Rockefeller Foundation Helping Cities with Novel Financing for Climate Issues
Release Date:
08/16/2017
... Cities with Novel Financing for Climate Issues As climate change pushes U.S. cities to build protections against ...
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Rockefeller’s ‘Resilient Cities’ Noted in Article on Climate and Cities
Release Date:
08/17/2017
... to redevelop or build new structures to withstand climate change also open the door for real estate speculation that ...
Carnegie Grant Helps Princeton Team to Use Virtual Reality to Help With Real-World Arms Control
Release Date:
08/28/2017
... international affairs, and New York City-based Games for Change were awarded a $414,000 grant last month from the ...
Sales and Social Enterprise Aren’t Mutually Exclusive
Release Date:
08/24/2017
To market to the base of pyramid, we need to stop thinking of selling as a dark art.
Twin Megastorms Have Scientists Fearing This May Be The New Normal
Release Date:
09/07/2017
... events become more intense as a result of manmade climate change . . . Twin Megastorms Have Scientists Fearing This May ...
From the Ground Up
Release Date:
09/08/2017
... been mostly semantic. In practice, there’s been little change in most outcomes and realities on the ground. ... From ...
Standing Up For Housing Equality
Release Date:
09/13/2017
... members and supporters of the New York Communities for Change (NYCC) were on their third and final day of their own ...
Playing Chicken with Maryn McKenna
Release Date:
09/14/2017
The author and journalist’s new book explains how antibiotics overuse helped chicken ascend from a local delicacy to an everyday protein, with serious health consequences as a result.
Report Finds U.S. Racial Wealth Gap Still Growing at an Alarming Pace
Release Date:
09/15/2017
... will grow ever wider in the years to come, absent policy change . The two institutes’ joint report bears the ominous ...
Amid Opioid Crisis, Insurers Restrict Pricey, Less Addictive Painkillers
Release Date:
09/18/2017
Drug companies and doctors have been accused of fueling the opioid crisis, but some question whether insurers have played a role, too.
Study: Giving Leads to Happiness
Release Date:
09/18/2017
The adage says it’s better to give than to receive. Recently, a neurological study published in Nature Communications found there may be some biological truth to the maxim after all.
The Future Of New York City Transit in Every Borough
Release Date:
09/19/2017
... five boroughs. This can lead to brilliant innovations that change the city as we know it—the subway may be a broken ...
The World's Soaring CO2 Levels Visualized as Skyscrapers
Release Date:
09/22/2017
... twist to the history and possible dark future of climate change . If you want an unusual but punchy telling of the ...
Senators Revise Health Bill in Last-Ditch Effort to Win Votes
Release Date:
09/25/2017
... “high-spending low-density state,” a last-minute change seemingly aimed at Alaska and its holdout Republican ...
Open Society Research Looks at New Technology Predicting Recidivism Without Being Racist
Release Date:
09/25/2017
A tool to help predict whether someone who’s been arrested will reoffend does not factor in race. But it could consider convictions.
More Healthful Kids Meals? Panera CEO Dishes Out A Challenge
Release Date:
09/27/2017
Chicken nuggets. French fries. Pizza. Repeat. This repertoire of kids menu items may seem familiar to many families, but one fast-casual chain aims to put a lot more options in front of its young customers.
Many Students Around the World Can’t Read or Add, World Bank Says
Release Date:
09/27/2017
... many leave without the skills for calculating the correct change from a transaction, reading a doctor’s instructions, ...
Giving Could Plunge $13 Billion Under Tax Plan, Nonprofit Leader Says
Release Date:
09/28/2017
... fewer taxpayers would itemize their tax returns. That change could reduce the value of the charitable deduction as ...
Heads-Up, CEOs—Corporate Social Responsibility May Get You Fired, Study Finds
Release Date:
10/10/2017
Investing in product safety, employee diversity and carbon footprint reduction are all examples of corporate social responsibility (CSR) that can result in high praise for a chief executive—or get them fired—according to new research from the...
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Funds First-Ever Center for Empathy and the Visual Arts
Release Date:
12/15/2017
... to build empathy in order to affect positive social change . MIA will launch the first-ever Center for Empathy ...