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  • Sustainability Pioneers: Becoming Energy Independent

    May 12, 2015 |

    Sustainability Pioneers |

    Video |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Germany, Saerbeck

    Saerbeck, Germany is setting the standard for sustainable energy use and the reduction of their carbon footprint through a series of projects. Through these projects, private and public buildings as well as farms have installed community owned solar power and transparency around the central heating plant has increased to help inform the community of ways to make less environmentally harmful decisions.

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  • Overkill

    May 11, 2015 |

    The New Yorker |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, McAllen, Texas

    An investigation reveals a startling percentage of medical procedures provided in the United States are unnecessary or inappropriate - harming patients physically as well as financially. This "profit-maximizing medical culture" can be countered by incentivizing health care facilities to eliminate needless procedures, federal crackdowns, and increasing access to information for patients.

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  • Dutch Aquatecture: Engineering a Future on the Water

    May 11, 2015 |

    Al Jazeera |

    Broadcast TV News |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Netherlands

    As climate change causes global sea levels to rise, nations around the world are increasingly concerned about threats to infrastructure and livelihoods. But the Dutch have been keeping the sea at bay for centuries using a variety of methods and technologies. Their designs and plans - such as floating buildings - may provide solutions for other countries looking to evolve and adapt to changing ocean levels.

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  • How One Hospital Brought Its C-Section Rate Down In A Hurry

    May 10, 2015 |

    KQED |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Newport Beach, California

    Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian, under pressure from the insurance network to lower maternity costs, used a number of tools to lower the rate of cesarean sections done. The changes not only helped drastically reduce costs, but created a better, safer birth outcomes for patients.

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  • Showing doctors the way to lower cost, improved care

    May 06, 2015 |

    Southern California Public Radio (KPCC) |

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    Response Location: United States, Sacramento, California

    The United States health care system is expensive and enables doctors to prescribe costly brand name medication instead of generic versions. Sutter Health assembles its doctors a few times a week to review with electronic records the prescribing of brand name drugs and the necessity of procedures as an effort to reduce health care costs and to reduce unnecessary tests. In two years, the initiative has saved $30 million.

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  • In Rwanda, Building a “University in a Box”

    May 04, 2015 |

    Bright Magazine |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Rwanda, Kigali, Kigali

    Kepler University in Rwanda reduces the cost of a university education by hiring teachers based on their willingness to innovate — not necessarily their expertise — and by blending online and in-classroom learning. Students receive the equivalent of a college diploma and job training in order to facilitate a possible rise out of poverty.

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  • Police Rethink Long Tradition on Using Force

    May 04, 2015 |

    The New York Times |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States

    Some U.S. police departments are reevaluating the “21-foot rule” and other axioms regarding proper use of force. “In a democratic society, people have a say in how they are policed, and people are saying that they are not satisfied with how things are going,” said Chief Sean Whent of Oakland, one of the cities that has changed policies and reduced police shootings.

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  • Behind Prison Walls, This Program Demonstrates That It's Never Too Late to Learn

    April 30, 2015 |

    NationSwell |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Princeton, New Jersey

    The Petey Greene program, which has students tutor prison inmates, is helping to create positive impact and change in the lives of both the university student tutors and the inmates they mentor. It provides prisoners with better opportunities once they are released, and the tutors with a renewed appreciation of the power of education.

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  • Health & Medicine An American surgeon pioneers surgery for kids in Uganda that helps kids in the US

    April 27, 2015 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

    Radio |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Uganda

    The typical surgery for hydrocephalus, a brain swelling disease, often leads to infection. Medical constraints in Uganda inspired a neurosurgeon to create a safer and more effective surgery which is now used in Uganda and the U.S.

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  • In India, Profitable Farming With Fewer Chemicals

    April 24, 2015 |

    The New York Times |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: India, Telangana

    In India, many farmers, especially women farmers, have transitioned to organic farming. While it requires a serious set of skills and knowledge, organic farming increases yields and decreases costs by eliminating the need to buy pesticides. The move is both ecological and economical, and the Indian government is trying to spread the solution.

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