This week:

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Plus: The cleanest produce, a mosquito factory, lots of rooftop solar, autonomous GPT, maybe, and the latest with the Colorado River

Here's What You Can Do:

• ⚡️ Climate change and mental health are inextricably linked. Get some help with the Climate Mental Health Network.
• ⚡️ Live in or own a multi-family building? Check out how BlocPower can help electrify it.
• ⚡️ If you’re like “I wonder if my town or state has e-bike rebates”, here’s a Google Sheet with every known rebate in the country
• ⚡️ Start a student alliance for tech ethics at your university with the Techshift Alliance.

News Roundup

Health & Medicine

• The countries with the highest rates of malaria deaths have approved Oxford’s new vaccine
• Brazil built a massive mosquito factory — it’s not what you think
• Our friends at Biobot Analytics have expanded their wastewater monitoring into norovirus outbreaks
• Are we close to a combo flu and COVID vaccine?

Climate

• Why SUV’s got so big, and so popular
• Germany shut down their remaining operational nuclear plants for really no reason, but banned new gas and oil heating?
• Elon’s Twitter could break disaster response
• Jigar’s Energy Department committed $3 billion to rooftop solar access for those with lower credit scores

Food & Water

• These are EWG’s “Dirty Dozen” in produce
• Radical “seed breeding” could bring about more climate friendly crops
• The Colorado River crisis didn’t have to be this way, but big meat made it this way
• The massive batteries sloshing around beneath our feet

Beep Boop

• OpenAI’s hunger for data might come back to bite them
• State tech laws are starting to look like state marijuana laws
• How Mexico became the biggest user of Pegasus spyware
• Hype grows over “autonomous” GPT

COVID

• The NIH spent $1 billion on Long COVID research. Where’d it go?
• Ed Yong is back and asking why we’re so keen on erasing Long COVID

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