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25.12.2024

Starbucks strike to expand to over 300 stores on Christmas Eve - Fast Company

The Christmas Eve strike on Tuesday was projected to be the largest ever at Starbucks.

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25.12.2024

AI-assisted wildlife surveillance is eavesdropping on endangered spider monkeys - Fast Company

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25.12.2024

Trump transition team may seek 'day one' withdrawal from WHO - Fast Company

Trump initiated the yearlong withdrawal process from the WHO in 2020, but six months later his successor, Biden reversed the decision.

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25.12.2024

How these simple electric trucks are helping Rwandan farmers boost profits - Fast Company

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24.12.2024

Southern farmers are still reeling months after Hurricane Helene - Fast Company

Georgia farmers suffered losses from Helene of at least $5.5 billion.

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24.12.2024

Amazon, Starbucks strikes: Trump's return puts pressure on unions - Fast Company

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24.12.2024

South Side of Chicago gets funding for a transit project before Trump takeover - Fast Company

The Biden administration notified Congress last week that it would commit $1.9 billion toward a nearly $5.7 billion project to add four new L stations on the South Side of Chicago.

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24.12.2024

Regenerative agriculture is more than a buzzword - Fast Company

Most consumers don’t know that farmers are increasingly using more sustainable methods to enhance agricultural resiliency and address global environmental crises—but they should.

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24.12.2024

U.S. wins dispute with Mexico over banning genetically modified corn imports - Fast Company

Mexico has been importing genetically modified corn from the U.S. for years, buying about $3 billion worth annually.

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24.12.2024

Did EV sales really slow in 2024? How to actually understand the numbers - Fast Company

EV sales are higher than experts once predicted they'd be by 2025—but growth is slowing down.

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24.12.2024

How rural schools can prepare for natural disasters - Fast Company

Making rural school systems more resilient when disasters occur is essential to ensuring that students can continue learning.

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24.12.2024

Pennsylvania voted for Trump—but its unions are still pushing for green jobs - Fast Company

The Pennsylvania AFL-CIO began working on a Union Energy coalition two years ago, priming it to continue that work under the next administration.

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23.12.2024

For faster flood warnings, U.S. needs more streamgage coverage - Fast Company

Flood risk can be estimated in waterways without streamgages, but not as accurately.

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23.12.2024

Public-private partnerships are shifting to be more community-centered. Here are 4 lessons - Fast Company

Successful community-centered, public-private partnerships (CP3s) rely on the active involvement of a diverse range of partners.

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23.12.2024

How (and why) to start using an RSS reader for news again - Fast Company

With the right setup, RSS is still one of the most empowering ways to control your online content consumption.

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22.12.2024

I’m a Starbucks barista, and here’s why I’m going on strike - Fast Company

As Starbucks workers across the country prepare to strike, one barista explains what brought the union to this point.

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22.12.2024

Wildfires put ranchers on federal land in limbo for 2 years - Fast Company

Tucked within federal land management plans is a two-year grazing rest period on lands leased to ranchers after wildfires.

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22.12.2024

Trump’s 2017 tax cuts made income inequality worse. Here's how - Fast Company

Trump's Tax Cuts and Jobs Act will expire on Dec. 31, 2024.

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21.12.2024

Why environmental groups are suing California over biofuels - Fast Company

Environmentalists say California's low carbon fuel standard program has stimulated the production of polluting biofuels.

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21.12.2024

In 2024, the U.S. added 1,000 new public EV chargers a week—but that's not nearly enough - Fast Company

The country's EV charging network has more than doubled since 2021, but we still need more chargers to keep up with EV adoption.

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21.12.2024

FDA issues new rules for packaged foods using the ‘healthy’ label - Fast Company

In an effort to address public health issues in the U.S., the FDA has revised the definition of 'healthy' for packaged foods.

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21.12.2024

Trump threatens EU with tariffs if they don't buy more U.S. oil, gas - Fast Company

The EU already buys the lion's share of U.S. oil and gas exports.

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21.12.2024

Starbucks workers plan a 5-day strike leading up to Christmas - Fast Company

Starbucks Workers United said management has failed to honor a commitment made in February to reach a labor agreement.

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21.12.2024

Farmers, wildfire and hurricane victims, and others wait for Congress to approve $100 billion in disaster aid - Fast Company

About $21 billion of the disaster aid in the earlier version of the spending bill was assistance for farmers.

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21.12.2024

How one New Orleans nonprofit is helping disaster areas swap out generators for cheaper, cleaner power - Fast Company

The Footprint Project wants to create a solar-powered microgrid ‘lending library’ to deploy during disaster recovery efforts.

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20.12.2024

Wonder why your electric bill is so high? It may be funding massages and golf for utility execs - Fast Company

Utility customers sometimes foot the bill for lobbying, advertising, and luxurious living, according to a new report.

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20.12.2024

How this tiny town in Maine is keeping the lights on through ferocious storms - Fast Company

A boom in renewable microgrids is helping cities across the country keep the power on.

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20.12.2024

Georgia to let farmers drill new irrigation wells starting next year - Fast Company

For more than a decade, farmers in parts of southwest Georgia haven't been able to drill new irrigation wells to the Floridian aquifer, the groundwater nearest the surface.

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20.12.2024

New technology offers alternative to egg industry’s chick culling - Fast Company

The machine, named Cheggy, enables hatcheries to peer into fertilized eggs to determine sex before they mature into chicks.

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20.12.2024

Biden sets ‘ambitious’ new goal to slash carbon emissions - Fast Company

Biden's new goal, known as the Nationally Determined Contribution, calls for cutting U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by more than 60%.

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20.12.2024

MacKenzie Scott donates another $2 billion in 2024 - Fast Company

The total Scott has given away since 2019 is $19.2 billion.

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20.12.2024

Big Tech seeks to power AI data centers with geothermal energy - Fast Company

Big Tech firms including Meta and Google are partnering with geothermal startups to feed power-intensive AI data centers.

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20.12.2024

U.S. Amazon warehouse workers strike ahead of holiday rush - Fast Company

Warehouse workers in locations including New York and San Francisco walked off the job ahead of the Christmas holiday shopping rush.

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19.12.2024

New Jersey town is suing to overturn toxic waste settlement - Fast Company

Environmental group Save Barnegat Bay says the toxic waste settlement with German company BASF is inadequate.

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19.12.2024

EPA allows California to ban sales of new gas cars by 2035 - Fast Company

The California rule is stricter than a federal rule adopted this year that tightens emissions standards but does not require sales of electric vehicles.

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19.12.2024

How Indonesia's mining boom is hurting its communities - Fast Company

Where fishers could once catch fish to sell or feed their families, the water is now filled with runoff sediment from mining activities, and no fish are to be found.

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19.12.2024

U.S. energy chief warns against uncontrolled LNG exports - Fast Company

A Department of Energy study found that U.S. LNG shipments drive up domestic wholesale prices and often displace renewable energy sources.

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19.12.2024

I’m a model, and I’ve seen firsthand how AI can manipulate the fashion industry - Fast Company

New York’s Fashion Workers Act would create basic labor protections for models—including around digital replicas and AI-generated content.

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18.12.2024

Climate tech firms get $80 million for carbon removal - Fast Company

Companies in sectors including tech and finance continue to back efforts to remove carbon from the atmosphere before Trump can cut carbon-capture support.

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