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These People Have Given Up Flying To Help The Environment
By
Ellie Broughton
Aviation has a huge effect on climate change. That's why these people have chosen to quit or restrict their flying.
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IMPACT
This Coal Plant Shutdown Shows We Can’t Ignore Communities Left Behind
By
Matt Krupnick
The end of coal has huge environmental benefits, but the upcoming closure of the Navajo Generating Station shows coal communities need much more support.
Michele Zousmer
IMPACT
How Singing In A Choir Helped Homeless People In San Diego Find Their Voice
By
Carla Green
“We need it like oxygen,” says one Voices Of Our City Choir member.
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IMPACT
Here's Why I Stayed A Night In The Plastic Bottle Dungeon
By
Nina Lakhani
In Bocas del Toro, Panama, visitors to a castle made out of plastic waste are asked to atone for their sins against the planet.
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IMPACT
The Netherlands Pays People To Bike To Work
By
Adam Forrest
It's one of a handful of places around the world using cash to try to lure people out of their cars and onto their bicycles.
Eleanor Platt
IMPACT
This 10-Year-Old Is Fighting Climate Change By Ditching School
By
Naomi Larsson
, Guest Writer
“Children can make a change. It’s not only grown-ups who can save the planet.”
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IMPACT
People In Okinawa Live Longer Than Almost Anyone On Earth. Here's What They Eat.
By
Tom Levitt
This Japanese region has the highest proportion of people over 100 years old and they're ridiculously healthy.
Marie Eriel Hobro for HuffPost
IMPACT
Homelessness In Hawaii Is A Crisis. Climate Change Could Make It Worse.
By
David Uberti
The housing market is chewing up and spitting out thousands of migrants.
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IMPACT
The Mental Health Crisis Hidden Behind Your Grocery Store Vegetables
By
Twilight Greenaway
One of the nation’s biggest industries is staffed by workers facing grueling conditions and sky-high depression rates.
Cameron Macleish
HUFFPOST PERSONAL
I Am A Dumpster Diver. Here's What I've Learned.
By
Cameron Macleish
In the United States, 40 percent of all food that is produced gets thrown in the trash.
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IMPACT
Finland Gave People $640 A Month, No Strings Attached. Here’s What Happened.
By
Laura Paddison
The world's most prominent trial of universal basic income has ended -- and the first results are in.
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IMPACT
How Instagram Influencers Fuel Our Destructive Addiction To Fast Fashion
By
Lucy Siegle
The fashion industry is a big climate culprit, but social media continues to encourage our unsustainable consumption of disposable clothing.
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IMPACT
Airbnb Is Accused Of Destroying Cities. This Company Says It's The Ethical Alternative.
By
Senay Boztas
Italy-based Fairbnb intends to invest half its profits back into the community.
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IMPACT
Historian Lays Into Billionaires At Davos For Dodging The 1 Thing To Solve Inequality
By
Laura Paddison
“It feels like I’m at a firefighters’ conference and no one’s allowed to speak about water,” Dutch historian Rutger Bregman said in his now-viral talk.
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IMPACT
How Finland Solved Homelessness
By
Laura Paddison
With one ridiculously simple policy, it has almost completely eradicated street homelessness.
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IMPACT
The Human Survival Summit: The Next Wave Of Climate Change Protests Is Coming
By
Jo Confino
Greenpeace and Amnesty International unite in push for greater civil disobedience.
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IMPACT
It's Impossible To Eat Healthfully. Here's Why.
By
Tom Levitt
There are hidden killers in our broken food system, says a new report released at the World Economic Forum.
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OPINION
This Could Be The Biggest Scandal Of The Climate Change Era
By
Sandrine Dixson-Declève
and
Anders Wijkman
, Guest Writers
Humanity needs an urgent insurance plan for survival.
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IMPACT
Business Leaders Care Even Less About Climate Change Than They Did Last Year
By
Jo Confino
Only 19 percent of chief executives say it is a serious risk to their business, a new poll finds.
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IMPACT
How America's Junk Food Problem Made Its Way To China
By
Charlotte Middlehurst
Fast-food companies like KFC and McDonald's have planted their flags overseas, encouraging a love affair with fast food that carries a heavy cost.
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IMPACT
Americans Have Lost Faith In Their Ability To Move From Poverty To Riches
By
Jo Confino
More than two-thirds said it's no longer commonplace for hard work to be a path from poverty to wealth, according to a new World Economic Forum poll.
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IMPACT
26 Billionaires Own The Same Wealth As The Poorest 3.8 Billion People
By
Laura Paddison
A new economic system is needed to tackle rampant inequality, says a new Oxfam report.
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What Happens When Teachers Can't Afford To Live In Their Own Cities
By
Liza Ramrayka
Rapidly rising rents and soaring property prices are driving out invaluable public-sector workers.
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IMPACT
How Poop-Eating Worms Could Help Save Thousands Of Lives Each Year
By
Oliver Balch
People are dying worldwide because they lack something most in developed countries take completely for granted.
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IMPACT
The Rise Of The 4-Day Week
By
Gaby Hinsliff
Companies around the world are cutting people's workweek but not their wages in an effort to avoid burnout and improve wellbeing.
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IMPACT
After A Run Of Tainted Food Scandals, Women In Japan Took Control Of The System
By
Daniel Hurst
"You cannot just rely on the mechanisms of capitalism.”
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