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  2. Sustainable living - Wikipedia

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    Sustainable living describes a lifestyle that attempts to reduce the use of Earth's natural resources by an individual or society. Its practitioners often attempt to reduce their ecological footprint (including their carbon footprint) by altering their home designs and methods of transportation, energy consumption and diet.

  3. Social safety net - Wikipedia

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    A social safety net (SSN) consists of non-contributory assistance existing to improve lives of vulnerable families and individuals experiencing poverty and destitution.. Examples of SSNs are previously-contributory social pensions, in-kind and food transfers, conditional and unconditional cash transfers, fee waivers, public works, and school feeding prog

  4. Livelihood - Wikipedia

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    A person's livelihood (derived from life-lode, "way of life"; cf. OG lib-leit) [1] refers to their "means of securing the basic necessities (food, water, shelter and clothing) of life". Livelihood is defined as a set of activities essential to everyday life that are conducted over one's life span.

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    But "Never Stop Improving" is more than just a tag line for the $48.8 billion home improvement chain, with 1,725 stores, Katie Cody, a company spokesperson, tells DailyFinance. The three words sum ...

  6. Poverty reduction - Wikipedia

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    Another initiative focused on improving the hunger situation by improving nutrition is the Scaling up Nutrition movement (SUN). Started in 2010, this movement of people from governments, civil society, the United Nations, donors, businesses and researchers publishes a yearly progress report on the changes in their 57 partner countries.

  7. Quality of life - Wikipedia

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    Using this definition, the World Bank works towards improving quality of life through the stated goal of lowering poverty and helping people afford a better quality of life. Other organizations, however, may also work towards improved global quality of life using a slightly different definition and substantially different methods.

  8. Querencia - Wikipedia

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    ] Another connotation is the place where people feel most secure, gain the strength of their character and feel at home. The Grijalba/HarperCollins Spanish-English English-Spanish Dictionary (1999) translates the word into English as a) lair, haunt (adding that in bullfighting it means the bull's favorite spot, home ground, haunt); and b ...

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