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Blind Bungee Jumpers Welcome

MaryLou Costa

January 30, 2025 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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Response Location: United Kingdom, Durham

Traveleyes offers tours catered to blind and visually impaired travelers by pairing them with sighted guests to accompany them on their travels, who describe the details of what they’re seeing and experiencing. Traveleyes has hosted over 1,000 tours, taking over 20,000 guests to locations around the world.

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Apprenticeships Bring a Fresh Generation to Small Dairy Farms

Daniel Walton

January 28, 2025 |

Civil Eats |

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Response Location: United States

Since 2015, the Dairy Grazing Apprenticeship, with support by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), has worked to help dairy farmers transfer skills and opportunities to a new generation. Thus far, slmost 70 apprentices have graduated from the program as independent journeyworkers, and 59 farmer-apprentice pairs are currently active across the country.

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In northern California, the Karuk Tribe is burning its way back to a centuries-old relationship with fire

Murphy Woodhouse

January 27, 2025 |

Boise State Public Radio (KBSX) |

Radio |

3-5 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Orleans, California

The Karuk Tribe of Northern California is revitalizing its ancient practice of cultural burning as both a proactive wildfire management strategy and a revival of crucial cultural traditions. Through coordinated, culturally-focused prescribed burns called KTREX, the tribe is restoring the ecosystem, improving community wildfire resilience, and strengthening traditional ecological knowledge.

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Inside Africa's Trailblazing Solar Repair Movement

Peter Yeung

January 27, 2025 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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Response Location: Zambia

Nonprofit SolarAid trains repair technicians who can fix solar energy kits. In the 2023-24 financial year, SolarAid’s teams across Zambia and Malawi repaired 2,422 solar products, reducing electronic waste, increasing the lifespan of products, and improving access to solar lights, as well as creating job opportunities

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Cómo comunidades de Miami encontraron soluciones climáticas con un modelo de participación comunitaria

Clavel Rangel Jiménez

January 27, 2025 |

El Tiempo Latino |

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Response Location: United States, Miami, Florida

Usando herramientas de ciencias sociales, como el "design thinking" y el "photovoice," más la participación de funcionarios del condado de Miami-Dade y socios locales, proyectos estan transformando la planificación de adaptación climática en Miami. acercando los datos, y empoderando a las comunidades en la toma de decisiones.

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Early results suggest communities stop logging during basic income pilot project

Sonam Lama Hyolmo

January 27, 2025 |

Mongabay |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Amazon, Peru

After two seasons, an unconditional cash-transfer pilot project for Indigenous peoples in Peru’s Amazon has resulted in a positive impact on families who, in the past, would turn to unsustainable or illegal forest activities as a response to economic stress and food insecurity. According to the pilot's latest internal assessment, three communities are no longer engaging in illegal forest activities to make ends meet.

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A Free-Transit Prescription for Healthier Communities

Elizabeth Hewitt

January 24, 2025 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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Response Location: United States, Kansas City, Missouri

Kansas City is the largest U.S. city to adopt a zero-fare policy since its public bus system stopped charging riders in 2020. This policy change gives riders more financial flexibility and improves social and physical health outcomes as residents are walking more to get to bus stops and are also more connected to the community through increased access to transportation.

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How Baltimore Convinced Officers to Seek Help for Alcoholism and Depression

Jule Pattison-Gordon

January 24, 2025 |

Governing |

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Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

In an effort to promote health and wellness and reduce instances of officer misconduct, the Baltimore Police Departmenr launched a program in 2018 that connects officers with counseling, substance use treatment and other mental and physical health supports. Over the course of the program, more than 250 officers have signed themselves into a voluntary, confidential alcohol addiction program and been able to keep working.

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Where Art Thou, Rebuild?

Malcolm Burnley

January 22, 2025 |

The Philadelphia Citizen |

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Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Philadelphia’s Rebuild project leveraged revenue from a new tax on soda along with philanthropic funding to renovate parks, recreation facilities, and libraries throughout the city. Because of its focus on equity, the program funneled roughly 20 percent more funding into disadvantaged areas compared to the city’s previous capital projects, but due to delays in the process and the level of repairs and renovation needed, the city was ultimately only able to tackle about half the number of Rebuild projects it originally projected.

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My therapist is a bot: The rise of AI in mental health treatment

Rodrigo Santodomingo

January 21, 2025 |

El País |

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Response Location: United States

As many struggle to access mental health care, AI-powered chatbots, called “psychobots,” are emerging as a response to limited access to traditional psychotherapy. While they may not be a replacement for human connection, these chatbots offer affordable, convenient and anonymous psychological support, using techniques such as cognitive-behavioral therapy and advanced conversational AI algorithms to communicate.

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