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  • Rentals That Let You Fly the Coop

    October 26, 2013 |

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    Urbanites who want farm fresh eggs may not know what they're getting themselves into with a live chicken purchase—and wind up offloading their animals. A Pennsylvania couple began a sharing company called Rent the Chicken, which provides chickens, a coop, some feed, and coaching for urban farmers.

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  • In ‘Flipped' Classrooms, a Method for Mastery

    October 23, 2013 |

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    Response Location: United States, Putnam, Connecticut

    Students have challenges retaining information, staying motivated, and keeping up with the pace of their classes. In a flipped mastery class, teachers make video lectures for students to watch at home, and at school students work on projects and problem solving activities related to the topics for the day. Instead of struggling alone, the flipped mastery class enables students to creatively work together and set individual goals.

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  • Here Comes the Neighborhood (2013)

    October 19, 2013 |

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    Response Location: United States, Mount Laurel, New Jersey

    An affordable housing development in Mount Laurel, N.J., holds promise for integration by placing the development in an upscale suburban area. Since 140 affordable units were built in 2000, there has been no effect on crime rates, property values, or taxes, in reference to nearby suburbs.

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  • Improving School Lunch by Design

    October 16, 2013 |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    The San Francisco Unified School District is piloting a collaboration with the design firm IDEO to re-imagine the school food system and help combat childhood obesity by better designing the space and the experience of how children eat, as much as the type of food they consume.

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  • Turning Education Upside Down

    October 09, 2013 |

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    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    What is the best use of a teacher’s precious face-to-face classroom time? It’s working one-on-one with students, not lecturing. To free up more time for the important stuff, some teachers are now recording videos of their lectures for students to watch at home.

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  • India Increases Effort to Harness Biomass Energy

    October 08, 2013 |

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    Response Location: India, Punjab

    With 60 percent of India's population relying on agriculture for living, the country faces a dire challenge of what to do with accumulated agricultural waste. Instead of burning it, as they traditionally would do, they are harnessing biomass energy that directly supplies the country's electrical grid.

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  • Who Will Heal the Doctors?

    October 02, 2013 |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Bureaucracy in the health care system causes burnout among doctors. A new medical course, the Healer's Art, is being offered across the nation, which helps doctors reconnect to the humanity of their work and maintain their commitment for it.

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  • Escaping the Cycle of Scarcity

    September 25, 2013 |

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    Response Location: India, Odisha

    Poor people are less likely to make smart financial decisions; however, new research in the U.S. says this is not about intelligence but rather about a brain being overwhelmed with issues related to poverty. To combat that barrier of stress, organizations around the world are making financial decisions easier for people experiencing poverty by making borrowing easier and automating future financial planning, like 401(k) contributions.

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  • Medicine's Search for Meaning

    September 18, 2013 |

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    Medicine is in crisis; doctors face early burnout. Medical education contributes: it creates doctors who don’t show emotion. But The Healer’s Art, a medical school course delivered in an unconventional manner, reminds doctors that they and their patients are above all, human.

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  • The Next Wireless Revolution, in Electricity

    September 11, 2013 |

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    Response Location: Tanzania

    Phone lines in Africa and South Asia would never have gotten to the poor - but these places have leapfrogged over last-century technology and gone straight to mobile phones. Now the same thing is happening with off-grid solar power: the fastest -- perhaps the only – way to power the poor.

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