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  • Lessons Learned From California's Pioneering Microgrids

    May 13, 2019 |

    Green Tech Media |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    Years after the California Energy Commission funded and launched demonstration microgrids, they’re seeing results. These microgrids, which are localized energy sources that can work independently from large electric grids, were fairly costly, but have shown demonstrable success in lowering utility bills and delivering low-carbon power. As the Commission moves forward with this effort, they hope to continue to learn by doing and improving their processes.

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  • How to build a feminist city

    May 13, 2019 |

    Apolitical |

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    Response Location: India, Delhi

    Recent efforts to bring a gender perspective, especially a feminist one, to urban planning are making cities safer and more inclusive. One Indian app called SafetiPin crowdsources ratings of public spaces based on various safety criteria like lighting, visibility, and transportation. Elsewhere, city planners and researchers are defining what a feminist city would look like. In Sweden, buses are incorporating "night stops" between regular stops to decrease the amount of walking at night needed.

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  • Making Playgrounds a Little More Dangerous

    May 10, 2019 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, New York

    In the United States, most playgrounds are equipped with the same types of monkey bars, slides and swings, but a few are replacing these typical options with "dismembered store mannequins, wooden packing crates, tires, mattresses" among other things. Following the success of similar "adventure" or "junk" playgrounds in other countries, the research thus far is showing positive results such as fewer injuries and longer physical playtime.

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  • Welcome Home

    May 09, 2019 |

    Boulder Weekly |

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    Response Location: United States, Boulder, Colorado

    The number of cooperative living spaces in Boulder, CO is slowly increasing despite the public's opposition to creating residential coops amongst the overwhelmingly single-family, suburban lifestyle of the city. The scarcity of affordable living in Boulder has driven some residents to explore nontraditional housing opportunities that simultaneously reduce their rental expenses, reduce their carbon footprint, and allow them to create a community of like-minded people.

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  • More Restaurants Seeking To Appeal To Your Eardrums As Much As Your Taste Buds

    May 08, 2019 |

    WBBM-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    The focus on sound comes at a time when open kitchens and industrial hard-surface designs entice diners’ eyes, but might strain their ears.

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  • The traffic solution most cities haven't tried

    May 03, 2019 |

    Vox |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Cities across the world have implemented “congestion pricing” – meaning that cars in high-traffic areas will have to pay a fee to drive within those limits. New York City is one of the most recent cities to potentially implement this approach in its attempt to reduce congestion and encourage walking, biking, and public transportation.

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  • pH7

    May 02, 2019 |

    Ohio University School of Media Arts & Studies |

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    Response Location: United States, Appalachia, Ohio

    After the legacy of acid mine drainage from abandoned coal mines in Appalachian Ohio, there are several initiatives working to clean up the rivers and streams. Change-agents from universities, local organizations, and the government joined together in the 1990s to use both active and passive methods of neutralizing the pH level of the streams. Since then, they've brought the pH acidity down from 4.5 to 7 and grown the number of fish species from 4 to 37, and efforts are still ongoing and optimistic.

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  • The Town That Extended ‘Smart Growth' to Its Water

    April 30, 2019 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: United States, Westminster, Colorado

    Haunted by a 1962 drought in the town of Westminster, Colorado, the city's planners now incorporate water data in their planning processes to ensure that they never face the same sourcing issues again. By breaking down the silos between its water management and planning departments, the town has figured out how to manage its finite water resources, even in the face of a ballooning population. Now, other towns are following suit.

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  • Boise's ‘Housing First' Provides A New Solution To Idaho Homelessness

    April 30, 2019 |

    Boise State Public Radio (KBSX) |

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    Response Location: United States, Boise, Idaho

    With New Path Community Housing, Boise is one more city implementing Housing First policies to help reduce rates of homelessness. The apartment complex also includes onsite services and healthcare providers to help people transition into permanent housing.

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  • These Indigenous Women Are Reclaiming Stolen Land in the Bay Area

    April 30, 2019 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    The Sogorea Te Land Trust is an intertribal women-led organization that is working to reclaim ownership of land in the Bay Area that Ohlone people have lived on for centuries. They regained access to the land through a partnership with another local grassroots organization called Planting Justice, who will eventually hand over the land to Sogorea Te for free once it is fully paid off. Sogorea Te believes that the root of a lot of Indigenous problems is the dispossession of their land, so they hope to use this land to rebuild resiliency and a way of life for and with their people.

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