Lisa Abend
@LisaAbend
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Freelance journalist writing for @TIME, @nytimes, @afarmedia and lots of others.
Copenhagen, Madrid, Etc.
Joined February 2009
Were you ever tempted to buy a one-euro home in a small Italian village? Yeah, me too. For @AFARmedia, @LisaAbend reports on just how that initiative has changed life in Sicily: https://t.co/Qf6aeZgiry
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For more than a decade, Sicily has been trying to revive its villages by selling vacant houses. Writer Lisa Abend heads to the largest island in the Mediterranean to see how life has changed.
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So, I've started a Substack about traveling without the internet. No Googling, no GPS, no online bookings, no Instagram, no restaurant ranking apps, no Uber, no AirBnB, & definitely no mindless scrolling as coping device against existential angst. https://t.co/pLXxDQ2Kjr
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Irene Montero, Spain's Minister of Equality, spearheaded feminist laws in Spain. Now the government is in crisis. Is it a sign of unbridgeable divisions between the progressive Spain Montero envisions and a patriarchal reality that remains entrenched?
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'Politics is ideology,' Spain's Minister of Equality tells TIME, amid a growing controversy over a sex consent law
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the proof that a 4-day workweek is the way to go just keeps growing. @LisaAbend on the latest global trials and how HAPPY they make everybody!!
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Both employers and employees have declared global trials of a four-day workweek an overwhelming success.
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How three friends inadvertently transformed knowledge about prehistoric art in #Norway 😍👍 https://t.co/FwPfxOFwuZ via @nytimes @LisaAbend
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Some Norwegian hobbyists are having a great time uncovering hundreds of Bronze Age carvings. Their discoveries have lent weight to theories about what the mysterious images mean.
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Meanwhile, @karl_vick and @YasmeenSerhan — with moving reporting from @dsarkisova and @LisaAbend — wrote about the people who personify the spirit of Ukraine and the forces of light striving to defeat darkness.
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Ordinary people from the front lines and beyond helped ally much of the world to Ukraine's side
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The first snow of the season has fallen in Ukraine, just as Europe's warm welcome to Ukrainian refugees has begun to cool. A dispatch from @LisaAbend in @TIME:
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Europe welcomed millions of Ukrainian refugees. But as countries face their own crises, that welcome is being tested.
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What a 'Sponge City' Designed to Withstand Extreme Flooding Looks Like @LisaAbend
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A new neighborhood in Vienna is intended to protect residents from the extreme weather inflicted by climate change
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An answer to both floods and drought? My story on absorbent urban design:
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A new neighborhood in Vienna is intended to protect residents from the extreme weather inflicted by climate change
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As of midnight tonight, Finland closes its borders to Russian tourists. There's going to be a lot of leftover salmon at Laplandia.
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Finland and Estonia are bringing in restrictions against Russian tourists. Will the rest of Europe follow?
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Switzerland has a long history of protecting animals. A new initiative wants it to go further—the Swiss will vote on Sunday on whether to ban factory farming. @LisaAbend reports on what could be a global first
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Switzerland already has a strong culture of protecting animals. Activists say it needs to go further
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This tik tok singlehandedly renewed my passion for the environment
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What medieval guilds, demographic transformation, and a very young Anthony Bourdain have to do with the stagiaire system (AKA: why chefs work for free):
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I"n its depiction of powerful women behaving just as badly as men, has Borgen arrived at a new, post-feminist version of true equality? Or has it succumbed to an older, more misogynistic vision of women in power? For @time: https://t.co/uNPvLFWOBj
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After a decade, the hit show returns for a fourth season with a fresh take on female power
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It was fun to contribute to this, but true Copenhageners are holding out for the Winter of Cycling story (for @nytimestravel)
This is the Summer of Cycling! We asked 7 writers to tell us their favorite routes in 7 great biking cities. You can plan your ride here, or tell us your favorite ride in your city.
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Wow. Today's @nytime's story on the billions in ransom and 'reparations' that Haiti paid for generations to its former enslavers is a stunning piece of journalism and historical research:
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In 1791, enslaved Haitians ousted the French and founded a nation. But France made generations of Haitians pay for their freedom. How much it cost them was a mystery, until now.
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Proud to share our latest class of @TIME Next Generation Leaders. “Reporting on a war in your own country is both a blessing and a curse,” @olya_rudenko told @LisaAbend in our new cover story on her leadership of @KyivIndependent
https://t.co/z1yVEchen3
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