IT’S A ONE-TO-ONE EQUATION. One metric ton of carbon dioxide can be reduced from the earth’s atmosphere by 2030 for every philanthropic dollar spent on mitigation efforts.

That’s the conclusion of a new study called “Changing the Game” funded by the Marin Community Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation. It was also supported by the Equation Campaign, an anti-fossil fuel organization started by the great-great-grandchildren of John D. Rockefeller, who in 1870 founded Standard Oil, once the largest corporation in the United States.

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Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.