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  • Car-Mounted Ads Take a New Direction: Data Collection

    November 20, 2019 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    A startup called Firefly uses a comprehensive approach to its sensor-equipped advertising screens by simultaneously showing advertisements on top of Uber and Lyft vehicles and collecting data about the drive and surrounding environment. While the technology is being piloted in five cities, officials try to solve privacy questions and concerns to ensure collected data can help cities to monitor pollution levels or collect sound data - not invade citizens' privacy,

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  • Revolutionary recycling? A new technology turns everyday trash into plastic treasure.

    November 18, 2019 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: Israel, Tze'elim

    A company in Israel is setting its sights on reducing plastic waste by converting garbage into pellets that can then be used in manufacturing plastic to create "everyday items like trays and packing crates." Although the approach has been met with some skepticism, the company has already shown promise due to the creation of "a radical technology that transforms garbage into the raw materials for plastics manufacturers and earns them a profit in the end."

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  • Auraria Campus Installs Largest Singular Rooftop Solar Array In Downtown Denver

    November 14, 2019 |

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    Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

    Auraria Campus in Denver installed more than 2,100 solar panels on their school’s library, which will save students money and be more sustainable. The campus teamed up with Namaste Solar to build the $1 million solar array, which will reduce campus energy usage by about 2.5 percent annually. While it will take 15 years for the panels to recoup the cost of installation, the life of the project should be about 30 years, so it will also generate additional revenue for the school.

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  • Housing initiative for LGBTQ young people strives to create a ‘family bond'

    November 13, 2019 |

    Philadelphia Gay News |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    For LGBTQ+ youth experiencing homelessness and/or with a foster placement history, barriers to education, work, health, and general safety are a common experience. The Quads on Lancaster supportive housing program in Philadelphia offers a small amount of transition housing for LGBTQ youth who have aged out of the system, establishing personal connections and providing services to help participants prepare for adulthood.

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  • Galvanized by disaster

    November 11, 2019 |

    Indiana Environmental Reporter |

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    Response Location: United States, Goshen, Indiana

    After devastating floods hit the town of Goshen, the small town in Indiana used the experience as an opportunity to work towards disaster preparedness. Focusing not just on what would work best against environmental change and the subsequent severe weather created by it but also what would move the city forward, the mayor has been able to implement a series of changes including partnerships to increase awareness as well as community youth involvement.

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  • On Virginia's Eastern Shore, wild horses are an asset, not a headache

    November 11, 2019 |

    Cronkite News - Arizona PBS |

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    Response Location: United States, Chincoteague, Virginia

    While Western towns struggle with the growth of wild horse populations in the area, a small town on the coast of Virginia has established a way to maintain population size and care for the horses. Volunteers manage a population of 150 horses, auction off newborn foals, and inject contraceptive into female horses to keep the population size at bay.

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  • Lake Erie's green monster: Climate change adds pressure to prevent toxic algal blooms

    November 10, 2019 |

    Cleveland.com (The Plain Dealer) |

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    Response Location: United States, Ohio

    Toxic green algae has become a prominent threat in Lake Erie, but local farmers are trying to reduce their footprint by limiting agricultural nutrient runoff from manure and fertilizer that is spread on their farm fields. From increasing transparency around agriculture practices to altering how fertilizer is distributed, early signs are showing success with these measures despite there still being a long ways to go.

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  • A Retirement Community That Comes to You

    November 08, 2019 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Lewes, Delaware

    Continuing care at-home programs are filling a gap for senior citizens that do not require around-the-clock care, but need someone to check in on their health on a regular basis. Using “care navigators,” to monitor the health of those in the program, this option of long-term care allows people to remain in their homes longer, and are also often a more affordable option.

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  • Colorado's newest farmers are YouTube-taught, social justice-minded and preaching the gospel of microgreens

    November 07, 2019 |

    The Colorado Sun |

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    Response Location: United States, Bennett, Colorado

    Emerald Garden farm in Colorado is a microgreens hydroponic farming operation that is using a comprehensive approach toward conducting business. From experimenting with new practices to reduce food waste to diversifying partnerships to enhance crop development, the owners have successfully scaled the initial operation and are providing food for fine restaurants as well as grocery stores a local school district and potentially hospitals.

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  • They've managed the forest forever. It's why they're key to the climate change fight

    November 05, 2019 |

    Los Angeles Times |

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    Response Location: Canada, Broadback, Quebec

    In Northern Quebec, scientists, government officials and researchers have seen the positive environmental effects that stem from giving indigenous groups their land rights back. Because many of these indigenous communities have closely observed and lived within the native forests, they know how to properly care for and coexist with the forest rather than cut it down; the result is a drastic decrease in deforestation as well as the restoration of indigenous land rights.

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