At Fast Company, we’ve also seen and done a lot these last five days. Here’s a look at some of the week’s best work, including a dynamic series about the future of philanthropy and a Chobani exclusive.
A new wave of activist food banks are starting to try to put themselves out of business, by working on issues like minimum wage and rent control in an effort to fix the underlying problems that cause hunger.
Anand Giridharadas on stunts like Domino’s Pizza paving potholed roads: “I view them as cultural attempts to continue to eviscerate the idea of a commons and our biggest shared problems being solved together.”
As more and more issues become associated with politics, celebrities who want to give back have an ever-narrowing list of causes they can get behind without alienating large swaths of their fans.
For Japanese billionaire Masayoshi Son, Neumann was the prodigal son he never had, with a wild-eyed vision to rival Son’s own. The inside story of how it all went wrong.
The top seller of yogurt in America is plowing into plant-based foods. ‘Fast Company’ has an exclusive look at the germination of the Chobani Oat line, launching in January.
The devices in our pockets already track our locations. By leveraging all that data to predict and track public health crises, we might finally get something back for it.
