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  • Teaching parents how to teach their toddlers: Seattle-area program yields lasting benefits

    December 21, 2016 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    The Parent-Child Home Program in the Seattle area is helping close the achievement gap in poor and at-risk families by giving 2 and 3 year-olds a jump start in early education. By pairing parents with a trained educator, the program is helping children in low-income and immigrant families perform on par with their white and wealthier peers years later, improving graduation rates and potentially even salary and healthy lifestyles in the long term.

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  • Life After Timber

    December 20, 2016 |

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    Response Location: United States, Alaska

    When Alaska's largest Tlingit village faced a future without forests after years of clearcutting efforts, community members, organizations and corporations alike came together to look for solutions. After years of efforts and unwavering resiliency, the habitat is on the pathway to restoration.

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  • Stockholm's Ingenious Plan to Recycle Old Christmas Trees

    December 20, 2016 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: Sweden, Stockholm

    In Stockholm, old Christmas trees are being converted into biochar. When integrated into the city's highly-efficient power grid, the project has been wildly successful--not only in improving soil, but also in retaining groundwater, greening the city, and lowering carbon emissions. For this reason, officials as far away as California have been eying the plan with interest.

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  • How To Make Hydropower More Environmentally Friendly

    December 20, 2016 |

    Ensia |

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    Response Location: United States, Dover, Delaware

    Dams make for complex and often controversial infrastructure. While hydropower generated from large dam projects is currently providing the bulk of the planet's renewable energy, dams can also cause major environmental and social damage by interrupting animal migrations, displacing indigenous communities, and collecting toxins. A number of solutions are being implemented, however, to address the various issues caused by dams, to help make them a more eco-friendly and viable source of clean energy.

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  • In Nepal, 'appalling' river runs cleaner in wake of unusual partnership

    December 18, 2016 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: Nepal, Kathmandu

    For years, campaigns to clean Nepal's polluted Bagmati River resulted in failure. Now with police and government backing, the organization Safai Abhiyaan is in its third year, attracting hundreds of volunteers who are willing to brave the polluted waters to collect trash. The program's unique approach to organizing community volunteers has been a success, but the problem will not subside until greater perceptions about litter and water pollution are tackled.

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  • 'Bribing' Mums To Feed Their Kids

    December 18, 2016 |

    BBC |

    Radio |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: Peru, Tarma, Junín

    One in three children in Peru are stunted by a lack of nutritious foods in their diet. In 2005, the government gave cash hand-outs to poor mothers, but only on the condition that they had regular health check-ups and their children went to school. By 2014 the number of children growing up too small had halved.

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  • How program goes far beyond ‘paying kids to stop killing' each other

    December 17, 2016 |

    Detroit Free Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Richmond, California

    The police department and the Office of Neighbourhood Safety in Richmond, CA are lowering the number of homicides by identifying the youths most likely to commit crimes and giving them cash in return for compliance with their program.

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  • Free Cash in Finland. Must be Jobless.

    December 17, 2016 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Finland, Oulu

    Monthly unemployment checks are dissuading individuals from finding work for fear that their work will pay less. Oulu, Finland is testing out 'basic income' where everyone receives a government cheque, to encourage people to work without fear of losing their monthly assistance.

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  • Neighborhood safety leader Boggan knows how tempting revenge can be

    December 17, 2016 |

    Detroit Free Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Richmond, California

    Many murders are the result of revenge, or an eye-for-eye behaviour. The Office of Neighborhood Safety in Richmond CA is trying to change this revenge behaviour by hiring ex-cons to mentor people who are likely to commit a crime.

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  • Did free college save this city?

    December 17, 2016 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Kalamazoo, Michigan

    In 2005, anonymous donors announced they would cover college tuition for most students in all future Kalamazoo, Michigan classes: "Other cities declare themselves open for business or tourism. Kalamazoo wants you to know that it’s funding knowledge." While the culture around college has changed dramatically since the program's inception and more students are attending college, the program hasn't come without challenges: many get to college but don't necessarily have the preparation to make it to graduation. As other cities start similar programs, Kalamazoo's long-standing initiative offers important lessons.

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