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3 Tips for Keeping your New Year’s Climate Resolutions
3 Tips for Keeping your New Year’s Climate Resolutions
2021 is here, finally. Chances are that you are as eager as I am to end the pandemic, see family and friends, get outdoors, and adopt…
Rakhim Rakhimov
Jan 13
Behavior change: What’s the brain got to do with it?
Behavior change: What’s the brain got to do with it?
Working at the BE.Center over the last eight months has taught me a lot about what behavioral science looks like outside of the lab. It…
Philipe Bujold
Nov 25, 2020
Our Most Popular Stories of 2020
Our Most Popular Stories of 2020
2020 has changed us and challenged us like never before. In response to a global pandemic, the Black Lives Matter Movement, increasing…
Larissa Hotra
Jan 14
Designing our Built Environments with People and Nature in Mind
Designing our Built Environments with People and Nature in Mind
Whether it be the layout of your living room furniture, the distance between your make-shift home desk and the kitchen, or your…
Camille Freeman
Jul 30, 2020
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Peer Pressure, Climate Change, and the Power of Individual Behavior: A Conversation with Robert…
Peer Pressure, Climate Change, and the Power of Individual Behavior: A Conversation with Robert…
Earlier this month, Dr. Madhuri Karak, Community Engagement Lead at Rare’s Center for Behavior & the Environment, (virtually) sat down…
Camille Freeman
Aug 31, 2020
Leveraging Behavioral Insights to Solve Our Sewage Pollution Crisis
Leveraging Behavioral Insights to Solve Our Sewage Pollution Crisis
August 24–28 marks World Water Week. Organized by the Stockholm International Water Institute, World Water Week is a global movement…
Rare
Aug 24, 2020
Coastal Mayors Meet COVID-19 on Their Terms
Coastal Mayors Meet COVID-19 on Their Terms
COVID-19 has forced mayors globally to adapt to the profound changes challenging the social and economic fabric that underpins their…
Larissa Hotra
Aug 19, 2020
Key to the Green Recovery: microenterprises
Key to the Green Recovery: microenterprises
Last week, the New York Times published an article about the impact of COVID on tourism-related jobs, and how it is fueling a migration…
Rare
Jul 29, 2020
Rare’s Rocky Sanchez Tirona up for The Elevate Prize
Rare’s Rocky Sanchez Tirona up for The Elevate Prize
Powered by Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s SOLVE Initiative, the Elevate Prize Foundation goes to leaders and role models around…
Rare
Jul 14, 2020
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In Indonesia, big environmental payoffs for shrimp farm investments
In Indonesia, big environmental payoffs for shrimp farm investments
In Margasari, Indonesia, a shrimp farm has undergone a big transformation. A once-sprawling, sandy, porous channel of water used to…
Stephanie E. Buck
Feb 3, 2020
Solution Search: Women-led Movements Win
Solution Search: Women-led Movements Win
Perhaps it’s no surprise that not one but two women-led movements took home the gold at this year’s global contest, Solution Search…
Larissa Hotra
Mar 25, 2019
Jintian family farm exposes the underground
Jintian family farm exposes the underground
Healthy soil creates healthy communities
Larissa Hotra
Mar 4, 2019
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