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New data for strategic disaster philanthropy 

Candid

Our collective attention has been almost singularly focused on the pandemic and its global effects. Hurricane Dorian caused catastrophic damage in the Bahamas and parts of the eastern United States. Economic Development Administration (EDA) invested approximately $381.7 Wildfires plagued the Amazon, California and Australia.

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Climate Warming and Palo Alto -> Miradi and the World

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We here in Palo Alto were able assess the damage (tree stumps), lobby our city officials, and we will know just how effective we are when new trees are planted. And you can bet they will be replanted! Knowing whether one’s strategies to help the environmental actually work, is rarely so simple.

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