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  • Energy Equity: Bringing Solar Power to Low-Income Communities

    April 04, 2019 |

    Yale Environment 360 |

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    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    Dozens of states across the US are adopting programs that offer solar power for low-income communities in order to cut down on their utility costs and provide renewable energy that they previously would not have had access to. Some of these programs also incorporate other social goals into their programs, such as offering job training or developing sites of backup energy should there an outage. Solar development is currently one of the fastest growing industries in the US, and analysts predict that the nation will be able to hold over 2,000 megawatts of solar capacity this year alone.

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  • Woman's Co-op in Battle Creek's Post-Franklin Neighborhood provides a support system for women

    April 04, 2019 |

    Second Wave Michigan |

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    Response Location: United States, Battle Creek, Michigan

    The Woman's Co-op in Battle Creek, Michigan addresses a wide array of needs for women in the community, including food, clothing, transportation, housing, and childcare. The co-op offers free services, including assistance with utility payments; advocacy in the court system; and better parenting technique.

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  • Trout lovers trek down to Río Grande for native cutthroat

    April 04, 2019 |

    The Taos News |

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    Response Location: United States, Cerro, New Mexico

    On New Mexico's public lands, volunteer effort can go a long way for wildlife restoration. Each year, nearly 200 volunteers hike around 10,000 cutthroat trout to the edge of the Río Grande del Norte National Monument Wild Rivers Recreation Area. For a fish occupying less than 10 percent of its historic range, sparking interest in conservation is an added benefit in helping the species.

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  • Tech accelerators help nonprofits fast-track technology aimed at solving environmental challenges

    April 04, 2019 |

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    Response Location: United States, Honolulu, Hawaii

    A solar panel that turns water in the air into clean drinking water is just one of many environmental solutions coming out of new partnerships between technology accelerator programs and environmental non-profit organizations. Groups like Conservation International and World Wildlife Fund are working alongside programs like Elemental Excelerator - all aimed at scaling environmental solutions. The goal isn’t to avoid policy change or other work, but rather to make creative innovation more widely accessible in the meantime.

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  • How a Bipartisan Caucus Aimed to Change U.S. House Rules

    April 04, 2019 |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

    Shortly following the 2018 Midterm elections in the U.S. House of Representatives, a group of legislators known as the Problem Solvers Caucus used their numbers to change House rules easing the passage of bipartisan legislation. After working to build consensus on issues like health care, infrastructure, gun control, and immigration since 2013, the congressional membership organization noticed that their bipartisan bills often did not receive a fair chance due to the significant power that Speaker and committee chairs held in deciding which bills advanced. Their "Break the Gridlock" reforms changed that.

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  • 'Someone To Speak For You': Low-Income Tenants Get Lawyers For Housing Court

    April 03, 2019 |

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    Response Location: United States, New York

    New York City has pioneered one of the nation's first programs to provide free legal services to low-income tenants under threat of eviction. Recent studies have indicated that evictions declined more in cities that had implemented right to counsel, and more cities are looking to follow New York's example as they work to prevent housing instability and homelessness.

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  • In effort to prevent overdose deaths, state plans to put ‘NaloxBoxes' in public buildings

    April 03, 2019 |

    Portland Press Herald |

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    Response Location: United States, Augusta, Maine

    As states continue to tackle a nationwide opioid crisis, one tactic that is being tried is making treatments of overdoses more accessible. By installing boxes containing the overdose reversal drug naloxone in public places, the state of Maine hopes to not only save lives, but also decrease stigma and increase communication.

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  • Why robotic pets may be the next big thing in dementia care

    April 03, 2019 |

    NBC News |

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    Response Location: United States, Santa Clarita, California

    Providing senior citizens with animal-assisted therapy has been known to lessen rates of loneliness while also aiding in brain health by reducing cases as dementia. Because taking care of a living animal is not always a reality, robotic pets may help fill that void by being requiring commitment while still providing companionship.

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  • Perfectly good food was going in the trash, so an Indiana school turned it into take-home meals for hungry kids

    April 03, 2019 |

    CNN |

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    Response Location: United States, Elkhart, Indiana

    A community organization in Indiana called Cultivate "rescues" food from local caterers, hospitals, casinos, and businesses to then be packaged into take-home meals for students at Woodland Elementary School that come from food-insecure homes. Cultivate is in its second year of existence, has three staff and 400 volunteers, and hopes to expand beyond their pilot program to reach all 21 schools in the district.

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  • How one bereaved son is helping to change how family killings are reported

    April 03, 2019 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom

    The organization, Level Up, has developed a new set of guidelines for reporting on domestic homicide in the U.K. Created through consultation with criminologists and survivors of domestic violence, the new guidelines aim to create more sensitive content, avoid trivialization, and place accountability only on the perpetrator. In doing so, they hope to shift the cultural narrative around the issue and provide a platform for victims.

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