KC Compton

For the first time, a careful, in-depth state-by-state report card answers that question in unambiguous detail. The State of Babies Yearbook: 2019, a collaborative effort between ZERO to THREE and Child Trends, is a first-of-its-kind resource that provides a state-by-state snapshot of how babies and their families are doing. ...

Researchers have unveiled a new analysis of AmosConnect 8.0, a communications software used by thousands of maritime ships worldwide. The software’s shipboard platform provides narrowband satellite communications, email, fax, interoffice communication and more for those at sea. As the IOActive security researchers have discovered, the platform also provides a pathway to hack critical information and a backdoor that crooks can leverage to gain unauthorized network access to sensitive informati...

Azolla filiculides is the tiny green embodiment of the old saying that one person’s trash is another person’s treasure. Some view Azolla, also known as water fern or red water fern, as an invasive pest and want to eradicate every last molecule of it — understandable, as its enthusiastic growth makes it able to cover the entire surface of a lake with a thick, sun-blocking mat in less than a year. This fern with leaves the size of a gnat is much more than a nuisance: Some say it could save the world.

‘The Black Panther’ Is the Kind of Hero’s Tale We All Need

It has a kind heart — a necessary balm for the times we find ourselves in.

I have become an evangelist. It is impossible to know me now and not know that I think you need to get thee to a Black Panther screening without haste. ...

When Beau’s All Natural Brewing Company’s founder decided to sell, there was only one way the punk-rocker-turned-entrepreneur felt he could do it: by selling his company to the employees through an employee-stock ownership plan. The ESOP provided a way for the organic brewery’s co-founder, Steve Beauchesne, to break the owner-versus-worker class system by turning workers into co-owners.
When Steve and Tim Beauchesne called all 200 employees of th...

Growing up first in Zimbabwe, then in South Africa, Neill Duffy became aware early on of the challenges of economically and socially marginalized communities. Now CEO and founder of Purpose + Sport, a sports-marketing agency based in San Francisco, Duffy is recognized as a thought leader in supporting organizations to expand beyond philanthropy and ...

Founded in 1923 by the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, Amalgamated Bank in New York City was born of a belief that workers and their families had as much right to affordable banking as corporations and high rollers. The bank has continued to demonstrate its commitment to progressive causes and the needs of working people through modern times. ...

From carbon emissions and food prices to green businesses, the Worldwatch Institute's latest publication, Vital Signs, Volume 21 documents more than two dozen trends that are shaping our future. Through concise analyses and clear tables and graphs, the 21st volume of the Worldwatch Institute series ...

Interview with Frances Moore Lappé and Anna Lappé:
World community food sources are abundant while people starve and the social, political and economic costs of dietary excess continue. From this chaos people have been inspired to make local decisions about their food sources and land use.

As with most others in our community, I have been walking around with some part
of me asking repeatedly, "Why?" Why was Matthew Shepard tormented and killed,
but on an even deeper level, why was he singled out? Why are gay men so often singled out? Why are so many men so nutty about the issue of gay-ness?This is an issue that goes so far beyond questions of sin and rightness or wrongness as to be not even in the same ballpark. And it makes no sense...

Mara Grunbaum's "WTF, Evolution?! A Theory of Unintelligible Design," just released by Workman Publishing, is a pictorial blooper reel of 100 funny creatures that will have you wondering if nature occasionally needs a designated driver, goes a little crazy or just runs out of steam. What to make of the Regal Horned Lizard, for example, that defends itself by shooting 3-foot streams of blood from its eyes? Or the Peacock Spider, whose flamboyant mating dance and vivid markings would be right at home in a Mardi Gras parade?

In 1985, poet Meryl Natchez was looking for a way to turn her writing skills into a viable business. As circumstances would have it, she launched her quest just as Silicon Valley was emerging as a hub for high-tech and scientific innovation. The poet soon parlayed her love of words into TechProse, a multimillion-dollar business with such clients as BART, Tandem, the State of California and Cisco. ...

Many of Seattle’s Phinney Neighborhood Association’s programs and initiatives exemplify the kind of “greening in place” that could be a model for all urban neighborhoods....