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  • Zen and the Art of Dying Well

    August 14, 2015 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Patients' last years of life are the most expensive for the health care system. For a fifth of the cost, a Zen hospice program, in San Francisco, is helping those who are dying improve their quality of death by enjoying the present.

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  • How One Hospital Is Trying to Curb Gun Violence By Treating It Like Substance Abuse

    August 13, 2015 |

    The Trace |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    Patients who come to a hospital for gunshot wounds are more likely to suffer another gun injury or commit a crime. To stop this cycle, a hospital in Seattle pairs patients with social workers who follow up with patients, an approach that mirrors substance abuse intervention programs.

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  • Achieving Mental Health Parity: Slow Going Even In ‘Pace Car' State

    August 13, 2015 |

    KFF Health News |

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    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    California has taken perhaps the most proactive stance in the nation in enforcing laws to ensure people with mental illnesses have fair and timely access to care. But even in this state, it’s proving difficult to ensure mental patients truly have equal access to treatment. New laws aim to hold insurers and health care providers accountable.

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  • Four Ways Mexico's Indigenous Farmers Are Practicing the Agriculture of the Future

    August 10, 2015 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: Mexico, Oaxaca

    With a global food crisis, farmers look for how to get long-term high yields out of difficult farmland. In Oaxaca, Mexico, farmers farm like a forest, eat low on the food chain, restore damaged land, and have reverence for the planet.

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  • How to Grow More Food with Less Water

    August 03, 2015 |

    Ensia |

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    Response Location: United States, Bushland, Texas

    The U.S. government has developed different sensors for irrigation devices that gauge water demand and help conserve use. as water shortages caused by drought have increased across the globe, and farmers are faced with economic burdens, such technology is focusin on sustainability for the future.

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  • Kenyan Women Are Quietly Revolutionizing Farming.. And The Government's Noticing

    August 03, 2015 |

    The Huffington Post |

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    Limited fertile land and scarce water make traditional farming difficult in Kenya, so several organizations have begun teaching women how to farm out of sacks. The practice is spreading throughout Kenya and to other African nations.

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  • In Cambodia, Rats Are Being Trained To Sniff Out Land Mines And Save Lives

    July 31, 2015 |

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    Response Location: Cambodia, Krong Siem Reap

    In Cambodia, demining rats have been trained to detect TNT in the ground, effectively identifying unexploded materials like landmines, bombs, and grenades. These two-feet-long Gambian pouched rats have an excellent sense of smell and are trained by Apopo – an international nonprofit – using bananas as a reward for finding TNT. While they are highly effective, they are just one way the region, hit hard by conflict, is attempting to demine its land.

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  • Low-Cost Schools Are Being Built Out Of Sand In Jordan Refugee Camps

    July 31, 2015 |

    The Huffington Post |

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    Response Location: Jordan, Za'atari

    The living conditions in refugee camps in the Middle East are very poor. Architects are piloting the Re:Build construction system that utilizes materials in the natural environment to construct homes, schools, and clinics. The system engages refugees in the process of building so that they can take ownership of their success and develop skills to integrate in returning to their home country.

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  • Curing Violence Like an Infectious Disease

    July 30, 2015 |

    Tiny Spark |

    Podcast |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Neighborhoods in Chicago suffer from gang violence and gun-related deaths. A church leader and a physician trained in infectious diseases created Cure Violence, a program that sends teams of local residents to meet with gang leaders as a means of producing positive behavioral change by re-setting social norms. Their approach has reduced violence between 40% and 70%.

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  • Scavengers Are India's Real Recyclers

    July 29, 2015 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: India, Bhalswa, Delhi

    As Prime Minister Narendra Modi looks to tackle the mounting trash problem in India, millions of unacknowledged urban poor – known as scavengers and ragpickers to the locals – have been making their livelihood identifying resources from what others have deemed trash. If brought into the nation-wide effort, India may see a cleaner future at a faster rate.

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