--- title: Five Best:National Service is Key to Rebuilding After Harvey description: National service is the key to rebuilding after Hurricane Harvey, Brexit might not be a disaster for Europe and more. canonical: https://time.com/4933364/national-service-is-key-to-rebuilding-after-harvey/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-09-08T16:00:01.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:30.961Z article:section: Ideas og:title: National Service is Key to Rebuilding After Hurricane Harvey og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4933364/national-service-is-key-to-rebuilding-after-harvey/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: National Service is Key to Rebuilding After Hurricane Harvey twitter:description: And four more of today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # National Service is Key to Rebuilding After Harvey by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Sep 8, 2017 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Sep 8, 2017 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**National service is the key to rebuilding after Hurricane Harvey.**](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/americans-brought-back-new-orleans-they-can-do-the-same-for-houston/2017/09/07/5a8a471c-93c7-11e7-8754-d478688d23b4%5Fstory.html?utm%5Fterm=.09a7bcb2f052) By Walter Isaacson in the _Washington Post_ **2\.** [**Brexit will be a disaster for Europe, right? Not so fast.**](http://www.reuters.com/article/us-hammond-brexit-commentary/commentary-europe-bursts-out-of-its-brexit-blues-idUSKCN1BH227) By Andrew Hammond at R_euters_ **3\.** [**Learn how nine communities are investing in housing that contains health care costs.**](https://ssir.org/articles/entry/housing%5Ffor%5Fhealth) By Joshua Bamberger at _Stanford Social Innovation Review_ **4\.** [**Development of the Arctic is inevitable. Here’s a way to do that investment right.**](https://wilsonquarterly.com/quarterly/into-the-arctic/an-investment-model-for-the-arctic/) By Tero Vauraste in the _Wilson Quarterly_ **5\.** [**Our parents said TV would rot our brains, but binge-watching — while sitting on the couch — is really hurting baby boomers.**](http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/09/04/547580952/get-off-the-couch-baby-boomers-or-you-may-not-be-able-to-later) By Patti Neighmond at _NPR_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4933364/national-service-is-key-to-rebuilding-after-harvey/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4933364/national-service-is-key-to-rebuilding-after-harvey/"},"headline":"National Service is Key to Rebuilding After Harvey","datePublished":"2017-09-08T16:00:01.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:30.961Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4933364/national-service-is-key-to-rebuilding-after-harvey/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Innovation","housing","TV","arctic","Brexit","hurricane harvey"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4933364/national-service-is-key-to-rebuilding-after-harvey/","name":"National Service is Key to Rebuilding After Harvey"}}]}] ```