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16 March 2015
Caracas, Venezuela
Text
Under 800 Words
Last year, Venezuela became an urban laboratory for architects and urban designers who believe in the implementation of participatory processes and collaborative design techniques in order to change communities who li...
3 March 2015
Seattle, Washington, United States
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800-1500 Words
America loses about 31 percent of its food to waste. Driven by environmental, social and economic pressure, more and more cities are starting mandatory compost programs.
22 January 2015
Cairo, Egypt
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1500-3000 Words
Muslim women in Egypt are expected to marry young and to stay close to home, and if they do not, they can be subjected to abuse or heavy criticism by men in the household. Save the Children’s Choices program offers ed...
21 January 2015
South Carolina, United States
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1500-3000 Words
America's teacher workforce is disproportionately white and female, with black males constituting only 2 percent of instructors. The Call Me MISTER initiative, based out of Clemson University, provides test prep, tuit...
8 January 2015
United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
In reporting about problems, reporters continually run the risks of inadvertently legitimizing negative behaviors by making them appear more pervasive — and therefore more normal — than they actually are. Some journal...
20 November 2014
Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia
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1500-3000 Words
Colombia has attempted to decrease murder and homicide rates by setting up curfews for teenagers, forcing bars to close earlier in the evening, and creating gun laws to prevent the carrying of weapons. As a result of ...
13 November 2014
Odisha, India
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1500-3000 Words
India has had a problem in which 620 million people openly defecate outdoors, causing harm to hygiene, sanitation, food, and water resources. The president of India funded an initiative to build public toilets for th...
The New York Times
Donald G. McNeil Jr.
10 November 2014
Kayes, Mali
Multi-Media
800-1500 Words
When a case of the Ebola disease struck a little girl in Africa, health officials in Mali collaborated with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization to contain the illness and q...
31 October 2014
Nigeria
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Under 800 Words
The media could help countries still affected by Ebola by focusing on Nigeria, where they defeated the virus through effective public institutions that protected the public interest, such as rejecting cash but accepti...
Next City
Gregory Scruggs
30 July 2014
Porto Alegre, Brazil
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1500-3000 Words
Support and popularity for bicycle use and culture has grown in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Following a deadly incident killing two cyclists at a bicycle event, the city has seen a demonstrative outpouring of support. City ...
17 July 2014
Bawani Khera, Haryana, India
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800-1500 Words
India’s free school lunch program is one of the world’s largest anti-poverty programs. Despite its many shortfalls, the program feeds 120 million of the country’s poorest school children. The idea is that if children ...
14 July 2014
Mercer Island, Washington, United States
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1500-3000 Words
In the Renton School District, teachers found that only a very few fifth-graders could solve problems with the skill that, in other schools, was common in third or even second grade. So they turned math lessons into c...
3 July 2014
Port Chester, New York, United States
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1500-3000 Words
We know how to prevent diabetes - but the U.S, medical system, with its twisted priorities, doesn’t cover prevention. A new program at the YMCA aims to build structured, effective prevention measures.
10 June 2014
Wilmington, Delaware, United States
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800-1500 Words
Delaware has been working to make sure that all college-ready graduates, regardless of socioeconomic status, make it to college. With financial reasons standing in the way of many qualified students, the state has wor...
1 June 2014
Richmond, California, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Since Richmond, California’s Office of Neighborhood Safety began paying stipends to its “fellows” – the dozens of young men it works with at any given time who are deemed to be at high risk of gun-violence involvement...
27 May 2014
Tucson, Arizona, United States
Radio
5-15 Minutes
Tucson has slashed its per capita water consumption by more than a third, and one of the more startling ways it's done that is by reusing water after it's flushed down the toilet or run through a washing machine.
14 May 2014
Kenya
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1500-3000 Words
Positive peer pressure - most specifically encouraging community influencers to lead by constructive example - has served as the key to adoption of various technologies and practices to improve quality of life for peo...
CivicStory
Susan Haig
23 April 2014
Princeton, New Jersey, United States
Video
Under 3 Minutes
To play their part in environmentally friendly solutions to a trash problem, the city of Princeton, NJ has implemented a program curbside composting program that has already grown from 160 participants to over 900. Th...
14 April 2014
Oakland, California, United States
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1500-3000 Words
The Rainier Scholars program in Seattle places fifth graders, who are all minorities, in special coursework through middle and high school, finally offering rigorous college coaching. In Oakland, CA, the National Coll...
5 April 2014
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Though in the past Hawaiians were dying fast from infectious diseases, today they are among the healthiest people in the world due to universal health care for all.
26 February 2014
Sweden
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Under 800 Words
Sweden's "Vision Zero" program has used a comprehensive approach to infrastructure and regulation to drastically reduce traffic-related deaths, making Swedish roads the safest in the world.
Fayetteville Observer
Greg Barnes
22 February 2014
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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800-1500 Words
Civic leaders in the U.S. struggle to effectively help their distressed neighborhoods. East Lake, Atlanta, created a replicable model that mixes residents of differing socio-economic status, and focuses on education a...
19 December 2013
Henderson, North Carolina, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Obesity has become a health crisis for many women in the African-American community, but a group known as GirlTrek is working to change this by making exercise a social norm and creating supportive connections between...
The New York Times Magazine
Paul Tullis
19 September 2013
Lassen Volcanic National Park, California, United States
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Over 3000 Words
Between climate change and an ever increasing population, wildfires are becoming more and more of an annual challenge to mitigate, with firefighters and policy makers walking a thin edge between the need for natural b...
4 September 2013
New York, New York, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Sexual assault, rape, and sexism are social problems that young women face and many feel powerless to create change. Non-profit organizations such as SPARK and WAM have trained teenage girls to be advocates for thems...
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