Lots of organizations require their employees to participate in diversity, equity and inclusion training. But is it effective? 'Many antiracist frameworks approach the work of anti-racism from the top down,' Chloé Valdary says. 'And their workshops will perpetuate the notion that people based upon skin color should be put into boxes.' DEI training is now a $3.4 billion industry. But what's all that money actually buying? 'A lot of companies will ask, you know, ‘Who else have you worked with or what did you do with so-and-so?' And that to me, signals that it's not intrinsic, that it's kind of like this exercise in conformity,' diversity consultant Robert Livingston says.

https://www.wwno.org/2023-01-25/rethinking-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-training

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The waters off Florida and across the Caribbean are reaching record-breaking temperatures. As high as 100-plus degrees Fahrenheit. If warm seawater is here to stay, what will it mean for all that lives in the ocean and on land? 'This year is unprecedented in terms of how early the bleaching started and the absolute temperature of the ocean that we're recording, and that is well backed up by what I see every single day that I'm on the reefs this summer,' Katey Lesneski, geo-biologist, says. Today, On Point: Our planet in hot water.

https://www.wwno.org/2023-08-09/our-planet-in-hot-water

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