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  • Transition écologique : une révolution dans l'éducation ?

    July 06, 2023 |

    Sur la Terre |

    Podcast |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: France, Menglon

    Caminando est une école primaire qui privilégie le lien des élèves avec la nature, avec beaucoup de temps passé à l’extérieur et des éléments de la nature incorporés à d’autres matières académiques. Par exemple, les élèves apprennent les mathématiques en s’occupant de leurs propres parcelles de jardin, ce qui les oblige à calculer la surface ou à compter le nombre de tomates qu’ils ont cultivées.

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  • Can a City Feed Itself?

    July 06, 2023 |

    Bloomberg |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: France, Paris

    In Paris, building-based agriculture, like rooftop gardens, allows for the production of nutritious food close to where they will be eaten. The practice helps eliminate carbon emissions, improve food security, and improve climate resilience.

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  • Blowing the air of justice on alleged witches

    July 06, 2023 |

    Prime Progress |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Nigeria, Cross River

    The Advocacy for Alleged Witches is working to make all of Nigerian society witch-hunting-free. Advocates in the organization report incidents of witchcraft branding and arrange to help the accused individual by moving them away from the danger, providing medical services, and working with lawyers, police, and government agencies to take legal action against the issue.

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  • Hate crimes are increasing in California. The state is hoping a hotline can help

    July 06, 2023 |

    CalMatters |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    LA vs. Hate is a hotline service and support network that allows victims of hate crimes and hate incidents to report their experiences and access counseling and other support. Since 2019, 2,171 people have submitted a report to the program, and California has now launched a statewide initiative following LA vs. Hate’s model.

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  • Nigerians experiment with wildfire prevention methods

    July 06, 2023 |

    FairPlanet |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Nigeria, Olum, Cross River

    The Small Mammal Conservation Organization is preventing wildfires by educating farmers in Cross River, Nigeria, about the dangers of burning the remaining crop waste in their fields after the harvest. The organization runs weather stations that inform communities about daily fire risks and employs “forest guardians” in every community to patrol farmlands and mitigate wildfire risk.

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  • In India, peace building goes ultimate

    July 05, 2023 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: India, Rowmari, Assam

    The nonprofit Action Northeast Trust organizes youth ultimate Frisbee matches to strengthen social cohesion, promote gender equality, and foster peace among young people from different villages, ethnicities, and mother tongues in Assam, India.

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  • How Minnesota Became the Surprising Success Story of Gun Reform

    July 05, 2023 |

    The Trace |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Minnesota

    By shifting their message around gun violence to frame it as a public safety issue and narrowing the focus of proposed legislation to appeal to a wide coalition, Minnesota lawmakers were able to pass a sweeping gun reform package that included a red flag law, universal backgrounds checks, and significant investments in community violence intervention programs.

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  • Trees like women best: Nepal's forests thrive with female bosses

    July 05, 2023 |

    Context |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Nepal, Kathmandu

    The Federation of Community Forestry Users Nepal manages the country’s community forest. For the past 30 years, the organization made a point to ensure half of its employees are women, and that women have access to leadership roles. As a result, a path has opened for more women to work in politics and the forests managed by women are thriving the most.

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  • How NYC students are turning the trauma of gun violence into action

    July 05, 2023 |

    Chalkbeat New York |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    In the wake of violent incidents, administrators at two Brooklyn schools gave students space and agency to organize rallies and events protesting gun violence. Students at Williamsburg Charter High School gathered roughly 4,000 signatures in their petition for improved prevention programs.

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  • Boot camps of hope for Nigerian kids in neglected communities

    July 05, 2023 |

    Prime Progress |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Nigeria

    Since starting up in Nigeria in 2018, the Kayode Alabi Leadership and Career Initiative, has reached about 6400 rural teenagers through their Skill2Rural bootcamp project. The multi-day bootcamp rotates between a selected school, internally displaced persons camp, or a community center. Participants have co-created about 70 prototypes to minimize issues related to poverty and unemployment within their communities.

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