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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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How an L.A. community of wildfire survivors is getting insurance to pay for contamination testing

Fast Company Tech

All sense of survivors’ guilt was fleeting for those residents whose homes remained standing after wildfires ripped through the Los Angeles area three months ago. “They should have a process to keep people safe because this isn’t the first disaster like this.”

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GM announces plans to make mobile power generators using hydrogen fuel cells

The Verge

Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe, so its appeal to an industry that’s trying to pivot away from dirty internal combustion engines is obvious. General Motors announced plans to manufacture mobile power generators using its Hydrotec-branded hydrogen fuel cells. The East Coast is trying to get in on the action.

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10 Ways Geolocation is Changing the World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The next step is for these apps to add greater purpose by encouraging more meaningful checkins and offering corresponding badges and stamps, thus mapping the cause universe. Tracking Environmental Disasters : The size and scope of environmental disasters appears to be growing. It is essentially to document spacetime.

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Bill Gates wants Western countries to eat “synthetic meat”; Meatable has raised $47 million to make it

TechCrunch

Gates’ call is being met by startups and public companies hailing from everywhere from Amsterdam to Tel Aviv, London to Los Angeles, and Berkeley to… um… Chicago.

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How clutter affects your productivity (and what you can do about it)

The Next Web

That’s exactly what neuroscientists at Princeton University found when they looked at people’s task performance in an organized versus disorganized environment. I like to keep things neat but when I used to clean my room to perfection, my mom would still see that same room as a disaster. Finding your perfect storm.

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Research Friday: Branding in the nonprofit sector

ASU Lodestar Center

This brand recognition is what makes The Red Cross the go-to organization in times of disaster. Alex Flores is a recent graduate from Arizona State University with a bachelor of science in Sociology and a minor in nonprofit studies. Sources: [1] Non-profit branding: Cause and brand effect. Brand Strategy , 25-25. [2] 2] Michel, G., &