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Surfers can ride 5-foot waves in the middle of the city. Sometime in 2012, Edwin van Viegen was sitting on the edge of a historic canal in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, when a wild thought crossed his mind. What if people could surf here?

Boll & Branch worked with farmers in Texas to make $700 sheets out of the top 0.01% of the world’s cotton supply. When most people think of luxurious bedding, they imagine silky, breathable sheets, made from fine, high staple cotton. Boll & Branch wants to add another criteria to that list: Luxury sheets shouldn’t harm the planet, either.

After a decade of lobbying, SoCalGas is planning to blend hydrogen into gas lines serving a mostly Latino town in the San Joaquin Valley. A small California town populated by Latino farmworkers where the average resident makes around $12,000 a year could be a testing ground for a controversial solution to lower greenhouse gas emissions after several wealthier and far whiter communities rejected similar proposals.

Meanwhile, wages and benefits netted by private-sector workers rose 4.1% through 2023. The typical compensation package for chief executives who run companies in the S&P 500 jumped nearly 13% last year, easily surpassing the gains for workers at a time when inflation was putting considerable pressure on Americans’ budgets.

Parachute is partnering with SuperCircle to recycle home textiles. If you keep towels until they’re threadbare, or if your sheets are covered in stains, you may think the only place to put them is in the trash. But now you can keep those textiles out of the landfill and give them a second life through a new recycling program at Parachute.