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  • Hot, Crowded and Smart

    July 22, 2013 |

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    Response Location: United States, San Antonio, Texas

    For the past three years, water levels in the San Antonio Edwards Aquifer have decreased to uncomfortable levels and drought periods may continue as the population booms. The San Antonio Water System organization has set up rules to limit water use and has recycled water for conservation frugal innovation.

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  • In Bogotá, Activists Are Fighting Against a Backslide in Pedestrian Safety

    June 13, 2013 |

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    Response Location: Colombia, Bogotá

    Bogotá has become a danger for pedestrians. Cars have the right of the way and it is up to pedestrians to stay alert and safe. Now, citizens are using paint on sidewalks and roads to draw attention to dangers such as potholes or areas where pedestrians have been killed.

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  • Adopt-a-Lot Program Converts Newark's Vacant Lots into Gardens

    June 05, 2013 |

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    Response Location: United States, Newark, New Jersey

    To minimize the problem of abandoned lots, the city of Newark created a program called Adopt-a-Lot. This urban gardening program allows city residents to use a lot to grow flowers, fruits, and vegetables, and the city is working with the Greater Newark Conservancy to provide gardening supplies to residents. Together this program is not only reducing blight, but it is also empowering community members.

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  • In Paris's Banlieues, New Recipe for Success Is Local

    May 14, 2013 |

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    Response Location: France, Paris

    The impoverished communities in Paris had high unemployment for adults and youth. The French government has offered financial incentives to hire people from the banlieues. Talents de Cités, a governmental program, offers cash prizes to young entrepreneurs.

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  • Young Movers, With a Passion for Change

    May 01, 2013 |

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    Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

    Young people are often viewed as needing protection or needing correction. However, a Boston organization is creating young peacemakers and powerful change makers by taking kids seriously and giving them the tools to act on their ideas.

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  • A Vision of Vertical Slums in Mumbai

    December 11, 2012 |

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    Response Location: India, Mumbai

    For a megacity with more than 18 million people in its metro area, Mumbai, India is not a particularly vertical city. Many of its inhabitants squeeze into low-rise slums crammed into the urban space. But an ongoing slum rehabilitation program seeks to clear these corrugated metal shacks and relocate the slum-dwellers to new high rises.

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  • What the world can learn from Singapore's safe and squeaky-clean high-rise housing projects

    November 22, 2012 |

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    Response Location: Singapore, Singapore

    Unlike many other countries who have found public housing facilities to be highly prone to crime and toxic loan practices, Singapore uses a mix of resident home ownership, policing, and mixed-income developments to create thriving, clean housing options that may provide a model for other countries.

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  • There IS a Bicycle Economy, Two Cities Find

    October 02, 2012 |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Conventional merchants are afraid to lose parking spaces to bike parking or bike lanes. New York and Portland are finding cyclists increase local economies, and spend more money too.

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  • Hydrogen Fuels Autorickshaws and Dreams of Cleaner Air

    October 01, 2012 |

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    Response Location: India, New Delhi

    Autorickshaws are a main source of transport within India, but not all autorickshaws are being created equally anymore. In an attempt to reduce their carbon footprint and reliance on fossil fuels, India is experimenting with implementing hydrogen-powered autorickshaws that look and act the same, but emit emissions of only water vapor and heat.

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  • The Bicycle Revolution in Paris, Five Years Later

    July 18, 2012 |

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    Response Location: France, Paris

    Paris is a city plagued by traffic jams and air pollution. In 2007, the local government created a public bicycle sharing program called Velib that has drastically reduced the number of cars on the roadways and parking lots. During five years, over a hundred million people have used the program and it has a quarter of a million subscribers.

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