📚 Ohio is allowing families to sign up for Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library program from the hospital at birth. The program sends children one free book each month until they’re 5 years old to help them fall in love with reading early.
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New York City is turning millions of pounds of food waste into ‘black gold’ to improve the city’s soil health
In many U.S. cities, waste items like watermelon rinds, greasy pizza boxes, and yard trimmings are bound for the landfill — in New York, they become “black gold,” a rich compost used throughout the city to improve soil health.
The Staten Island Compost Facility has long processed landscape waste, but it now also takes in residential organic waste — an average 100 to 150 tons of organic material every single day.
The end product is sold to some landscapers, but the rest is distributed free of charge to residents, schools, and community gardens. The city said it’s given out nearly 6 million pounds to residents so far this year.
Why is this good news?Food scraps and yard waste make up the most volume in household trash, and when they enter a landfill, they generate methane, a greenhouse gas even more potent than carbon dioxide. When these waste items are composted, not only are those emissions prevented — they help improve soil health, manage stormwater, and keep city greenspaces thriving.
Plus, composting can be daunting for the average individual to manage, so a city-wide service allows people interested to benefit.
The Global Fund partnership has saved 70 million lives since 2002
A new report found that the Global Fund partnership has saved 70 million lives since 2002, reducing the combined death rate from AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria by 63%.
Last year alone, 25.6 million people were on antiretroviral therapy for HIV, up from 17.5 million in 2017. The Global Fund also joined PEPFAR in committing to reaching 2 million people with the groundbreaking twice-yearly, long-acting injectable drug lenacapavir that showed up to a 100% success rate in preventing new HIV infections.
In 2024, 7.4 million people were treated for TB, with the Global Fund investing over $193 million between 2021 and 2024 in AI-powered TB screening tools in over 20 countries, helping beat TB and more effectively and efficiently use resources.
It also distributed 162 million insecticide-treated mosquito nets to protect families from malaria.
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