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  • A Vision of Vertical Slums in Mumbai

    December 11, 2012 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: India, Mumbai

    For a megacity with more than 18 million people in its metro area, Mumbai, India is not a particularly vertical city. Many of its inhabitants squeeze into low-rise slums crammed into the urban space. But an ongoing slum rehabilitation program seeks to clear these corrugated metal shacks and relocate the slum-dwellers to new high rises.

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  • How Nonprofits Can Use Data to Solve the World's Problems

    December 10, 2012 |

    Time Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Tucson, Arizona

    Like their for-profit counterparts, charities are starting to embrace Big Data as a means to perform more efficiently and share that performance with potential donors. Data gathered is used both to measure successes and to highlight areas where program structure could be improved.

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  • Putting Charities to the Test

    December 05, 2012 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom, Oxford

    For most well-meaning donors, it can be difficult to calculate which charities are most effective with their funding - that is those that aim to solve the most serious problems, use interventions that work, employ cost-effective strategies, are competent and honest, and can make good use of each additional dollar. Organizations like GiveWell are part of a new and welcome trend toward rigorous evaluation of social change programs, and helps people best decide where to donate based on what causes matter to them most.

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  • A Retailer For Free Stuff, Created By Walmart, Saatchi & Saatchi, and Zipcar Vets

    December 04, 2012 |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Yerdle is a website that allows companies to resell their used and returned items in a way that is helpful for customers and the environment. The three co-founders have experience at ZipCar, Walmart, and the Sierra Club, and they decided to put their business experience to use in finding a creative solution to minimize waste. Yerdle, which is expanding across the United States, helps consumers find affordable products in their region while also minimizing the waste that accompanies new products.

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  • The Autism Advantage

    November 29, 2012 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Denmark

    Thorkil Sonne's experiences with his own gifted, autistic son led him to start a company called Specialisterne, founded on the idea that - given the right environment - some autistic adults could not just hold down a job but also be the best person for it, increasing access to a self-sustained adulthood.

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  • The Power of Failure

    November 28, 2012 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, San Jose, California

    Nongovernmental groups – especially ones that depend on donations – hate to fail, and never make their failures public. But at new conferences, social activists share and learn from failure.

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  • What the world can learn from Singapore's safe and squeaky-clean high-rise housing projects

    November 22, 2012 |

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    Response Location: Singapore, Singapore

    Unlike many other countries who have found public housing facilities to be highly prone to crime and toxic loan practices, Singapore uses a mix of resident home ownership, policing, and mixed-income developments to create thriving, clean housing options that may provide a model for other countries.

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  • What a Little Land Can Do

    November 21, 2012 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: India, Kolkata, West Bengal

    In many parts of the world, not owning one's own land is more directly correlated to poverty than other factors such as illiteracy, but land reform is controversial, difficult, and expensive. A new program called Landesa is having success in India through a non-confiscatory model that gives families tennis-court size plots.

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  • Is there a way through the West's bitter wild horse wars?

    November 19, 2012 |

    High Country News |

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    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    After controversy over the removal wild horse populations, the Bureau of Land Management was tasked with the order of protecting wild horse populations. After years of protection, however, the wild horse population has grown to an unsustainable amount. To mitigate the damage to the rural landscape while still maintaining a reasonable wild horse population, researchers are focusing their efforts on teaching wild horse advocates how to administer a form of birth control via dart.

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  • A Magical Paper Prevents Your Food From Rotting

    November 15, 2012 |

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    Response Location: United States

    While implementing fruits and vegetables into a daily diet is recommended for optimal health, the lack of longevity for produce is often a problem that leads to food waste. Fenugreen FreshPaper, invented by Kavita Shukla while in her senior year of high school, addresses this issue by infusing a sheet of paper with a combination of spices that increases the shelf-life of produce.

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