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From Blacktop to Green: Cities Are Depaving for a Cooler Future

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Climate-related heat and flooding have planners rethinking the heat-absorbing, impermeable stuff that covers so much of the urban landscape.

Mindful Breathing Is Coming to New York City Classrooms This Fall

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Every student in the city will engage in two to five minutes of daily mindfulness, a tactic that has shown positive effects in schools around the world.

Your Job Wants to Offer You Therapy. How Does That Make You Feel?

11 min read

Workplaces are getting deeply involved with their employees’ mental health, in ways both positive and dubious.

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Free Therapy Is Putting Philadelphia’s Black Men on a Path to Healing

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Stigma and affordability have long been obstacles to mental health care in vulnerable communities. What happens when both are removed?

Ask Me Anything! Our New Editorial Director Rebecca Worby

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Founding editor Christine McLaren talks to RTBC’s newest team member about hope for the climate, her time in Texas and the correct pronunciation of that thing that keeps your beer cool.

For Indigenous Peoples With Deep Ties to the Land, Climate Change Is Personal

9 min read

“Indigenous worldviews look at the land as an extension of the self, so can you argue that land is body?”

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A Bicycle Is an Anti-Poverty Machine

5 min read

Giving people bicycles may be one of the cheapest, easiest ways to support them. One group is distributing them by the thousands.

In the Container Village of “Poliopolis,” a Vaccine Trial Like No Other

6 min read

For nearly a month, 30 strangers locked down together to test the first major update to the polio vaccines in decades.

Remote Work Is a Chance to Do Something Meaningful

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In the work-from-anywhere era, it’s easier than ever to keep earning your salary while volunteering abroad.

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‘Their Voices Will Be Heard Now’: How a Colorado Community Preserved Affordable Housing

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In an unusual approach, a land trust and a co-op collaborated to save a mobile-home park from corporate buyout.

To Become a Better Tourist, Aim for Slowness and Imperfection

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The most rewarding travel experiences leave room for the unexpected — and genuinely benefit communities.

In This Arizona City, Kids With Autism Are More Than Welcome

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For families with neurodiverse children, travel can be tough. In Mesa, locals have learned how to make it much easier.

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