Headway
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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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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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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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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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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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
Most experiences of homelessness are hidden by design, but they reveal much about how communities work, or don’t.
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The nation’s fourth-largest city hasn’t solved homelessness, but its remarkable progress can suggest a way forward.
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Scenes from one woman’s journey out of homelessness in Houston.
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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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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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The U.N. pledged to halve the proportion of the world without access to clean drinking water by 2015.
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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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The European Union promised to reduce its emissions 20 percent by 2020. Did it happen?
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The U.N. pledged to cut by half the proportion of people living in the worst conditions around the world.
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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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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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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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After a fire destroyed thousands of Indigenous artifacts, the curators of this Brazilian museum are adopting a radical new approach.
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