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If Trump guts NOAA, your home insurance premiums could spike

Fast Company Tech

experienced 27 individual weather and climate disasters causing at least $1 billion in damages each. In total, 2024 saw more than $192 billion in disaster costs, and more than 560 direct or indirect fatalities. Because NOAA is a government service funded by taxpayers, its data is free.

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11 Blog Content Ideas for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Nonprofits that work in international development, disaster relief, or wildlife conservation often do this sort of storytelling in print materials and website articles, but it also works extremely well as blog content. A first-person voice is best. Interview Experts.

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Announcing the Third Impact Lab on Climate Justice

Saleforce Nonprofit

Today, people of color and low-income communities are more likely to be impacted by natural disasters, live close to hazardous waste, and die of environmental causes. Policy Associate, The Nature Conservancy. Meet Our Salesforce.org Impact Lab Climate Action Experts. Isabella Gonzalez Potter.

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Organic farmers spent 12 years developing this new rice. It’s better for you and the planet

Fast Company Tech

Before moving out West, Bryces grandparents were farmers in Nebraska and experienced the Dust Bowl, an ecological disaster in which poor practices caused the soil to erode, so that it just blew away, he says.They saw how negative farming practices cause such problems to soil. In 2024, it was awarded a $3 million matching grant from the U.S.

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Giving Trends in Brazil: How Crowdfunding & Social Entrepreneurs Are Transforming the Nonprofit Sector

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Those initial fundings rarely come from online donations, most are community-based initiatives, companies, and local government incentives. 14% donate in response to natural disasters. ? When those NGOs receive funding they usually know how to use the funds very efficiently and are able to grow.

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Radical Collaboration is Our Best Chance to Fight Climate Change

Saleforce Nonprofit

It’s no longer a question of whether the impacts on the environment of our collective human actions over decades will continue to result in more extreme weather, natural disasters, and economic instability. The Nature Conservancy Focuses on Local Solutions to Drive Change. Dodging the proverbial bullet is not an option.

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Daily Crunch: Japanese marketing tech firm Geniee acquires Zelto for $70M

TechCrunch

To fix the climate, these 10 investors are betting the house on the ocean Image Credits: Liang Wendong/VCG (opens in a new window) / Getty Images Tapping the ocean for energy led to disasters like the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, which released nearly 5 million barrels of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. Sound the alarm : The U.S.