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This week:

Can little-old-you really make a difference? Hell yes you can.

Plus: cheaper insulin, cleaner camping gear, a new (lidless) coffee cup, good news on BetterHelp, and maybe even some paid leave.

Here's What You Can Do:

• ⚡️ Help your local farmers sell online — not just at farmer’s markets — with GrownBy.
• ⚡️ Help people worldwide get clean, safe, accessible drinking water with charity: water.
• ⚡️ Support Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson’s Urban Ocean Lab as they write the future of ocean policy.
• ⚡️ Stay ahead of water news with the award-winning Circle of Blue non-profit newsroom
• ⚡️ Queer student journalists: Apply to be a member of the 2023 Nat’l LGBTQ Journalists’ Conference Student PROGRAM, a week-long all-expenses-paid reporting intensive

News Roundup

Health & Medicine

• REI has committed to stop selling products with forever chemicals
• Eli Lilly will cut insulin prices to $35, should still be regulated
• There’s a new bipartisan push for paid family and medical leave
• Endovascular thrombectomy will (eventually) save millions of lives

Climate

• The Interior Department released guidance on how states can claim

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