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  • Could casitas help prevent displacement in the West's cities?

    July 08, 2021 |

    High Country News |

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    Response Location: United States, Tucson, Arizona

    Casitas, also known as accessory dwelling units (ADUs), are being legalized and promoted by several western states. Arizona is the latest to legalize ADUs in a bid to ease the shortage of affordable housing. An ADU pilot in Denver is helping moderate-income homeowners build units in rapidly gentrifying areas. They are incentivized to rent these ADUs at affordable rates, providing a benefit to homeowners as well as future renters.

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  • How New Haven's Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services supports families transitioning to the U.S.

    July 08, 2021 |

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    Response Location: United States, New Haven, Connecticut

    Refugees arriving to the United States are accessing wrap-around transition services through Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services (IRIS), a resettlement agency. IRIS provides housing, employment resources, English classes, and access to food pantries.

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  • From excess to opportunity: How a rural non-profit fights hunger and food waste

    July 08, 2021 |

    Richland Source |

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    Response Location: United States, Apple Creek, Ohio

    Fresh produce that would otherwise be thrown out is being rescued from farms and delivered to those who need it, through food banks. A Whole Community (AWC) is the nonprofit behind the initiative that is reducing both food waste and food insecurity.

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  • The Brooklyn Bridge needs a makeover. Is rainforest lumber still in style?

    July 08, 2021 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Guatemala, Petén

    In the 1990s, Guatemala established the Maya Bisphere Reserve to stop the burgeoning rates of deforestation. However, some communities lived within this region. The organization tasked with overseeing the MBP decided to let the communities stay in the area as long as they agreed to a tight supervision of how they used the forest. The arrangement is known as a forestry concessions. Community-owned concessions must follow strict guidelines or face eviction. It worked. Deforestation rates are low, wildlife is thriving, and communities earn an income without depleting the forest.

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  • El Quijote de la montaña de Santa Bárbara

    July 08, 2021 |

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    Response Location: Honduras, Las Vegas, Tegucigalpa

    El Parque Nacional Montaña de Santa Bárbara (PANAMOSAB) en Honduras es una de las pocas áreas protegidas que no ha sido fuertemente alterada por está en constante peligro por la falta de vigilacia y aplicación de la ley de zonas protegidas del país, pero es una de las principales áreas de generación de agua potable del país. La comunidad de aledaña de El Cedral ha implementado varias acciones de protección del parque y la zona de amortiguamiento que, aunque pequeñas, tienen impacto en la promoción de la protección de este parque.

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  • The ‘prison' with no fence: Go inside a Charlotte women's center changing lives for good

    July 08, 2021 |

    The Charlotte Observer |

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    Response Location: United States, Charlotte, North Carolina

    Charlotte's Center for Women uses a rehabilitative approach to incarceration, letting up to 30 women at a time live in a group home that provides both therapy and connections to employment. Women with one to three years left on their sentences can apply for a spot in the residential work-release program. They and their families – most are mothers – get the counseling they need to adjust to a better life once the residents get released. The women say the small freedoms they are granted in the home, plus the respect and help they get, do for them what prison never could in changing lives.

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  • Can we keep lumber out of the landfill?

    July 08, 2021 |

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    Response Location: Canada

    Pollution caused by demolition is expected to be 2.2 billion tons by 2021. However, up to 75 percent of materials in a demolition can be recycled. An alternative method to demolition is deconstruction or unbuilding. The method always for lumber and other materials that are recyclable to be salvaged. Cities like Vancouver that have passed ordinances encouraging recycling saw results. One company, "Unbuilders," that specializes in deconstruction shows that using methods like tax receipts and appraisals can lead to both profit and better results for the environment.

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  • In Southwest Virginia, Reestablishing a Rural Hospital System Requires Rebuilding Trust

    July 08, 2021 |

    100 Days in Appalachia |

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    Response Location: United States, Virginia

    When two hospital systems merged to create Ballad Health, agreements ensured all hospitals would stay open for at least five years and essential services in each of the rural and poorly served counties would be maintained. Enforceable price controls lowered patient costs and, in an effort to rebuild community trust and improve overall health, $308 million was committed to community-based care. The community health programs are based on the missions of organizations like Health Wagon, which serves its rural patients by forming personal relationships, being easily accessible, and understanding their needs.

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  • ‘Know Your Script' initiative shows success in fight against opioid epidemic

    July 08, 2021 |

    KSTU-TV |

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    Response Location: United States, Utah

    Intermountain Healthcare implemented an opioid reduction plan as part of Utah’s statewide ‘Know Your Script’ initiative. The plan, which includes an opioid-free surgery program that utilizes nerve blockers and non-opioid pain medications, has led to 11 million fewer opioid prescriptions. While not all surgeries can be performed this way, it has given recovering addicts a treatment alternative. The healthcare system also educates medical staff on ways to reduce opioid prescriptions and empowers patients to tell their providers that they do not want opioids.

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  • Incarceration after COVID: how the pandemic could permanently change jails and prisons

    July 07, 2021 |

    Wausau Pilot and Review |

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    Response Location: United States, Wisconsin

    Across Wisconsin, the pandemic pushed prisons and jails to work quickly to lower their numbers of prisoners, in some cases accelerating reforms that had been planned apart from virus containment. Incarceration hit a 20-year low in December 2020 through a variety of mechanisms, including issuing citations instead of arresting; limiting arrests for parole violations or on old warrants; and using electronic monitoring. Some jails saw fewer coronavirus infections, as well as population numbers averaging much lower than before. But a backlogged court system has reversed some of the gains.

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