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  • Disability visibility: Navigating UGA with invisible disabilities

    February 03, 2024 |

    The Red & Black |

    Multi-Media |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Athens, Georgia

    The Disability Resource Center at UGA provides students with disabilities access to resources like priority course registration, which accounts for navigation and transportation barriers, testing accommodations and classroom accommodations, like having assigned notetakers and recording lectures. The Disability Resource Center helps more than 3,000 students receive accommodation each year.

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  • Giving buildings a new, green lease on life

    February 02, 2024 |

    Deutsche Welle (DW) |

    Video |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: India, Chennai

    An architect in Chennai, India, is retrofitting private residences and public buildings to be more sustainable. They make changes like installing energy-efficient upgrades, solar panels, improved ventilation, and low-flow plumbing fixtures to reduce water and energy consumption.

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  • This county launched an ambitious child care effort 7 years ago. Here's what happened.

    February 02, 2024 |

    Chalkbeat Colorado |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    The Child Care 8000 initiative set out to increase the number of available child care slots in Mesa County, Colorado by encouraging coordination, streamlining the licensing process, and expanding training opportunities. Though the campaign did not reach its goal, it did help add roughly 800 child care slots and improve the quality of existing programs.

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  • How communities worldwide are working to solve the water crisis

    February 02, 2024 |

    WBUR |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, California

    Communities around the world are developing innovative technological solutions to the growing water crisis. In California, for example, the Orange County Water District runs a wastewater recycling plant that purifies the water enough to be released back into the underground aquifer that supplies drinking water.

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  • What Does Reproductive Health Have to Do With Climate Vulnerability?

    February 02, 2024 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

    Text |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Philippines

    Organizations around the world are using an integrated approach to empowering women by addressing climate justice and health issues in their communities. PATH Foundation Philippines, for example, helped implement sustainable marine management practices to increase the fish stocks in fishing communities so families were less inclined to send their daughters away for financial support.

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  • More 'Navigators' Are Helping Women Travel to Have Abortions

    February 01, 2024 |

    KFF Health News |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States

    Navigators with the National Abortion Federation help people access care and cover the cost of an abortion, including necessary travel costs for those living in states with strict abortion bans. After Roe v. Wade was overturned, demand for this help has skyrocketed. NAF spends $200,000 a month — up from the previous $30,000 — in states where abortion bans are the strictest, like Texas, Georgia, Alabama and Florida.

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  • New Hampshire Teens Provide Weekend Snacks and Meals to Hungry Peers

    February 01, 2024 |

    The 74 |

    Multi-Media |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Manchester, New Hampshire

    Fueled by Kids provides food for students who rely on school lunches to ensure they have food to eat during the weekends. Fueled by Kids curates bags of food that are easy for the students to prepare themselves and offers them at more than 20 schools, serving more than 1,000 students.

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  • Minnesota schools testing electric buses find benefits and barriers

    January 30, 2024 |

    MPR News |

    Multi-Media |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Morris, Minnesota

    After adding electric school buses to its fleet with the help of grant funding, Morris Area Schools saw its fuel costs drop from about $3 per gallon to the equivalent of about $1 a gallon. Each bus is estimated to help cut roughly 140 tons of carbon emissions over its lifetime.

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  • Un Béninois fabrique une table pour réchauffer les bébés à la naissance

    January 29, 2024 |

    SciDev.Net |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: Benin

    Pour aider les cliniques du Bénin à éviter le coût de l'importation d'equipement médical, un technicien a conçu sa propre version d'une table chauffante, qui aide à réguler la température des bébés prématurés. Les tables chauffantes sont désormais utilisées dans une vingtaine de cliniques et autres centres de santé.

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  • Minneapolis solar nonprofit is proving patience can bring results to lower-income residents

    January 29, 2024 |

    Energy News Network |

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    Response Location: United States, Minneapolis, Minnesota

    The nonprofit Solstar provides free solar panels to lower-income homeowners in Minneapolis by encouraging wealthy individuals to invest in its solar panel installations and cover the costs. The investors earn a modest return on their investment from Solstar and can take advantage of tax credits, while the homeowners see a drop in their electricity bills.

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