Welcome again to our weekly behind-the-scenes glimpse at what’s getting our group speaking. Tell us what you suppose at [email protected].
Good indicators
Excellent news for teenagers (and oldsters) who’re deaf or onerous of listening to: Beginning this month, episodes of a number of PBS kids’s packages, together with Arthur and Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood, will embrace American Signal Language interpretations. As a Quick Firm story shared by Editorial Director Rebecca Worby explains, whereas the model has lengthy provided closed-captioning, this newest accessibility measure is geared toward preschoolers who can’t but learn.
Becca says:
PBS Children is integrating ASL decoding into a few of its reveals. A shock to me: ASL is the third-most generally used language within the US after English and Spanish.
Earth Day day by day
This week, the Washington Submit highlighted a variety of Native American practices that might assist to mitigate the impacts of local weather change. The listing consists of Hopi dryland farming, Zuni waffle gardens, Acoma seed saving and Swinomish clam gardens. As Viewers Engagement Supervisor Mariel Lozada factors out, it additionally consists of prescribed burns, a observe we coated in final week’s version of What We’re Studying.
Mariel says:
For Earth Day, the Washington Submit chosen 9 practices from Native American tradition that might assist the atmosphere. One in every of them is managed burns!
What else we’re studying
🏊 The brand new geography of Paris — shared by RTBC Founder David Byrne from The Economist
🪸 Divers within the Philippines create nurseries for rescued coral — shared by Editorial Director Rebecca Worby from Reuters
✋ Contact can cut back ache, despair and anxiousness, say researchers — shared by Contributing Editor Michaela Haas from The Guardian
Elsewhere in our channels…
On Earth Day, President Biden introduced the awarding of $7 billion to develop residential solar energy in low-income communities. Indigenized Power, which we coated in a Fixer put up on the finish of final 12 months, reached out to tell us that they have been among the many recipients. “This can be a once-in-a-generation award that can start to rework how tribes obtain power sovereignty,” mentioned Cody Two Bears, government director of Indigenized Power. “The shift from extractive power to regenerative power programs would be the legacy we depart for our future generations.”
