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  • The Company Behind America's Scariest School Shooter Drills

    December 13, 2019 |

    The Trace |

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    Response Location: United States

    The ALICE Training Institute, a for-profit offering active shooter training, teaches participants to take a proactive approach to active shooters, differing from the long-held lock down approach. And while they’ve grown in popularity – the school security industry has grown to be worth $2.7 billion since Columbine – experts and school officials are questioning the approach’s efficacy and quality control. With constant debate and cultural shifts over who bears responsibility to prepare for and protect from shootings, parents are left wondering who or what will really keep their kids safe.

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  • Meet your Match: J Blood Artificial Intelligence connects blood donors to receivers in the FCT

    December 13, 2019 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Federal Capital Territory

    In order to encourage more community members to donate blood, a non-governmental organization in Nigeria has created a system that connects "willing blood donors and recipients at no cost." Utilizing social media services, the program collects participants information and sends individuals a message when a donation matching their blood type is needed.

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  • Climate Change Was Killing Northwest Oysters. Growers and Scientists Fought Back

    December 13, 2019 |

    Bitterroot |

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    Response Location: United States, Oregon

    The world's oceans absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, which is a positive thing in the face of climate change for those living on land, but can harm the animals that rely on certain acidification levels of ocean waters. When it became apparent off the coasts of Oregon and Washington that oysters and other sea life with a shell or a skeleton were suffering the ramifications, researchers created a sensor that could detect acidification levels that could warn oyster growers of potentially harmful areas.

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  • Regenerating New York Harbor, One Billion Oysters at a Time

    December 13, 2019 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    The ambitious Billion Oyster project has several objectives: Get the youth involved in climate change action, revive the oyster population, and make New York’s shoreline less susceptible to flooding.

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  • A seis meses del apagón, la historia del pueblo que se salvó por la cáscara de maní

    December 13, 2019 |

    Clarín |

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    Response Location: Argentina, Ticino, Córdoba

    Este reportaje cuenta y explica la solución energética de Ticino, un pueblo de la provincia argentina de Córdoba. Quemando biomasa (cáscara de maní), la manicera de la localidad, que es también la empresa más grande del lugar, genera energía eléctrica que vende al Estado para abastecer al pueblo y a zonas vecinas. Esta solución beneficia a cientos de familias y permitió que durante el gran apagón nacional de 2019, Ticino continuara con luz.

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  • To Prevent Deadly Infections, F.D.A. Approves the First Disposable ‘Scope'

    December 13, 2019 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

    Duodenoscopes are used to "diagnose and treat diseases of the pancreas and bile duct," but were found to be in danger of infecting patients when practiced as a reusable tool. To reduce the risk of infection, a disposable model was developed, and although there are limitations to consider such as environmental impact, it has so far received high scores in clinical trials.

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  • ‘They only cut off half my left foot.' What happens when inmate care goes wrong in Georgia?

    December 13, 2019 |

    The Telegraph |

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    Response Location: United States, Georgia

    Without federal oversight, prisons are left to their own devices to determine what sort of health care they want to provide. That, combined with limited funding and resources, often leads to low-cost privatized health care that doesn’t necessarily have safeguards or patient-centered interests. While an increasingly complex issue, the response of privatized health care for inmates requires reform, but won’t get there unless the sheriffs that oversee these prisons embrace them.

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  • A Construction Company Embraces Frank Talk About Mental Health To Reduce Suicide

    December 12, 2019 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: United States, Salt Lake City, Utah

    Making mental health a priority at the workplace reduces the risk of suicide. The RK construction company in Salt Lake City has responded to employee suicide by changing its workplace culture. The company has implemented measures such as counseling services, mental health training for managers, and 24 hour access to counseling services. Work teams also practice “Toolbox Talks,” opening up and discussing issues with each other several times a week.

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  • For sheriffs, healthcare for inmates can be a burden. For one doctor, it has been the opportunity of a lifetime.

    December 12, 2019 |

    Atlanta Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Georgia

    As prison populations have increased dramatically since the 1980s, prisons have outsourced inmate health care to private companies, like CorrectHealth, to save money. While it is the most incentivizing when it comes to cost, this is only possible because private companies have to have the lowest bid – meaning they skimp on spending for inmates in the long run. The result has shown to be not just a decrease in the health care services offered to inmates, but more litigation for companies providing allegedly inadequate care.

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  • The Green Jobs That Could Help Save the Amazon

    December 12, 2019 |

    Vice |

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    Response Location: Brazil

    Bia Saldanha works with community members in Brazil to tap trees in the Amazon for rubber as a way to create sustainable income and discourage other practices like cattle farming and logging that has led to deforestation. While the locals were hesitant at first, she worked with the shoe company Veja to pay them more than the market rate. Now, Veja uses about 340 tons of natural rubber annually and works with 10 rubber tapper groups in eight municipalities. "We are not just buying rubber," she says. "We are also paying for forest conservation."

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