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https://magazine.areweeurope.com/stories/code-of-conscience/tech-saving-planet?utm_source=Solutions+Story+Tracker
Julia Migné
Are We Europe Magazine
3 September 2019
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As conservationists around the world grapple with saving endangered species, many have turned to the tech sector. Initiatives like The Zooniverse, a citizen science platform for people-powered research, are helping expand over 90 different projects. Even more, scientists have started directly collaborating with technologists to develop products, like weather-resistant cameras for capturing penguins in Antarctica, specially for their work.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3kxqmv/a-new-generation-of-students-is-teaching-us-how-to-reduce-e-waste?utm_source=Solutions+Story+Tracker
Madeleine Gregory
Vice
23 August 2019
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The company, iFixit, is training college students to repair electronics and then create manuals so that others can do the same. The company has helped students make more than 30,000 guides and reaches 1.5 million users every month. iFixit partners with colleges and universities to with the hopes of teaching students about the importance of sustainable engineering.
https://www.yesmagazine.org/people-power/app-seattle-disability-digital-map-20190821?utm_source=Solutions+Story+Tracker
Megan Wildhood
Yes! Magazine
21 August 2019
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Crowdsourcing data allows developers to help those with limited mobility find accessible routes. The AccessMap Seattle project, in collaboration with the Taskar Center for Accessible Technology at the University of Washington and OpenStreetMap, has tested and is improving a map where users can find and edit information about the elevation of rotes, sidewalks, and crosswalks to serve those who are challenged with their mobility.
https://www.apnews.com/d0bd2e4232dc4952a1db399afb257cd3?utm_source=Solutions+Story+Tracker
Christopher Weber
Associated Press
20 August 2019
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A bridge is being designed to cross over U.S. 101 so that wildlife in the region will have a safe way to travel. When development, especially freeways, happens, ecosystems are cut off, leaving animals like wildcats, deer, and snakes, with no way to access their entire habitats. This bridge, funded mostly by private donors, will cost $87 million and is being designed as part of the ecosystem so that the wildlife that does use it, will barely know they’re on a bridge at all.
https://www.kxan.com/save-our-students/austin-parents-create-safe-options-for-families-in-a-dangerous-digital-landscape?utm_source=Solutions+Story+Tracker
Chris Nelson
Arezow Doost
KXAN Austin
18 August 2019
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Concerned about their children's mental health as a result of excessive and unmonitored screen time, several parents in Austin are taking district-wide pacts to not buy their children smartphones before a certain grade and offering alternate activities or more controlled gaming environments.
https://www.routefifty.com/tech-data/2019/08/boston-school-bus-routes/159113?utm_source=Solutions+Story+Tracker
Emma Coleman
Route Fifty
12 August 2019
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A well-designed algorithm can help increase the efficiency of complex, and troublesome, transportation systems. In 2017, Boston Public Schools hosted a competition to redesign its complicated bussing system. The selected proposal, an algorithm created by PhD students, increased efficiency by 20% overall, helping BPD cut tons of carbon emissions and ease budget constraints. The savings will allow BPD to reinvest in its schools.
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