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  • Joniškis rado būdą, kaip išgydyti nenorą dirbti: darbdavių ir bedarbių pasimatymai tapo privalomi

    Joniškis per mažiau nei metus beveik dvigubai sumažino ilgalaikį nedarbą. Individualios konsultacijos su darbo neturinčiais žmonėmis, susitikimai su potencialiais darbdaviais, įvairių socialinių paslaugų pritaikymas sudarant geriausias sąlygas dirbti - lėmė, kad šimtai joniškiečių vėl tapo dirbančiais ir užsidirbančiais savo pragyvenimui.

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  • A River's Right to Flow

    In order to preserve and protect rivers a new movement that grants rivers personhood rights is growing. In places like New Zealand and Oregon, where some of these measures have passed rivers have the right to flow without having to be used as a resource for consumption. In New Mexico, the state engineer approved a water lease submitted by the National Audobon Society. The lease allows about 13 million gallons of water to flow annually solely for its own sake, similiar to personhood rights. The creative approach is one way conservationists are fighting for water preservation.

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  • ‘I understand your concern': Sedgwick County's COVID Ambassador program beats back vaccine hesitancy

    The COVID Ambassador program trains people to listen, be empathetic, and acknowledge people’s COVID-19 vaccine concerns. Ambassadors’ training includes substantial practice talking to people who are resistant to getting vaccinated and they receive ongoing support at bi-monthly meetings, which has increased their confidence and led to more conversations with community members hesitant to get vaccinated. Like other community health worker programs, the ambassador program’s ability to be successful relies on the idea that people trust information from their peers more than from the government.

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  • Tool for police reform rarely used by local prosecutors

    A growing number of prosecutors compile lists of police officers deemed untrustworthy witnesses, information they disclose to defense lawyers to prevent unjust criminal convictions. Called "Brady lists" or "do not call" lists, the practice is arguably a constitutional requirement for a fair trial. Broad disclosure of such a list in Philadelphia led to the dismissal of more than 2,000 convictions. Yet many prosecutors fail to keep such lists or ignore categories of misconduct like the use of excessive force. Police unions and privacy laws have helped block the effective use of Brady lists in some places.

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  • Medication and Recovery: Doctors Say Access to Critical Addiction Care is Difficult in Appalachia

    The Health Wagon provides medical care to those experiencing addiction. The Health Wagon also provides services for those in recovery, including medications, counseling, and peer support groups in an effort to reduce relapses and overdose deaths which have skyrocketed since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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  • How farmers in Abuja community use 'agroforestry models' to fight climate change

    In Abuja, a Nigerian community, farmers are practicing agroforestry practices and shifting away from monocropping. Agroforestry is more sustainable, leads to biodiversity, and helps mitigate the harmful effects of climate change. With agroforestry, farmers plant several crops among trees, versus one crop. While not all farmers have made the shift, the ones that have are seeing positive results.

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  • Home was a nightmare, then home was prison. Finally home is now a refuge.

    Home Free is a small, transitional-housing program for women who served long prison sentences for crimes against or on behalf of their abusers. A population long neglected, the women are part of a community recovering from the trauma of prison and the trauma that put them there. Giving them autonomy, in ways typical re-entry programs do not, is key to their recovery. “Home Free is the culmination of a decades-long struggle by women to be seen and supported by a system that has condemned and ignored them.”

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  • Tumaini la Kina Mama

    Kupitia chama cha kuwekeza pesa kwa jumla, kundi la wanawake wenye watoto walemavu wanatiana moyo na kuinuana kiuchumi baada ya kuachwa na waume wao. Kila Jumamosi wanachama hukutana na kuchangisha angalau shilingi mia moja kila mmoja. Pesa hiyo hupeanwa kwa aliyetembelewa ilhali nyingine huwekwa kama akiba ambayo mwanachama anaweza kupewa kama mkopo au msaada wakati wa dharura.

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  • Cycling city Kigali sprints to promote smart and green mobility

    In an effort to go carbon-neutral, city officials in Kigali, Rwanda, are improving bicycling infrastructure and partnering with a green transportation company to implement a bicycle ride sharing program with docking stations across the city.

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  • Chauffage : des maisons sans aucun chauffage, comment est-ce possible ?

    Alors que les prix du gaz et de l'électricité augmentent, les maisons à énergies passives permettent à ses habitants de faire des économies d'énergie. Isolation renforcée et chaleur produite par certaines pièces permettent de maintenir des températures confortables. Si ces installations entraînent un surcoût de 10 à 15% à la construction et ne sont encore qu'au nombre de 3000 en France, les habitants font des économies substantielles. Ils n'ont plus de facture de chauffage et celle de l'électricité est réduite.

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