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  • First-in-the-Nation Geothermal Heating and Cooling System Comes to Massachusetts

    June 04, 2024 |

    Inside Climate News |

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    Response Location: United States, Framingham, Massachusetts

    A utility company in Framingham, Massachusetts, worked with climate advocates to build a unique geothermal heating and cooling project that spans a whole neighborhood. A group of residential and commercial buildings share the infrastructure necessary to harness stable underground temperatures for heating and cooling, which reduces their greenhouse gas emissions and energy bills.

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  • Daytona considering free rides in Midtown via systems that use electric vehicles

    May 31, 2024 |

    Daytona Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Florida

    Two transportation companies, Freebie and Slidr, are teaming up with towns in Florida to provide free, on-demand shuttle services with electric vehicles. The app-based system helps bolster transit networks and fill gaps in services.

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  • Using less of the Colorado River takes a willing farmer and $45 million in federal funds

    May 30, 2024 |

    KUNC |

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    A federally-funded water conservation program, the System Conservation Pilot Program, is paying farmers in the Upper Colorado River Basin to not use the river’s water during the irrigation season. Leaving their fields dry for the program can earn them more money than they would get from growing crops.

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  • One Strategy for the Arts to Beat Gentrification: Buy the Building

    May 19, 2024 |

    Bloomberg |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Arts nonprofits across the U.S. are using creative, often complex, financial and organizational models to continue to provide a stable place for artists to thrive despite high real estate prices. In one example, a gallery director in Chicago created a nonprofit and a noncharitable LLC to purchase and redevelop a building that will have space for a retail tenant on the first floor.

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  • Taraba State confronts widespread adult illiteracy

    April 30, 2024 |

    Prime Progress |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Taraba State

    The Taraba State Mass Education Board provides literacy programs, continuing education, and skills training for adults who didn’t have access to formal schooling or who have disabilities. The board has schools in 16 local government areas across the state, and students say they feel empowered to pursue new careers and business opportunities thanks to their improved literacy skills.

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  • As more youth struggle with behavior and traditional supports fall short, clinicians are partnering with lawyers to help

    April 30, 2024 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States, New Haven, Connecticut

    A medical-legal partnership at the Yale Child Study Center allows health and law professionals to team up to address patients’ health and legal needs. The teams help children with anything from housing to academic environments by addressing the root of the problem and connecting it to their legal rights.

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  • Solving chronic absenteeism is 'a people business'

    March 20, 2024 |

    Ashland Source |

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    Response Location: United States, Ashland, Ohio

    After chronic absenteeism rates spiked during the pandemic, staff and administrators in Ashland CIty Schools emphasized building strong relationships with students and their families, making it easier to intervene in cases of significant absences. School leaders say it’s part of a strategy that has helped chronic absenteeism rates drop by roughly 14 percent year over year.

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  • The Perks of Virtual Coworking With Strangers

    March 15, 2024 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: United States

    Remote workers are joining virtual coworking sessions with strangers where they share their goals and work quietly for a set period, a practice known as “body doubling,” as a way to fight procrastination and increase productivity.

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  • Mt. Everest is plagued by garbage. These Nepali women are transforming it into crafts

    February 25, 2024 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: Tharu community, Nepal, Kathmandu

    A coalition of local businesses in Kathmandu, Nepal, is sorting non-recyclable waste collected from mountaineering activities in the Himalayan mountains. Once it is sorted, skilled Indigenous craftswomen make it into new products, like placemats and jewelry boxes, to earn a living.

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  • From inspiration to action: young Nigerians take charge of their communities

    February 07, 2024 |

    Prime Progress |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Jigawa

    Turnup Jigawa is a leadership program that provides mentorship around advocacy and communication with the goal of training young people to engage with lawmakers and community stakeholders. Students go on to spearhead projects in their own communities, such as one participant’s awareness campaign around environmental hygiene and another’s initiative to provide college and career counseling to secondary students.

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