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  • Agricultura Familiar vem dando seu jeito para sobreviver na pandemia

    August 03, 2020 |

    Agência Eco Nordeste |

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    Response Location: Brazil, Ceará

    Por causa da pandemia de Covid-19, agricultores familiares do Ceará criaram listas virtuais e até aplicativo para continuar vendendo os próprios produtos.

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  • Alleviating anxiety via internet

    August 03, 2020 |

    Montana Free Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Sweet Grass County, Montana

    A partnership between Montana State University and Seattle-based Waypoint Health Innovations is helping bring virtual mental health services to rural communities in Montana. Although the program has only been in research stages thus far, the positive effects already documented has led the program to be ushered into "widespread implementation" amid the coronavirus pandemic.

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  • A crowdsourcing approach to homework help

    August 03, 2020 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States

    An ed-tech researcher continues to investigate the success of a study that looked into the effectiveness of "crowdsourcing homework tips." In the study, the homework tips were pre-written by teachers for students to access during homework time, and the results of the study saw that students who used the tips were 58% likelier to solve the next problem with no help.

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  • The ‘solar canals' making smart use of India's space

    August 03, 2020 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: India, Gujarat

    Covering canals with solar panels has allowed Indian communities to save land, water and carbon emissions, and even bring electricity to rural villages. The solar panels are suspended on metal structures over the canal, which can generate electricity for farmers and be fed into the state grid or sold to public utilities. While these canal-top solar power plants can be expensive to build, so far, eight Indian states have commissioned canal solar projects.

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  • The growing global movement to end outdoor advertising

    August 03, 2020 |

    Equal Times |

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    Response Location: France

    There are 29 Resistance to Advertising Aggression (RAP) groups working in France to ban outdoor advertising such as billboards. The groups worked with the mayor in the city of Grenoble to cancel a contract for 326 outdoor ads. While not all contracts can be changed, RAPs are particularly focused on stopping digital signs because the energy required to run them is harmful to the environment. Groups in the United Kingdom, São Paulo, New Delhi, and Tehran have won campaigns to remove billboards and other outdoor ads, which research shows reinforce sexist and capitalist ideologies.

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  • How Mexico City's poorest neighbourhood is battling climate change

    August 03, 2020 |

    Inkline |

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    Response Location: Mexico, Mexico City

    The people in a neighborhood in Mexico City are coming up with innovative solutions to handle climate-related disasters like flood. They use an early warning system that uses a radio signal and WhatsApp to warn residents of environmental dangers. However, the app does not always work. And a mobile classroom offers simulations about how government decisions are made when deciding danger levels of disasters. While thousands of residents had been trained, the classroom is usually only in the neighborhood for a day. Yet, these solutions based on education and communication could be applied to other communities.

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  • It Takes a Village: How Coalition Work is Transforming Lives in Detroit - NationSwell

    August 03, 2020 |

    NationSwell |

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    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    A coalition of organizations in the Detroit region had “a goal of re-engaging the region’s 690,000 adults who had completed some college but hadn’t gotten a degree.” One of the programs they created was the Wayne State Warrior Way Back program, which allows students with school debt to re-enroll and “learn” off their debt at a rate of $500 for each semester completed.”

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  • How Europe's Greenest Capital Is Saving City Trees

    August 03, 2020 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: Germany, Berlin

    Cities around the world are using apps and interactive platforms to encourage resident volunteers to care for their urban forests. For example, in Berlin, Gieß den Kiez (Water the Neighborhood) is an app that allows users to watch their local trees and water them in times of need. When the app launched, there were 1,000 unique users and over 7,000 individual tree waterings in the first six weeks. However, the cost of planting and maintaining trees can be expensive and where the trees are located in cities and who benefits from them is not always equitable.

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  • How the Queensbridge Cure Violence Team Is Changing Community Norms

    August 03, 2020 |

    Spectrum News 1 New York |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    In the nation's largest public housing development, 696 Build Queensbridge uses the Cure Violence approach to mediating disputes before they turn violent. In 2017, its first year, there were no shootings in the development where the group does its violence interruption work. In the first 7 months of 2020, there were six shootings, up 2 from the same period in 2019 but far better than the rise in violence seen citywide. "Credible messengers" gain the trust of the community to prevent violence and counsel people to use "tools to communicate with other than violence," and without police involvement.

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  • Why the Botched N.Y.C. Primary Has Become the November Nightmare

    August 03, 2020 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    New York City received ten-times the average number of mail-in ballots in the June 2020 primary, which caused problems and highlighted changes needed in the general election. The postal service had to hand sort the pre-paid envelopes to postmark them because pre-paid postage doesn’t normally get post-marked. Some envelopes were missed and those ballots were rejected. There were also delays tallying the votes, with some contests remaining undecided for weeks after the election. Ballots were also rejected due to minor errors. Better voter education and increased city and postal service staff is needed.

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