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  • Ukraine bank offers 21% interest rate for doing 10,000 steps a day

    November 23, 2018 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: Ukraine

    Ukraine’s Monobank gives the best interest rates to savings account holders who walk 10,000 steps a day. Ukraine has the second highest death rate from heart disease in the world, but savers who exercise can see health and economic benefit. So far the bank is offering the rates to 1,500 people and is working to expand to the United Kingdom.

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  • Care package: the French postal workers helping lonely older people

    November 23, 2018 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: France

    France's postal office is combatting declining letter-writing by using their services to tackle another problem: the increasing number of elderly people living alone. With the new service "Watch Over my Parents," postal workers in rural France check in on the elderly and provide some company while delivering the mail - so far, the system serves 6,000 people, with an average age of 82 and a minimum cost of €20 per month.

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  • A roadside hotel in Eagle is being transformed into affordable homes — and other housing-strapped resort communities are watching

    November 22, 2018 |

    The Colorado Sun |

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    Response Location: United States, Eagle, Colorado

    As tourists increasingly visit mountainous resort towns and home prices rise to accommodate these visitors, it’s hard to live on a budget, especially as a young person. One family of developer is addressing this issue. Rather than build new housing, they’re renovating a hotel into small apartment geared toward millennials. It’s dorm-style, with many communal spaces inside and places within walking distance. This could be a new model adopted in resort towns across the American West.

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  • How a trip to Copenhagen inspired Tel Aviv's child-friendly reforms

    November 22, 2018 |

    Apolitical |

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    Response Location: Israel, Tel Aviv

    Sometimes you have to see something is possible before you can do it yourself. For Tel Aviv’s city officers, it took a trip to Copenhagen to understand that each of them, no matter their office, could do something to make their city better for young children.

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  • Colombia's Displaced People Find Home by Transforming What's Discarded

    November 21, 2018 |

    Sojourners |

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    Response Location: Colombia, Medellín

    In the late 1960s and early 1970s Barrio Moravia was an illegal dumping site where displaced Colombians fleeing violence made informal settlements. Now a community center, organizations, and a public garden with more than 50,000 species have helped transform the neighborhood. “It's a barrio that the same people we see here constructed,” she said. “It's a neighborhood I love with all of my heart, one that I have fought to transform.”

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  • Gun Shops Work With Doctors To Prevent Suicide By Firearm

    November 21, 2018 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    In Colorado, where 80 percent of gun deaths are suicides, a coalition of gun shop owners, public health researchers and doctors works to raise awareness of suicide and the role of firearms in those deaths. Staff in gun shops are trained to look for signs of mental distress in customers and participating shops have pamphlets on suicide prevention. The coalition also helps train medical professionals about guns so they can speak to patients with authority.

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  • How 'fixing rooms' are saving the lives of drug addicts

    November 21, 2018 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: Denmark

    In Denmark, drugs users can safely get high inside “drug consumption rooms.” One of those is Skyken, users have access to clean needles, are allowed 24 hour access, and nurses can treat overdoses with antidotes. Evidence shows these types of rooms reduce deaths. “Drug consumption rooms reduce the risk of fatal overdose, reduce public injecting, and increase access to health and treatment services.”

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  • Denver Becomes the Latest City to Take Mental Healthcare Into Its Own Hands

    November 21, 2018 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    Colorado has recently adopted a new .25 percent sales tax to create a pool of funding for mental health and addiction services. The initial funds are earmarked to create a new mental health center, while the overall vision for the funds is to create services to move addiction to a public health rather than a criminal issue.

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  • As Wildfire Smoke Chokes San Francisco, Local Groups Protect The Most Vulnerable

    November 21, 2018 |

    The Huffington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    When wildfires overtook California, communities sprang into action in order to help those that did not have a way to take shelter from the smoke. Forming groups to focus on disaster relief efforts, various community-driven programs have successfully been able to deliver thousands of masks to the homeless and vulnerable.

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  • Sucking Carbon Out of the Air Is One Way to Help Save Our Planet

    November 21, 2018 |

    NationSwell |

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    Response Location: Iceland

    While many organizations and individuals are working on solutions to address climate change worldwide, a company in Iceland is focusing on removing carbon dioxide directly from the air. Although small in scale, this new technology known as direct air capture has made it possible to suck the carbon dioxide from the air and turn the emissions into stone.

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