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  • Europe's Noise Capital Tries to Turn Down the Volume

    April 27, 2022 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: France, Paris

    In February, municipal authorities in Paris began installing sound radar devices in the city as part of a slew of measures taken since 2015 to address noise pollution, an issue which is being considered more seriously as a public health risk. Holistic measures like installing sound-barriers, low-noise asphalt, vehicle-restrictions, and housing regulations have already reduced the average noise level by two decibels and brought down the number of people living in noisy environments.

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  • Puerto Rico enfrenta el reto de reducir el 60% los desechos que se depositan en vertederos para el 2030

    April 24, 2022 |

    El Nuevo Día |

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    Response Location: Puerto Rico

    Aprender de los desaciertos del pasado será clave para alcanzar la nueva meta de la Ley 33 de Mitigación, Adaptación y Resiliencia al Cambio Climático en Puerto Rico. La Ley 70, la cual fue promulgada en 1992, había declarado cinco mandatos, los cuales han visto poco o ningún progreso o implementación. Bajo la Ley 33, se actualizarán estos mandatos, incluyendo el atacar los problemas a través de sus raíces.

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  • A mudslide killed his family — so this entrepreneur is using coconuts to help prevent future disasters

    April 18, 2022 |

    Business Insider |

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    Response Location: Sierra Leone

    Rugsal Trading turns coconut waste into fire fuel as an alternative to wood. Replacing wood and charcoal with this fuel can prevent deforestation and deadly mudslides.

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  • Could the highly political redistricting process be more independent? San Antonio may find out

    April 17, 2022 |

    San Antonio Express-News |

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    Response Location: United States, San Diego, California

    San Diego’s independent redistricting commission has aimed to take politics out of drawing district maps since 1992 by preventing City Council from drawing or approving its own map. Instead, nine commissioners from over 100 applicants were chosen based on background and qualifications by three randomly selected retired judges. The member selection process, rules for transparency, open public engagement and no tolerance for conflicts of interest are keys to its success. There is more equitable infrastructure investment and greater voter turnout now, which are two positive signs of reduced gerrymandering.

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  • Can We Build Less Biased Medical Bots?

    April 11, 2022 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    Melalogic is an app that provides skin health resources to people with dark skin. The uses crowdsourced imaging data to confront racial bias in diagnostic artificial intelligence. Users can access the Black Skin Resource Center with information on 14 issues that affect people with darker skin. The app also shares health posters that physicians use to share information with their patients and videos with dermatologic tips. In the works is Melalogic 2.0, an immersive telehealth experience.

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  • California Mandated Composting. How Will It Work In LA And What Are We All Expected To Do?

    April 06, 2022 |

    LAist |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    In California, open-air composting facilities like Recology take food scraps and yard trimmings from the public to be composted into usable soil. The process produces less methane than sending the waste to the landfill.

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  • School Farms Target Food Insecurity, ‘Supermarket Redlining'

    April 01, 2022 |

    Mississippi Free Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Jackson, Mississippi

    A high school in Jackson, Mississippi, hosts the Academy of Natural Resource Utilization in which students grow produce in greenhouses, sell it at farmers markets, and make food products like salsa. The academy is an effort to educate youth on gardening and combat food insecurity in the community.

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  • To save lives, midwives mix Mayan heritage with Western medicine

    March 29, 2022 |

    National Geographic |

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    Response Location: Guatemala

    Indigenous midwives in rural areas of Guatemala help pregnant women with limited access to healthcare give birth in an effort to prevent maternal and infant deaths.

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  • Democracy Comes to Michigan

    March 21, 2022 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: United States, Michigan

    A grassroots campaign ended gerrymandering in Michigan by passing an initiative requiring districts be drawn by citizen-commissions rather than politicians. The all-volunteer campaign went door-to-door collecting enough signatures to get the initiative on the ballot and used creative voter-engagement techniques to sustain the support. Once the ballot initiative passed, 9,300 people applied for the first commission. A third-party firm ultimately selected four Democrats, four Republicans, and five non-partisan people as commissioners, who worked together very well to redraw districts.

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  • Kansas increasingly meeting the need for rural broadband speed

    March 16, 2022 |

    The Kansas Leadership Center Journal (KLC Journal) |

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    Response Location: United States, Kansas

    Kansas has increased access to high-quality broadband, especially in rural areas, by using $60 of the $250 million Congress allocated to Kansas for coronavirus-related costs. The Statewide Broadband Expansion Planning Task Force had already made recommendations to the state legislature, which were approved in the 2020 session. Companies who won the bids to expand access quickly deployed about 350 miles of fiber and fixed wireless service in some areas. Other grant-funded initiatives will continue to improve access, particularly to low-income areas.

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