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Ways to improve the planet after COVID
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Ways to improve the planet after COVID

Here are a few ideas on improving your little part of the post-pandemic Earth that you could latch onto, or maybe you have some ideas of your own.

When there's no heat: 'You need wood, you get wood'
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When there's no heat: 'You need wood, you get wood'

Community wood banks, like food banks, help people in need. Climate change is shaping their role.
Meet the gleaners, combing farm fields to feed the newly hungry
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Meet the gleaners, combing farm fields to feed the newly hungry

An age-old tradition suddenly has fresh urgency in the pandemic, delivering surplus produce to Americans who can’t feed their families.
Virus crisis exposes cascading weaknesses in U.S. disaster response
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Virus crisis exposes cascading weaknesses in U.S. disaster response

Nonprofits are sending fewer volunteers. Local emergency managers risk being overwhelmed. FEMA is trying “virtual” assistance. And hurricane season starts June 1.
Australia’s volunteer firefighters are heroes. But are they enough?
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Australia’s volunteer firefighters are heroes. But are they enough?

The country relies heavily on civilians to contain its fires, but the monstrous blazes that come with climate change threaten to break the system.
Buttigieg proposes national service programs for climate change and mental health
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Buttigieg proposes national service programs for climate change and mental health

Buttigieg proposed an expansion of voluntary national service to 250,000 Americans in the short term, offering access to student debt relief programs.
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