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  • Sinsinawa Dominicans spread mission through collaborative farm programs

    April 18, 2024 |

    National Catholic Reporter |

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    Response Location: United States, Wisconsin

    The Sinsinawa Mound Collaborative Farm, run by the Dominican Sisters of Sinsinawa, aims to make farming more affordable and accessible for those just starting out in the industry. People with less than 10 years of farming experience can rent a plot of land and equipment from the collaborative and access resources to help them create a business plan.

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  • From Blight to Not: A Success Story

    April 18, 2024 |

    The Macon Newsroom |

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    Response Location: United States, Macon, Georgia

    Macon-Bibb County’s Code Enforcement team is working to lessen blighted properties in the community by alerting property owners of issues that need fixing, such as overgrown grass, broken windows and even abandoned properties, with about a 70-75% success rate.

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  • What Happens After a Highway Dies

    April 13, 2024 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: United States, Rochester, New York

    After the highway’s removal in 2014, Rochester’s Inner Loop was transformed into Adventure Place, as part of the new Neighborhood of Play, which reimagined the urban landscape, featuring retail spaces, bike lanes and affordable housing options. Since the highway was filled in, more than $200 million in new investment has been generated. Moreover, several other cities, including New Orleans and Baltimore, are beginning to follow in their footsteps.

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  • 'Valuable and largely overlooked': Interest in virtual power plants grows

    April 07, 2024 |

    Utah News Dispatch |

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    Utility companies across the United States are using virtual power plants to meet electricity demand, access backup power, and lower the electric bills of participants. To make these power plants work, the utilities use energy from the battery storage systems of customers who have home solar arrays.

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  • South Africa's SAB Foundation: Why 90% of its investees are still in business five years later

    April 04, 2024 |

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    Response Location: South Africa, Johannesburg

    The SAB Foundation is an independent trust set up by South African Breweries (SAB) as part of the government’s Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment scheme. It helps businesses — particularly underserved entrepreneurs like women and people with disabilities — grow and thrive. Since 2010, the Foundation has backed more than 6,400 social impact businesses in their early stages.

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  • How Unfamiliar Fish Are Helping Mainers Fight Food Insecurity

    March 28, 2024 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: United States, Maine

    The Maine Coast Fishermen’s Association launched a program to support local fishing businesses and address food insecurity during the pandemic that continues to do so today. The nonprofit buys fish at a more than fair price from local businesses and donates them to food banks and public school food programs.

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  • He's Got a Plan for Cities That Flood: Stop Fighting the Water

    March 28, 2024 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: China

    Cities in China are moving away from using traditional water managment approaches, like drainage pipes and flood walls. Instead, they are becoming “sponge cities” by installiing green infrastructure designed to absob excess water, like green roofs and ponds.

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  • Despite Russian attacks, Ukrainians are determined to send their children to school

    March 27, 2024 |

    Deutsche Welle (DW) |

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    Response Location: Ukraine, Kharkiv

    To ensure children can safely attend school during the war, schools are building classrooms in underground metro stations. Over 2,000 students currently attend school in one of the five metro station classrooms built so far.

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  • Light at the End of the Tunnel

    March 26, 2024 |

    Hakai Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States

    Communities in the United States are slowly replacing small culverts that alter the flow of streams and block the paths of migratory fish species with wider culverts and bridges, allowing the ecosystems to recover.

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  • Attendance tracking program helps combat chronic absenteeism

    March 19, 2024 |

    Ashland Source |

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    Response Location: United States, Ontario, Ohio

    A specialized software called AttendanceK12 helps school secretaries, attendance counselors, and administrators more easily track student absences so they can intervene with families sooner, even offering options to automatically send parents an email when students reach a certain threshold of missed school hours. School leaders consider the technology an important element of a strategy that has helped reduce chronic absenteeism rates.

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