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Blog / ChangeThis
The Emotional, Financial and Health Toll of Being the First and Only
By Jennifer R Farmer
Our community tends to celebrate when one of our own breaks through. But there is an underbelly associated with being the first. Have we even counted the costs? They include academic, emotional, health and physical costs.
Categories: changethis
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Blog / New Releases
Books to Watch | July 19, 2022
By Porchlight
Categories: new-releases
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Blog / Book Giveaways
Radically Human: How New Technology Is Transforming Business and Shaping Our Future
By Porchlight
Technology advances are making tech more . . . human. This changes everything you thought you knew about innovation and strategy.
Categories: giveaways
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Blog / Staff Picks
Milked: How an American Crisis Brought Together Midwestern Dairy Farmers and Mexican Workers
Book Review by Jasmine Gonzalez
Milked focuses on how farmers and immigrants have been pitted against one another, but in many ways, it is a broader metaphor for how all Americans are pitted against each other. Yet it is not about the doom and gloom of it all—it is about hope.
Categories: staff-picks
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Blog / ChangeThis
It's Not Too Late: Transitioning to a Low-Carbon Economy
By Porchlight
Sustainable technologies must overcome the initial hurdle of adoption and infrastructure in order to create the necessary change. Only then can they achieve lock-in to begin to reverse the underlying threat of climate change.
Categories: changethis
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Blog / Interviews
A Q&A with Doreen Cunningham
By Emily Porter, Doreen Cunningham
An extraordinary memoir, we follow Doreen Cunningham through the frigid landscapes of the Arctic following Indigenous whalers, to her journey tracking grey whales along the West coast with her two-year-old son.
Categories: interviews
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Blog / New Releases
Books to Watch | July 12, 2022
By Porchlight
Categories: new-releases
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Blog / Book Giveaways
The Carbon Almanac: It's Not Too Late
By Porchlight
When it comes to the climate, we don’t need more marketing or anxiety. We need established facts and a plan for collective action.
Categories: giveaways
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Blog / Staff Picks
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Book Review by Gabbi Cisneros
Sam, Sadie, and Marx's stories may begin in similar places, but it becomes evident how a significant part of their lives is determined not by their goals but by their mindsets. They rely on virtual lives over physical, at least until the two become more intertwined.
Categories: staff-picks
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Blog / We See You & We Read You
Staff Favorites
By Porchlight
Telling someone your favorite book is an act of trust that we don’t take for granted.
Categories: we-read-you
