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  • This Ohio Paint Production Experiment Creates Art — and Potentially Jobs — From Polluted Mine Sites

    November 19, 2018 |

    100 Days in Appalachia |

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    Response Location: United States, Corning, Ohio

    In Ohio, artists and scientists are teaming up, turning hazardous mine run-off into paint pigment. High demand for such pigment, public funding, and enthusiasm for clean waterways could go a long way to mitigate water pollution.

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  • Nepalese entrepreneurs turn trash into treasure

    November 18, 2018 |

    Nikkei Asia |

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    Response Location: Nepal, Kathmandu

    Kathmandu Valley, like many other heavily populated areas in Nepal, has a trash problem. As the designated landfill becomes overfull, local entrepreneurs are turning to creative thinking in order to make a difference. From turning trash into household items to creating furniture out of tires, these artists and innovators are showing that recycling is beneficial in more than one way.

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  • GPs could prescribe bingo and dancing after English trial's success

    November 18, 2018 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom, London

    Allowing doctors to refer patients to social activities and community programs eases workloads by reducing hospital admissions for non-medical issues. The practice of “community prescribing,” pioneered by a group of general practitioners in the London borough of Croydon, allows doctors to direct their patients to various programs and activities, ranging from financial planning and housing services, to volunteer-led dance sessions and fitness classes.

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  • Better Local Journalism, by Local Reporters, Is the Goal of a New Database

    November 18, 2018 |

    The New York Times |

    Multi-Media |

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    Response Location: United States

    Shoeleather is a database that connects editors across the country with local journalists. So far, 400 people have joined. Rather than relying on journalists from large media outlets to cover local communities, the database is aimed at using the knowledge and expertise of local reports to cover their own communities.

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  • California Offers Safe Space For Firefighters To Work Through Stress And Trauma

    November 17, 2018 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    Firefighters working the frontlines of California fires now have emotional supports at their base camps to help them process the toll of their work. Supports include chaplains, peer-to-peer interaction, and therapy dogs.

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  • Colorado anti-bullying program, fueled by pot tax dollars, considered one of the best in the country

    November 17, 2018 |

    The Denver Post |

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    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    In Colorado voters approved spending money from marijuana tax sales on education. As much as $2 million is distributed to Colorado schools to spend on evidence-based anti-bullying programs. “Usually it means getting students, teachers and parents and the community involved.” The effort is working, “the percentage of students that reported being bullied dropped from 59 percent to 25 percent last school year, and the state was ranked third in the country for best bullying practices.

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  • John Pace and His Friends Expected to Die in Prison

    November 16, 2018 |

    The Nation (New York) |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Once deemed youthful “superpredators” condemned to spend their entire adult lives in prison, the peer counselors in Philadelphia’s Life After Life support group help other formerly incarcerated people transition back to freedom. Of the more than 100 former “juvenile lifers” who returned to Philadelphia after the Supreme Court deemed them eligible for a second chance, none has been convicted of a new crime or serious parole violation – a key metric that encourages Pennsylvania to continue whittling down its record-high population of juvenile-life-without-parole inmates.

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  • Philadelphia's Secret Ingredient for More Civic Engagement: a Lot of Food

    November 16, 2018 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Food and common passions are bringing people together for solutions-oriented conversations about the communities they live in. The Knight Foundation’s “On the Table” series started in Chicago and has now expanded to 30 cities. It’s an all-day event to encourage civic dialogue.

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  • This Once Hated Wild Animal Could Now Save A Struggling Community

    November 16, 2018 |

    The Huffington Post |

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    Response Location: Spain, Villardeciervos, Zamora

    In northwestern Spain, the perception of wolves is shifting from "vermin" to "tourist attraction"--a crucial conservation step for the estimated 2,000 wolves remaining in Spain. Thanks to the efforts of conservation groups, local politicians, and an education center, wolf tourism is beginning to replace wolf hunting.

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  • Black scholars find support, success in Highline College pilot program

    November 16, 2018 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington

    On college campuses across California and Washington state, the Umoja Community program groups black freshman in small classes that focus on historic and present issues affecting black communities. While 33 percent of one college's black students outside the program have completed an English course by their freshman year, 47 percent of Umoja students, who benefit from additional mentoring and academic advising, have done the same.

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