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  • Free Childcare at City Meetings

    May 22, 2019 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Ithaca, New York

    In Ithaca, New York, city meetings are now offering free childcare to parents who want to civically engage but are unable to do so because of childcare responsibilities. Recognizing that their meetings skewed older and whiter than their demographic reality, the city instituted the low cost, high reward policy.

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  • Washington University graduates its first class of students in prison

    May 22, 2019 |

    St. Louis Post-Dispatch |

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    Response Location: United States, Pacific, Missouri

    At the Missouri Eastern Correctional Center, 10 individuals graduated from college with Associate Degrees as part of the Washington University Prison Education Project. Each student is required to have a high school diploma in order to apply, and must complete 60 credits to earn their degree. Beyond the provided education, the program has given incarcerated participants a sense of hope for their future.

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  • Sustainability Behind Bars: Washington Inmates Are Connecting with Nature

    May 22, 2019 |

    Bitterroot |

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    Response Location: United States, Olympia, Washington

    The Sustainability in Prisons Project has brought environmental lectures, work, and support to thousands of inmates since 2003. It offers a unique type of prison work - wildlife preservation, such as taking care of endangered butterflies. It has also started composting and educational programs, in addition to the therapeutic effects of greenery on prisoners and assistance in reentry.

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  • How New Yorkers Stood Up to Amazon and Won

    May 22, 2019 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Long Island City, New York

    When Amazon came close to establishing its second headquarters in Long Island City, the Queens borough of New York, community organizing successfully halted the development. Community leaders credit their success to a diverse group of organizations teaming up (like Queens Neighborhoods United and New York Communities for Change), politicians teaming up with the communities they represent, and quick mobilization.

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  • How Stockholm became the city of work-life balance

    May 22, 2019 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: Sweden, Stockholm

    Stockholm, Sweden is known as the best city in the world for work-life balance, as it boasts flexible work hours and nearly two years' parental leave per child for each parent. While raising a child with a full-time career still poses challenges, the norm for businesses in Stockholm is to cater to working parents' busy schedules in order to support equal childcare between mothers and fathers.

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  • An (Even More) Inconvenient Truth: Why Carbon Credits For Forest Preservation May Be Worse Than Nothing

    May 22, 2019 |

    ProPublica |

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    Response Location: Brazil, Rio Branco, Acre

    This story examines the well-publicized climate-change strategy of carbon credits: the idea that a CO₂-emitting company could offset its emissions by funding anti-logging efforts, effectively "saving" the equivalent amount of carbon. However, as it turns out, despite its popularity, most carbon credit programs do not actually work or, worse, may do more harm than good. This article details the shortcomings of this attempted solution to the effects of global warming.

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  • 中心市街地のにぎわいを取り戻す：復活を遂げた高松丸亀町商店街

    May 22, 2019 |

    ニッポンドットコム (Nippon) |

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    Response Location: Japan, Kagawa

    多くの商店街が衰退していく中、再開発の成功事例として全国から視察が来る高松丸亀町商店街。コミュニティに根差したディベロッパーの存在や、土地所有権の合意などの要因があり、移住が相次ぐ街になった。

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  • La comunidad indígena jujeña que se convirtió en el primer pueblo solar del país

    May 21, 2019 |

    Red/Acción |

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    Response Location: Argentina, Olaruz Chico

    Este reportaje televisivo cuenta cómo un parque de paneles solares le provee energía eléctrica renovable a un pequeño pueblo de Argentina llamado Olaruz Chico, ubicado a más de 4.000 metros de altura sobre el mar, y con poco menos de 200 habitantes. La instalación de paneles solares permite que los lugareños tengan energía todos los días, cuando antes poseían el servicio unas pocas horas por día y debían racionar.

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  • Cash for trees: Homegrown carbon offset program bears fruit

    May 21, 2019 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: Uganda, Rubirizi District

    Trees for Global Benefits is a carbon offset program that aims to partner with, rather than displace, locals in countries that have space to plant forests. For instance, in the Rubirizi District in Uganda, locals are getting paid to plant trees on their land. This hopes to eliminate the negative ramifications of other carbon offset programs that have displaced native people. Still, companies should be looking for ways to reduce carbon emissions beyond bringing their problems to other countries.

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  • This Newspaper Hired Homeless People to Report Its Stories

    May 21, 2019 |

    NationSwell |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

    Street Sense is a biweekly, volunteer-run newspaper whose vendors and content creators are part of the homeless community in Washington, DC. Vendors purchase the issues at a discount and then sell them at a profit, generating an income for themselves, and having the creative outlet of a newspaper allows vendors to tell their stories in their own way. Street Sense Media, the parent organization, also offers vendors workshops in theater, writing, graphic design, podcasting, and more. They also have case workers on staff to help connect vendors with assistance that leads to permanent housing and healthcare.

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