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Glasgow smiles: how the city halved its murders by 'caring people into change'

Peter Geoghegan

April 06, 2015 |

The Guardian |

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Response Location: Scotland, Glasgow

Ten years ago, Glasgow was western Europe’s murder capital. But the Violence Reduction Unit, an offshoot of the police force, invented an offender rehabilitation strategy – borrowed from anti-gang violence initiatives spearheaded in Boston in the 1990s – that combined creative thinking with old-fashioned enforcement.

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Shedding light on human rights: do businesses stand up to scrutiny?

Annabel Short

February 25, 2015 |

The Guardian |

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Response Location: Netherlands, The Hague, South Holland

There are increasing costs to business when they fail to respect basic human rights. Many are therefore taking steps to avoid abuses – and are taking a proactive rather than reactive approach.

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Vancouver versus the rising sea: how the city is adapting to climate change

Jim Hall

February 23, 2015 |

The Guardian |

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Response Location: Canada, Vancouver, British Columbia

The densely populated Canadian city is tenth most at risk of flooding in the world as climate change raises sea levels. The government has instated a number of successful flood adaptation projects, with an ambition to become the “greenest city in the world."

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How Nigeria defeated Ebola

Calestous Juma

October 31, 2014 |

The Guardian |

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Response Location: Nigeria

The media could help countries still affected by Ebola by focusing on Nigeria, where they defeated the virus through effective public institutions that protected the public interest, such as rejecting cash but accepting much needed health workers.

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Serving the base of the pyramid: five tips from emerging-market experts

Bruce Watson

May 30, 2014 |

The Guardian |

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Response Location: United States, New York, New York

The Social Innovation Summit, hosted in New York City, examines five key elements that allow the strategy of marketing to the base of the pyramid to actually succeed, and the companies big and small that are leveraging this approach to sustainably break the cycle of poverty in varied industries for communities around the world.

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Cities in motion: how slime mould can redraw our rail and road maps

David Parr

February 18, 2014 |

The Guardian |

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Response Location: Japan, Tokyo

The twenty-first century city is a complex organism, and simulating it to anticipate traffic and transportation congestions can be problematic for urban planning. Researchers around the world from Japan to England have used slime models to simulate traffic and transportation patterns, observing realistic growths, congestions, and re-routing opportunities. Biomimicry demonstrates an unconventional but useful process to understand the pulse of the urban environment.

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The pop-up designs changing the city landscape

Rowan Moore

August 03, 2013 |

The Guardian |

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Response Location: United Kingdom, London

Pop-ups, temporary constructions intended to enliven public places, can often be used as temporary structures and events as marketing tools, and as camouflage for their larger and less charming permanent developments. But young architects in London, their talent and energy outrunning their employment opportunities, initiate, design and build pop-ups as glimpses of what a better city – more open, more social, more pleasurable, more surprising – might be

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Eco-tourism in Peru: Community engagement and preserving biodiversity

Dan Collyns

July 08, 2013 |

The Guardian |

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Response Location: Peru, Tambopata

Rainforest Expeditions, an innovative eco-tourism company in Peru, helps the local economy while also promoting conservation of the natural rainforest. By working with Infierno, the local indigenous community in a southeast part of Peru, the tourism company has empowered locals. The Inferno families are shareholders in the local lodges and have found career paths through this. Perhaps most important: as local people have a stake in tourism, they also have a stake in maintaining the rainforest.  

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Inside Denmark's 'fixing rooms', where nurses watch as addicts inject in safety

Daniel Boffey

May 04, 2013 |

The Guardian |

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Response Location: Denmark, Copenhagen

In Copenhagen's fixing room, drug addicts are able to take intravenous drugs through the supervision of nurses. The room provides a clean environment with sterile needles that can be disposed of. Since it opened, there were 36,000 injections, accounting for 350 syringes being used a day, and 1,000 regular attendees. “The philosophy is that we can't change people, people can change themselves and we can be there when they want to change."

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The Norwegian prison where inmates are treated like people

Erwin James

February 25, 2013 |

The Guardian |

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Response Location: Norway, Oslo

With Norway having the lowest re-offense rate in Europe, the Bastoy prison in Norway not only demonstrates the effectiveness of this new approach, but also receives criticism that they treat prisoners with too much luxury.

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