Business Roundtable.org
"Did business leaders who signed the 2019 pledge rise to meet their promise of stakeholder governance? Did they step up during these crises to take care of their workers’ jobs and health and answer their communities’ calls for equity? According to a new study: not really." … more »
Austin Catlin.BLM
"People are responsible for starting almost all the wildfires in developed areas that threaten U.S. homes. In a newly published study, we show that through activities like debris burning, equipment use and arson, people ignited 97% of home-threatening wildfires in the wildland-urban interface between 1992 and 2015. " … more »
US Today
"Both men have refused merely to entertain the masses and bank the proceeds. And that scares a lot of people in the establishment." … more »
EPA/MONIRUL ALAM
"Both the climate crisis and the pandemic are complex problems with many ramifications. They will either be solved collectively, or not at all. " … more »
Southern Bancorp
"Growing inequality was leaving a huge chunk of the population behind, primarily those from Black and other minority communities. The pandemic finally made the scale of the crisis clear, with families lining up in cars at food banks within weeks of the first shelter-in-place orders." … more »
Anne Helen Petersen
"The writer Anne Helen Petersen’s new book is primarily about “burnout,” a condition endemic to the Millennial generation that she describes as a persistent “sensation of dull exhaustion” and “the feeling that you’ve optimized yourself into a work robot.” … more »
USGS
" For years, Americans have avoided confronting these changes in their own backyards. The decisions we make about where to live are distorted not just by politics that play down climate risks, but also by expensive subsidies and incentives aimed at defying nature." … more »
FEMA/Michael Raphael
One of the things the Covid pandemic has exposed is the complete incompetence and dysfunction of state agencies: the EDD and the DMV being two of the more egregious examples, but hardly the only ones. Though their staffs are well paid and have generous pension benefits, they have ignored their charge to serve the public for decades. … more »
The Guardian
"Covid-19 continues to kill close to 1,000 Americans a day. But for those who develop dangerous cases of the infection, advances in medical care and the growing experience of doctors are improving the chances of survival." … more »
Literary Hub
"A new book retells the artist’s fairy tale—rising out of deprivation to storm the spires of rock and roll—by considering his influence on the U.K." … more »
