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• Buy: It’s a very VERY good time to start using a VPN (virtual private network) wherever you go but home (and maybe even there! So fun). Use Mullvad VPN (hi, like I do) to hide your IP address and reclaim your privacy. (go)
  
  

• Learn: Are you a journalist or creator or someone who just wants to know how to evaluate public health news? (raises hand) Great. We’re all in agreement then. Check out friend of the pod Dr. Madhukar Pai’s (free) course today. (go)
  
  

• Buy: We included this last week but it’s almost #backtoschooljesuschrist, so listen up: Nimble sells power banks, cables, and more, all made from recycled materials. You can send old electronic devices to their e-waste recycling partner. Reduce, reuse, recycle. (go)
  

• Buy: Once you find out that food waste accounts for about half (!) of global emissions from the food system, you can’t un-see it. Great news: you can keep food out of the landfill, using a Mill kitchen bin. It magically turns your leftovers into nutrient-rich, smell-free grounds while you sleep. Truly when I tell you my family couldn’t survive without it. (go)
  
  

• Learn: Once upside (lol sigh) of everyone getting fired is how many of you seem interested in maybe becoming a community health worker? Maybe? Please? Anyways check out this course from the Harvard School of Public Health to check out what’s up (go)
  
  

• Donate or Volunteer: Got a pilot’s license? Me neither! In response to extreme healthcare bans being enacted in draconian state legislatures, Elevated Access used a thoroughly vetted volunteer pilot network to transport clients seeking life-saving care to ease the financial and time burden. (go)

• Get help with a new and meaningful career: It’s all fun and games until you gotta feed your family AND live up to a basic set of morals — especially when so few people seem to be interested in the latter. Check out our resources here and remember — you’re not alone. (go)
  

• Organize for affordable housing: We’ve got lots to come on the housing front but needless to say, there’s a PLETHORA of amazing groups out there already doing the work (and having radical success) at the state and local levels. Check them out. (go)
  

• Donate to kids: In the wake of horrific cuts to foreign aid, an independent fellowship/round table of economists and other people who-give-a-shit sprang together to form PRO — Project Resource Optimization: a curated list of high-impact, cost-effective aid programs at (immediate) risk due to USAID cuts.
  
  Good news! In partnership with the good folks at Founders Pledge, The Life You Can Save, and Every.org, they’ve got a way for donors at every level to contribute to programs from Sudan to Haiti, Myanmar to Madagascar. (go)

  
  Extra credit! Quinn had PRO’s co-founder Rob Rosenbaum on the pod this week. Check it out on YouTube here.

You heard me goddammit.

Here’s the most reputable ways to help feed, shelter, and clothe kids and families — tonight.

It’s too hot.

Thank you — as always — for giving a shit.

— Quinn

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