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  • New App Alerts Users to Rising Rivers and Streams

    July 02, 2025 |

    Seven Days |

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    Response Location: United States, Vermont

    RiverAware, an app that uses real-time data from a national network of gauges, has helped ordinary citizens, first responders, floodplain managers, scientists, and recreational users such as paddlers and anglers access river-flow data, informing or alerting communities as to when it's time to evacuate or seek higher ground. The data is aggregated from more than 13,000 stream-gauging stations around the country maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Bureau of Reclamation, the Bureau of Land Management and the National Weather Service.

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  • Despite DEI pushback, guides along Boston's Freedom Trail widen the lens of inclusion

    June 23, 2025 |

    GBH |

    Radio |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

    Amid national attempts to roll back diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, tour leaders in Boston are making a concerted effort to highlight historical information about people from all backgrounds, from Indigenous history to important LGBTQ+ figures. One such tour, the Rainbow Revolutionaries tour, has been so popular that organizers have had to schedule additional sessions.

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  • New dashboard empowers North Carolinians to track air pollution in real time  

    June 13, 2025 |

    North Carolina Health News |

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    Response Location: United States, North Carolina

    CleanAIRE NC, an organization that trains residents to collect and share air quality data, uses AirKeeper Dashboard—an interactive mapping tool that displays real-time data from sensors across the state—to help North Carolina communities track and understand local air pollution and advocate for cleaner, healthier air.

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  • Ciencia comunitaria hecha por mujeres para anticipar sequías, cuidar cultivos y alimentar familias

    June 05, 2025 |

    El Colectivo 506 |

    Video |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: El Salvador, Ahuachapán

    En Ahuachapán, un grupo de mujeres están liderando un espacio de ciencia comunitaria para proteger el medioambiente e informar a su comunidad cuando sembrar o proteger cultivos. Colocan pluviómetros, anotan datos cada mañana y, a través de grupos de WhatsApp, van informando a la comunidad sobre la cantidad de lluvia que ha caído; tambien envían los datos cada mañana al Ministerio de Medio Ambiente para que el gobierno sepa lo que pasa en el campo.

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  • Los recicladores son héroes invisibles en la Economía Circular

    May 19, 2025 |

    Periodismo Público |

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    Response Location: Ecuador

    La Ley Orgánica de Economía Circular Inclusiva, en conjunto con diversas iniciativas públicas y privadas, ha formalizado, reconocido y mejorado las condiciones laborales de los recicladores de base en Ecuador, lo que ha permitido avances como el aumento de ingresos para algunos recicladores y una mayor recuperación de materiales.

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  • These cities give residents a say in the budgets. Is Atlanta next?

    April 02, 2025 |

    Atlanta Civic Circle |

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    Response Location: United States, Providence, Rhode Island

    Participatory budgeting gives residents a direct say in how municipal funding is allocated by allowing them to submit project ideas and vote on proposals created by city staff. One program in Rhode Island, for example, saw nearly 300 people in nine neighborhoods voted on project ideas, with nearly a quarter of those voters reporting they were unlikely to vote in typical elections.

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  • Community colleges are providing new opportunities for learning on the job in logging and oystering

    March 19, 2025 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States, Shingletown, California

    Shasta College partners with timber companies to help train apprentices for the industry, providing pre-apprenticeship coursework and helping to facilitate state and federal funding that offsets the cost of on-the-job training. So far, about 50 people have completed the pre-apprenticeship program, while 15 have completed the full apprenticeship.

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  • How farmworkers in Washington state got lawmakers' attention

    February 04, 2025 |

    Grist |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington

    Each year, farmworkers in Washington state gather for a people’s tribunal where they share their stories about the injustices they face on the job and advocate for policies to improve working conditions. In addition to supporters, the tribunal is attended by legislative staffers and sometimes elected representatives, and the tribunal’s findings have helped usher in new protections for workers, including guaranteed overtime pay and mandated cooling breaks in extreme heat.

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  • How New York Made Big Diversity Gains in Transportation Contracts

    January 03, 2025 |

    Governing |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    New York City’s “small purchase” program allows the city’s Department of Transportation to offer government contracts up to a certain spending limit specifically to minority- and women-owned businesses, with the goal of diversifying the city’s pool of contractors and suppliers. In fiscal year 2024, 32 percent of the department’s contract spending went to these businesses, compared to 24 percent in 2023 and 11 percent in 2022.

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  • Pop-Up Voting Centers Bring the Polls Directly to Unhoused Angelenos

    December 05, 2024 |

    Bolts |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    Los Angeles County’s Flex Vote Center Program establishes polling locations at shelters, transitional housing sites, and service centers for people who are unhoused or face other barriers to voting. In 2020, nearly 2,800 people cast their ballots through the Flex program.

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