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  • These cities have great, but sometimes strange, ideas on transit. Which ones can Toronto steal?

    March 31, 2017 |

    The Globe and Mail |

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    Response Location: Canada, Toronto, Ontario

    Toronto wants to improve its transit system, perhaps there are solutions that can be applied from other cities. Changing the way parking is priced, improving bus shelters, implementing more highway tolls, and having automated subways are all possible options.

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  • Indigenous peoples in Colombia play crucial role in the fight against climate change

    March 30, 2017 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Colombia

    Protecting forests against deforestation is key to reducing CO2 emissions, which is what the UN mechanism- REDD+ aims to do by creating contracts with rural areas for them to protect their area's forest for 30 years in exchange for compensation. So far several problems have arisen that question the effectiveness of this mechanism which need attention going forward.

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  • In Myanmar's slums, women pool savings to get relief from crushing loans

    March 30, 2017 |

    Citiscope |

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    Response Location: Myanmar, Yangon, Yangon Region

    Years of misrule and a subsequent dearth of hard currency, along with crippling bank-fostered debt cycles and exorbitant home mortgage interest rates, have created immense suffering for Myanmar's poor. But with the guidance of a local NGO, Women for the World, a pilot project helped women in some of Yangon's poorest neighborhoods capitalize on their cultural "head-of-household" status. It helped them form and manage community savings cooperatives, secure land, build homes, buy food, and even generate profit through loans to families' business enterprises.

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  • Toilets in Haiti and Circular Runways

    March 28, 2017 |

    BBC |

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    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: Haiti, Cap-Haïtien, Department of Nord

    Haiti is currently battling the biggest cholera epidemic in recent history caused by lack of access to clean drinking water. Soil is an NGO which delivers dry, compost toilets to peoples’ homes - alternatives to water guzzling flushing toilets, which need infrastructure such as sewers - to help keep sewage from contaminating water sources and provide dignified, safe toilet facilities.

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  • A Surprising Path Out of Domestic Abuse: Entrepreneurship

    March 28, 2017 |

    The Story Exchange |

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    Response Location: United States

    Women are often stuck in an abusive relationship due to poor financial situations. Programs are beginning to help abused women by giving them support and helping them become entrepreneurs in order to become financially independent.

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  • How One Consulting Firm Is Testing Its Models And Doubling The Yield Of Small Indian Farms

    March 27, 2017 |

    Forbes |

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    Response Location: India, Bengaluru

    Fresh Harvest farms is the first foray into social enterprise and agriculture by revolutionary consulting firm Innovation Alchemy. It reflects a positive and growing trend in the professional services community to directly innovative and experiment with models and ideas before pitching them to clients. They provide insights on social innovation, sustainability, supply chain management and advice on how to scale up solutions for the base of the pyramid by experiencing firsthand what their clients need through the management of Fresh Harvest.

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  • Within integrated schools, de facto segregation persists

    March 25, 2017 |

    The Baltimore Sun |

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    Response Location: United States, Columbia, Maryland

    Students in advanced classes in Howard County, Maryland schools are disproportionately white. Faculty and administration are working to identify, understand, and change the ways that implicit bias favors white students as early as elementary school. Other steps taken include the elimination of some prerequisites to advanced classes and a shift in mindset that students in advanced classes are trying to become college ready rather than already being college ready.

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  • Northern Lights: Large-Scale Solar Power Is Spreading Across the U.S.

    March 23, 2017 |

    Yale Environment 360 |

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    Response Location: United States

    Once largely confined to the desert Southwest, solar power is making its way across the United States. Due to decreasing prices in installations, coupled with government incentives and increasing knowledge of energy harvesting capabilities, solar has recently found its way into places such as Idaho, Maine, Alabama, Iowa, Kentucky, and Nebraska - with places like Georgia and Florida are looking to expand. Despite the pushback from the newest presidential administration, even cynics of the solar power movement are declaring it the most viable option.

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  • A passive house takes an active stand for the environment

    March 22, 2017 |

    Boulder Weekly |

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    Response Location: United States, Boulder, Colorado

    The heating and cooling of homes accounts for some of the greatest energy consumption in the United States, and contributes significantly to the release of CO2 into the atmosphere. A movement of "passive housing" is cropping up in response - the building of small, low-impact houses that are energy efficient and eco-conscious. One in Boulder, CO - built by an amateur architect - has received international certification and may serve as a model for future housing construction.

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  • While Trump promotes coal, other countries are turning to cheap sun power

    March 21, 2017 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: Chile

    The Atacama Desert in Chili is known to be so arid, that very little can survive the harsh climate. Despite its inhospitable climate, however, it is the world’s best place to produce solar energy. In fact, it's so ideal for producing solar energy, the Chilean Energy Minister Andrés Rebolledo claims that “we’re talking about an infinite fuel source.”

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