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What Can I Do? @whatcanido-earth.bsky.social · 12d

Wake up, the latest The Science of Fiction essay from Maddie Stone is out!

This week: What can Andor teach us about the impacts of critical mineral extraction on Earth?

Read it here: www.importantnotimportant.com/p/andor-show...

Andor Shows the Power and Peril of High-Tech Minerals

As the quest for Ghorman “kalkite” reveals, access to minerals can make or break empires, while raining riches or curses on mining communities.

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What Can I Do? @whatcanido-earth.bsky.social · Aug 18

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The Answer is Always Run for Something

Turns out it's our 200th episode. It has been a journey. The show is now called The Most Important Question, and I can't think of a better answer than just fucking run for something. What can I do abo...

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What Can I Do? @whatcanido-earth.bsky.social · Aug 18

200 episodes later and we're still asking: what can I do?

Amanda Litman's answer hasn't changed: RUN FOR SOMETHING.

We're diving into your responses about running for office. From "I don't feel qualified" to "people won't like me", Amanda tackles every concern and explains why you should run.

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What Can I Do? @whatcanido-earth.bsky.social · Aug 8

New Life Finds A Way!

What can population dynamics in places like Yellowstone teach us about democracy?

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LFAW: Every Community Needs Its Wolves

How diversity creates stability in nature and democracy

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What Can I Do? @whatcanido-earth.bsky.social · Jul 21

Federal climate policy is gone. Strategic philanthropy just became our lifeline.

Listen to our new episode with Giving Green founder, Dan Stein to learn how to make your climate donations count.

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Making Your Climate Dollars Count When Government Won't

Congress just jammed the brakes on America's clean energy boom, however short-lived it may have been. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act was signed into law after a lot of debate in the House and the Sen...

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What Can I Do? @whatcanido-earth.bsky.social · Jul 4

So excited to announce the debut essay for our new column, Life Finds A Way!

Our first post is from science writer Riley Black. She explores examples in other species that force us to expand our understanding of sex differences beyond a binary.

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Every Body Is A Sex Spectrum

Introducing: Life Finds A Way - The original diversity initiative

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What Can I Do? @whatcanido-earth.bsky.social · Jun 24

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#foreignaid #disasterrelief #humanitarianaid #globalhealth

When Foreign Aid Gets Zeroed Out Overnight

Imagine waking up to discover that the United States has just pulled $35 billion out of foreign aid overnight, and that hundreds of HIV clinics, and child malnutrit…

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What Can I Do? @whatcanido-earth.bsky.social · Jun 24

What happens when $35 billion in foreign aid vanishes overnight?

This week, Quinn is joined by Rob Rosenbaum, co-lead for PRO, a rapid response team sifting through every single grant, ranking them by lives saved per dollar and building lifeboat bridge grants before the lights go out.

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What Can I Do? @whatcanido-earth.bsky.social · Jun 16

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#sustainability #toiletpaper #climateaction #globalhealth #WASH

Taking Care of Business (Sustainably)

Toilet paper. You use it. I use it. Sometimes, even my children use it. The point is, toilet paper is everywhere. Almost everyone needs it, and so much of it still comes from actual forests, and yet ...

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What Can I Do? @whatcanido-earth.bsky.social · Jun 16

What can you do to combat deforestation and increase access to quality sanitation everywhere?

This week, Quinn chats with Bernie Wiley, Sustainability Director @whogivesacraptp about their mission to wipe away waste in the supply chain while donating 50% of profits to build toilets worldwide.

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What Can I Do? @whatcanido-earth.bsky.social · Jun 9

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We Live In A World of Trees

You've heard people say it. It shouldn't have been called Earth. It should have been called Ocean, but it is simultaneously a planet of trees. As Richard Powers put it in The Overstory: We live in a ...

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What Can I Do? @whatcanido-earth.bsky.social · Jun 9

This week, Quinn chats with Marguerite Holloway, author of "Take To The Trees", about the hidden crisis happening to our forests, the scientists working to save them, simple ways we all can help, and why everything changes when you start paying attention to all the nature around you.

