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As states rethink wildlife management, New Mexico offers a new model

Alex Brown

May 09, 2025 |

Stateline |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, New Mexico

New Mexico's new legislation fundamentally transforms its wildlife agency through three key reforms: expanding the mission beyond hunting/fishing to include all species conservation, securing new funding through increased license fees, and overhauling governance to require expertise-based appointments. While the state is still waiting for all the changes to take effect, early indicators show this new legislation is inspiring other states, providing a model to refer to for modernizing wildlife management.

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The women transforming tea fields into engines of change

Cecilia Fernández Castañón

May 08, 2025 |

FairPlanet |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Argentina, Misiones

Local organizations such as Mujeres Rurales Argentinas and the provincial Ministry of Agriculture's Gender Cabinet are empowering rural women through artisanal tea production. By offering training programs structured around women's caregiving schedules, creating spaces for gender-inclusive collaboration, and advocating for policy changes, these groups have helped increase women's leadership roles in tea production, as more than half of artisan producers are now women.

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Jobs for Life

Laura Ghenea

May 07, 2025 |

Transitions Online |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: Republic of Moldova

Floare de Cires addresses the employment barriers people with disabilities face by training them in culinary and hospitality skills that help them integrate into the workforce and build a sense of independence.

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Jakarta's Urban Farms Come To The Rescue Of Food-Insecure Residents

Arpan Rachman, Andi Aisyah Lamboge

April 23, 2025 |

The Xylom |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Indonesia, Jakarta

Community-led urban farms in Jakarta empower residents to transform underused city spaces like alleyways and campus grounds into productive local food sources. These initiatives often blend traditional gardening with community organizing, educational outreach, and sometimes smart technology or agricultural research to improve food access, enhance green space, and foster local resilience.

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'Playworks' reinvents recess as a learning experience

Christina Walker

April 21, 2025 |

Capital News Service Maryland |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Playworks helps schools use recess as a tool for learning, with structured games and set expectations that teach students how to respect and include others, resolve conflicts, and manage their emotions. Studies show that the program helps reduce bullying while also helping students build skills that make them more successful in the classroom.

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How Pakistan quietly became world's biggest solar importer

Stuti Mishra

April 14, 2025 |

The Independent |

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Response Location: Pakistan

Pakistani households and small businesses independently embraced rooftop solar systems, making Pakistan the world's largest solar panel importer by 2024—a notable success demonstrating the potential of decentralized, economically driven clean energy transitions.

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How an Ancient Yemeni Tradition Is Reviving Bee Populations

Maeen Al-Najri

April 07, 2025 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Yemen

In Yemen, incorporating the age-old practice of seasonal beehive migration, known as Tazeeb, increased the number of hives in the country by over 100,000 between 2017 and 2020.

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Local Governments Vie for Fired Federal Workers

Patrick Sisson

April 01, 2025 |

Bloomberg CityLab |

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Response Location: United States

Following massive federal layoffs, city and state governments are courting former federal workers with highly specialized skills as a way to help shore up their staffing shortages. New York City, for example, has already hired 28 former federal employees, and Work for America, an organization working to match federal workers with state and local opportunities, currently has 168 candidates in the hiring process.

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Schools face a shortage of social workers – but Howard University has a plan that helps

Ela Jalil

March 31, 2025 |

Capital News Service Maryland |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, District of Columbia

Project PRESS, which stands for Preparing Responsive and Effective School Social Workers, addresses the social worker shortage in schools by motivating social work students to pursue careers as school social workers providing them with the proper training to do so. It’s a year-long program that focuses on staffing historically Black and low-income areas, and has placed 22 social workers in schools in its first year.

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The Volunteer Data Hoarders Resisting Trump's Purge

Julian Lucas

March 14, 2025 |

The New Yorker |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States

After President Donald Trump’s administration began removing key research and datasets from government websites, archivists, librarians, and organizations banded together to form the Data Rescue Project, which is coordinating efforts to preserve vital information. The movement has recruited volunteers from a subreddit forum called r/DataHoarder that’s frequented by hobbyists with IT knowledge, and so far the project has cataloged more than 400 publicly available backups of government data compiled by volunteers.

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