Episode Details

This week:

How can we better protect farmworkers?

Plus, the news:

• A free online summit for eco-anxiety from RITA
• A new era for Alzheimer’s treatments
• Inflated prices of packaged food
• Saving lives with better weather forecasting

Here's What You Can Do:

• Donate to the Food Chain Workers Alliance, a coalition dedicated to improving working conditions for workers in every stage of food production, and to the Native CDFI Network to improve access to capital and credit for Indigenous farm workers.
• Volunteer to build a climate resilience hub so your community can better respond to extreme heat events and other disasters.
• Get educated about how to protect yourself and your community from heat and other extreme weather.
• Be heard about building heat-resilient communities and share the Heat Action Platform tool and U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit with your city officials.

News Roundup

Health & Medicine

• Cost Plus Drugs is utilizing strategic partnerships to improve affordability and accessibility of prescription drugs
• Pregnant? The Pregnancy Workers Fairness Act says that your boss now has to accommodate you. Here’s everything you need to know.
• FDA approval of lecanemab begins a new era of Alzheimer’s treatment
• 18 million doses of the first-ever malaria vaccine are rolling out in 12 African countries