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  • Colombia's Data-Driven Fight Against Crime

    November 20, 2014 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Colombia, Medellín, Antioquia

    Colombia has attempted to decrease murder and homicide rates by setting up curfews for teenagers, forcing bars to close earlier in the evening, and creating gun laws to prevent the carrying of weapons. As a result of this epidemiological, data-driven approach, along with other governmental factors, the homicide rate has decreased significantly in most of the cities in which it was implemented.

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  • Greener Pastures for Cattle Ranching

    November 18, 2014 |

    Future Food |

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    Response Location: Colombia, Cali, Valle del Cauca

    In Colombia, traditional cattle pastures have caused soil degradation, deforestation, and desertification. To reconcile this, several thousand acres of land in Latin America have been transformed into a silvo-pastoral system of grazing and raising cattle with agro-forestry. The Colombia-based Center for Research in Sustainable Systems of Agriculture seeks to reduce pasture land by 26 million acres while increasing cattle numbers by 2019.

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  • The Floating Gardens of Bangladesh

    November 18, 2014 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Bangladesh

    Each year the brown waters of the Gumani river swell during the summer monsoon, creeping over the surrounding fields to flood Charbhangura, a village of 2,500 people in the Pabna district of northwest Bangladesh - when the fields flood, the farmers have no work. Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha trains locals to create floating farms and provide work, money, and food in all seasons.

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  • 'Big Dry' Lessons: Southwest can learn from Australia's drought

    November 17, 2014 |

    El Paso Times |

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    Response Location: Australia, Kilmore, Victoria

    In Australia, the Murray-Darling Basin Ministerial Council was formed after a severe drought to bring together federal, state and regional governments and bridge parochial concerns. It was meant to manage the basin as a whole and end overuse and salinization of farm land, leveraging new technologies to adapt to new realities.

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  • Australia's city dwellers become water conscious

    November 16, 2014 |

    El Paso Times |

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    Response Location: Australia, Melbourne, Victoria

    After the drought hit Australia in the early 2000s, city officials had to start thinking seriously about ways to conserve and creatively store their water. External tanks became the solution, storing rain runoff to create an available source of water for Melbourne residents. This solution may not fit every location, but there are other teachable lessons such as taking radically shorter showers.

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  • Protecting the Rio Grande Basin's dwindling water

    November 16, 2014 |

    El Paso Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Elephant Butte, New Mexico

    The El Paso Times reports from the heart of the Rio Grande Basin - where drought has led to dramatic decreases in water supply, and serious changes in management of river resources are called for - on how the region plans to tackle the effects of climate change. Citizens work to increase water regulations and frugality in order to find a solution to the dwindling water problem.

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  • America's Tiniest Innovators: Report from Pittsburgh

    November 15, 2014 |

    The Atlantic |

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    Response Location: United States, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

    In a Pittsburgh elementary school, kids grapple with electricity and circuits, breeding a familiarity with technology that founders of the “Children’s Innovation Project” hope equips them for a better future. This partnership between Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh public schools, and the CREATE Lab (Community, Robotics, Education, Technology, Empowerment) is helping kids incorporate a passion for technology into their lives and their futures.

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  • Experiments show this is the best way to win campaigns. But is anyone actually doing it?

    November 13, 2014 |

    Vox |

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    Response Location: United States

    Research shows that having in-person interactions with voters is by far the best way to increase turnout. It’s not simply knocking on doors. It’s about having genuine conversations. But political campaigns typically spend almost all their money on TV ads instead.

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  • In India, Latrines Are Truly Lifesavers

    November 13, 2014 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: India, Odisha

    In India, 620 million people openly defecate outdoors, causing harm to hygiene, sanitation, food, and water resources. The president of India funded an initiative to build public toilets for the people in his country, but the people did not use them because of traditions and behaviors. The Total Sanitation Campaign is starting to change villagers’ minds by having local leadership persuade those who resist the toilets by holding community activities and creating special committees to maintain the sanitation.

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  • How One California City Began Bringing Its Murder Rate Down—Without Cops

    November 12, 2014 |

    The Nation (New York) |

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    Response Location: United States, Richmond, California

    Richmond, California's Office of Neighborhood Safety responded to alarmingly high gun violence levels with an outreach approach to young men at high risk of getting shot or of shooting others. Instead of a heavy-handed enforcement strategy, the office intervenes in likely retaliatory violence and enrolls men as fellows in a year-long program offering counseling, education, job training, and a $500 monthly stipend for fellows on the right track. In the programs first three years, gun homicides dropped and 65 of 68 fellows survived.

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