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  • Minneapolis would like to cure your dockless bike-share skepticism

    September 17, 2018 |

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    Response Location: United States, Minneapolis, Minnesota

    In Minneapolis, the nonprofit behind the city's bike share system plans to expand with a dockless model that will bring bikes into more neighborhoods while addressing some of the issues that model has encountered in other cities with bikes left in haphazard locations. Nice Ride will work with neighborhoods and city officials to create designated drop off zones and use a GPS system to find missing bikes. This cuts down on the docking infrastructure cost and allows more rapid expansion.

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  • Gun sellers emerge as unlikely ally in fight against suicides

    September 17, 2018 |

    NBC News |

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    Response Location: United States, St. George, Utah

    A Utah shooting range is part of a growing voluntary movement among gun shop owners and firearm sellers focuses on educating staff about warning signs of suicide in an effort to reduce the number of people using guns to kill themselves. One effort, the Gun Shop Project, has spread to 10 states and there are similar partnerships in about 10 more. Experts say suicide attempts with firearms usually end in death and restricting access to guns in those situations can be very effective.

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  • This bike path is made from recycled plastic

    September 14, 2018 |

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    Response Location: Netherlands, Zwolle

    What do you get when you combine the efforts of an engineering company with an energy company? In the Netherlands, you get a new type of environmentally sustainable roads. PlasticRoads, a piloted initiative in the city of Zwolle, uses discarded plastic to build bike paths that help cut down on plastic waste.

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  • Is this the greenest outdoor shop in the country?

    September 14, 2018 |

    Outside Business Journal |

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    Response Location: United States, Fayetteville, Arkansas

    Pack Rat Outdoor Center, an outdoor retailer in Arkansas, is making their mark in the fight for sustainable practices. Through efforts to recycle, compost and upcycle materials, the store sends less to a landfill than it does to recycling centers. The efforts have been so successful thus far that even community members are joining in and becoming more active in sustainable practices and education.

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  • A road full of bottlenecks: Dutch cycle path is made of plastic waste

    September 13, 2018 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: Netherlands, Zwolle

    The first bicycle path made of recycled plastic opened in the Netherlands and the inventors see it as a way to prove a concept that could be adapted more widely to roadways as Europe works to eliminate plastic waste. The path has sensors to monitor its performance and the amount of traffic that uses it, as well as a design that drains rainwater and allows cables and utility pipes to be installed inside. A second path is under construction in another city and possibly in Rotterdam.

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  • One-stop health shop for Kenyan pastoralists

    September 13, 2018 |

    The East African |

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    Response Location: Kenya

    In order to reach a pastoralist community with health services, a mobile health clinic called the Kimormor has been deployed in northern Kenya. Treating both people and livestock, the Kimormor has provided family planning, antenatal care, and child health services to this community.

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  • How environmental justice is shaping a new civil rights movement in the South

    September 12, 2018 |

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    Response Location: United States, Hattiesburg, Mississippi

    Armed with data, local activists are taking on environmental justice campaigns. In the absence of action on the part of the Federal Government, local organizations in Mississippi and across the South are working to increase transparency, generate data on public health issues, and mobilize action on climate change.

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  • Drones help track critically endangered swift parrots in NSW Riverina

    September 12, 2018 |

    ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) |

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    Response Location: Australia, Riverina, New South Wales

    The swift parrot population in the NSW Riverina in Australia is quickly declining and historically used tracking methods are falling short in accurate measurements. To better track the birds and monitor survival methods, researchers are using drones to track the species' movement.

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  • Maternal death rate lowered in California, but racial disparity remains

    September 11, 2018 |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    The California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative brought a diverse group of people together to address maternal mortality by increasing education around preeclampsia and hemorrhage. The group tracked data and used their breadth—from analysts to government to clinicians—to effect change at scale. Over six years, they cut the maternal mortality rate nearly in half in the state.

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  • Silo art becomes national movement and this is how it all began

    September 09, 2018 |

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    Response Location: Australia, Northam

    A project to paint murals on silos across Western Australia has brought artists from around the world for work. These murals--some 36 meters high--have created stunning public art and cultural tourism for often struggling small towns.

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