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  • How cognitive behavioral intervention is reducing gun violence in Chicago

    Patience Hurston

    May 17, 2024 |

    The Columbia Chronicle |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    The Institute for Nonviolence Chicago is working to reduce gun violence by reaching out to victims and perpetrators immediately after the violence. The organization negotiates peace and offers cognitive behavioral intervention services to help them develop strategies to keep negative emotions from turning into violent actions.

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  • Talking the Talk: How one therapy practice is bridging cultural and language barriers

    Doreen Abril Albuerne Rodriguez

    May 16, 2024 |

    The Columbia Chronicle |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Latinx Talk Therapy offers bilingual mental health services in English and Spanish from Latino therapists. These services help bridge the gap in accessing mental health care in Latino communities. The Center opened in 2020 with a team of four therapists but has since grown to 50, as the services they offer have begun to gain more traction within the community.

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  • The queer book bike serving Brooklyn

    Jill Webb

    May 15, 2024 |

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    Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

    Volunteers distribute free LGBTQ2S+ literature to the Boston community via the Nonbinarian Book Bike, a mutual-aid project focused on filling the gap in bookstores and libraries to connect people to queer literature.

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  • Carbon removal: What's the local government's role?

    Ysabelle Kempe

    May 15, 2024 |

    Smart Cities Dive |

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    Response Location: United States

    Local governments in the United States are taking the lead on carbon removal projects to meet net-zero goals, which could help bring down the cost of the technology to make it more widely accessible. A coalition of governments in Colorado, Arizona, Utah, and New Mexico, for example, awarded grants to projects that store carbon dioxide in concrete.

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  • Sin Título extends their brand from T-shirt slogans to mental health events 

    Doreen Abril Albuerne Rodriguez

    May 15, 2024 |

    The Columbia Chronicle |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Sin Título started as a socially conscious clothing brand but has since evolved into a mutli-faceted brand that hosts mental health discussion panels and other events that aim to amplify marginalized voices and offer healing opportunities for the local Latinx population. One such event is their journaling series, the first of which, “Self Love Journal Club,” attracted about 100 people.

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  • This Utah County Will Buy Your Lawn to Save Water

    Morgan Sjogren

    May 14, 2024 |

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    Response Location: United States, Utah

    A turf buyback program run by the Washington County Water Conservancy District in Utah pays residents to swap their lawns for native plants. It's reducing the amount of water used for landscaping amid a drought.

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  • Ideas We Should Steal: Homesharing

    Courtney Duchene

    May 13, 2024 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Pennsylvania

    A state-led program in Pennsylvania matches homeowners willing to rent out space in their house with renters who need affordable housing. The initiative is also focused on allowing seniors to stay in their homes and communities longer, so one of the parties is always over 60 years old.

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  • Beavers Are Back in London — and They're Thriving

    Peter Yeung

    May 13, 2024 |

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    Response Location: England, London

    A volunteer-run community organization is reintroducing beavers to London as part of a larger rewilding effort. The beavers are alleviating flooding and helping biodiversity thrive in the eight-hectare public park they live in by building dams and canals.

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  • One Small Credit Union Is Powering Brooklyn's Economy

    Oscar Perry Abello Lucas Grindley

    May 13, 2024 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Brooklyn, New York

    The Brooklyn Cooperative Federal Credit Union provides small business loans to local Black and Brown businesses, through average investments of $24,000. This small, community lender provides more funding to local businesses than larger national banks like Citibank, Wells Fargo and Bank of America, helping support local businesses and finance community development.

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  • Moroccan Farmers Are Banking Traditional Seeds for a Hotter, Drier Future

    Soukaina Almouhtadi

    May 10, 2024 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Morocco, Sidi Ifni, Guelmim

    A seed bank was established in Sidi Ifni, a farming community in Morocco, to revive drought-ridden land by enabling the cultivation of traditional, drought-resistant crops. An accompanying training program is helping farmers market these crops to improve their livelihoods.

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