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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania’s AORTA helps organizations restructure for greater equity.
By: Damon Orion
Nonprofits play a crucial role in holding communities together, and combining powerful stories with real data is essential to securing the support they need to continue making a difference.
Switching to organic products is an easy way to eat healthier and support the environment.
By: Caroline Cox
Ringling Bros. has stopped using animals, but hundreds of elephants still languish at circuses and zoos.
Renewable energy doesn’t matter if we can’t distribute it.
By: Erika Schelby
From hopeful beginnings to a broken system, student loans reveal how policy choices turned higher learning into a lifelong financial trap.
By: Alan Collinge
As AI adoption accelerates, its soaring energy demands and carbon footprint raise urgent concerns about sustainability, highlighting the need for greener technologies and policies to mitigate its environmental impact.
By: Sharon Kumar
Centuries before photography, the camera obscura transformed ordinary rooms into magical spaces, casting the outside world inside and revealing how light, shadow, and perspective shaped early modern visions of reality.
By: Julie Park
While politicians pit parents against schools, educators are finding a way to make parent involvement integral to what the school does.
By: Jeff Bryant
By applying a concept widely used in mathematics and computer science, Carole Crumley has radically changed the way anthropologists see and study societies.
By: Carole Crumley
