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  • No reason to stop organizing

    For many activists, gathering in mass protest is their most powerful tool in their toolbox, but social distancing threatens this ability. But activists in Boulder County, Colorado are not letting the pandemic stop their mission. To stay compliant with social distancing, they are taking to Zoom to organize during the crisis.

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  • Operation Food Bank Feeds 390 Families

    Due to COVID-19, the Connecticut Food Bank has not been able to staff their food pantry distributors and thus drop off food with no distribution help. The town of Hamden whipped up an army of volunteers in response to make sure that no families went without food during this trying times. Demand was so great that unfortunately, after distributing food to 357 cars, they had to turn away another 400 cars. Volunteers are dedicated to continuing this new makeshift food pantry every few weeks until supplies run out.

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  • Even Parks Are Going Online During the Pandemic

    As cities in the U.S. are placed under various degrees of lockdown, organizations are working to virtually bring "environmental education and recreation to viewers, from the comfort of their homes." Although virtual walks and live talks with park rangers are not a replacement for the lived experience, studies have shown that this type of contact does offer some benefits to mental health and well-being.

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  • Minneapolis Funding Its Parks With an Eye to Equity

    The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board has approved a new scoring system to prioritize parks that are most in need of an investment, from the limited funds available, based on equity measures such as race, income, population density, and crime. This data-driven system is used in conjunction with the park board's judgment of a park's infrastructure and has pinpointed parks which were not typically on the park board's radar for renovation.

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  • Religiöse Feste in Corona-Zeiten

    Während Corona überdenken viele Gelehrte die Vorschriften ihrer Religion, damit Gläubige auch während Corona Feste feiern wie Pessach oder Ramadan feiern können. Der Ermessensspielraum unterscheidet sich von Religion zu Religion – doch fast alle greifen auf technische Lösungen zurück.

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  • Race to save rare California frog beats coronavirus lockdown

    A binational effort to transport eggs of the endangered red-legged-frog from Baja California to the Santa Ana Mountains in California was a great success. By working with the Nature Conservancy and various researchers over an almost two-decade period of time, this recent transplant marks the successful reintroduction of the species into an environment where it is expected to thrive.

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  • Sweden's government has tried a risky coronavirus strategy. It could backfire.

    Where government restrictions are lax, residents adopt social distancing measures voluntarily to mitigate the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. In Sweden, the trust between much of the country’s population and a public health system disinclined to advise for long-term shutdowns at the national level has left residents and businesses to enact social distancing and sheltering measures more gradually. In the long-term, there appears to be a relationship between Sweden’s relatively higher caseload and voluntary containment policies when compared to its neighbors.

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  • Public health workers innovate around social distancing guidelines

    A fleet of mobile health units across the nation have been helping low-income and immigrant communities to access public health care resources, but during the coronavirus pandemic, the focus has shifted to providing relevant safety information. Leveraging the trust that has been developed over time, public health care workers are utilizing social media to distribute information and resources until they can until they can begin "delivering medications in partnership with Federally Qualified Health Centers, a safety net for uninsured and undocumented people."

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  • 코로나 휴교령에… ‘온라인 원격교육' 실험 시작한 유럽[글로벌 현장을 가다]

    휴교령이 장기화 되면서 유럽 주요국들은 온라인 교육을 대안책으로 삼고 새로운 시도들을 단행하고 있습니다. 기술 접근성 격차로 인한 혼란 등을 최소화하면서 일방향 교육 시스템을 어떻게 개선할 수 있는지에 대한 고민들이 함께 부각되고 있습니다.

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  • What California is doing right in responding to the coronavirus pandemic

    Several statewide measures allowed California to mitigate its surge of COVID-19 cases by acting early. The state issued a mandatory stay-at-home order, which included making face masks mandatory and shutting down public parks during the Easter holiday. In addition to restricting movement, California also made testing widely available and managed to produce a surplus of ventilators. Furthermore, many tech companies quickly adopted work-from-home measures. The thoroughness and early nature of these responses helped the state avoid a surge as seen in New York.

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