’s go.

This week:

• 🌍️ Climate action without US dollars

• 😷 Outbreak updates

• 🐮 Cow’s milk makes a comeback

• 🔮 DeepSeek fortune tellers

• And more

Have a great week,

— Willow

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🙋‍♀️ Vote!

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 (32%)

“This topic to my mind holds all the others on the list that concern me most under one umbrella: food, water, biotech, medicine -- even tech and AI can be related to public health. What is our social contract with each other? I believe in and strive for a humane, ecologically sound, wholistic sense of social care which yields public health when married with climate justice.”

🟨🟨🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️ Food (18%)

“If we can't grow crops - If the environment shifts to a hotter and dryer climate - If Storms continue to increase in intensity and become more destructive - And we haven't got any food - Well... It's a Hell of a deal!! ”

🟨🟨🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️ Water (18%)

“The stuff of life.”

 🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ Biotech (10%)

 🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ Tech (5%)

“I'd love to know more about new technologies, things that are working well, where the next ideas, innovations, and solutions are gaining traction”

 🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ Medicine (7%)

🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ AI (6%)

⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ Other (send us your ideas!) (4%)

“This may or may not fall under other categories, but air quality is a huge climate issue, especially with increased ozone on the ground in the summer and wildfire smoke. As someone with asthma, this is what scares me the most!”

New Shit Giver Kim is here because “I’m looking to make a career change – I work in communications and I really want to make a move somewhere (agency, in-house, non-profit, whatever it might be) where my role is ESG focused, my ultimate dream being doing comms work for maybe a tech company make waves in climate change advancements.“

Love to see it! Check out the What Can I Do app for resources on transitioning your career into meaningful, climate-focused work.

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