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This is what your life will be like when the world hits a dangerous climate tipping point

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This will put at risk decades of human development progress in densely populated coastal zones which are home to one in seven people in the world, says Pedro Conceio, director of the United Nations Development Programmes Human Development Report Office. Flooding from extreme storms like hurricanes will also become more frequent.

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Changing the World One Gift at a Time: An Interview with Deron Beal of the Freecycle Network

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It's pretty amazing what these folks have created, like Dan Newman, the Executive Director and Co-founder of MAPLight.org , a non-partisan non-profit that illuminates the connection between money and politics (you can read my interview with him here ). I'm the Founder and Executive Director of the Freecycle Network.