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How to beat air pollution? Stop burning the fields

Rishika Pardikar

October 16, 2018 |

The Guardian |

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Response Location: India, Bangalore

Autumn in India is known for the season of bad air quality, largely in part due to stubble-burning, a practice used by farmers to dispose of crop waste. To counter this practice, private companies are coming up with ways to essentially recycle the crop waste which not only helps the environment but also is a more profitable approach for the farmers.

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'I leave the car at home': how free buses are revolutionising one French city

Kim Willsher

October 15, 2018 |

The Guardian |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: France, Dunkirk

Dunkirk, a city of about 200,000 people in France, is experimenting with free bus service for everyone in the city, an initiative that many passengers seem to approve of so far, as shown in higher ridership. While Dunkirk is the largest city to try free public transportation, it's far from the first; however, concerns about financial stability have limited the initiative's reach.

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How to grapple with soaring world population? An answer from down south

Nicola Davis

October 10, 2018 |

The Guardian |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Botswana

Botswana stands out for its rapidly falling fertility rate; a complex set of factors, including increased access to comprehensive education and contraception, is driving the falling rate. The country's family planning programs are far-reaching, providing services in even rural areas of Botswana, and giving women more control of their reproductive health and choices.

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Pot luck: the paint recyclers who put leftover litres to good use

Helen Pidd

October 01, 2018 |

The Guardian |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United Kingdom

Home improvement projects often start with paint, but what happens when all of the purchased paint doesn't get used? Typically, it sits in someone's basement or storage closet with no plan for further use in sight. Community Repaint in the United Kingdom is committed to promoting the recycling of this paint, however, and has implemented 74 projects that work to re-sell or re-color unused paint, thus reducing the amount that's sent to landfills after it molds.

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Young, gifted - and ready to tackle the mental illness epidemic

Ammar Kalia

September 28, 2018 |

The Guardian |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United Kingdom

The Think Ahead program in England is training recent college graduates for careers public mental health with a two-year, working Master’s program. These new graduates may be half the age of the average social worker, but they’re filling an important gap—social workers are in short supply in England, but the number of detentions under the Mental Health Act is increasing. The program is now taking on its fourth cohort and looking to expand nationally.

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Back from the brink: the global effort to save coral from climate change

Oliver Milman

September 26, 2018 |

The Guardian |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Florida

As climate change worsens, species such as coral reefs have been impacted at a detrimental rate. As the reefs begin to die off, so do the species that rely on them. In Florida, however, scientists have found success by replanting corals on fibreglass and PVC trees.

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England has more than 200,000 empty homes. How to revive them?

Mattha Busby

September 25, 2018 |

The Guardian |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United Kingdom, Stockton-on-Tees

There are an estimated over 200,000 vacant homes across England, and Community Campus 87 is one group attempting to bring those homes back to life. By employing apprentices, some who have experienced homelessness, to learn skills such as house painting, the social enterprise is helping homes as well as homeless people bounce back. This is just one example of a handful of social enterprises that are funding the rebuilding of vacant properties with the goal of filling the old homes with more affordable and sustainable housing.

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Germany launches world's first autonomous tram in Potsdam

Kate Connolly

September 23, 2018 |

The Guardian |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Germany, Potsdam, Brandenburg

Radar, lidar, and sensors guide the world’s first autonomous tram across Potsdam. While not yet commercially viable, the tram is an advancement in driverless technology. It can respond to road hazards faster than a human and runs on energy from wind and solar.

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How to get people to behave better? Use carrots, not sticks

Mattha Busby

September 21, 2018 |

The Guardian |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United Kingdom

Incentivizing good behavior is a tried and true tactic often used in child development. However, as the need for better behavior around issues such as recycling and public discord rises, some are finding that going back to a system of incentivizing the preferred behavior is the most successful pathway to creating habits that are crucial for the betterment of society and the environment.

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Rooftop farming: why vertical gardening is blooming in Kampala

Nils Adler

September 19, 2018 |

The Guardian |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: Uganda, Kampala

As the population of urban areas in Uganda grows, many farmers are finding that they are running out of space to cultivate successful business in agriculture. One solution that has surfaced has been to build up instead of out.

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