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  • The secret sauce behind Wichita's success in distributing emergency housing vouchers

    March 18, 2022 |

    The Wichita Beacon |

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    Response Location: United States, Wichita, Kansas

    A federal voucher program is seeing huge success in Wichita, Kansas with almost 70 percent usage rates. Coordination between nonprofits and the housing program are required for the success of the initiative, something that the city had in place prior to the program. Wichita also had a supply of affordable housing available for people experiencing housing instability. A lack of housing stock has been a huge barrier in the success of the federal program in other part of the country.

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  • Lab-Grown Meat: Future Climate Solution or Icky Science Experiment?

    March 18, 2022 |

    The Sweaty Penguin |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States

    Lab-grown meat is poised to become a safer alternative to conventional meat. There are 99 companies around the world that are developing lab-cultured meat products and that number is growing. The production process is still expensive and not completely scalable yet, but scientists are working to overcome these barriers to make it cheaper and more ethically produced.

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  • Las mujeres de Cacaotica: “Yo soñaba un día con tener un proyecto de cacao”

    March 17, 2022 |

    Confidencial |

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    Response Location: Costa Rica, Upala, Alajuela

    Un grupo de mujeres rurales, campesinas y migrantes, producen cacao en una finca muy cercana a la frontera Costa Rica-Nicaragua, y producen alimentos y productos de higiene que venden en mercados y puestos de la zona. Este emprendimiento llamado Asociación de Mujeres de las Comunidades de Upala (AMECUP) provee de ingresos a sus familias pero además ha generado empoderamiento e independencia para las mujeres.

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  • From Fish Waste to Community Wealth

    March 17, 2022 |

    Hakai Magazine |

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    Response Location: India, Chennai

    A government agency in India is turning fishing waste into useful commodities, which help both the environment and the community. Discarded fish parts often littered the beaches near fish markets, leaving a stench and a mess that stigmatized the neighborhood. Now the parts are being processed and sold as fertilizers leading to a cleaner community, less waste, and a much-needed alternative source of income in the fishing community.

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  • A school created a homeless shelter in the gym and it paid off in the classroom

    March 17, 2022 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    The Stay Over Program allows families experiencing homelessness with children enrolled in the San Francisco Unified School District to use a high school gym as a shelter.

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  • Want to rebuild soil? Build relationships

    March 17, 2022 |

    Montana Free Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Judith Basin, Montana

    Regenerative agriculture is one of the top ways the Biden administration aims to reduce atmospheric carbon. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service and individual farmers’ work on regenerative agriculture have implications for the future of food production in regards to global supply chain disruptions and combatting climate change.

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  • On Kashmir's border, health workers fight Covid vaccine battles

    March 17, 2022 |

    The Evening Standard |

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    Response Location: India, Kashmir

    In an effort to fight misinformation and vaccine hesitancy, teams of healthcare professionals travel door-to-door in rural communities where vaccination rates are low and COVID cases are high.

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  • Oregon Is Turning Sewage into an Endless Supply of Green Energy

    March 17, 2022 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: United States, Clackamas county, Oregon

    A wastewater treatment plant in Oregon not only cleans water that is released into the local river, but it also creates fertilizer that is sent to farmers to use on non-food crops and it produces renewable power from methane. The green energy created at the plant heats five buildings on the site and produces half of the energy the facility uses. This kind of co-generation system is growing in other places in the United States, China, Brazil, and Norway.

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  • Seedballs Aiding Kenya's Reforestation Efforts

    March 17, 2022 |

    Science Africa |

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    Response Location: Kenya

    In Kenya, like other countries in the world, deforestation is the major driver of tree cover loss. To solve this, a local startup called Seedball Kenya has developed the seedball technology whereby seeds of indigenous tree and grass species are coated with charcoal waste mixed with nutritious binders then thrown like balls into the planting grounds.

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  • Kansas increasingly meeting the need for rural broadband speed

    March 16, 2022 |

    The Kansas Leadership Center Journal (KLC Journal) |

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    Response Location: United States, Kansas

    Kansas has increased access to high-quality broadband, especially in rural areas, by using $60 of the $250 million Congress allocated to Kansas for coronavirus-related costs. The Statewide Broadband Expansion Planning Task Force had already made recommendations to the state legislature, which were approved in the 2020 session. Companies who won the bids to expand access quickly deployed about 350 miles of fiber and fixed wireless service in some areas. Other grant-funded initiatives will continue to improve access, particularly to low-income areas.

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