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  • The Fashion Executives Who Saved a Patagonian Paradise

    September 04, 2019 |

    Sierra Club |

    Multi-Media |

    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: Chile, Patagonia National Park

    After amassing a large amount of property in Chile, the Tompkins Conservation would donate millions of acres to the government to maintain as national parks for wildlife conservation and sustainable land use. This was the largest act of “wildlands philanthropy” in history. When the Tompkins started buying land, locals were at first distrustful, but now they’re concerned the government won’t be able to maintain the properties. Thanks to the Tompkins Conservation, wildlife, like the South Andean deer, are being reintroduced and forests have recovered.

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  • The Surprising Rural Health-Care Legacy of the ‘60s

    September 04, 2019 |

    The Atlantic |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Eastport, Maine

    Across the United States, rural health-care centers that qualify to receive a Federally Qualified Health Centers designation are better able to provide affordable care for those that need it. Although there are limitations and other issues still being addressed, these health care centers are "committed to serving everyone, regardless of ability to pay."

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  • How Singapore is reshaping the civil service with robots

    September 04, 2019 |

    GovInsider |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Singapore

    Automating repetitive tasks allows civil servants to manage often tedious and high-volume workloads. By introducing forms of automated technology that are already common in the public sector, Singapore has updated its government agencies, allowing civil servants to focus on higher-order tasks. Bots help with services such as payroll, emails, and reconciling budgets.

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  • The practice problem: Concussion issue reaches beyond game action

    September 04, 2019 |

    Lake Oswego Review |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Oregon

    To reduce risk of concussions in high school football, high school coaches in Oregon are reducing the amount of impact time allowed during practices. Using the parameters established via the USA Football five levels of contact, high school coaches keep their players under 90 minutes of contact per week and instead work to "create higher-level intensity contact, without hitting each other, that is safe for the athlete."

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  • Upcoming Philadelphia Based App Connects LGBTQ Folks with Informed Affordable Health Care

    September 04, 2019 |

    Philadelphia Gay News |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    When you're new to a city, finding health practitioners that you trust can be difficult, and it's made even more challenging if you identify as LGBTQ and are looking for queer-competent providers. A new app launching in Philadelphia changes that thought, by acting as a "queer health care 'Yelp.'”

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  • Knocking on doors, BPS superintendent stresses school attendance

    September 04, 2019 |

    The Boston Globe |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

    This fall, a group of volunteers, led by Boston Public Schools' superintendent, went door to door to talk with students who had previously shown patterns of absenteeism. The effort, one part of the city's effort to reduce chronic absences, is intended to show students that adults in the community are invested in their success.

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  • Spray Parks Have Been Helping To Keep Cape Town Cool

    September 03, 2019 |

    Forbes |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: South Africa, Cape Town

    As temperatures across the world increase, many low-income areas are being hit the hardest without anywhere to turn. In South Africa, spray parks are becoming more popular as a solution, providing an inclusive place for children to not only play, but also keep cool in the rising heat.

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  • Healthy communities: What is 'social prescribing'?

    September 03, 2019 |

    Apolitical |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom

    Social prescribing, where medical practitioners encourage patients to look beyond medicine to remedy their issues, can lessen the demand for medical services and medications. In the UK, Denmark, and Canada, doctors are piloting programs in which healthcare providers can recommend community and social activities to patients. In Canada, for example, the Alliance for Healthier Communities is integrating activities like knitting at its community centers. In Denmark, doctors can present cultural activities to patients suffering from moderate depression.

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  • California crab fishermen are testing “ropeless” gear to save whales—and themselves

    September 03, 2019 |

    The Counter |

    Multi-Media |

    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, California

    Fishermen, scientists, and conservationists in California are teaming up to prevent more humpback whale deaths due to tapping Dungeness crabs that are used in markets and restaurants. The number of whale entanglements from fishing gear and ropes on the West Coast has increased over the years. A new technology known as “ropeless gear” shows promise, which uses acoustics to retrieve traps off the ocean floor, but the cost of the device and other challenges remain. “It’s a great, great step forwards — particularly from the perspective of the whale,” says an attorney from the Center for Biological Diversity.

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  • Can Calbright reinvent online community college?

    September 03, 2019 |

    Education Dive |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, California

    With $100 million in funds from California's state legislature, a group is launching an online community college targeted at adult learners. The college is unique for its focus on skill-based learning in lieu of traditional degree-based learning and its mobile learning options that allow students to digest 30-minute modules on-the-go. "Calbright's long-term success depends in large part on how willing employers are to validate potential employees' skills-based learning."

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