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🌱 New Yorker, optimist, @BarnardCollege grad, currently @Google (she/her)
Brooklyn, NY
Joined January 2017
Reducing food waste is an important way we can limit carbon emissions and keep our planet healthy. We're pledging to cut Google's food waste in half, and send zero food waste to landfill by 2025. https://t.co/ln7eDIcSbT
blog.google
By 2025 we aim to cut food waste in half for each Googler and send zero food waste to the landfill.
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The company started setting out bowls that were an inch less deep. “That unconsciously led to people taking a little less food—30 to 50% less—and that actually downstream led to 30-70% less waste,” says Emily Ma. https://t.co/ob89utKKkz
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It's a small example of multiple strategies that the tech giant is using to aim for a new goal: cutting its food waste in half by 2025.
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The best obituary for Joan Didion wasn’t written by any of the major newspapers. It was a letter to the editor from a former Brooklyn English teacher in the NYT. “We tell ourselves stories in order to live, she said. All storytellers leave immediate survivors, I’m saying.”
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"There is a plan. The plan is: Women work for free so that men can work for money, in a capitalist society in which money is necessary for safety, independence, and power." —@JillFilipovic
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Solidarity with Sha’Carri✊🏽 For every white dude I’ve run into in Bushwick creating a weed start up with venture capital funds, there is a Black person being punished for using a plant that grows freely on Earth. $upport @DrugPolicyOrg in dismantling the racist drug war.
Let Sha’Carri’s story be the one that changes the policy. We change drug policy to be rooted in science, compassion, and human rights. Join us: https://t.co/Klq3eUzzgB
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Captain John DeCruz was the first African American accepted into the Sandy Hook Pilots’ apprenticeship program; after 18 years as an active pilot, he now serves as the organization’s New York president. Story by @brendanpcrowley: https://t.co/FspuHEd8z0
hakaimagazine.com
A captain oversees the safe passage of ships into and out of the US East Coast’s busiest port.
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In Opinion 10 years ago, “trans visibility was still a nascent strategy in the struggle for our civil rights,” says Thomas Page McBee, a writer. “Now a new generation of trans young people is growing up in a much more expansive narrative landscape.”
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Imagine a magic window, and through that window you see another person, life-size and in three dimensions. Project Starline is a technology project that combines advances in hardware and software to help people feel like they're together, even when they're apart. #GoogleIO
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We’re supporting more inclusive classrooms with a new @Googleorg grant to @DonorsChoose. Learn more about @MrAndy244's story and how you can start an inclusive classroom project through the #ISeeMe campaign: https://t.co/xINJDbMtnI
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Barnard Pride đź’™
"Sitting indoors makes me feel weird," one recent Barnard College graduate said. "And I think I’ll feel weird for a while."
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Happy #CollegeSigningDay to the class of 2021! My eldest is headed to @BarnardCollege in the fall. I am very excited and a little nervous. It’s not easy letting your baby out into the world no matter how grown they think they are.
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In honor of Earth Day I accidentally started to pour my food scrap compost bag that I keep in my freezer into the blender for my morning smoothie 💚🌎
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