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  • As Temperatures Rise, Farms Are Sprouting in Alaska

    June 30, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, Alaska

    Alaska usually imports most of its food, but due to supply chain issues and climate change making the growing season longer, more small farms are popping up in The Last Frontier state. While the number of U.S. farms has decreased between 2007 and 2017, Alaska saw them increase by 44 percent. With their farming boom, residents are becoming more sustainable on their own crops rather than relying on global food systems.

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  • How One Nigerian State Overcame Vaccine Hesitancy and Eradicated Polio

    June 24, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Cross River

    Across Cross River, the government is partnering with traditional leaders, both chiefs and Muslim clerics, to build communication, trust, and acceptance of its polio vaccine program in local communities. The strategy has contributed to the fact that 900,000 children have received both sets of the vaccine and the state remains polio free.

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  • No College? No Problem

    June 17, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States

    An organization is partnering with companies to connect job seekers, who don’t have college degrees, to corporate positions. The “skills-based hiring” is a step toward closing the racial wealth gap.

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  • Happier Employees, Higher Profits: Covid's Surprising Lesson for Restaurants

    May 19, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Alamos, California

    During the COVID-19 pandemic, owners of the French bistro Bell's took a financial risk and began investing more money in their employees to incentivize working, increase employee satisfaction and retention and overall drive more profits. The decision has since paid off and is reimagining the traditional restaurant structure.

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  • India's 'Open Prisons' Are a Marvel of Trust-Based Incarceration

    May 12, 2022 |

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    Response Location: India, Rajasthan

    The Sanganer open prison serves as an important alternative to traditional incarceration in India by remaining open for 12 hours a day and allowing inmates to go out. It is one of 88 open prisons in India that works on a model of reform and helps inmates to keep their connection with work, family, and society. In doing so, it enables the development of trust as well as skills that can help them not just during incarceration but also after release.

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  • What Is the Future of America's Greenest Town?

    April 19, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, Greensburg, Kansas

    After a tornado devastated Greensburg, Kansas, the town decided to use the disaster as an opportunity to become more environmentally sustainable. For example, they built a new school out of recycled wood and it was powered with geothermal heat. While the maintenance of these sustainable features can be tricky, this shift to a greener town can be a case study for others looking to make the transition.

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  • Shifting Winds

    April 14, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, Iowa

    A new kind of cash crop is turning Iowa into a renewable energy juggernaut — and preserving a rural way of life. With the help of federal incentives and renewable energy companies, farmers in rural Iowa are setting up turbines on their land to both make a profit, and offset crop losses during growing seasons.

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  • Can We Build Less Biased Medical Bots?

    April 11, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    Melalogic is an app that provides skin health resources to people with dark skin. The uses crowdsourced imaging data to confront racial bias in diagnostic artificial intelligence. Users can access the Black Skin Resource Center with information on 14 issues that affect people with darker skin. The app also shares health posters that physicians use to share information with their patients and videos with dermatologic tips. In the works is Melalogic 2.0, an immersive telehealth experience.

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  • In Austria, the Government Pays to Repair Your Stuff

    March 22, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Austria, Vienna

    In 2020, Vienna, Austria launched a program to subsidize half the cost of repairs to items such as clothing, electronics, bicycles, and furniture. The initiative supported the repair of more than 35,000 items, saving 850 tons of carbon dioxide emissions and spurring other localities, such as Thüringen, Germany, and Portland, Oregon, to roll out their own repair bonus schemes.

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  • Democracy Comes to Michigan

    March 21, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, Michigan

    A grassroots campaign ended gerrymandering in Michigan by passing an initiative requiring districts be drawn by citizen-commissions rather than politicians. The all-volunteer campaign went door-to-door collecting enough signatures to get the initiative on the ballot and used creative voter-engagement techniques to sustain the support. Once the ballot initiative passed, 9,300 people applied for the first commission. A third-party firm ultimately selected four Democrats, four Republicans, and five non-partisan people as commissioners, who worked together very well to redraw districts.

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