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Balcony solar took off in Germany. Why not the US?

Akielly Hu

April 25, 2025 |

Grist |

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Response Location: Germany

Utah legislators passed a bill exempting small-scale balcony solar installations from utility interconnection regulations to replicate Germany's successful approach, but the absence of national electrical standards and safety certifications have so far prevented widespread adoption and impact in the U.S.

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Community Libraries Are Spreading Across Rural India

Geetanjali Krishna

April 21, 2025 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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Response Location: India

In rural areas of India that often have limited access to reading material, communities are banding together to form small libraries where residents can read, study, take classes, or just use the wi-fi. One library has grown to about 2,100 registered members and has helped about 50 students pass their competitive exams.

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Knitting, cheerleading, fishing: This is what a cellphone ban looks like in one school district

Neal Morton

April 08, 2025 |

The Hechinger Report |

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Response Location: United States, Spokane, Washington

When Spokane Public Schools banned cellphones in classrooms and at recess, it also paired the new rules with an engagement program designed to get more students involved in clubs and extracurricular activities. Since removing cell phones, expanding activity options, and hiring “engagement navigators” to help match students to activities, the number of students participating in extracurriculars increased by 19 percent and principals began reporting fewer phone confiscations.

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Farmworker Unions on the Rise in New York, Joined by the United Farm Workers

Lisa Held

March 31, 2025 |

Civil Eats |

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Response Location: United States, New York

Capitalizing on broad political-organizing pushes across the U.S., the United Farm Workers (UFW) union signed its first contract in New York, offering significant protections to about 150 orchard workers.

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Helping the children of sex workers

Myra Anubi, Puja Bhattacharjee

March 18, 2025 |

BBC |

Podcast |

Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: India, Kolkata

The DIKSHA youth club looks after the children of sex workers when their mothers are working. The club teaches youth about their rights, bodily autonomy and empowers them to take control of their futures and avoid joining the sex trade themselves. The club started in 2001, and over the past two decades, it has helped prevent young girls from joining the sex trade, reduced rates of trafficking in the area and also helped reduce the stigma children of sex workers face.

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Red flag laws are increasingly being used to protect gun owners in crisis

Matt Vasilogambros, Amanda Hernández

March 11, 2025 |

Stateline |

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Response Location: United States, Maryland

Red flag laws allow family members, law enforcement officers, and sometimes even health care workers to file an extreme risk protection order when they’re concerned that someone with access to a gun may harm themselves or others. In Maryland, which is considered a national leader in this type of legislation, a red flag law has helped prevent potential school shootings and the state is now focused on training health care providers to recognize concerning cases and file petitions when necessary.

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Ethiopia's Utopian Experiment in Gender Equality

Peter Yeung

February 07, 2025 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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Response Location: Ethiopia, Awra Amba

The Awra Amba community is founded on broad values such as gender equality of labor, women’s rights, children’s rights, and caring for the elderly and vulnerable, and residents work together on 15 democratically elected committees to make key decisions. Research shows that the community has achieved higher life expectancy, literacy rates, and measures of gender equality than the country’s national averages.

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Inside Africa's Trailblazing Solar Repair Movement

Peter Yeung

January 27, 2025 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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Response Location: Zambia

Nonprofit SolarAid trains repair technicians who can fix solar energy kits. In the 2023-24 financial year, SolarAid’s teams across Zambia and Malawi repaired 2,422 solar products, reducing electronic waste, increasing the lifespan of products, and improving access to solar lights, as well as creating job opportunities

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With 'Giving Circles,' Anyone Can Be a Philanthropist

Anna Patton

December 20, 2024 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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Response Location: United States

Giving Circles allow average people to make a larger impact with their philanthropy by pooling donations from members for larger gifts to chosen causes and organizations. Between 2017 and 2023, there were nearly 4,000 of these groups in the United States, with total donations totaling $3.1 billion.

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Intergenerational care benefits children and seniors. Why is it still so rare?

Emily Tate Sullivan

December 17, 2024 |

EdSurge News |

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Response Location: United States, Fairmont, Nebraska

At intergenerational care facilities, early learning programs co-locate with senior homes, giving students and care residents plenty of opportunities to interact. Research shows this type of intergenerational program can have physical and cognitive benefits for both the adults and the children involved in them.

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