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  • Sex, taboos and #MeToo - in the country with no word for 'vagina'

    July 12, 2018 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: Myanmar, Yangon

    The Myanmar-based organization, Strong Flowers, is providing men and women with sex and gender education. Teaching such classes in a notoriously conservative culture can be challenging, but founder Dr. Thet Su Htwe and her curriculum on gender roles, menstruation, gender-based violence, and reproduction have been welcomed.

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  • California slashes emissions, hits major greenhouse gas goal years early

    July 12, 2018 |

    San Francisco Chronicle |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    Due in large part to the expanded use of renewable energy and decreased use of natural gas, California was able to cut greenhouse gas emissions significantly and ahead of their scheduled goal.

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  • Can Norway help us solve the plastic crisis, one bottle at a time?

    July 12, 2018 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: Norway, Oslo

    Norway runs a return and recycling program for bottles and cans that is a measurably successful. They tax companies that produce plastics—unless the companies can prove they recycle more 95% of production. Consumers are encouraged to return plastic with a small cash incentive.

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  • Teenagers get involved in suicide prevention

    July 12, 2018 |

    Valley Journal |

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    Response Location: United States, Arlee, Montana

    Suicide is the second leading cause of death for adolescents in Montana. The Arlee Warriors, a high school basketball team, and a group of students at St. Ignatius High School, are initiating conversations to de-stigmatize mental health issues and make their schools a safe space for their peers to seek help.

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  • A Simple Emergency Room Intervention Can Help Cut Future Suicide Risk

    July 11, 2018 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    When a person is brought to the emergency room after a suicide attempt, they are at risk for attempting suicide again for the next three months. These patients often slip through the cracks after being discharged from the hospital, and never receive the follow-up care they need. A program called Safety Planning Intervention trains doctors, nurses, and social workers to make a safety plan with high risk patients before they leave the hospital, to help reduce their risk of a second attempt.

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  • New intervention plan linked to lower risk of veteran suicides

    July 11, 2018 |

    Journalist's Resource |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    A program called the Safety Planning Intervention is reducing the occurrence of repeat suicide attempts among veterans. The program helps veterans establish a safety plan and identify a support network that they can rely on during times of crisis.

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  • When traditional banking isn't an option, try this out instead

    July 11, 2018 |

    Alaska Public Media |

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    Response Location: United States, Palmer, Alaska

    In Alaska, the Knik Tribe’s Community Development Financial Institution is offering financial opportunities to individuals in low-income communities who wouldn't have them otherwise. The organization, and others like it, are working to retain families in rural Alaska while providing the financial resources necessary for them to succeed.

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  • See Florida's New Underwater Sculpture Park, Which Is Delighting Scuba Divers and Oysters Alike

    July 11, 2018 |

    Artnet |

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    Response Location: United States, Florida

    In support of artistic creation, marine life, and tourism an underwater sculpture park has opened in Florida. The sculptures have been placed underwater in the Gulf of Mexico in the hopes of creating an artificial reef environment for study.

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  • Global Investors Find Value in a Small Bank in the Deep South

    July 11, 2018 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Little Rock, Arkansas

    Southern Bancorp is a regional bank based in Little Rock, Arkansas and is a member of the Global Alliance for Banking on Values. Founded after the financial crisis in 2009, the Alliance shows that values-based banks, especially those that are putting a higher proportion of funds toward loans in their own communities, outperformed more traditional large banks. Southern Bancorp is doing just that by investing in loans for local business owners and municipal bonds to benefit the cities in which they operate.

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  • Aid, and Agua, Along the Border

    July 11, 2018 |

    NationSwell |

    Multi-Media |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Escondido, California

    Without water, a person in the desert along the U.S. border dies in a day or two. Dismayed by rising deaths in the 1990s, John Hunter founded Water Station. The nonprofit now operates approximately 150 water stations in eastern California. Deaths have fallen, and the idea is being replicated elsewhere.

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