💻️ On the web

• 📚️ The Best Kinds of Stories: Sharks, Barbie, Tom Hanks, and Jackie Robinson

• 📝 The Next Big Test: This will (always) be on the test

• ⭐️Did You Hear The One About The Starfish?: Why I missed dinner last night

• ⛑️ How To Help Libya and Morocco: Verified Action Steps you can take right now

• 🪖 The Long Defeat: And how we defeat it, dammit

• 🥵 The Coolest Year of The Rest of Your Life: Unless we have something to say about it

🎧️ On the mic

• 🧬 What Can You Do With Just 493 Genes? with evolutionary biologists Roy Moger-Reischer and Brandon C. Ogbunu

• 🫄 How To Access Better Maternal Mental Health Care with Simmone Taitt from Poppy Seed Health

• 🌊 Turning The Tide On Microplastics with Julia Yan from Baleena

Like to watch? All of our podcast conversations are available on YouTube.

📰 In the news

• 🆕 A new news newsletter (induction stoves, forever chemicals, and octopus hot tubs)

• 🌴 Save the rainforest, save the world (medical debt, green hydrogen, and A.I. speech therapy)

• 🤖 How can we use A.I. for good? (climate leaders, depression treatments, and creepy cars)

• 🦞 The lobsterman to seaweed farmer pipeline (climate denial, MDMA therapy, and underground bees)

• 👷 20,000 new climate jobs (influencer dieticians, climate lawsuits, and insect-scale robots)

• 🧡 Every Child Matters (government shutdown, feminist cancer treatments, and brainless jellyfish)

⭐️ Members only

Members received all of this exclusive bonus content:

• 🧠 Top of Mind:

  • Would you accept 1/3 greenwashing?

  • On co-benefits

  • There goes childcare

  • My latest LLM tool

  • Great new heat pump data

  • The American Climate Corps - finally

• Plus a couple of email-only Not Important essays (bi-weekly recommendations for books, articles, playlists, and more)

Want to get this stuff and support our work? Do it here.

👀 Other shit

• 👂️What you told us about yourselves, and about what you’d like to see more and less of in the newsletter

• 🤝 Donate or volunteer with Run For Something to support their 50 State School Board Strategy

That’s it!

Have a great rest of your week,

Willow