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Rackspace’s CTO takes a broad view of sustainability

CIO Business Intelligence

Srini Koushik has been passionate about the environment for 35 years and now, as a board member of the nonprofit SustainableIT.org and CTO of cloud services provider Rackspace Technology, he wants to help enterprises achieve sustainability in the cloud. By choosing them, enterprises are almost adopting net zero by proxy,” Koushik says.

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$1k Project makes direct, anonymous matches between sponsors and families suddenly in need

GeekWire

This will help my family in so many ways,” wrote Simone from New York, who said the gift would pay for food, her daughter’s homeschooling supplies, car insurance and the electric bill. And even those who file for unemployment insurance can find the benefits are delayed or insufficient, and not everyone is eligible to collect them.

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Gen Z does not dream of labor

Vox

While it’s certainly easy to group workers by age, more emphasis should be placed on when people enter the workforce, the coinciding state of the economy, and the various safety net programs in place, said Sarah Damaske, an associate professor of sociology and labor and employment relations at Penn State University.

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Lyft, Uber and unions back new Washington state legislation protecting drivers

GeekWire

” “This bill represents an historic opportunity to extend Washington state’s social safety net to drivers on our platform,” Hensley said. Leaders from the nonprofit Drive Forward Seattle and from Massachusetts AFL-CIO testified against the bill. Elvert Barnes photo via Creative Commons.

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Here are all the winners of the 2020 Webby Awards

The Verge

Webby Award for Charitable Organization / Nonprofit : Our Stories Alzheimer’s Awareness Campaign by The Ad Council. Webby People’s Voice Award for Charitable Organization / Nonprofit : Equal Justice Initiative by Madeo. Services & Utilities : State Farm Mobile App by State Farm Insurance Companies. Health & Fitness : St.

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Rep. Pramila Jayapal on vaccine equity, misinformation, preparing for the next pandemic

GeekWire

The 7 th congressional district Democrat from Washington state once worked at Seattle global health nonprofit PATH, where she wielded her MBA to direct its technology transfer fund. that we had to deal with was that people got kicked off of their healthcare insurance because they lost their jobs. Congress and Washington Dept.

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How effective altruism let Sam Bankman-Fried happen

Vox

Before the collapse of FTX, Bankman-Fried put millions into scientists, companies, and nonprofits working on pandemic and bioterror prevention and risks from artificial intelligence. You’ll probably agree that human extinction is indeed bad. It’s fair and necessary to dispute the empirical assumptions behind those investments.

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