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  • Food waste is heating up the planet. Is dumpster-diving by app a solution?

    May 25, 2021 |

    Grist |

    Text |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    The app Too Good to Go helps restaurants and other shops prevent food waste by selling their extra food to people for a cheaper price. So far, more than 700,000 people in the United States have downloaded the app and the company estimates that, on average, each meal sold halts 2.2 pounds of food from ending up in the garbage, which ends up reducing carbon emissions. There are challenges to widespread implementation, but the app has launched in New York City, Boston, San Francisco, and Seattle.

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  • This South L.A. startup will turn your front lawn into a farm

    May 25, 2021 |

    FastCompany |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    A startup in California called Crop Swap LA is converting unused front yards into community gardens that can grow crops like kale, rainbow chard, and tomatoes as a way to feed neighbors. Community members can pay for subscriptions for up to $43 a month to receive a bundle of greens and vegetables from the microfarms and homeowners get a share of the profits. Each garden needs to have the proper maintenance, which can make it difficult to scale, but these gardens can help provide access to food to those who don’t have a grocery store in their area.

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  • In Nashville, Using Loan Guarantees to Fund Affordable Housing Preservation

    May 25, 2021 |

    Next City |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Nashville, Tennessee

    Urban Housing Solutions, a Nashville nonprofit housing developer, made a $19.2 million investment to preserve 165 apartments for people earning in the mid-30s. In a tight and expensive housing market where aggressive investors often outflank nonprofits seeking to provide lower-cost housing, UHS financed the purchase with a bank loan that will earn the lender state tax credits and that was secured by four philanthropic foundations' funds as collateral. The transaction was a first in Nashville for the use of community investment tools to preserve lower-cost housing.

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  • This Federal Program to Aid Restaurants and Street Vendors Is Working

    May 25, 2021 |

    Next City |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    In just its first few weeks of existence, the U.S. Small Business Administration's Restaurant Revitalization Fund approved more than $6 billion in aid to 38,000 restaurants and other food vendors suffering economically from pandemic shutdowns. The aid program's rollout was more effective than the Paycheck Protection Program in 2020, in that it successfully targeted businesses owned by women, veterans, and "socially or economically disadvantaged people." It was helped in outreach to businesses by organizations such as Mission Economic Development Agency and New York's Street Vendor Project.

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  • The Cities Trailblazing Transit Service into the Wilderness

    May 25, 2021 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    Hikers can now catch a ride to their trail of choice thanks to Seattle’s transit system. Bus rides to popular hiking destinations make the great outdoors more accessible for urban populations.

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  • What Robots Can—and Can't—Do for the Old and Lonely

    May 24, 2021 |

    The New Yorker |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, New York

    The Joy For All Companion provides lifelike robot pets to lonely seniors. These robotic pets provide much-needed company to a group of people most at risk of being impacted by the loneliness epidemic that was exacerbated by COVID-19.

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  • Wild Basket initiative brings traditional foraging techniques to future generations

    May 24, 2021 |

    CBC |

    Multi-Media |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Canada, Montreal, Quebec

    The Wild Basket allows community members of Temiskaming First Nation to gain traditional knowledge about native food sources and foraging techniques while re-connecting to the land and their roots. The initiative also provides a source of native food. The wild foods include mushrooms, fiddleheads, spices, and tea leaves which are sold to restaurants and other community members.

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  • Inside Elephant Territory

    May 24, 2021 |

    Outriders |

    Multi-Media |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: Sri Lanka

    New tactics are being implemented to prevent elephants from approaching farmland in Sri Lanka. Clashes between people and elephants have increased with the expansion of small farms encroaching into elephant habitats. One solution to prevent damage to crops and to protect people has been electric fences. The fences deliver a small shock - enough to deter the elephant without harming it.

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  • The Healing Force of Family

    May 24, 2021 |

    Stanford Social Innovation Review |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: India

    Through the use of video storytelling classes, two graduate students developed a pilot project that is helping to "teach medical caregiving skills to families of cardiac patients" in India. The project proved so helpful during the initial stages that a local hospital adopted the training program and it is now being implemented across other regions as well.

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  • Reimagining a Better World After George Floyd's Death

    May 24, 2021 |

    Yes! Magazine |

    Radio |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Minneapolis, Minnesota

    Two ways that communities affected by police violence and racial injustice responded to the uprising after George Floyd's murder were block-by-block organizing and participatory budgeting. The first, used in Minneapolis, provided public safety and mutual aid when neighbors formed networks to guard buildings, put out fires, mediate disputes, and deliver aid to people living through a period of unrest. In participatory budgeting, 30 cities turned over control of $400 million in public spending to communities, which set policy based on communal decisions and directed financial priorities.

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