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  • Take this cash and call me in the morning

    Health professionals today routinely help patients access support services, like food and income assistance, that are crucial for their mental and physical health. Organizations, like Health Leads, have stepped in to manage some of this support. They encourage doctors and social workers to “prescribe” resources like food, and volunteers help by managing the logistics of things like transportation or application assistance.

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  • Restorative justice solutions for youth are growing abroad, can they become part of the mix in the U.S.

    As North Carolina reevaluates its approach to juvenile justice, the state is looking to examples like Italy, where restorative justice practices such as victim-offender mediation, in which the victim and perpetrator of a crime meet with a mediator to discuss and reconstruct the incident, play a critical role in cases involving youth. The country incarcerates fewer children and young adults on a given day than North Carolina despite its population being roughly six times the size of the state's.

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  • Neue Schnitte aus alten Stoffen - Textilverwertung in Thailand

    Bei der Textilproduktion lässt es sich nicht vermeiden, dass Stoff übrig bleibt. Das thailändische Startup Moreloop hilft Textilproduzenten mit einer Datenbank, überschüssige Stoffreste zu neuer Kleidung zu verarbeiten. Nach anfänglichen Schwierigkeiten machen bereits mehr als 70 Firmen mit.

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  • These rural organizers have found an answer to dog whistle politics: Multi-racial, working-class solidarity

    Organizers with Down Home North Carolina use deep canvassing, a door-knocking strategy based on active listening and in-depth, nonjudgmental conversation, to spark political discussions with voters who are often left out of the democratic process. Canvassers are trained to center issues of race and class to build solidarity across demographics and recorded high levels of support from voters in 82% of conversations surveyed between November 2021 and January 2022.

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  • Fibroid Treatment in African Women

    High intensity focus ultrasound is being used in the Management and treatment of fibroids in women in Nigeria. It provides a non-surgical and non-invasive treatment option for women who meet specific criteria including the size of the fibroid and its location.

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  • The dining shed—soon to be banned in NYC—awakened a sense of what's possible with the city street

    At the height of the coronavirus pandemic, many restaurants in New York City introduced “dining and drinking sheds,” ad-hoc sidewalk structures that allowed patrons to gather outside, where it was generally considered safer. Cities across the country followed suit, reimagining public spaces and their shared use. The spaces also brought customers to businesses that struggled to stay afloat during pandemic fears and shutdowns.

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  • This Ability in the Kenyan Society

    This Ability Trust is a nonprofit working to help women and girls with disabilities facing violence. Their Mama Siri program is a toll-free phone service that people with disabilities can call for information and help with things like reporting violence to the police and getting to a safe space.

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  • ‘Workforce' housing adds homes for locals. What about the price?

    Teton County’s workforce program is helping local workers find affordable housing. With a low volume of available housing and skyrocketing rents, having housing options that are set aside specifically for local workers has been helpful.

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  • In Austria, the Government Pays to Repair Your Stuff

    In 2020, Vienna, Austria launched a program to subsidize half the cost of repairs to items such as clothing, electronics, bicycles, and furniture. The initiative supported the repair of more than 35,000 items, saving 850 tons of carbon dioxide emissions and spurring other localities, such as Thüringen, Germany, and Portland, Oregon, to roll out their own repair bonus schemes.

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  • Baggern gegen den Klimawandel

    Um den CO2-Ausstoß zu verringern, ist das Wiedervernässen von Mooren eine wichtige Maßnahme. In trockengelegte Hochmooren in Schleswig-Holstein sollen dafür zwei neue Methoden zum Einsatz kommen. Das Projekt könnte tausende Tonnen CO2 binden.

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