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  • Putting the sun in Sunshine State? Florida's about-face on solar power

    February 11, 2019 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Miami, Florida

    “We’re in the midst of one of the largest solar expansions in the country,” says Alys Daly, a spokesperson for Florida Power and Light, the largest utility provider in the state of Florida. This statement represents a shift in which Florida has seized on decreasing costs of solar power and is working to increase its capacity tenfold. Power companies are helping residents save costs in an environmentally conscious way.

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  • How To Get Meat Eaters To Eat More Plant-Based Foods? Make Their Mouths Water

    February 10, 2019 |

    NPR |

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    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    Red meat consumption requires a great deal of water and land resources to produce and is even responsible for a large amount of greenhouse gases. To combat this, the Better Buying Lab is experimenting with marketing strategies to get people to buy more vegetarian and vegan items. After rebranding food with sensory descriptors like "Cuban" or "grilled", sales increased 13% in California and 76% in the UK. Influential brands like Panera are now increasing their efforts to continue this trend.

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  • Making Room for Kids in the World's Toughest Neighborhoods

    February 07, 2019 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: Lebanon, Bar Elias

    Designers around the world explore ideas and tactics to make inviting, safe, and engaging playgrounds for underserved children. From Lebanon to Belgium, engineers and builders work together to make play accessible and mobile.

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  • Thailand's Bamboo School

    February 07, 2019 |

    Under-Told Stories Project |

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    Response Location: Thailand

    A unique boarding school in Thailand has inspired close to 200 more of its kind. At Mechai Bamboo School, students benefit from a combination of traditional classroom instruction and hands-on activities, including starting their own small businesses. Targeted at some of the most disadvantaged students in Buriram Province, the lessons in economic development encourage students to give back to their home communities instead of migrating.

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  • A new solution to the student housing crisis: retiree roommates?

    February 06, 2019 |

    CalMatters |

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    Response Location: United States, Berkeley, California

    In a hot housing market like Berkeley, CA, it can be hard for students to find affordable apartments. At the same time, spare rooms often sit unoccupied in the nearby homes of retired UC Berkeley faculty and affiliates. As one possible solution, a pilot program is testing out intergenerational living, pairing students with retirees who are willing to open up their homes at a discounted rate.

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  • San Francisco shares its schoolyards, opening communities to green spaces and one another's lives

    February 06, 2019 |

    WHYY |

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    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Access to green spaces improves the well being of individuals and neighborhoods alike. By turning schoolyards into publicly accessible green spaces, the city of San Francisco’s Shared Schoolyard Program created spaces where not only children, but also urban communities, can interact with and experience nature. The schoolyards provide a vital recreational resource and meeting space for entire neighborhoods and communities.

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  • Turning Blight into Play Spaces

    February 05, 2019 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, New Orleans, Louisiana

    A nonprofit in New Orleans transforms cheap vacant and underutilized lots into playgrounds and spaces for community events that teach children "design thinking" in the process.

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  • Australia's Corporate Boards Shrink the Gender Gap

    February 04, 2019 |

    OZY |

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    Response Location: Australia

    In Australia, 29.7 percent of the top 200 companies in the Australian Securities Exchange are women. While other countries are finding it more difficult to increase the number of women represented on company boards, Australia has seen a cultural shift. Rather than imposing quotas, which often have negative effects, Australian investors have recognized the positive effects of diverse boards, and pushed companies to recruit and retain in exchange for their votes and continued investment.

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  • “Reverse Innovation” Could Save Lives. Why Aren't We Embracing It?

    February 04, 2019 |

    The New Yorker |

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    Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

    DIY solutions can overcome the scarcity of medical resources in developing countries and save lives. A simple solution such as replacing expensive uterine balloons with more readily accessible condoms has already helped to give thousands of mothers access to a potentially life-saving medical procedure preventing postpartum hemorrhage. The transfer of this and other proven DIY solutions can help cut health-care costs in more affluent countries with low-cost innovations.

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  • Cleaner Classrooms and Rising Scores: With Tighter Oversight, Head Start Shows Gains

    February 04, 2019 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Jacksonville, Florida

    Head Start, the biggest preschool program in the country (with roots in President Johnson's 1965 War on Poverty), is improving -- in the past decade, continued bipartisan support, new evaluation measures and periodic audits, and an increasingly educated teacher force have led to rising test scores.

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