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Monitor Daily Podcast

March 06, 2024
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Mark Sappenfield
Senior global correspondent

Everyone wants to take better care of the planet. But how do we do that? Does my recycling just end up in a landfill? Does my electric car really shrink my carbon footprint?

Today, contributor Melba Newsome and Monitor photographer Alfredo Sosa take on wood pellets. Are they truly helping Europe meet green-energy targets? Does their manufacture really help local communities? There are doubts. 

Doing good requires confidence that what we’re doing is actually good. And sometimes, that requires a little investigating.


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Today’s stories

And why we wrote them

Today’s news briefs

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Presidential race: How dueling economic records stack up

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U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, Freddie Mac, University of Michigan, S&P Dow Jones Indices

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Storage domes contain wood pellets for loading into ships at the Port of Wilmington, May 17, 2023, in Sampson County, North Carolina.
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Bald eagles Jackie (back) and Shadow (front) stand next to eggs in a nest overlooking Big Bear Lake in the San Bernardino Mountains.

On Film

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Lily Gladstone, nominated for best actress for “Killers of the Flower Moon,” gives a “soul-deep performance,” our film critic says.

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Photo courtesy of Kouichi Satake and the Pritzker Architecture Prize
The Pangyo Housing in Seongnam, South Korea, designed by Riken Yamamoto

A Christian Science Perspective

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Dressmakers work at Tirelli Costumi in Rome, March 5, 2024. For nearly six decades, the Tirelli atelier has woven itself into the fabric of Italian and international film history, earning the nickname “Oscar tailor’s shop” for its contributions to cinematic costume design. The shop, which was started by the late Umberto Tirelli, has been behind 17 Academy Awards for Best Costume Design.
( The illustrations in today’s Monitor Daily are by Karen Norris. )

A look ahead

We’re so glad you could join us today. We hope you’ll come back tomorrow, when Sarah Matusek looks at how a Utah town is taking a unique approach to its immigration situation. 

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