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  • How China is Cleaning its Air

    March 05, 2017 |

    BBC |

    Radio |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: China, Beijing, Jingjinji

    Air pollution is a huge problem for China, but surprisingly, the Air Quality Index in several cities is improving because of a variety of experimental projects that are being rolled out and a number of clever pollution solutions from around the country.

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  • Building Better Cities

    March 05, 2017 |

    Al Jazeera |

    Broadcast TV News |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: Colombia, Cali, Valle del Cauca

    By 2050 the percentage of the world's population living in cities will increase to two-thirds with significant environmental strains. In Colombia, a company called Conceptos Plasticos collects recyclable plastic material, melts it down and moulds it into bricks used to build houses for the local community. Singapore too, is on the cutting edge of environmentally sustainable urban solutions including vertical farms and living buildings.

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  • 'To focus on young adults who are in prison is very cutting edge'

    March 05, 2017 |

    The Connecticut Mirror |

    Text |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Connecticut

    The state of Connecticut is partnering with the Vera Institute of Justice to creating a new model of incarceration for young people ages 18 to 25. That state has created four integration centers to help inmates transition back to the community and opened a unit for young male prisoners who are mentored by those serving life sentences. They engage in circle-based conversations daily to promote communication and curtail conflict within the correctional center.

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  • Role play: teaching gender equality in India

    March 03, 2017 |

    Positive.News |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: India

    In India gender inequality and stereotype perpetuation have been barriers to reaching equality, Gulika Reddy tried to implement changes and work with adults but these ideas were so firmly entrenched that they could not adjust to other ideology. Thus, she started 'Schools of Equality' where children receive lessons (in their regular schools) and creatively engage in analysis and discussion of gender equality issues in order to help shape more equal perspectives at an earlier age.

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  • In a Rust Belt Town Where Tuition Is Covered, Economy Begins to Revive

    March 02, 2017 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Kalamazoo, Michigan

    For over 10 years, a non-profit in Kalamazoo, Michigan has been covering 65 to 100 percent of college costs for local public school students. Kalamazoo Promise, which has inspired similar programs throughout the country, aims to retain and increase the city's population (after dropping numbers in recent decades) and improve college attendance and completion rates. So far, high school dropout rates have declined and more Kalamazoo students are enrolling in college. Furthermore, the improvements have been the same for low-income and minority students as for middle-income and white students.

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  • Is your kid absent more than classmates? School ‘nudge' letters tell parents just how much

    March 02, 2017 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Tacoma, Washington

    Adapting tactics that have helped persuade homeowners to use less electricity by comparing them to their neighbors, schools in Tacoma and other school districts across the nation are trying to boost student attendance with “nudge” letters. These nudges compare students’ attendance rates with school and district averages. Research has shown that the nudges reduces chronic absenteeism.

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  • Seeds of Commerce: Saving Native Plants in the Heart of Appalachia

    March 02, 2017 |

    Yale Environment 360 |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Asheville, North Carolina

    As climate change continues to threaten the survival of native plants species and the health of the eco-systems they support, the North Carolina Arboretum’s Germplasm Repository is taking a clever new approach to the preservation of native plant seeds: pushing to capitalize on their commercial value. Plant physiologists like Joe-Ann McCoy know that the best method for saving many species may also create jobs and boost local economies, when businesses start leveraging the medicinal uses of native plants for products like herbal supplements.

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  • Baltimore turns to a life-saving opioid overdose antidote, but it's no cure for the crisis

    March 01, 2017 |

    PBS NewsHour |

    Broadcast TV News |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    In Maryland, people are being trained to administer naloxone, the drug that can save people from an opioid overdose, in order to combat the opioid crisis. Some people are even trained on street corners. Already 20,000 people have been trained, and more states are following suit.

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  • How an obscure Obamacare provision is quietly saving lives, and money, in Missouri

    March 01, 2017 |

    Washington Monthly |

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    Response Location: United States, St. Charles, Missouri

    Crider Health Center was having trouble coordinating the communication between psychiatry and primary care physicians. In 2012, under the Affordable Care Act, Crider and dozens of other mental health centers in the state of Missouri, received federal funds to pilot “integrated care” for Medicaid recipients as part of the new public policy. The funds have enabled social service agencies to work together with hospitals and mental health centers so that patients receive cost-saving, comprehensive care.

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  • Why Is Finland Able to Fend Off Putin's Information War?

    March 01, 2017 |

    Foreign Policy |

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    Response Location: Finland

    Identifying and combating propaganda is imperative for an informed public to have a sense of identity and make political decisions. In Finland, a “public diplomacy” program is countering Russian propaganda by better understanding how false information spreads.

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