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  • How to Get Contact Tracing Right

    July 14, 2020 |

    Washington Monthly |

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    Response Location: United States, New York

    During the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, early efforts at contact tracing by different states in the U.S. proved successful when they relied on people instead of applications or software, which showed high rates of failure since people didn't seem to want to participate or download the applications. New York state relied on human contact tracers, specifically those who lived in the neighborhoods they track. "The city’s initiative has shown early success: As of June 16, it had reached 94% of all new positive cases."

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  • Community peacemakers in Chicago offer a proven alternative to policing

    July 14, 2020 |

    Waging Nonviolence |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Nonviolence Chicago uses street-outreach workers to mediate disputes and connect residents of violence-prone neighborhoods to needed services. Its work, amounting to tens of thousands of contacts per year with people involved in violence, has contributed to efforts that reduced homicides and nonfatal shootings in the Austin neighborhood by nearly half from 2016 to 2019. By replacing the police with former gang members and others with street credibility, and working with both victims and shooters, Nonviolence Chicago wins the trust of residents.

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  • Will Your Next Salmon Come from a Massive Land Tank in Florida?

    July 14, 2020 |

    Politico |

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    Response Location: United States, Homestead, Florida

    A Norwegian firm has built a land-based fish farm – which is "a supersized aquatic version of greenhouse agriculture that aims to solve a host of environmental problems plaguing conventional salmon farms in coastal waters" – near the tip of the Florida peninsula. Although it's yet to be seen if demand will be to the scale necessary to deem the endeavor financially viable, in Denmark where this concept was initially piloted, more than 25 generations of salmon have already been harvested.

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  • Cracking the transportation bottleneck

    July 14, 2020 |

    The Boulder Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Whitehall, Montana

    In Whitehall, Montana, a senior center and a nonprofit that helps rehabilitate individuals with brain injuries joined together to enhance public transportation services for "multiple constiuencies," including rural, elderly populations and for those who are living with a disability. Although Whitehall Public Transportation was not immediately popular, in 2019, over 27,000 riders utilized this new, free service to run errands, travel to appointments and local events or just to meet other community members.

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  • Oakland's Homeless Community Knows How to End the City's Housing Crisis. Will Its Leaders Listen?

    July 14, 2020 |

    Law at the Margins |

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    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    The city of Oakland and local activists use a similar response to the problem – building encampments of "tiny houses" – but there are critical differences between the two programs. An activist group called The Village has taken over parkland or vacant lots to build 23 tiny structures at the heart of self-governed communities that activists hope alleviate homelessness in the short term and lead toward permanent solutions. The city has torn down most of The Village's structures and erected its own two-person sheds in camps governed by the city, an approach that has had mixed success for the people it served.

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  • Blockchain technology to boost power access in rural areas

    July 14, 2020 |

    Nation Africa |

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    Response Location: Kenya

    A micro-grid system has been paired with blockchain technology to easily sell and buy affordable and clean energy in rural Kenya. Residents living in the countryside don't generally have access to reliable and affordable electricity but this new technology allows rural Kenyans to install solar panels on their homes and easily sell surplus electricity to neighbors. The pilot program is a result of a collaboration between an NGO and a local tech company.

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  • O movimento de mulheres indígenas para reflorestar o Xingu

    July 14, 2020 |

    Nexo Jornal |

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    Response Location: Brazil, Mato Grosso

    Grupo de mulheres indígenas Ikpeng completa dez anos coletando sementes para o plantio de árvores em áreas desmatadas na região dos rios Xingu e Araguaia. Neste período, as mulheres coletaram 3,2 toneladas de sementes florestais nativas usadas para o plantio de cerca de um milhão de árvores.

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  • Wine Country's Farmworkers Are Staying Healthy Against All Odds

    July 13, 2020 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: United States, Willamette Valley, Oregon

    ¡Salud! mobile clinics were a vital factor in keeping farm workers in Oregon vineyards safe during the national health crisis. The nonprofit is supported by the state's wine industry and has provided primary care wellness checks, vaccinations, and more for decades to workers, the majority of whom do not have any other access to health care. ¡Salud! provided testing and masks early on in addition to information about the importance of masks and social distancing. Translated CDC updates were also sent to the mostly spanish-speaking workers about the constantly-changing guidelines and precautions.

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  • Milwaukee has a problem with food insecurity. Urban agriculture can be part of the answer. Audio icon

    July 13, 2020 |

    Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |

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    Response Location: United States, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

    Urban agriculture is providing residents of Milwaukee with a direct link to their food through programs that include urban farming, community gardens, and the knowledge needed to maintain personal gardens. Gardening has been linked to a healthier lifestyle and an improvement in diet. The programs intend to create a healthy knowledge of and relationship with food.

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  • Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need

    July 13, 2020 |

    Pressenza |

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    Response Location: Finland

    Finland, the only EU country with declining homelessness, uses a “Housing First” program to provide homes for people living on the streets with no preconditions. Nonprofits manage long-term housing and, once in homes, individuals receive a rental agreement and pay rent and expenses. Social workers provide services from offices in residential buildings and the state helps financially. The program provided 4,600 homes in the past decade and costs less than accepting the status quo of homelessness. About 20% drop out and around 1,900 people still live on the streets, but emergency shelters can accommodate them.

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