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  • Agroforestry helps Tajikistan farmers overcome resource pressures

    January 02, 2019 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Tajikistan, Isfara

    Many farmers in Tajikistan are transitioning from Soviet-era monoculture to agroforestry, a method that more closely mimics natural ecosystems. While the farms are small, many payoffs--good income, diverse crops, robust wildlife, and carbon sequestration, to name several--are being realized.

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  • Climate Change Is Bad For Peru's Pastures ... But There's A 1,200-Year-Old Fix

    January 02, 2019 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: Peru

    Not all solutions have to be new in order to work, some just have to be modernized for today's needs. This was the lesson learned when villagers in Peru decided to restore centuries-old hydraulic systems to revitalize their depleting wetlands.

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  • Singapore made innovation go viral in its public service

    January 02, 2019 |

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    Response Location: Singapore, Singapore

    Through its Transformation Office and Innovation Lab, Singapore encourages a culture of innovation and smart design when it comes to making policy among its 145,000 strong civil service. Borrowing aspects of its framework from diverse fields like design thinking and psychology, as well as the tech industry, Singapore's government holds training sessions and policy-focused hackathons. The result is innovative pilot programs like facial recognition ID and free skills training for public servants.

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  • School makes counseling cool for kids with a pop-up wellness center

    January 02, 2019 |

    Rochester Democrat and Chronicle |

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    Response Location: United States, New York

    In recent years, School 145 in New York City has significantly bolstered its mental health counseling services, with the help of the nonprofit Counseling in Schools, and test scores are starting to improve. "I have 52 students whose parents have given me letters saying 'in case I get deported, this is where my child is going.'" the principal explained, emphasizing the importance of providing mental health care resources at school. "And then we have to talk about college and career readiness."

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  • Finland's grand AI experiment

    January 02, 2019 |

    Politico |

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    Response Location: Finland, Helinski

    The government of Finland is positioning its country as the leader in practical applications of Artificial Intelligence technology by providing its citizens with a free course. Recognizing the potential in AI technology, and the coming shifts in the global economy that will favor countries well versed in these technologies, the government has partnered with the University of Helsinki and a consulting agency named Reaktor to develop the free course. “We’ll never have so much money that we will be the leader of artificial intelligence. But how we use it — that’s something different," says one minister.

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  • This company converts food byproducts into new, healthy food

    January 02, 2019 |

    FastCompany |

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    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    Renewal Mill, a food company based in Oakland, is taking on food waste in a big way. The company produces goods from previously wasted byproducts, such as a fiber-rich, gluten-free flour that was once a wasted tofu byproduct. Partnering with other companies, such processes could use close to 100 percent of raw materials.

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  • Reentering Society: How One New Athens Initiative Aims to Help

    January 01, 2019 |

    Grady Newsource |

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    Response Location: United States, Athens, Georgia

    After teaching an Inside Out class with half college students and half incarcerated students, an assistant professor from the University of Georgia addressed a gap in services to help incarcerated folks reenter into the community once released. The Athens Reentry Collaborative now meets weekly to help former inmates find career, personal, and community support.

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  • How to fix the gender pay gap? The firm that pays everyone the same

    January 01, 2019 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom, Elland, West Yorkshire

    In the midst of controversy surrounding large gender pay-gaps in the United Kingdom, a wholesale company called Suma adopts a "co-op" mentality and pays everyone - regardless of gender, experience, or age - the same salary. The equal structure at Suma encourages employees to take active roles in all departments of the company, allowing them to see operational structure and strategy on all sides of the wholesale process.

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  • Bright Spot for N.Y.'s Struggling Schools: Pre-K

    January 01, 2019 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Bill De Blasio's citywide preschool program recently got its first grade since launching in 2014 - 94 percent of the city’s pre-K programs "met or exceeded a threshold that predicts positive student outcomes after pre-K." Now, the district must figure out how to ensure these gains are maintained into kindergarten.

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  • Frozen Assets

    January 01, 2019 |

    Mother Jones |

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    Response Location: United States, Juneau, Alaska

    In Alaska, the Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD) program, which is meant to provide $1600 to every resident who has lived in Alaska for at least a year, has been proven to reduce poverty and increase quality of life; the program has even been credited for Alaska's status as the state with the second highest income equality in the country. The Fund is meant to disperse wealth from the state's natural resources - but despite it's overall success, decreasing profits from the oil and gas industries has put the Fund in peril as lawmakers cut payments instead of implementing income taxes to generate revenue.

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