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  • These co-op restaurants didn't need to open indoor dining to survive the pandemic

    May 20, 2021 |

    The Real News Network |

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    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    Two Baltimore restaurants, Red Emma's and Joe Squared, show how running or starting as worker-owned cooperatives gave them pandemic-survival skills in a business climate that killed many other small businesses. By tapping into larger networks providing financing on favorable terms and other expertise, these co-ops used their workers' ingenuity to offer services that didn't depend on sit-down dining. Like many co-ops, they were able to survive the pandemic and preserve jobs where so many traditionally run businesses were not.

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  • How Social Media Fact-Checking Limits, But Can't Eliminate, Online Disinformation

    May 20, 2021 |

    Grady Newsource |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States

    Social media companies are using artificial intelligence to help identify misinformation. Once identified, human fact checkers will verify the posts. Facebook uses 60 partnered fact-checking organizations as well as SimSearchNet++ image-recognition system that can identify image manipulation and slight changes to misinformation. Hundreds of millions of posts are flagged every year and those that are identified as “false” or “altered” are labeled with warnings and distribution is reduced.

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  • How Oakland's Street Level Health Project navigated the pandemic year

    May 20, 2021 |

    The Oaklandside |

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    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    Residents in Oakland can access grocery distribution, hot meals, hand sanitizers, and vaccine coordination through the Street Level Health Project. Most of the community members who have used the service are Latinx day laborers.

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  • Chiredzi-Mwenezi rural communities burn biogas to save trees

    May 19, 2021 |

    The Chronicle |

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    Response Location: Zimbabwe, Chiredzi

    Rural communities in Bandama and Dungwe villages in Chiredzi and Mwenezi are using biogas technology to cook instead of cutting down trees for firewood. The technology relies on fermenting cow dung and using the material in biogas-specific stoves.

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  • People Are Using an Ancient Method of Writing Arabic to Combat AI Censors

    May 19, 2021 |

    Hyperallergic |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: Palestine

    To get around algorithms that have flagged and removed Palestinian content, users on platforms like Facebook and Instagram are using an old version of Arabic, dating back at least a thousand years, that doesn’t have diacritical points (dots above or below letters). Converting Arabic into a dotless form in social media posts makes it much more challenging for AI machines to identify because they use a binary code to identify each letter.

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  • How to make space

    May 19, 2021 |

    Capital Daily |

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    Response Location: Canada, Victoria, British Columbia

    Canadian cities lack the housing supply to keep up with demand and zoning laws are partly to blame. Land is designated specifically for single-family homes, which is the least efficient use of space, generates the lowest tax revenue, and contributes to more traffic and fewer public transportation options. The zoning rules are meant to prevent one problem, overly dense cities and their attendant problems, but its unintended consequence is a market that's priced most people out of it.

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  • Laying out food pantries like grocery stores gives choice and can lead to healthy habits

    May 19, 2021 |

    Dallas Free Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Dallas, Texas

    At Aunt Bette's Community Pantry in Dallas, people receiving donated food are treated with dignity and given choices that can have both psychological and nutritional benefits. A client-choice food pantry mimics a grocery store, except at this one people shop by appointment to fill their free, biweekly allotment. Volunteers help shoppers with health advice and also track inventory, so that unpopular items get discontinued. When people aren't handed a box with a take-it-or-leave-it selection, they waste less food and end up opting for healthier choices (with some helpful but not overbearing nudges).

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  • This pregnancy test came back positive for the environment

    May 19, 2021 |

    FastCompany |

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    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States

    Pregnancy tests account for two million pounds of plastic waste a year. If you were born before the 1980s, chances are your mother's pregnancy test is in a landfill. Since its creation in the 1970s, pregnancy tests remained the same; as single-use plastics that are not biodegradable. The founders of Lia Diagnostics sought to change that by revolutionizing the design and creating a pregnancy test made out of paper.

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  • From LA jail, two inmates pioneer care for mentally ill peers

    May 18, 2021 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    At the Los Angeles County Jail, two men incarcerated on pending murder charges created a homegrown approach to improving the care and conditions of confinement for people with serious mental illness. Their approach is simple: showing love and care for people whose illness makes them feel like outcasts. By helping fellow incarcerated men attend counseling and other programs, and by tending to their personal needs, the initiative has contributed to a significant drop in people harming themselves. Fewer restraints are needed, and the pods where the program operates are notably cleaner and calmer than before.

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  • Recipes For A Revolution: Albergo Etico and the empowerment of those with disabilities

    May 18, 2021 |

    Roar News |

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    Response Location: Italy

    Albergo Etico prepares people with disabilities for work in the hotel industry, using training based on the Montessori method. The "download" method helps people learn job skills at their own pace, translating lessons for people with various cognitive abilities. Training begins with their families, doing household chores in their own home. Trainees now work in eight Italian cities, plus three other countries. The investment pays off both economically and socially, as trainees gain autonomy and self-sufficiency.

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