Shuggie’s Trash Pie builds its entire menu around food waste. — By Adele Peters Every week for the past six weeks, the menu has changed at a San Francisco restaurant and wine bar called Shuggie’s Trash Pie. …

There’s also a vegan option made of mushrooms. — By Ellie Brandon Every year, the food industry generates up to 8 million tons of crab, lobster, and shrimp shells, many of which are either dumped back in the ocean or end up in landfills. Now, a biomaterials startup called TômTex wants you to wear them instead. The Brooklyn-based company…

After a challenging couple of years for the crowdfunding company, new CEO Everette Taylor hopes to bring excitement back to the brand. By David H. Freedman One of the tech darlings to come out of the Great Recession of the late 2000s, Kickstarter popularized crowdfunding. Since its founding in 2009…

Protests have swept Iran after a 22-year-old was killed. Experts say these demonstrations are different. — By Adele Peters Mahsa Amini, also known as Jina, was walking out of a subway station in Tehran on September 16 when she was stopped by the government’s so-called morality police. Amini, a 22-year-old who planned to begin university this fall, was wearing a headscarf — something that Iran has…

Big Tech’s broad surveillance push violates privacy at best, and perpetuates racist over-policing at worst. It’s exactly the wrong choice for tenuous, tumultuous times. — By Joe Berkowitz About a year before Jeff Bezos flew to space, he got called on the carpet. Amazon had just responded to George Floyd’s murder at the hands of police with a $10 million donation, when observers began pointing out Amazon’s flagrant hypocrisy. After all, the company had spent…

The executive director of Tulsa Remote asks (and answers): “What is the remote worker owed? And, to what extent, if at all, are remote workers different from their office-bound counterparts?” — By Ben Stewart Overnight, remote work became the norm in 2020. In a rush to recreate our economy, America set aside certain lingering questions about the role of remote work in our permanent economy, and more pointedly, the role and rights of its workers. What is the remote worker owed…

The entrepreneurs, who all have experienced the problems they’re trying to solve, are teaming up with behavioral science nonprofit Ideas42 and Wells Fargo to create the tools that could have helped them — By Talib Visram When LaToria Pierce was born, her mother was just 18 years old. She was 16 when Pierce’s older sister was born. Throughout her childhood, Pierce saw how her mother struggled financially, as she balanced work with childcare, living “a day at a time” on each paycheck. …

Young workers don’t care about workplace perks. This is what they want instead. — By Elizabeth Segran For years, companies have spent money on fun workplace perks in order to attract young talent. Google offers free gourmet meals and massages. Nike employees have access to gyms, yoga studios, and lunchtime sports leagues. …

Being an ally when your hand is forced isn’t true allyship, here’s what is — By Bärí A. Williams In the last year a lot of white people finally woke up to the vast inequities that people of color have lived with for generations. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are a must-have, not a nice-to-have, for every company and employee, and so true allyship has become…