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How L.A. can rebuild after the wildfires without leaving vulnerable residents behind

Fast Company Tech

The dramatic images of wealthy neighborhoods burning during the January 2025 Los Angeles wildfires captured global attention, but the damage was much more widespread. Climate-related disasters like this often have deep roots in policies and practices that overlook growing risks. And that can mean making difficult decisions.

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10 Ways Geolocation is Changing the World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Finding Green Businesses : The web has effectively replaced the paper Yellow Pages as a way to find local businesses and services. The Yelp and Around Me apps are popular ways to find restaurants, coffee shops, or hotels wherever you are, but what about green-rated businesses? The Elections app will soon be updated for 2010.).

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Hawaii court blocks insurance companies’ legal claims in Maui wildfire, allowing $4 billion settlement to proceed

Fast Company Tech

Josh Green announced that seven defendants accused of causing the tragedy had agreed to pay $4 billion to resolve claims by thousands of people. Green had previously denounced as unfair insurance companies’ moves to recoup money they’ve paid to policyholders in a legal process that’s called subrogation.”

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Bezos’ climate fund faces a reckoning with Amazon’s pollution

The Verge

Photo by Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images. The five established “big green” groups that benefited the most from Bezos’ Earth Fund were each allotted $100 million in November, or nearly two-thirds of Bezos’ first round of funding. to establish warehouses. Image: Justine Calma / The Verge.

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Google launches new tool to help cities stay cool

The Verge

Google debuted a new tool called Tree Canopy Lab in an effort to keep cities like Los Angeles cool by helping them plant more trees. Google piloted Tree Canopy Lab in Los Angeles. Google claims that its new tool can save cities like Los Angeles time when it comes to taking inventory of their trees.

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Startups have about $1 trillion worth of reasons to love the Biden infrastructure plan

TechCrunch

.” Much of this will look and feel like a Green New Deal, but sold under a package of infrastructure modernization and service upgrades that the country desperately needs. A Biden presidency doesn’t need a Green New Deal to make progress on climate change. Given the steady drumbeat of climate disasters that hit the U.S.

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AI-generated images can be art. They just can’t be photos

Fast Company Tech

He made the news by selling an image hed created using AI to the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, where it will be included in an upcoming exhibit called Queer Lens: A History of Photography. The picture tugged at heartstrings, but was also weaponized in attacks on the Biden administrations response to the disaster.

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