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Fighting Fire With Policy

Humans have tried to tame fire for hundreds of thousands of years. In our era of rapid environmental change, living with fire poses new challenges. Climate change, land development, and…

10.26.22 | 3 min read
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Congress Extends Small Business Innovation Program for Three Years. Now What?

The collective sigh of relief you heard last week came from small businesses and university innovators across the country who had been holding their breath for passage of the SBIR…

10.04.22 | 7 min read
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Tipping Points for Positive Transformation

The news on the earth’s climate can feel unrelentingly depressing. And increasingly often, headlines and reports focus, correctly, on tipping points.  The IPCC first introduced the idea of climate tipping…

09.13.22 | 3 min read
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What we learned in Mexico City

Moonshots seem impossible—until they’ve hit their target. This was the mantra of our in-person accelerator workshop, hosted with our partners at Unlock Aid in Mexico City. The workshop was just…

09.12.22 | 3 min read
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Building Back Better: A Billion Dollar Investment in Broadening Economic Opportunity

Today, the U.S. Economic Development Agency and President Biden announced the winners of the Build Back Better Regional Challenge (BBBRC), a $1 billion seed investment into underinvested communities at the…

09.02.22 | 5 min read
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