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  • Community hopes 'Purpose Built' revitalization model enlivens into Ridgecrest neighborhood

    September 20, 2019 |

    The Montgomery Advertiser |

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    Response Location: United States, Woodlawn, Alabama

    Eighteen "purpose built communities" across America have revitalized neighborhoods through a comprehensive approach that includes building mixed-income housing, providing better educational opportunities and offering health and wellness services. The model focuses on establishing a strong "cradle-to-college education pipeline" which attracts upper-income families and creates socio-economic diversity. Community centers, green spaces, and grocery stores all revitalize and bring new development to these neighborhoods. Rivercrest, a neighborhood in Montgomery, Alabama is seeking to replicate the model.

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  • Instead Of Killing Prairie Dogs, Researchers Consider Birth Control

    September 20, 2019 |

    Wyoming Public Media |

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    Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

    Researchers at Denver’s Bluff Lake Nature Center are trying a new approach to controlling the prairie dog population: birth control. While still in the experimental phase, it has shown to be effective for larger animals, which makes the approach promising. Birth control is the preferred way of curbing the prairie dog population, because while they bring challenges, they are also a necessary part of the ecosystem.

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  • Beautiful bullets: Addis jewellery workshop gives women a second chance

    September 19, 2019 |

    Pioneers Post |

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    Response Location: Ethiopia, Addis Ababa

    In Ethiopia, Ellita Products and its sister organization Ellita Women at Risk (EWAR), are working to end generational poverty and prostitution through comprehensive rehabilitation programs and skills training. To reduce reliance on donations, Ellita Products employs many who have been through EWAR's programming to produce clothing, jewelry, and more for wholesale retail. So far, EWAR has reached about 1,000 and 90% of those have not returned to prostitution to make ends meet.

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  • Farm-To-Lunchroom Using Hydroponics

    September 19, 2019 |

    Wisconsin Public Radio |

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    Response Location: United States, Menasha, Wisconsin

    At one high school at the Menasha Joint School District in Wisconsin students are growing their own vegetables inside a classroom. That’s because they have their own a hydroponic garden, a garden that does not require soil. The homegrown produce is part of their meal program and is leading to positive effects. Students express more interest in learning about vegetables and feeling more connected to gardening. “They have a very personal connection to that produce.”

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  • Street Medicine Brings Health Care To Atlanta's Homeless

    September 19, 2019 |

    WABE |

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    Response Location: United States, Atlanta, Georgia

    Street medicine eliminates barriers to health care and reduces emergency room costs. In Atlanta, Mercy Care’s Street Medicine program works to meet individuals where they are at. The program has been working since 2013 to build trust and provide basic healthcare services to homeless populations before their problems become severe enough to require emergency room treatment.

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  • Step by Powerful Step, Citizens Lead Puerto Rico into Its Solar Future

    September 19, 2019 |

    NACLA |

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    Response Location: Puerto Rico

    After Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, knocking out power across the country, solar energy has stepped in to be a sustainable possibility. Such efforts have included lobbying local legislatures to incentivize communities to create their own solar project and training residents to install solar panels on their own. Many of the solar initiatives that have started have been community-led and hyper-local, meaning that what many deem a basic right – access to energy and electricity – are more accessible than ever.

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  • CT's small solutions to climate change: South Windsor goes solar

    September 19, 2019 |

    The Connecticut Mirror |

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    Response Location: United States, South Windsor, Connecticut

    The town of South Windsor, Connecticut, is committed to reducing energy use and costs by going all-in on solar power. By incorporating solar into five of the town's schools, South Windsor will save an estimated $100,000 annually.

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  • Storing energy in compressed air could finally become cheap enough for the big time

    September 19, 2019 |

    Quartz |

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    Response Location: Canada, Toronto, Ontario

    To reduce carbon usage in electric grids, companies around the world have turned to new technologies that store wind energy that can be converted to electricity. One such company called Hydrostor, based in Ontario, Canada, traps compressed air in underground caverns to store energy without the use of fossil fuels.

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  • States Lack Standards for Treating Opioid Dependent Pregnant Women -- Experts Say That's Ok

    September 18, 2019 |

    West Virginia Public Broadcasting |

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    Response Location: United States, West Virginia

    States typically do no employ an exact protocol for treating opioid-dependent pregnant women, but several states including Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky are working on addressing this gap in health care. Although each approach is fairly limited at this time, efforts to increase education amongst health care providers in order to reduce stigma and offering medication-assisted treatment, are practices that are still showing some promise.

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  • There's Hope for Local Journalism

    September 18, 2019 |

    The Atlantic |

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    Response Location: United States, Provincetown, Massachusetts

    The retention of local ownership provides a more viable business model for small newspapers. In Provincetown, Massachusetts, the Provincetown Independent eschews the profit-maximizing, private-equity business model in favor of a weekly publication that is focused on local issues. The newspaper operates on the basis of a hybrid business model, blending its publication with non-profit activities, such as training new journalists and other projects.

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