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Copenhagen Wants to Show How Cities Can Fight Climate Change

Somini Sengupta

March 25, 2019 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: Denmark, Copenhagen

Copenhagen is doing its best to become net carbon neutral by 2025. With strong leadership from Mayor Frank Jenson, the city has installed wind turbines, a trash incinerator that also helps heat the city, and stronger bike lanes. Without national support, however, the city is fighting an uphill battle to protect itself from climate change.

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The Great American Cardboard Comeback

Michael Corkery

March 22, 2019 |

The New York Times |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Combined Locks, Wisconsin

Rather than close their doors for good, Wisconsin paper mills have adapted to the booming internet business and begun making something even Amazon needs: cardboard. Though traditional glossy paper sales have plummeted since the early 2000s, the demand for cardboard in the online shopping industry has skyrocketed, leaving an open market for American paper mill factories.

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What's Wrong With This Diorama? You Can Read All About It

Ana Fota

March 20, 2019 |

The New York Times |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, New York, New York

Reassessing representations creates an opportunity for educational experiences. Instead of simply removing a problematic diorama depicting members of the Lenape tribe and Dutch colonists, the American Museum of Natural History in New York, NY, converted the piece into a learning experience for visitors. Following pressure from groups like Decolonize this Place, the revised diorama now features panels that illuminate and discuss misrepresentations in the piece.

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It Takes a Friend to Get a Friend to Vote

Tina Rosenberg

March 19, 2019 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States

A suite of new voting apps are bringing new technologies to old organizing methods, like asking (or shaming) friends to vote and finding community leaders to encourage voter turnout. These old methods, now called "relational organizing," are coming back into fashion in an age of impersonal elections, when strangers often reach out to strangers to ask them to vote and campaigns spend millions on Facebook and television ads.

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Income Before: $18,000. After: $85,000. Does Tiny Nonprofit Hold a Key to the Middle Class?

Steve Lohr

March 15, 2019 |

The New York Times |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, New York, New York

A nonprofit in Queens trains low-income New Yorkers to work in successful tech companies. The program, which focuses on training folks without four-year degrees to provide access to higher wages, places graduates in the software engineering industry's top companies, like JP Morgan Chase and GrubHub.

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Building Grit in Girls Through Mountain Biking

A. C. Shilton

March 14, 2019 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, Jackson, Wyoming

Once again the bicycle is playing a part in empowering women! In this case, several organizations across the United States are using mountain biking to build preteen and teenage girls' confidence and drive. The dedication and strength that this adventure sport requires disrupts constraining gender roles for girls at a critical time in their development, and programs across the country seem to be growing in popularity quickly.

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Schools Find a New Way to Combat Student Absences: Washing Machines

Emily S. Rueb

March 13, 2019 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States

Schools have found that, among other deterrents, dirty clothes are one reason students skip school. Some, serving predominantly low-income populations, have now installed washing machines within their buildings, offering students free laundry services during the school day.

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India Fights Diabetic Blindness With Help From A.I.

Cade Metz

March 10, 2019 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: India, Madurai

Compared to India's population, the country is facing a shortage of eye doctors, but artificial intelligence may help close that gap. Partnering with Google artificial intelligence researchers, an eye hospital in India is working towards detecting diseases that can cause blindness by automating the process that leads to a diagnosis.

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Treat Medicines Like Netflix Treats Shows

Tina Rosenberg

March 05, 2019 |

The New York Times |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Australia

Australia has found a promising model to make high-priced medicine cheaper for patients, including expensive treatments for Hepatitis C, which the country is now on track to eradicating by 2026. The strategy works similar to the business strategy of subscription streaming services- by paying a lump sum to drug producers, Australia gets an unlimited amount of the drug for 5 years, allowing all patients to get help while ensuring stable profits for drug companies.

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New York Has a Public Housing Problem. Does London Have an Answer?

Michael Kimmelman

March 01, 2019 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United Kingdom, London, England

It takes political will to create mixed-income housing and manage the social impacts of gentrification. In contrast to New York, the London borough of Hackney has taken steps to fix its housing crisis by putting the interests of residents ahead of the interests of developers. Several housing developments slated for development in the East London neighborhood now blend subsidized and market-rate units.

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