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16 February 2016
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Half Moon Bay, California, United States
Catch share programs—where fishermen are allotted a set quota of the catch—reduce the notoriously risky behavior fishermen are known for, like sailing in stormy weather, a new study finds.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03605jk
Sonia Narang
BBC
23 October 2015
Radio / 3-5 Minutes
Los Angeles has a new model for affordable health care aimed at the 400,000 immigrants in the area without legal status or insurance. But not everyone agrees taxpayer money should fund the program.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/bangladesh-garment-industry-pushes-to-meet-deadlines-on-safety-standards/2015/04/22/b72ca9f0-e87b-11e4-8581-633c536add4b_story.html
Amy Yee
The Washington Post
23 April 2015
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In the aftermath of the Rana Plaza disaster, more than 200 clothing brands pledged to make their source factories compliant with international safety standards under two international agreements, using laws and rules to reform.
http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/the-myth-of-the-ethical-shopper
Michael Hobbes
The Huffington Post
17 July 2015
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Eliminating sweatshops and child labor depends on regulation, not consumers' preferences, as supply chains have become so complex and obscure as to prevent simple labels from being valuable.
http://www.thenation.com/article/two-years-after-rana-plaza-are-bangladeshs-workers-still-risk
Amy Yee
The Nation
22 May 2015
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After a major fire, labor standards in Bangladesh are improving, but workers must have a voice if these changes are to be sustainable.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/florida/fl-tomato-pickers-20151231-story.html#
Lois K. Solomon
Sun Sentinel
31 December 2015
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Tomato pickers have spent more than 20 years on a campaign for dignity and fair pay. The workers have succeeded, against incredible odds, in getting some of the biggest corporations in the country to recognize their plight.
http://www.citylab.com/weather/2015/12/how-catfish-and-algae-are-cleaning-up-the-chicago-river/420996
Dawn Reiss
CityLab
22 December 2015
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By releasing fish into the Chicago River, the city of Chicago aims to help clean up its ecosystem, as the fish hopefully will eat the river's excess algae.
http://www.trust.org/item/20140328224703-b3pan/?source=dpagehead
Wanjohi Kabukuru
Thomson Reuters Foundation
29 March 2014
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Warming water has led to the collapse of coral reef systems in the western Indian Ocean, essential to fisheries, protecting shorelines, and reducing beach erosion and sea-level rise. Marine scientists from Nature Seychelles, as part of an international project to protect and restore the reefs, are promoting varieties of coral that they have found to be resistant to the rise in temperature.
http://wwno.org/post/delta-blues-part-3-better-together
Eve Troeh
Jesse Hardman
New Orleans Public Radio (WWNO)
5 February 2015
Radio / 5-15 Minutes
Louisiana and Vietnam both need affordable solutions to rising sea levels. Leaders from Vietnam visited Louisiana to compare ideas.
http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/on-columbia-lsquojust-add-waterrsquo-seems-to-be-working
Lynda V. Mapes
The Seattle Times
2 August 2014
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New water management technology implemented along the Columbia has significantly helped the fish population - specifically salmon - return to healthy numbers and has restored much of the community and industry that revolves around the river, including for native peoples.
https://www.hcn.org/issues/46.20/can-biomimicry-tackle-our-toughest-water-problems
Benjamin Goldfarb
High Country News
24 November 2014
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Clean water and healthy ecosystems are becoming increasingly difficult to come by. With floating islands and other inventions, eco-entrepreneur Bruce Kania thinks that biomimicry - such as reconstructing wetlands and growing biofilms - can tackle the toughest of water problems.
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