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This honey is real—but it wasn’t made by beesMeliBio is building honey in the lab, not in the hive.
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800 Compton residents will get a guaranteed incomeA pilot program will give them checks for two years, to research the effects of UBI.
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Annie’s mac and cheese has always saved mealtime. Now it’s saving the planetHere’s how the General Mills subsidiary is going beyond organic and leading the packaged food industry toward regenerative agriculture.
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This new running shoe is made entirely from plantsMany shoes are starting to incorporate recycled plastic. But why use any fossil fuels at all when you can use all-natural ingredients?
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Inside Amazon’s quest to use less cardboardThe company is redesigning its packaging to use less material, and employing AI to find the smallest possible package for each box.
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UNICEF is stockpiling half a billion syringes to get ready for a COVID-19 vaccineDeveloping the vaccine is just the first part of the mission. Then a vast production and logistical challenge awaits. UNICEF is getting ready.
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How we could save $4 billion in building energy costs—without any renovationsAn experiment in giving buildings smart energy analytics campaign saved $95 million in energy costs in 6,500 buildings. If adopted nationwide, the savings could be enormous.
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The COVID-19 pandemic will fade, but the disease will be with us foreverPandemics can be controlled, but fully eliminating diseases is incredibly rare
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How to incorporate the Sustainable Development Goals into your businessFive years after the launch of the U.N.’s SDGs, progress is slowing—so it’s more important than ever that businesses work to align themselves with at least one of the 17 goals.
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This ultra-fast, low-cost COVID test could give accurate results in fewer than five minutesThe new rapid test from Oxford University could be rolled out by mid-2021.
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How the COVID-19 pandemic has changed how we give to charityA new Harris Poll performed exclusively for ‘Fast Company’ found that job losses are cutting some people’s ability to give—but even those without jobs are trying to contribute to hunger relief.
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It would cost just $330 billion to end global hunger by 2030Looking at every intervention available to us, researchers have found the best combination of policies to feed everyone on the planet. And the price tag is quite low.
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We need a new definition of corporate climate leadershipToday’s definition of corporate climate leadership centers on how companies can do less harm. It needs to be about creating a thriving future.
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If we want more companies like Patagonia, we need laws to enforce itIf we want to get past “woke capitalism,” this is what it’ll take to get companies to an equitable relationship with both workers and society.
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Where Trump and Biden stand on the future of policingJoe Biden says he won’t defund the police, but has a host of police reforms he supports. Trump wants ‘law and order,’ but with little specific policies attached (except for cutting funding to police).
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Got an old Billy bookcase you want to get rid of? Ikea will buy it back from youThe program will start running around the world next month—but not in the U.S.
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Trump says he wants to plant a trillion trees, but mostly is focused on cutting them downThe administration’s new executive order on tree planting seems toothless. Its logging expansions are very real.
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This map tells you if you live in a ’15-minute city’Find out if you can meet all your needs within a 15-minute walk from your house.
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Inside Nextdoor’s wild 2020, from essential service to a reckoning on racismThe social network for local communities bet on kindness to power it to an IPO. If only the locals don’t ruin it.
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Small-business owners say national paid sick leave wouldn’t hurt their bottom lineThis new survey helps debunk the notion that small businesses are against paid medical and family leave.
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