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  • Awasi Residents Invest in Rain Water Harvesting to curb Water Shortage

    October 26, 2018 |

    Talk Africa |

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    Response Location: Kenya, Awasi

    Investing in tanks to collect rainwater can help remote communities increase their resilience to shortages and improve the lives of residents. In Kisumu County, Kenya, villagers who struggle with water shortages have turned to collecting rainwater. Although the county is preparing to drill new boreholes to serve local schools and hundreds of residents, acute water shortages are made more bearable by storing rainwater.

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  • ‘They're Bold and Fresh': The Millennials Disrupting Boston's Transit System

    October 25, 2018 |

    Politico |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

    TransitMatters, a transit advocacy group in Boston, is using the power of data and innovative thinking to make Boston's public transportation better for residents. The group has been able to connect with local leaders to win victories for pilot programs, including one to expand bus service to early-morning and late-night to assist people working the night shift.

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  • How an Expanding Park in Queens Can Withstand Any Storm

    October 24, 2018 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    In Queens, New York an industrial site along the East River has been transformed into an 11-acre park that offers quiet greenspace and recreation opportunities, but is also designed to withstand storms and tidal surges. The first phase already proved itself in the four-foot storm surge of Hurricane Sandy that inundated the site then drained off. The design helps ensure future housing on the site and other amenities will avoid decimation by rising sea levels and storms.

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  • Tech That Tricks the Brain

    October 23, 2018 |

    BBC |

    Radio |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: England, London

    Assistive, wearable technology has been developed to send tactile or visual information to the brain in order to address mental or physiological challenges. One company has made a bracelet that can calm or energize a person through heartbeat-like pulses, while another created a shoe that projects forward a short colored laser to overcome the ‘frozen gait’ experienced by people with Parkinson’s disease.

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  • Houston Looks for a Smarter, More Equitable Path to Hurricane Recovery

    October 22, 2018 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: United States, Houston, Texas

    The city of Houston is changing its approach to measuring the full scope of damage from Hurricane Harvey so it can get help where it is most needed and improve future flood mitigation. Using data from numerous sources, Civis Analytics found unmet housing needs were far greater than initially recorded and low-income areas were hit disproportionately harder, even though recovery funding often goes to areas with higher housing values. Now city officials are working to implement solutions based on the data in order to allocate limited funds where they will be most effective.

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  • Digital Platform Uses Peer Pressure To Motivate Young Adults To Vote In Election

    October 21, 2018 |

    Bay City News Foundation |

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    Response Location: United States

    VoteCrew is a digital messaging platform that brings together friends and acquaintances into online teams who pledge to vote and then are held accountable by their peers. The platform was created to increase voter turnout in people 35 and under by using peer pressure. The platform has 2,256 members in 308 teams across the country on about 30 college campuses. Preliminary results show its members voted at a higher rate than the demographic group more broadly, although it is too early to accurately evaluate its impact.

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  • Reprogramming power: Audrey Tang is bringing hacker culture to the state

    October 18, 2018 |

    Apolitical |

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    Response Location: Taiwan

    A community of technologists called g0v has produced open-source tools and redesigns of Taiwan’s public services. In collaboration with Digital Minister Audrey Tang, the group is helping citizens and civil society groups work with the government to improve services.

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  • Ocean plastic is a huge problem. Blockchain could be part of the solution.

    October 16, 2018 |

    NBC News |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Haiti

    Plastic waste often ends up in oceans which in turn impacts not only the health of the coastal ecosystem, but human health as well when people consume fish that have ingested the plastic fragments. To keep plastic out of the oceans, Plastic Bank, a company based in Vancouver, has created and launched a blockchain-based recycling system in Haiti that exchanges cryptocurrency via an app when plastic is deposited in a recycling center.

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  • SamTrans prepares to roll out 10 electric buses in fleet-replacement program

    October 15, 2018 |

    San Francisco Chronicle |

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    Response Location: United States, San Mateo, California

    In California, Governor Jerry Brown has implemented a deadline to have "all transit agencies to eliminate carbon emissions" by 2040. San Mateo County is moving towards this goal by releasing a fleet of electric buses.

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  • How to Turn a Car Town into a Cycling City

    October 15, 2018 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: Netherlands, Eindhoven

    The Dutch city of Eindhoven was built around the car, even into the 1970s, but as part of remaking itself after its main industries declined or moved away, it has made a dramatic shift to emphasizing cycling. City officials took steps to improve infrastructure as a way to elevate the city’s image internationally and also meet the needs of locals through high-profile projects that proved so popular the city was emboldened to revamp a major motorway into a public greenspace.

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