Stories / urgent conversations
How Tech Is Mobilizing to Confront the Climate Crisis
Can technology help solve the climate crisis? A lot of smart money is betting that it can. Taylor Francis, co-founder of Watershed, has raised $70 million dollars in venture capital, putting the startup’s estimated value at $1 billion within a year of establishment. Watershed aims to be a leading software platform that helps businesses cut […]
BY Myah Overstreet | April 26, 2022
How to Reimagine Your Employees as Social Entrepreneurs
Even before the pandemic hit, an employee in one of Microsoft’s game-development studios started seeing the impact of mental-health stresses in her industry. Since the onset of Covid-19, her insights became more and more valuable. “She started a program, it’s called Project Spirit, and it launched within a single game studio–it is all about reducing or […]
BY Angelica Frey | October 11, 2021
Why Solving the Climate Crisis Is Critical for Our Health
Climate change and its consequences extend far beyond rising ocean levels and bouts of extreme weather. The editors of more than 230 medical journals recently issued a joint statement singling out climate change as the “greatest threat to global public health.” For example, farmworkers by the tens of thousands are dying from the heat. “They are […]
BY Angelica Frey | October 9, 2021