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  • Fast, inexpensive street changes that get big results

    June 24, 2016 |

    WHYY |

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    Response Location: United States, Pennsylvania

    In Pennsylvania, many cities face challenges in implementing Complete Street policies to improve street and transportation safety in urban cores. The cities and organizations that have done this successfully offer ideas to others about how they can use creative financing and piloting to overcome barriers and enforce the policy.

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  • Smaller Minnesota cities take the lead in sustainability

    June 17, 2016 |

    Minnesota Public Radio |

    Radio |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Burnsville, Minnesota

    Global climate change might seem to call for global action, but there are efforts going on in places you wouldn't necessarily look, with countless examples in cities across Minnesota.

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  • How Cincinnati Salvaged the Nation's Most Dangerous Neighborhood

    June 16, 2016 |

    Politico |

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    Response Location: United States, Cincinnati, Ohio

    Cincinnati Center City Development Corp., a local NGO, has invested more than half a billion dollars into what was once the city's most dangerous neighborhood - and now is comparable to Greenwich Village.

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  • Helinski: A Very Smart City

    June 13, 2016 |

    The Huffington Post |

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    Response Location: Finland, Helinski

    Helinski's 'Smart Kalasatama' neighborhood is being planned by city officials, and supported by private investors, to be a vision for the future. Resource efficiency, technology start-ups and modern public transport all come together to what is hoped to be a truly modern part of the city.

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  • Is Better Transportation the Ticket to Diversifying Our National Parks?

    June 08, 2016 |

    Sierra Club |

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    Response Location: United States

    Tourism to National Parks throughout the U.S. has a diversity issue. Although this stems from various foundations, one area the park service has focused their attention is in transportation. From buses to trolleys to boats and ferries, parks across the nation are ramping up efforts to help get a more diverse crowd into nature.

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  • 'Pathways to Peace' explores solutions to youth violence

    June 05, 2016 |

    Cleveland.com (The Plain Dealer) |

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    Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

    Cleveland is responding to its gun violence epidemic with a combination of effective policing, social service agencies, and former offenders deployed to break cycles of violence in their communities.

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  • Detroit Is Turning Vacant Lots Into Sponges for Stormwater

    June 04, 2016 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    When it comes to green infrastructure, Detroit's got plenty of parcels to work with. A look at their new plans to turn unused land into stormwater sponges.

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  • How Turin is converting a dead industrial area into an innovation hub

    June 03, 2016 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: Italy, Turin

    Turin used to be a bustling hub for the automobile industry but since then it has been left as a dead industrial area. The Ex-incet development aims to change this by using an old company's headquarters to be the site where innovation and creativity can be brought together as people from different sectors work under the same roof.

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  • The Surprising Success of Micro Hydro

    June 01, 2016 |

    International Rivers |

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    Response Location: Myanmar, Yangon, Yangon Region

    The Hydropower Empowerment Network takes a country-by-country approach to helping establish micro hydro and other technologies in rural places where electricity is difficult to come by. Micro hydro has even proven to be more durable and sustainable than solar, though solar is cheaper and quicker to install - the reason is the depth of community involvement required. When villagers participate on longer-term, complex projects, they develop pride in their work, learn invaluable new skills, and are empowered to engage with the solution.

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  • Can Behavioral Economics Make Better Citizens? We'll Soon Find Out

    May 31, 2016 |

    Forbes |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Ideas42 is an organization which uses behavioral economics to transform New York inhabitants to become better citizens by taking advantage of peoples' "loss adversity". The city has redesigned summons forms to remind people clearly of what they might lose if they do not respond. They are also working on other city communications to increase response rates.

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