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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…
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    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…
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    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…
    Go to the profile of Larissa Hotra
    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…
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    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…
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    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…
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    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…
    Go to the profile of Larissa Hotra
    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…
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    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…
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    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…
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    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…
    Go to the profile of Larissa Hotra
    Larissa Hotra
    Mar 25, 2019
    Jintian family farm exposes the underground

    Jintian family farm exposes the underground

    Healthy soil creates healthy communities
    Go to the profile of Larissa Hotra
    Larissa Hotra
    Mar 4, 2019
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