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This week:

Fighting over ESG is stupid, risky, and bad business. Let’s move on.

Plus: RSV vaccines, the E-BIKE Act, Skittles (?), deepfakes, allergies, and a new season of DRILLED

What We Can Do:

• ⚡️ Submit your comment to keep Virginia in the very-successful — and very lucrative — RGGI

• ⚡️ Some folks need shelter. Some need water. Or food. The data says giving them agency — and straight cash — works better. Do that by donating to GiveDirectly.

• ⚡️ Health care is a universal human right. Setup a new monthly donation to the legendary Partners in Health to provide care first to those who need it most.

• ⚡️ You know what’s cool? A BILLION oysters. Plant them with the Billion Oyster Project and help clean up New York’s waters.

• ⚡️ There’s 1000 words about ESG investing below, so now’s a good time to find a bank that supports climate action AND your community with Bank for Good.

News Roundup

Health & Medicine

• The FDA recommends 2 RSV vaccines for older adults — a huge public health win

• We can learn a lot about how to eradicate homelessness from Houston and Helsinki

• The 988 suicide hotline is expanding LGBTQ services with 24/7 chat and text - huzzah!

• We really should celebrate the enormous — ENORMOUS — impact the President’s Emergency Program for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) has had (and the thousands of people who fought for it)

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