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What Can I Do? @whatcanido-earth.bsky.social · May 26

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#climatechange #climatesolutions #urbanheat #cobenefits

Climate Solutions That Make Everything Better

Picture a city that beats brutal heat waves with cool tree-lined streets, slashes household energy bills, and cuts carbon pollution by as much as 80%, without waiting for these miracle technologies. ...

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What Can I Do? @whatcanido-earth.bsky.social · May 26

This week, IPCC scientist Dr. Minal Pathak isn't here for your city's token climate efforts.

In today's episode, she breaks down:
🔹 Why 3 electric buses isn't enough (how about the entire fleet?)
🔹 How one heat plan saved lives in 50+ cities
🔹 What you can do in your spheres of influence

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What Can I Do? @whatcanido-earth.bsky.social · May 19

What do "snot otters," missing boulders, and your drinking water have in common?

Our latest episode with science journalist, Jackie Flynn Mogensen, dives into how saving a 160-million-year-old salamander could be the key to protecting our communities from floods.

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What Can I Do? @whatcanido-earth.bsky.social · May 5

What if we stopped apologizing for abortion and started celebrating it as the social good it truly is?

In our newest episode, Quinn talks with Sophie Nir about the Abortion Positivity Project and their mission to transform how we talk about abortion.

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Changing the Abortion Conversation

63% of Americans say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, and yet here we are. So what can we do to make the language around abortion more positive? My guest today is Sophie Nir. Sophie is...

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · Apr 14

Hey everyone— @healthsciences.mcgill.ca is thinking of ditching X

Their Bluesky account is still empty, but if we can rally some followers, it might help them make the switch. Give them a boost?

Thank you!!🙏

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What Can I Do? @whatcanido-earth.bsky.social · Apr 14

The problem with farm-to-table? It doesn't change farming at scale.

Hear how chef and Zero Foodprint Executive Director Anthony Myint is building a table-to-farm revolution with just pennies on the dollar.

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What Can I Do? @whatcanido-earth.bsky.social · Apr 7

⚡ NEW EPISODE⚡

Disease doesn't discriminate, but our systems do. This week, we dive into "A History of the World in Six Plagues" with author Edna Bonhomme to unpack how epidemics expose inequality.

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#pandemics #healthcare #inequality #publichealth #history

What Can I Do? @whatcanido-earth.bsky.social · Mar 25

What can you do when science is being dismantled?

Dr. Gretchen Goldman at the Union of Concerned Scientists shares actionable steps in our latest episode. The fight for evidence-based policy isn't over.

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#StandUpForScience

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Gretchen Goldman, PhD @gretchentg.bsky.social · Mar 24

I had a great time chatting with @quinnemmett.bsky.social on his podcast about what feels different about this moment for Federal science and how we can hold true to our values in fighting back (plus some hard-hitting takes on Dragons Love Tacos). podcast.importantnotimportant.com/dont-move-th...

Don't Move The Goalposts

One of the ways this Trump administration is different from the last is, relatively at least, how much more unconstitutional, how much more organized and comprehens…

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What Can I Do? @whatcanido-earth.bsky.social · Mar 24

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#ScienceNotSilence #StandUpForScience

Don't Move The Goalposts

One of the ways this Trump administration is different from the last is, relatively at least, how much more unconstitutional, how much more organized and comprehensive the attacks on our institutions,...

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What Can I Do? @whatcanido-earth.bsky.social · Mar 24

The institutions that keep us fed, safe, and advancing scientifically are under unprecedented attack.

In our latest episode, Dr. Gretchen Goldman, President of the Union of Concerned Scientists, breaks down what's happening, why it matters, and most importantly—what YOU can do about it.

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What Can I Do? @whatcanido-earth.bsky.social · Mar 17

"Your lived experience and putting that in the context of what is changing...that's how we join together in community."

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Going Quietly Is Not An Option

We didn't always call our work science for people who give a shit. But ever since we did, we've welcomed at least two types of people to our flock. The first is people who are deeply invested in scie...

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What Can I Do? @whatcanido-earth.bsky.social · Mar 17

"What can I do?"

It's the question we get most often. And in this powerful conversation, Dr. Ticora Jones helps answer it by sharing how she went from the lab to leading science strategy at USAID and the NRDC during some of our most challenging times.

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