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  • New Leaf Project study shows one-time direct cash transfers positively impact the homeless

    Rich Weiss Janine Vanderhoff

    March 30, 2021 |

    FreshWater Cleveland |

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    Response Location: Canada, Vancouver, British Columbia

    The New Leaf project ran a controlled trial to test the power of direct cash transfers with people experiencing homelessness. Fifty people were given a one-time cash payment of $7,500, which roughly equaled the sum of government income assistance spread out across the year. The impact was measured over 12 months and found that people in the cash group moved into stable housing faster, spent fewer days homeless, and saved more money. The organization found the lump sum, rather than monthly increments, allowed people to make decisions about how they could move their lives forward aimed at stabilization.

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  • Can California's Organic Vegetable Farmers Unlock the Secrets of No-Till Farming?

    Gosia Wozniacka

    March 30, 2021 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    A trial experiment with three farmers and several California universities is looking to better understand how to farm with little or no chemicals. No-till farming can boost soil health and better store carbon, but it’s not a perfect system. These farmers are testing how to reduce soil disturbance, use cover crops, and diversify their species of crops, yet so far, they haven’t found much success. “Figuring this all out has been ‘a school of hard knocks,’” says one of the farmers.

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  • The secret ingredient in Paris' green public housing

    Colin Kinniburgh

    March 30, 2021 |

    Grist |

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    Response Location: France, Paris

    Paris Habitat, the city’s main social housing agency, used hempcrete — a concrete-like mixture of hemp, lime, and water — as insulation in one of its apartment complexes. This material helps maintain temperature and reduces a building’s energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. The cost of using hempcrete can be expensive but making the material is more environmentally friendly, and has shown that it can be implemented for affordable housing and not just for those who already have the means to pay for it.

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  • Gambia's United Effort to Tackle COVID-19

    Mustapha K. Darboe

    March 30, 2021 |

    U.S. News & World Report |

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    Response Location: Gambia

    In an effort to contain the spread of coronavirus variants throughout the country, Gambia has launched a genome sequence initiative that to monitor active strains. For a country that has received very few doses of the vaccine, this effort is important for identifying potential outbreaks before they become unmanageable.

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  • Inside the community patrols in San Francisco's Chinatown

    Samantha Michaels

    March 30, 2021 |

    Mother Jones |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Rising alarm over hate crimes targeting Asian-Americans, particularly the elderly, drew many volunteers to the community patrols that have organized over the past year in the Bay Area. Chinatown Safety Patrol, started just weeks before the Atlanta spa murders, suddenly attracted dozens of people willing to watch over and help elderly neighbors, giving them the confidence to go about their lives on the streets. The patrols serve as a deterrent to predatory violence. They also can deescalate conflict. Their main function is to protect residents in ways that the police can't or won't.

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  • How a Seattle Neighborhood Confronted Food Insecurity in the Pandemic

    Lornet Turnbull

    March 29, 2021 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    In the South Park neighborhood of Seattle, community efforts during the coronavirus pandemic have resulted in the creation of a system that battles food insecurity. Spearheaded by the community center, a local non-profit, and a local restaurant, the community has built and expanded a kind of coordinated mutual aid that helps residents maintain access to hot meals and pantry items.

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  • When ‘om' can help you take care of Mom: Meditation, mindfulness useful tools for many caregivers

    Beth Adams

    March 29, 2021 |

    WXXI |

    Podcast |

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    Response Location: United States, Cambridge, Massachusetts

    Mindfulness and meditation practices have been shown to reduce stress and neurological biomarkers of aging while also improving an individual's mood, resilience, and cognitive performance. To help connect caregivers to these practices, some programs are now offering classes at community centers.

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  • Fighting America's Gun Plague

    Ian Frazier

    March 29, 2021 |

    The New Yorker |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    One of dozens of community-based anti-violence groups in New York City, New Yorkers Against Gun Violence teaches high schoolers classes on gun-violence prevention that carry an underlying message: how to fight their community's powerlessness in nonviolent ways. Former students of the program were inspired to start their own youth-focused offshoot, Youth Over Guns, and others have gone on to careers in activism or the work of directly intervening to prevent retaliatory shootings. As one of its counselors put it, he's teaching that "everybody should be an anti-gun activist now.”

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  • Minneapolis restaurants offer takeout food without a side of guilt for using wasteful containers

    Richard Chin

    March 29, 2021 |

    Minnesota Star Tribune |

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    Response Location: United States, Minneapolis, Minnesota

    A clean tech startup called Forever Ware created reusable, stainless steel containers for restaurants to use instead of single-use takeout containers. So far, four restaurants in Minneapolis are participating in the program, where customers pay a deposit for the container and can return it to any restaurant in the network. Within two months, the containers were used about 1,400 times, which probably cut back on some plastic waste ending up in landfills.

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  • A key to bridging the political divide: Sit down and talk?

    Glenn Gamboa

    March 29, 2021 |

    Associated Press |

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    Response Location: United States

    One Small Step seeks to decrease toxic polarization by bringing people of differing views and backgrounds together to talk. About 800 people have met in pairs in around 40 cities to talk about commonalities, such as family and spirituality, in addition to other issues facing the country. The conversations, which highlight people’s commonalities and help to humanize one another, are based on research that shows bringing people together face-to-face decreases prejudice and discrimination. Some of the recorded conversations become part of the StoryCorps podcast or were broadcast on NPR.

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