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Welcome to the week.

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This Week

• Reasons for climate hope

• 1 billion medical images

• Legumes ftw

• AI in film

Have a great week,

— Willow

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Last week, we asked: What's the biggest barrier preventing you from taking more action on the issues you care the most about (climate, AI, healthcare, etc.) in your daily life?

You said:

🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨⬜️ Cost/affordability (22%)

“After cost, it's how technical a lot of projects are for reducing climate impact, and how a lot of projects I'd like to do are mostly geared towards homeowners in places with relaxed or no community rules. I'd love solar panels for example, but my mobile home roof can't support the weight, even if I had the money or could finance such a system, I don't own the land. I'd like to compost urine, humanure, collect rain water, start a garden among other things. I don't feel like it's safe for me to do so as a renter.”

🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ Lack of convenient options (7%)

“Waiting for a pick up that is functional, not filled with extras. In line for the slate.”

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Don't know where to start (23%)

“Cost and time are also major issues too.”

🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨⬜️ Time constraints (21%)

🟨🟨🟨🟨⬜️⬜️ Feel like individual actions don't matter (16%)

🟨🟨🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️ Something else (write in!) (11%)

“I care about too many issues.”

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