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  • Hospital Food You Can Get Excited About

    September 20, 2018 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Glen Cove, New York

    A Long Island health care system has implemented projects that address the centrality of food to people’s health and how hospitals can provide healthy food both during and after admission. These include hiring chefs to prepare palatable, healthy food for people during their stay, making diet part of a discharge plan, and creating a ‘food pharmacy’ for people to access healthy food after discharge.

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  • These cool classes are part of a strategy to recruit students to neighborhood schools

    September 20, 2018 |

    Chalkbeat Chicago |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    In Chicago, as in other cities, the definition and reality of "career education" is changing quickly - "This program is for any young person who wants to have some employability skills before they graduate from high school," whether that means the next step is college or career. For instance, the pre-law program at Mather High School offers students both time and guidance to complete college applications as well as a base with which to launch a career in law enforcement.

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  • Governments are using games to engage citizens — but beware before you play

    September 19, 2018 |

    Apolitical |

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    Response Location: China, Suining

    Games can make policymaking more participatory and push citizens to change their behavior in public, and private, spaces. To keep engagement high, governments should change the games periodically and include both online and offline elements, says Gianluca Sgueo, author of Games, Power and Democracies.

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  • As legal cannabis comes to Canada, communities welcome accompanying job boom

    September 19, 2018 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: Canada, Kincardine, Ontario

    In Canada, where the legalization of marijuana will become official in mid-October, some towns are gearing up by creating employment opportunities related to the now burgeoning industry. The so-called "green rush" is expected to lift up a new class of entrepreneurs and investors, but there are still many unknowns that might hinder success.

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  • 4 Black Female Judges Use Their Courtrooms to Break the School-to-Prison Pipeline

    September 19, 2018 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Dallas, Texas

    Inspired by the documentary 13th, which explores race and mass incarceration in the U.S., and frustrated by the amount of youth getting caught in criminal court, four black female judges decided to create a youth prevention program. The four month program is called “Pipeline to Possibilities,” and accepts about a hundred students who get to experience mock trials, and meet with the judges.“Knowledge is power, and maybe if they knew more about the criminal justice system, they wouldn’t find themselves on that side of the bench.”

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  • Rooftop farming: why vertical gardening is blooming in Kampala

    September 19, 2018 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: Uganda, Kampala

    As the population of urban areas in Uganda grows, many farmers are finding that they are running out of space to cultivate successful business in agriculture. One solution that has surfaced has been to build up instead of out.

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  • Citizen Engagement 101

    September 19, 2018 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    The Citizens Planning Institute has equipped 500 residents with the relationships and the know-how to make a difference at the local level in their communities. The institute is a seven-week course supported by a city’s Planning Commission, and these institutes now exist across the U.S. and even are spreading as far as Australia. By engaging with local civic leaders, ordinary citizens have a chance to learn and then make improvements that are meaningful to themselves and their neighborhoods.

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  • Meet the robots and other contraptions making Colorado's recycling more efficient

    September 19, 2018 |

    The Colorado Sun |

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    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    Technological innovations are making single stream recycling more efficient. Allowing consumers to place their recyclable waste into a single container for disposal increases participation in recycling programs, but adds pressure on processing plants. Using AI vision technology allows machines to learn, identify, and sort materials efficiently.

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  • Like Uber, but for Cartographers

    September 19, 2018 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Streetcred is entering the realm of crowdsourced maps with a twist. The blockchain-based app will pay mappers across the globe in the form of ether, a cryptocurrency. Another differentiator is that the data will be open and available to anyone, an essential factor as Google Maps recently upped their prices. Though still in the early stages, Streetcred hopes to disrupt the map industry by making map data more accessible than ever before.

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  • Arizona's malt house saves water and helps local brewers

    September 19, 2018 |

    Cronkite News - Arizona PBS |

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    Response Location: United States, Camp Verde, Arizona

    Swapping out water-intensive crops for barley alleviates demand on rivers like the Salt and Verde, which supply Phoenix, Arizona. A collaboration between the Nature Conservancy, an environmental nonprofit, and farmers in the Verde Valley helped to save millions of gallons of water by encouraging the farmers to plant barley instead of corn. The farmers can sell their barley crop to a newly established malt house, Sinagua Malt. The malt house operates with the help of the Nature Conservancy, which has invested in the project.

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