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This clothing swap app lets shoppers use their own clothes as currency: 'An ever-changing wardrobe'

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Closest Closet makes it easier to thrift and swap clothes while saving money, inviting users to trade clothing items instead of donating and buying.
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Buying a gift for a loved one with cancer? Skip the care package and help with meals and laundry instead

Sociologists found acts of service to be much more memorable and helpful than a care package.
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Is a real or artificial Christmas tree more sustainable? Here's what the experts say

Three-quarters of U.S. households display a tree during the holidays. Here's the most sustainable way to celebrate.
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Protect public media: Here are 8 gifts that give back to PBS and NPR

After the Trump administration has cut billions of dollars in funding to institutions like PBS and NPR, here’s how you can support public media this holiday season.
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Site with 12,000 year Indigenous history may soon be the next national park

The 3,000-acre park protects land and features important to the Mississippian culture, which built the mounds there starting roughly 3,000 years ago.
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Giant animal puppets journey from the Congo Basin to a melting glacier in the Arctic with an important message (PHOTOS)

The Herds is a large-scale and participatory public art experience that brings to life the impact of climate change on a global scale.
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In the face of climate doom, more and more people are dreaming of a future full of “solarpunk” architecture.
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The World Has More Trees Than It Did 35 Years Ago

This might come as a surprise: Worldwide tree cover has grown — not shrunk! — by 2.24 million square kilometers — the size of Texas and Alaska combined — in the last 35 years, according to a paper in the science journal “Nature.”
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Strippers are now the No. 1 donor of toys to children's hospital in Portland. This year, they broke their own record

This year’s annual Tatas for Toys event “made it reindeer” even more than in years past.
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This clothing swap app lets shoppers use their own clothes as currency: 'An ever-changing wardrobe'

Closest Closet makes it easier to thrift and swap clothes while saving money, inviting users to trade clothing items instead of donating and buying.
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Religious leaders run powerful 'Choose love, not ICE' ad during holy season — including on Fox News at Mar-a-Lago

Leaders at the Interfaith Alliance are using the ad to target media markets that have seen intense ICE crackdowns this year.
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Billionaire buys apartment complex to slash rents for Colorado mountain town workers

The new Riverview Apartments supply workforce housing without the red tape, thanks to venture capitalist Mark Stevens.
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Scientist diagnosed with the rare disease that took her mother's life dedicates her life to finding a cure

Sonia Vallabh had already obtained her law degree from Harvard, but after her diagnosis, decided to retrain in biomedical engineering.
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At this 'cuddle club,' senior dogs and senior citizens find companionship in each other

San Francisco’s Muttville Senior Dog Rescue hosts monthly meetups for elderly community members — both human and canine.
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