The details of Texas Senate Bill 8 are more alarming than most know and it’s spreading. Florida Governor, DeSantis, said that they would join the ban bandwagon and many more GOP-led states are expected to implement this harsh law that also excludes cases of rape and incest.
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Choose Love is an NGO and one of the largest grassroots organizations helping refugees around the world since 2016. In response to the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan has petitioned for aid from elected officials, raised funds for refugees globally, and continues to advocate for Afghans left behind.
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We're revisiting our chat with Ibrahim AlHusseini where he discusses how and why we need to accelerate strategies and tech towards sustainability globally. Ibrahim started FullCycle in 2013 to combat the excess of consumerism with a 20-year plan that goes beyond the sole focus of lowering CO2 but also tackles methane and nitrous oxide which causes 50% of global warming.
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There are 2.12 million imprisoned in America. Among the emotional and financial costs to individuals, the government spends over 80 billion yearly on prisons while private equity groups get rich.
Worth Rises's Executive Director, Bianca Tylek speaks on how this industry is preventing us from a safe and just world without the need for prisons.
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As kids all across the country go back to school this month, let's revisit our chat with Board Member Nick Melvoin who sits down with Xander Schultz to discuss his devotion to ending childhood hunger and poverty and how his Los Angeles school district managed to continue their unique and efficient 3 meal program throughout the pandemic and how his work continues.
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No longer taboo, over 40 million Americans seek mental health yearly and the holistic and alternative medicine industry is on the rise.
"I think it's pretty clear that for a large percentage of the patient population that have either got mental health problems or addictions the status quo is simply not working and at best they're not getting better. Many people are actually getting worse due to the treatment regimes they're being forced into. We're trying to encourage a revolution in the way that mental health and addiction treatment is delivered based on psychedelic enhanced treatments." - Henri Sant-Cassia
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We all love fast delivery but realistically, it takes tons of energy to get your online Amazon items to your doorstep. In fact, it’s estimated that 10.7 billion tons of seaborne trade were estimated in 2017 alone.
Listen to our full discussion with @pace.ralli to learn more about his efforts toward decarbonizing the shipping industry.
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While online shopping increased from 32.4% to 39% within the last year, did you know the cost of shipping those goods will also see a rise in emissions up to 250% by 2050?
"The shipping industry... very basic, the shipping industry runs off of the dirtiest fuel we have, heavy fuel oil and now diesel, cleaning up and still running off of sulfur diesel but all other transportation methods are converting over to decarbonized propulsion and power and the shipping industry is a little bit behind, and it's such a big industry, it's really complex so it's a tough one to solve for but that's what we're trying to solve for is how do we act as a catalyst to getting the shipping industry to decarbonize and what are the technologies, what are the first dominos that we can push over and that's what we've been working on at Switch Maritime." - Pace Ralli.
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Did you know that the US contributes to 85% of the global opioids epidemic?
"I'm integrating the addiction epidemic within homelessness which is not all of it but it is a major component of it and I'm a licensed alcohol and drug counselor supervisor also a person in long term recovery so that's the lens I come at homelessness from and I recognize that homelessness is both caused by addiction and to be homeless and to cope with it... it's a logical coping mechanism so it's both a cause and effect." - Dave Marlon, Recovery Advocate and Social Activist.
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"So I'm teaching a class right now called, 'Is that racist?' and I encourage all the students to think about racism in lots of different ways. One of them is, racism is solving a problem and their definition of racism is also solving separately a problem. When you understand what problem you're solving and how you're defining racism you'll understand things about yourself and also about how you want to go about it, literally combating and solving the problem of racism. When I think about the problem I'm trying to solve, when I started the problem, it took me a long time but now I have a way to articulate it which is that most people define racism in terms of contaminated hearts and minds. You think about it as something that's inside of a person. But there's not an easy way with that definition to solve the problem of rising inequality in the context of declining prejudice. Yet that's the situation we find ourselves in." - Dr. Phillip Atiba Goff
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