Reducing food waste is an important way we can limit carbon emissions and keep our planet healthy. We're pledging to cut Google's food waste in half, and send zero food waste to landfill by 2025.
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The company started setting out bowls that were an inch less deep. “That unconsciously led to people taking a little less food—30 to 50% less—and that actually downstream led to 30-70% less waste,” says Emily Ma.
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The best obituary for Joan Didion wasn’t written by any of the major newspapers.
It was a letter to the editor from a former Brooklyn English teacher in the NYT.
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live, she said. All storytellers leave immediate survivors, I’m saying.”
“Adequate paid parental leave creates a life-or-death divide along racial and class lines,” @bessbell writes. “Survival after giving birth should not be a luxury afforded to wealthy white women.” https://t.co/asF6Yt1E4M
"There is a plan. The plan is: Women work for free so that men can work for money, in a capitalist society in which money is necessary for safety, independence, and power." —@JillFilipovic
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@LeahFessler I did this week! +1 to water (we brought 4.5 per person), starting as early as possible, extra snacks, and gloves if you’re doing the cables. Dm me if you want to chat!
Solidarity with Sha’Carri✊🏽
For every white dude I’ve run into in Bushwick creating a weed start up with venture capital funds, there is a Black person being punished for using a plant that grows freely on Earth. $upport @DrugPolicyOrg in dismantling the racist drug war.
Captain John DeCruz was the first African American accepted into the Sandy Hook Pilots’ apprenticeship program; after 18 years as an active pilot, he now serves as the organization’s New York president.
Story by @brendanpcrowley:
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In Opinion
10 years ago, “trans visibility was still a nascent strategy in the struggle for our civil rights,” says Thomas Page McBee, a writer. “Now a new generation of trans young people is growing up in a much more expansive narrative landscape.” https://t.co/BJt3af4Xsg
Imagine a magic window, and through that window you see another person, life-size and in three dimensions.
Project Starline is a technology project that combines advances in hardware and software to help people feel like they're together, even when they're apart. #GoogleIO