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  • Most School Districts Struggle to Help Refugees Adapt. How Did Anchorage Figure It Out?

    June 05, 2016 |

    Slate |

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    Response Location: United States, Anchorage, Alaska

    Anchorage schools employ a hybrid approach to integrating refugees—neither cordoning them off fully from the school at large, nor dropping them fully into the general student population. The city's Newcomers' Center plays an integral role in giving refugees a sense of community.

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  • Detroit Is Turning Vacant Lots Into Sponges for Stormwater

    June 04, 2016 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    When it comes to green infrastructure, Detroit's got plenty of parcels to work with. A look at their new plans to turn unused land into stormwater sponges.

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  • Giving Homeless People Homes In SF Saved City 56% In Costs Over 4 Years

    June 03, 2016 |

    The Huffington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    In San Francisco, empirical evidence emerges that providing housing to the homeless reduces the overall cost to the average taxpayer, in large part by reducing homeless populations' dependence on other city services and improving their health by offering shelter.

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  • The Surprising Success of Micro Hydro

    June 01, 2016 |

    International Rivers |

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    Response Location: Myanmar, Yangon, Yangon Region

    The Hydropower Empowerment Network takes a country-by-country approach to helping establish micro hydro and other technologies in rural places where electricity is difficult to come by. Micro hydro has even proven to be more durable and sustainable than solar, though solar is cheaper and quicker to install - the reason is the depth of community involvement required. When villagers participate on longer-term, complex projects, they develop pride in their work, learn invaluable new skills, and are empowered to engage with the solution.

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  • Legal Aid With a Digital Twist

    June 01, 2016 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Software and apps are helping millions of Americans trying to solve civil problems on their own.

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  • What One District's Data Mining Did For Chronic Absence

    May 30, 2016 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: United States, Grand Rapids, Michigan

    Three years after Grand Rapids Public Schools (GRPS) began its efforts to improve attendance rates, almost 4,000 kids who were formerly chronically absent are no longer. Educators publicly shared attendance data with business owners, parents, and other schools, helping to hold students accountable and keep them in the classroom.

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  • Climate change is rewiring government-citizen relationships

    May 30, 2016 |

    Newsweek |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    As climate change drastically alters the land, sea, and how humans subsist in the face of a changing environment, governments are finding that traditional methods of development are no longer sufficient or sustainable. To adapt, governing bodies around the world are turning to their citizens - especially those most at-risk to the effects of climate change - to lend their ideas and experiences to ensure better, more sustainable development for the future.

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  • Sharing the shortage

    May 27, 2016 |

    The Taos News |

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    Response Location: United States, Talpa, New Mexico

    Farmers and land owners in the Rio Grande del Rancho region are using a collaborative, community-based approach fostered by acequias to ensure better sharing of water resources in times of scarcity.

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  • Can cutting down trees protect New Mexico's water?

    May 26, 2016 |

    High Country News |

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    Response Location: United States, Albuquerque, New Mexico

    New Mexico adapts an innovative forestry idea from Quito, Ecuador, to prevent unpredictable and untamable forest fires. The application of this idea, called the Rio Grande Water Fund, raises money around the Rio Grande valley to pay for the thinning of overgrown forests on private and public lands. When trees are thinned out in dense areas, it's more difficult for fires to jump from the ground to the tree tops, which inhibits the rapid spreading of flames we've seen in recent years.

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  • After years of drought and overuse, the San Luis Valley aquifer refills

    May 26, 2016 |

    High Country News |

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    Response Location: United States, Centre, Colorado

    An over-taxed basin in Colorado is getting its water use under control through the sub-district project, an innovative user-led solution for solving water problems.

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