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  • For Red Hook, Justice Center is Much More than a Court

    March 26, 2019 |

    Bklynr |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    The Red Hook Community Justice Center is a community center that also functions as a court hearing family, housing, and criminal cases. Defendants get on-site social services, like support groups and counseling, with an approach called procedural justice: cultivating public respect for the system by giving people a voice in it and by showing respect and transparency. A 2016 survey found 80% of local residents held positive feelings about the court, which was founded in 2000. People in the neighborhood can use the center's services even if they are not in a court case.

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  • Why Germans Are Buying Batteries With Their Solar Panels

    March 26, 2019 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: Germany, Berlin

    Advances in lithium batteries as well as the plunging price of solar energy have spurred an increase in home solar energy batteries across Germany. While it used to be difficult to store solar energy, home solar systems can now save energy for rainy days, reduce the electricity bill, and even earn money for extra energy they feed to the city. Over 120,00 German homes and small businesses have invested in solar batteries in the last 5 years.

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  • In Chicago, one mosque charts its own path

    March 26, 2019 |

    Religion News Service |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Masjid al-Rabia, a small mosque on the third floor of in a co-working space in downtown Chicago, is making waves as an untraditional prayer space. Not only is it woman-centered (not led), but their services are made accessible to all genders, sexualities, abilities, classes, etc. The mosque also has a focus on prison outreach, sending care packages with prayer rugs, prayer caps, Qurans, newsletters, and other spiritual literature to over 500 Muslim detainees in jails, prisons, detention centers, and institutions across the country.

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  • How a laundry room revolutionized a New Jersey high school

    March 26, 2019 |

    CBS News |

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    Response Location: United States, Newark, New Jersey

    After high school principle Akbar Cook realized that students weren't coming to school because they were embarrassed about wearing dirty clothing, he created a school laundry room with 5 commercial-grade washers and dryers. He also started a program called Lights On that leaves the school open in the evenings on Friday's to offer a recreational space with warm meals for students who have working parents or have to take care of siblings. Grateful students say that Mr. Cook had a big impact on the school and the neighborhood.

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  • Las vacas extinguen el pastizal pampeano, pero 86 productores prueban una manera de evitarlo

    March 26, 2019 |

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    Response Location: Argentina

    En Argentina, la ganadería es la actividad productiva que más gases de efecto invernadero produce. Además, los pastizales pampeanos se han reducidos en un 20% y los productores levantan el pastizal y siembran pastos importados que sirven de alimento para las vacas, pero afectan al suelo con sus insectos, anfibios, roedores, mamíferos y aves. En ese contexto, 86 productores que administran unas 400 mil hectáreas—en las que tienen 100 mil vacas—experimentan cómo criar a sus vacas sin arrasar con el pastizal ni sembrar pastos exóticos, y han logrado reconocerle al productor un precio 15% superior al de mercado.

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  • Ecuador legalized gangs. Murder rates plummeted.

    March 26, 2019 |

    Vox |

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    Response Location: Ecuador

    When faced with a rise in gang violence, Ecuador tried an approach that was in complete opposition to "zero tolerance," the methodology America has been attempting to use to tackle the problem. Rather than target gang members as wrongdoers, the country "allowed the gangs to remake themselves as cultural associations that could register with the government, which in turn allowed them to qualify for grants and benefit from social programming."

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  • These “Wear your meds” buttons tackle the stigma of taking mental illness drugs

    March 26, 2019 |

    FastCompany |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    A copywriting student at Miami Ad School developed small, stylish buttons depicting different commonly taken medications to encourage conversations around mental illness and to destigmatize mental health issues. The "Wear Your Meds" buttons allow people to be open and explicit.

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  • Seasonal employers gear up to hire Maine teens

    March 26, 2019 |

    WGME-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

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    Response Location: United States, Portland, Maine

    As an effort to bolster the economy and help teenagers join the workforce, the Maine Department of Labor launched a pilot program that gives organizations stipends for hiring teenagers into the seasonal workforce. While the pilot program may not continue due to Department goals and standards, organizations report that the stipends help their organization hire exceptional workers.

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  • ‘My Girls Are Getting a Future Here'

    March 26, 2019 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: India, New Delhi

    In India, the construction industry is the second largest employer. Without the ability to pay for child care, mothers are often forced to bring young children to construction sites. Mobile Crèches has started to set up child care facilities on-site, providing relief to parents and a safe education for students.

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  • Atlanta's Cyclorama had the black role in a Civil War battle all wrong. She set about to fix that.

    March 26, 2019 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, Atlanta, Georgia

    Contextualizing artistic representations creates more complex narratives and offers an opportunity to educate about historical memory. The Atlanta History Center has opened an exhibition that illuminates the absence of people of color in the “Battle of Atlanta” Cyclorama, an artwork that celebrates the 1864 Union victory. The museum presents the work alongside interactive guides and films that explain the erasure of African Americans from the memory of the scene.

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