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Recyclable? Try Refillable. The Quest For a Greener Cleaner
As more consumers try to cut down on plastic waste, both start-ups and big brands like Clorox are hoping to usher in a new age of refillable cleaners.
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Photo CreditPhoto Illustration by Tonje Thilesen for The New York Times Photo CreditCaroline Tompkins for The New York Times HeadwayHow Central Ohio Got People to Eat Their Leftovers
The average U.S. household wastes nearly a third of the food it buys. This community is nudging its residents to change their habits.
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Photo CreditMax Pinckers for The New York Times HeadwayHow to Recycle a 14-Story Office Tower
Buildings are responsible for nearly 40 percent of the world’s carbon emissions. In Amsterdam, they are trying to create a blueprint to do something about it.
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Photo CreditAndri Tambunan for The New York Times Inside the Global Effort to Keep Perfectly Good Food Out of the Dump
Around the world, lawmakers and entrepreneurs are taking steps to tackle two of humanity’s most pressing problems: hunger and climate change.
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Photo CreditLauren Tamaki 30 People Tell Us What Homelessness Is Really Like
Packing groceries, bathing in fountains, finding comfort in an orange blanket. Explore people's stories and their answers to common questions.
Interviews by Susan Shain and
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Photo CreditAbdul Kircher for The New York Times What Don’t You Know About Homelessness?
Most experiences of homelessness are hidden by design, but they reveal much about how communities work, or don’t.
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Photo CreditChristopher Lee for The New York Times How Houston Moved 25,000 People From the Streets Into Homes of Their Own
The nation’s fourth-largest city hasn’t solved homelessness, but its remarkable progress can suggest a way forward.
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Photo CreditElliot Ross for The New York Times Three Years in Shelters. Ten Months to Find a Home.
Scenes from one woman’s journey out of homelessness in Houston.
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Photo CreditNanna Heitmann for The New York Times What Do the Protectors of Congo’s Peatlands Get in Return?
The world is suddenly focused on a huge natural carbon store in the Congo Basin. Its guardians are asking what they're owed for keeping it intact.
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More in Hindsight ›Photo CreditMike Haddad Dear People of 2021: What Can We Learn From Hindsight?
For the first series from the Headway initiative, we followed up on forecasts from decades past to ask what the passage of time has revealed.
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Photo CreditMike Haddad Millions More People Got Access to Water. Can They Drink It?
The U.N. pledged to halve the proportion of the world without access to clean drinking water by 2015.
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Photo CreditMike Haddad What Can One Life Tell Us About the Battle Against H.I.V.?
In 2001, U.N. estimates suggested 150 million people would be infected with H.I.V. by 2021. That preceded an ambitious global campaign to curb the virus. How well did it work?
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Photo CreditMike Haddad Europe Met a Climate Target. But Is It Burning Less Carbon?
The European Union promised to reduce its emissions 20 percent by 2020. Did it happen?
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Photo CreditMike Haddad Extreme Poverty Has Been Sharply Cut. What Has Changed?
The U.N. pledged to cut by half the proportion of people living in the worst conditions around the world.
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More in Headway and The New York Times Magazine ›Photo CreditAdali Schell for The New York Times Remaking the River That Remade L.A.
Over the past century it has been channeled, subdued, blighted. Is it time for the Los Angeles River to serve the city in a new way?
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Photo CreditMaridelis Morales Rosado for The New York Times Can an Island Feed Itself?
After years of destructive weather that have disrupted Puerto Rico’s food supplies, new visions of local agriculture are taking root.
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Photo CreditMichal Siarek for The New York Times Architects Plan a City for the Future in Ukraine, While Bombs Still Fall
Irpin was one of the first Ukrainian cities to be destroyed and liberated. Now it’s becoming a laboratory for rebuilding.
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Photo CreditLuisa Dörr for The New York Times Can a National Museum Rebuild Its Collection Without Colonialism?
After a fire destroyed thousands of Indigenous artifacts, the curators of this Brazilian museum are adopting a radical new approach.
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