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  • How Can Chicago Improve Procedures To Make Sure 311 Requests Are Really Completed? An Expert Has An Idea

    January 08, 2021 |

    WBBM-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

    Under 3 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    San Diego’s 311 program features a before-and-after-photo function which shows allows residents to hold their local 311 government service accountable. The date-stamped photographic proof allows users to see that their complaint has been thoroughly and properly handled. Chicago’s 311 system already features “top-notch” technology but could benefit from implementing the visual aspect to ensure solid results.

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  • The bold plan to save Africa's largest forest

    January 07, 2021 |

    BBC |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Democratic Republic of the Congo

    Under an innovative scheme in the Democratic Republic of Congo, indigenous communities are obtaining the legal right to own and manage the forests where they reside. This ownership has shown success in slowing deforestation of the Congo rainforest and creating new economic opportunities for residents in these villages. “Rather than just being an add-on, community forestry is now being considered as a mainstream model for forest management,” says a coordinator for the Rainforest Foundation UK.

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  • ‘Slow Streets' Disrupted City Planning. What Comes Next?

    January 06, 2021 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: United States, Durham, North Carolina

    When city planners rushed early in the pandemic to close streets to automobile traffic in order to give residents a safe space to roam outdoors, they ended up learning lessons entirely apart from their original goals rooted in public health and traffic safety. In Durham, Atlanta, Los Angeles, and Oakland, community groups pushed back at the cities' initial failures to consider the opinions of communities of color whose neighborhoods were affected by the changes. The pushback led to collaborations and modified plans that redefined the problems at issue and the ways to address them.

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  • It Spied on Soviet Atomic Bombs. Now It's Solving Ecological Mysteries.

    January 05, 2021 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States

    Environmental scientists are using modern computing software to correct, orient, and analyze satellite images from the Corona spy project, launched in the 1960s and ’70s to monitor the Soviet military. The images have revealed human environmental impacts, challenged long-held assumptions, and helped predict future challenges. Within the last two years alone, the images have contributed to new information about climate change including rock glacier movements in Central Asia, shoreline changes in Saudi Arabia, and ice loss in Peru, helping scientists fill in knowledge gaps.

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  • Make Way for the ‘One-Minute City'

    January 05, 2021 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Sweden, Stockholm

    The Street Moves initiative in Sweden is pushing local communities to become the designers of their own streets’ layouts and look at urban planning through the lens of the “one-minute city.” Through a public-private partnership, residents in four sites in Stockholm can help determine how much street space is used for parking, outdoor dining, and children’s play spaces. The goal is to increase participation in the community, address climate resilience, and create a more livable city.

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  • Tautinėms bendrijoms lietuvių kalba ir kliūtis, ir galimybė – kas galėtų padėti išeiti iš užburto rato

    January 04, 2021 |

    Lithuanian Radio and Television (LRT) |

    Multi-Media |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Lithuania, Visaginas

    Lietuvių kalbos kursai, Visagino savivaldybės jau 30 metų siūlomi gyventojams, yra nepakankamai efektyvi priemonė, kad padėtų rusakalbiams visaginiečiams geriau integruotis į Lietuvos visuomenę. Ekspertai teigia, jog reikia lietuvių kalbos mokymą privalu intensyvinti, ypač mokyklose.

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  • How activists successfully shut down key pipeline projects in New York

    January 04, 2021 |

    Grist |

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    Response Location: United States, New York

    Landowners, residents, community leaders, and activist groups across New York state came together to halt several pipeline projects. By conducting research, holding public events, and building a multiracial coalition of people who would be the most impacted by a pipeline, they were able to pressure state officials to deny a water-quality permit for the Constitution pipeline that would carry fracked gas throughout the northeastern United States and Canada. While some pipeline projects are continuing in the Empire State, their successful model could be used in other states.

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  • Fragile cities are being inundated with people fleeing the impacts of climate change. How can they cope?

    December 30, 2020 |

    Ensia |

    Multi-Media |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Somalia

    Durable Solutions Initiative (DSI) aims to create long-term solutions to help internally displaced people in under-resourced urban areas, many of whom fled climate-related disasters. DSI relies on ideas from the displaced communities about how to move towards self-reliance. In Somalia, the participatory and locally-created approach led to Midnimo I, a donor-funded initiative that created short-term jobs, built or upgraded community-prioritized infrastructure projects like schools and hospitals, and improved relations between authorities and displaced communities, benefiting nearly 350,000 people directly.

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  • These Cities Tried to Tackle Disinvestment. Here Are Lessons From What Happened.

    December 30, 2020 |

    ProPublica |

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    Response Location: United States

    Various government policies and programs have been implemented in Black communities facing urban decline but not all of them have been completely successful. Initiatives included: Expanding public transportation, refining tax codes, providing incentives for corporations, and supporting small businesses. The ideas yielded some results but also led to unintended negative consequences.

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  • Colombia's sustainable forestry drive boosts biodiversity and business

    December 30, 2020 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Colombia, Tarapacá

    The Colombian government has been working with regional regulatory agencies, the World Wildlife Fund, and local forest communities to encourage sustainable timber production and the implementation of forest management plans. They launched the Legal Wood Pact — a commitment with 69 entities to exclusively use wood from legal sources. While it can be difficult to convince people to purchase sustainable timber that’s more expensive, the sales of legal timber in the country increased from $500,000 in 2011 to $13 million in 2018.

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