Drive Electric Campaign
When President Biden announced his multitrillion-dollar jobs plan in March, it included nearly $175 billion in spending to encourage Americans to buy electric vehicles. The money would help ensure “that these vehicles are affordable for all families and manufactured by workers with good jobs,” the White House wrote at the time.
When I was 15, an usher at my church offered to become my foster parent. Hers was one of the best foster homes I lived in. But she wanted a son. It was more than I was able to give.
Center For Tech and Civic Life
Project CETI
With artificial intelligence and painstaking study of sperm whales, scientists hope to understand what these aliens of the deep are talking about.
The strange story of an unlikely crew of people who band together to take on one of our largest problems using nothing but whale sounds, machine learning, and a willingness to think outside the box. Even stranger, several of the world's most accomplished scientists seem to think they might have a good idea.
People around the world are demanding clean air -- and cities are starting to respond, says electrification advocate Monica Araya. She takes us on a world tour of urban areas that are working to fully electrify their transportation systems over the next decade, shifting to emission-free motorcycles, cars, buses, ferries and beyond. See what a future without the internal combustion engine could look like -- and what it will take to get there.
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
Communities are using open source tools to help contain the coronavirus by mapping hand-washing stations and those at risk
Project Echo
Project ECHO, which stands for Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes, is now a national organization with hubs throughout the country. It allows healthcare professionals to regularly consult with specialists at larger institutions over video, and those specialists also get to learn from reviewing the cases in rural areas
Collaborative projects for mapping in disaster, health, and conflict situations are on the rise around the world as satellite technologies improve, becoming accessible for a much wider range of people worldwide.
Global Fishing Watch
Desperate North Korean fishermen are washing ashore as skeletons because of the world's largest illegal fleet.
Institute for Protein Design
For years, scientists have been warning us about the alarming rise in drug-resistant bacteria — but it doesn’t have to be our future.
The progress on ending extreme poverty, preventable child deaths, gender equality and climate change was too hard won to be sidelined.
We’ll send you news and updates on how ideas are taking shape.
