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  • Radical Health

    November 21, 2019 |

    How Do We Fix It? |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    To promote better healthcare access in The Bronx, local healthcare providers, activists, and nonprofits are working together to implement tactics such as community conversations or the use of an app that assists pregnant women of color. These methodologies function on the basis of the sharing of "social capital," which helps increase and mobilize interpersonal relationships.

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  • With Paper Monuments, New Orleanians Draft The City's History Themselves

    November 19, 2019 |

    Next City |

    Text |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, New Orleans, Louisiana

    Bringing the community into conversations about commemoration opens new ways to present public history. The Paper Monuments project in New Orleans asked residents to draw monuments that they would like to see replace the four Confederate monuments removed in the city. The project brought organizations like the New Orleans Arts Council and New Orleans Public library together with community members to re-imagine new narratives, installations, and representations of local history.

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  • Indigenous-wildlife ranger collaboration conserves rare Australian rainforests

    November 18, 2019 |

    Mongabay |

    Text |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Australia, Western Australia

    Revegetation and fire management practices are helping to preserve Australia’s biodiversity. In Western Australia, collaborative efforts between Environs Kimberley, an environmental NGO, and local rangers from the First Nation communities of the Dampier Peninsula are working to document, conserve, and manage the region’s monsoon vine thickets (MVT). As part of the Kimberley Nature Project (KNP), local rangers employ traditional methods like seasonal burns to allow for revegetation and to reduce the threat of larger bushfires.

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  • Fresno's poorest neighborhood changed the city. How residents took their community back

    November 15, 2019 |

    The Fresno Bee |

    Multi-Media |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Fresno, California

    Grassroots movements for urban renewal in the Lowell neighborhood of Fresno, California has given power back to the people in the urban planning of their own community. With the help of social media, community members have created a forum between themselves and their city, resulting in 95% less blight and a reduction in crime throughout Fresno.

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  • A Wasteful Life: Rethinking Sustainabilty

    November 13, 2019 |

    The Daily Evergreen |

    Text |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Kooskia, Idaho

    In Kooskia, a rural area in Idaho, local farmers are finding success in working with residents to make sure produce is being used to its fullest. From using the leftover apple chunks from cider-making to feed livestock to relying on neighbor's produce to provide for local businesses, sustainable homesteads are gaining popularity amongst communities.

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  • Desertification Is Devouring India. But There's Hope in the Dunes

    November 13, 2019 |

    OZY |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: India, Laporiya, Rajasthan

    The people of a small village on the edge of the Thar Desert have managed for decades to resist "desertification" -- degradation of arid land to the point that it is uninhabitable -- by storing monsoon waters for use later. The storage device, rectangular plots of land called chaukas, have worked well enough to be copied by dozens of other villages in the area. It is uncertain if this approach can reverse the loss of land, but it is at least holding off the rapid pace of desertification, which risks mass displacements of people as hundreds of millions of acreage is lost.

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  • After cyclone Fani, women in a migrant fishing community start resilience fund

    November 12, 2019 |

    Mongabay |

    Text |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: India, Penthakatha, Odisha

    After an unexpected summer cyclone in the Indian state of Odisha, hundreds of women from slums across the region formed a community fund for disaster preparedness. The women all try to contribute 10 rupees per month to the fund, slowly building their security net in case of another natural disaster.

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  • In Borneo, healthy people equals healthy forests

    November 12, 2019 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Indonesia, Borneo

    Those who live on the island of Borneo understand that their well-being comes from the Gunung Palung National Park, but logging remained rampant because it was the only way to make money to pay for healthcare. Thus, an organization named "Health in Harmony" was borne through "radically listening" to locals to find out what they needed. This organization accepts creative forms of payment for healthcare and offers incentives to cease logging, including a chainsaw buyback program. As a result, ten years later they saw a 90% drop in logging households and a re-growth of 52,000 acres of forest.

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  • Turning Paris's underground car parks into mushrooms farms

    November 11, 2019 |

    BBC |

    Video |

    Under 3 Minutes

    Response Location: France, Paris

    Mushroom farms are popping up in underground parking lots in Paris. The city, facing a surplus of lots as car ownership declines, has been holding competitions to find creative, new purposes for them. Urban farmers, Cycloponics, won one of these competitions and now operates three of these mushroom farms, selling their crops to local organic grocery stores in the area.

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  • Are D.C.'s Streets Finally Getting Safer?

    November 11, 2019 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

    As the District lagged on its Vision Zero goals, bike and pedestrian advocates in Washington turned traffic fatalities into a rallying cry, and got results.  

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