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  • Is underground farming the future of food?

    July 24, 2020 |

    BBC |

    Multi-Media |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: South Korea, Seoul

    There’s a subterranean, organic farm in one of Seoul’s subway stations that could be another way to approach sustainable urban farming. The “vertical” farm, known as Metro Farm, uses a mineral nutrient solution instead of regular soil, and has an automated tech network to control the underground ecosystem’s temperature, humidity, and carbon dioxide levels. While Farm8, the tech startup in charge of the venture, hasn’t made much of a profit yet, the farm produces about 30 kilograms of vegetables per day at a rate that is 40 times more efficient than traditional farming.

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  • This City Stopped Sending Police to Every 911 Call

    July 24, 2020 |

    The Marshall Project |

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    Response Location: United States, Olympia, Washington

    Since April 2019, Olympia’s Crisis Response Unit has sent civilian first-responders instead of police officers to hundreds of “quality of life” calls such as a mental health crisis or problems related to addiction or homelessness. Providing services while doing outreach on the streets, following up on previous calls, or dispatched by 911 operators or police, these responders connect people with the services they need to be safe and healthy, freeing police to handle more serious calls and avoiding police interactions that can lead to violence or needless jail stays.

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  • Wisconsin's April primary was a mess. Here are five changes officials hope will make the next election smoother.

    July 23, 2020 |

    Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |

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    Response Location: United States, Wisconsin

    Wisconsin officials learned important lessons from the problematic primary election. Moving forward, an informational mailer is being sent to educate voters about absentee voting and an absentee ballot request form will be automatically sent to 2.7 million registered voters. Ballots will be tracked using an intelligent barcode and more ballots will be ready to be sent out ahead of time to meet increased demand. Voters will need to provide contact information on their ballots so that clerks can contact them in case of any errors and more polling places will open to reduce long lines and wait times.

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  • Vietnam took drastic early action to fight the coronavirus — and has reported zero deaths

    July 23, 2020 |

    CNBC |

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    Response Location: Vietnam

    Vietnam is home to 95 million people, yet the country has reported less than 450 cases of coronavirus and not a single death thanks to quick implementation of lessons the country learned from the 2003 SARS pandemic. Although not all went smoothly in the country's response and critics have called some measures "excessive," the overall use of contact tracing, quarantine, and both business and movement restrictions have seemingly successfully contained the spread of the virus.

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  • How A Healer, An Artist And A Chef Are Fighting For Black Food Sovereignty In South LA

    July 23, 2020 |

    LAist |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    To ensure that Black communities have access to healthy food, three people in Los Angeles are taking different approaches to promote food security and food sovereignty. As part of Feed Black Futures, Ali Anderson packs nearly 100 boxes a week of fruits and vegetables to deliver to Black women and caregivers who have been impacted by incarceration. Artist Lauren Halsey and her Summaeverythang Community Center deliver up to 1,000 boxes a week of free organic produce. Chef Kat Williams is also making sure Black people of the LGBT community have access to healthy meals.

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  • Building community from the inside

    July 23, 2020 |

    Seeley Swan Pathfinder |

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    Response Location: United States, Seeley Lake, Montana

    To better serve senior citizens within Montana, the Montana Area Agencies on Aging places an assistant and resource specialist within rural communities so that accessing existing resources is easier and building community-driven programs are better tailored for local residents. The services are often free for residents, with funding provided by local and federal grants. However, the financial stability in the longterm is uncertain because Montana's aging population is growing at an increased rate.

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  • Will Community Gardens Survive Pandemic Budget Cuts?

    July 23, 2020 |

    FoodPrint |

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    Response Location: United States

    The ability of community gardens to supply healthy food to those who might not have their basic needs met has grown in importance as coronavirus continues to spread across the United States. For example, the New Roots community gardening initiative in Salt Lake City helps nearly 150 refugee families raise food on plots, and about 86 percent of the gardeners report saving an average of $30 a week by growing their own food. However, the future of this program, and others around the country in New York City, Seattle, and Minneapolis, are uncertain as they face budget cuts from cities amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

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  • Black Lives Matter Protests Rarely End in Violence – Especially in Appalachia

    July 23, 2020 |

    100 Days in Appalachia |

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    Response Location: United States, West Virginia

    Thirty-six people protesting police violence and racism held the first civil rights march in Terra Alta. Met by counter-protesters with guns who were expecting out-of-town agitators, the groups engaged in peaceful and respectful dialogue rather than conflict. Each side expressed their viewpoints and shared the personal experiences that helped form those views. While they did not agree on many topics, they both felt that social media and mainstream media portrayals of the two groups fueled misinformation and ill will. Instead, both sides saw each other as human beings rather than stereotypes and caricatures.

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  • A national forewarning: Wisconsin's high absentee volume and ballot errors

    July 23, 2020 |

    APM Reports |

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    Response Location: United States, Wisconsin

    Wisconsin officials are using lessons from the failures of the April 2020 primary, where many mail-in ballots were rejected based on technicalities such as missing a witness signature or address, to make changes in the general election. Since the law doesn’t require officials to notify voters so they can fix the mistakes, they adapted a computer system to process absentee ballot applications so clerks have more time to focus on other voting related issues and they will use barcodes to track ballots. But issues such as missing signatures or addresses will still lead to rejected ballots without recourse.

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  • What Other Countries Can Teach The U.S. About Safely Reopening Schools

    July 23, 2020 |

    The Huffington Post |

    Multi-Media |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Denmark

    As schools across the United States weigh the pros and cons of sticking to remote learning, welcoming students back into the classroom, or a hybrid, there are lessons to learn from schools around the world. In China and France, teachers have gotten creative by having students wear wings that help them remember proper social distance, and other teachers have decorated the playground with smiley faces to indicate where students should stand. Other schools in Denmark and Finland reintroduced students to class by age, since data has supported that children under 10 are less likely to transmit the virus.

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