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  • Can filtering seawater provide for a thirsty world?

    September 08, 2025 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: Morocco

    Morocco's implementation of seawater desalination plants has successfully provided drinking water to 1.6 million people and enabled record agricultural exports for large-scale tomato producers, while simultaneously revealing the technology's limitations in addressing broader water needs due to high costs, geographic constraints, and environmental impacts that benefit only well-funded farms near coastal facilities.

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  • "One City" to Cut Poverty

    September 05, 2025 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Richmond, Virginia

    Richmond’s Office of Community Wealth Building helps coordinate anti-poverty programs between different departments and offers a wide range of job services, such as career counseling, vocational programs, work-based learning initiatives, and adult education courses. The office is the cornerstone of the city’s efforts to drastically reduce its rate of poverty, which has decreased by roughly 10 percent over the past 13 years.

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  • Stop me, Minnesota shooter wrote. Missed clues sidelined state's red flag law.

    September 05, 2025 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Minnesota

    A Minnesota law allows both citizens and members of law enforcement to petition for someone’s guns to be taken if they’re showing signs that they may be a threat to themselves or others, otherwise known as a red flag law. But though the shooter in a 2025 attack made social media posts that could have triggered the law, no one reported these concerns, and most of the state’s 87 counties have yet to use the law at all.

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  • Organic Growth: How Turkey's Eco-Markets Took Root

    September 05, 2025 |

    Transitions Online |

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    Response Location: Turkey

    Turkey's Bugday Association created a network of certified organic farmers' markets that directly connects small-scale producers with urban consumers, growing from 24 vendor stands to over 300 while reducing certification costs through group programs and municipal partnerships, though high prices still limit accessibility for lower-income consumers.

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  • Lessons From New Orleans' Experience as a Charter School Laboratory

    September 04, 2025 |

    Governing |

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    Response Location: United States, New Orleans, Louisiana

    In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans gave control of its schools to a Recovery School District that replaced the majority of the city’s existing schools with public charter schools. Following the reforms, research showed improvements in student achievement, graduation rates, and college matriculation, though the gains have slowed in recent years.

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  • The Anarchic Playgrounds Where Putting Kids At Risk Is The Point

    September 04, 2025 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Germany, Berlin

    Adventure playgrounds such as Berlin’s Kolle 37 put kids in charge of play, giving them the space, tools, and freedom to solve conflicts, learn new skills, and even build their own play structures as adults monitor for hazards from a distance. Research shows that this type of “risky play” can help children mature and learn to navigate complex psychosocial situations.

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  • How drones and AI are changing the way we fight wildfires

    September 02, 2025 |

    Grist |

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    Response Location: United States

    The U.S. Forest Service's drone program has rapidly scaled from 734 flights in 2019 to over 17,000 in 2024, enabling safer and more efficient wildfire management by replacing dangerous pilot reconnaissance missions with unmanned thermal imaging that can detect hotspots and guide ground crews more precisely.

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  • An Indigenous-led solar canoe initiative expands across the Amazon

    September 01, 2025 |

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    Response Location: Wayusentsa, Ecuador

    The Kara Solar Foundation's Indigenous-led solar canoe initiative has delivered 12 solar-powered boats across five countries over eight years, reducing fuel costs and water pollution while providing communities with clean transportation that avoids environmentally destructive road construction in the Amazon.

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  • An Old Timber Town's "Freedom Church of the Poor"

    August 29, 2025 |

    The Daily Yonder |

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    Response Location: United States, Grays Harbor County, Washington

    Chaplains on the Harbor, also known as the Freedom Church of the Poor, supports area residents experiencing poverty and homelessness through a resource center, a farm, outreach in prisons and encampments, and support with pursuing political advocacy. The organization helped community members to file a lawsuit against the city alleging a local ordinance made it difficult for outreach workers to access encampments, which ended with the city allocating funding for a sanctioned camping area.

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  • Plateau Farmers Turn to Land Documents to Reclaim Their Fields Amid Violence

    August 29, 2025 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    The Norwegian Refugee Council's land documentation project helped over 2,000 farmers in Plateau State obtain formal land tenure documents, providing legal security and reducing land disputes, but cannot protect them from ongoing violent attacks that continue to threaten their lives and livelihoods.

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