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How Shared Electric Cargo Bikes Are Changing Cities

Aina de Lapparent Alvarez

June 05, 2025 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

Shared electric cargo bike programs like CargoB and Re:Ciclos offer affordable, sustainable transportation alternatives that can significantly reduce urban car dependency; however, their long-term success hinges on overcoming infrastructure, cultural, and economic barriers.

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Life often gets in the way of adults going back to school. This Texarkana nonprofit has a solution.

Sarah Asch

June 02, 2025 |

Texas Standard |

Radio |

Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Texarkana, Texas

The 100 Families Program provides a vital connection point for community organizations serving people in need, streamlining the process for clients to get help with everything from obtaining a GED to finding housing and getting set up with food benefits. In Texarkana, which established its version of the program in 2022, over 100 community partners are now involved in the effort, and nearly half of clients who came into the program in the last year have since earned a high school diploma or are now working toward one.

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To improve youth mental health, these programs start by educating parents

Ethan Therrien

June 02, 2025 |

Capital News Service Maryland |

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Response Location: United States, Kensington, Maryland

Parent Encouragement Programs teach parents new ways to connect and communicate with their children, helping them become more understanding and less authoritarian. Research shows that after seven weeks of classes, parents report increased satisfaction in their relationships with their children.

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A PTSD Therapy 'Seemed Too Good to Be True'

Yasmin Tayag

June 02, 2025 |

The Atlantic |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

Reconsolidation of Traumatic Memories (RTM) is an unconventional therapy for treating PTSD without the intense emotional pain of traditional approaches like reliving traumatic memories. Despite barriers like minimal research and skepticism, early evidence suggests patients may be more likely to complete RTM therapy and eliminate their PTSD symptoms quicker than with traditional forms of therapy.

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Where the garbage goes

Jaclyn Moyer

June 01, 2025 |

High Country News |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Soap Creek, Oregon

A grassroots community initiative (VNEQS) organized local expertise, advocacy, labor activism, and legislative collaboration to oppose a landfill expansion and push for stronger environmental monitoring and accountability, resulting in increased public awareness, regulatory scrutiny, and pending policy reforms.

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How worker-ownership helped California Solar create good jobs

Brooke Larsen

June 01, 2025 |

High Country News |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Grass Valley, California

At worker-owned cooperatives such as Cal Solar, a California-based solar company, the worker-owners shape company policies and report a greater sense of accountability, comraderie, and more resilience in the face of industry challenges, compared to their non-cooperative model peers.

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Créditos para las mujeres: historias de independencia económica frente a la desigualdad

Graciela Tiburcio, Lucero Ascarza, Gabriela Modesto, Dayanna Delgado

May 31, 2025 |

Contranoticia |

Multi-Media |

Over 3000 Words

Response Location: Peru

CrediMujer, un programa de microcréditos grupales con enfoque en educación financiera y empoderamiento, ha permitido que más de 139,000 mujeres peruanas en zonas rurales y periurbanas accedan a financiación, fortalezcan sus negocios, aumenten su independencia económica y transformen sus comunidades, al mismo tiempo que enfrentan barreras de acceso, conectividad y contextos sociales adversos. Han ortogado más de 259 millones de dólares en créditos.

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How different Chicago organizations are informationally combating ICE

Matt Brady

May 30, 2025 |

ILLatinoNews.com (Illinois Latino News) |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

As ICE steps up arrest efforts around the country, organizations such as Arise Chicago are working to educate communities with Know Your Rights toolkits that help them prepare for potential confrontations with ICE officers. The kits are available digitally and can be accessed through a QR code, making the information easy to disseminate.

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Most new cars in Norway are EVs. How a freezing country beat range anxiety.

Karla Adam

May 30, 2025 |

The Washington Post |

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Response Location: Norway

Norway achieved nearly 90% electric vehicle adoption through a 25-year strategy of generous tax incentives (including a 25% VAT exemption), government-subsidized charging infrastructure, and legal guarantees for charging access, resulting in EVs becoming cheaper than gas cars and transforming even remote Arctic regions into EV-dominant markets.

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Lo que quedó del plan que redujo los embarazos adolescentes al 50% y fue desmantelado por el gobierno de Milei

Julieta Galera

May 29, 2025 |

elDiarioAR |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: Argentina

El Plan ENIA fue una estrategia intersectorial impulsada por el Estado argentino entre 2017 y 2024 para reducir el embarazo no intencional en la adolescencia a través de educación sexual integral, distribución gratuita de métodos anticonceptivos y asesorías de salud en escuelas, logrando como principal impacto una reducción del 50% en los embarazos adolescentes en las zonas donde fue implementado. Tras el cambio de gestión y el recorte de fondos, el plan fue interrumpido, forzando adaptaciones locales y fallas en la provisión.

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