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  • A simple way to make Boston's subway a bit less chaotic

    June 26, 2017 |

    The Boston Globe |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

    In heavily populated cities like Boston, the crush of the rush hour commute on public transport can be chaotic. But a number of cities have discovered a fairly easy way to significantly improve the flow of passengers getting on and off the subway: painting simple cues on the platforms indicating where passengers are meant to gather. Boston looks to replicate the successful "stand aside boxes" of cities like New York and Montreal.

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  • To Keep Predators Away, Montana Ranchers Compost Dead Cattle

    June 13, 2017 |

    Montana Public Radio |

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    Response Location: United States, Wisdom, Montana

    With the reintroduction of predators such as wolves and grizzly bears in Montana's national parks, these carnivores are increasingly targeting ranchers’ livestock. To mitigate this issue, livestock composting sites have been created to provide meat for the predators and protect vulnerable species.

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  • Clean Energy Training & Solar Comes To Nepal UNESCO Heritage Site

    June 10, 2017 |

    Clean Technica |

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    Response Location: Nepal, Bharatpur, Chitwan District

    Grassroots organizations, Empowered by Light and Empower Generation, are killing two birds with one stone: bringing clean energy to rural Nepal, and creating jobs for Nepalese women in the environmental sector. By helping to install electricity-generating solar panels, which simultaneously prevents illegal animal poaching, women are provided not only with a stable income and a ladder to reliable economic growth, but also with a rich work-life balance, allowing them to become “clean energy entrepreneurs” while continuing to care for their families and tend to their village’s needs.

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  • "Boots On The Ground" For Backcountry Conservation

    June 09, 2017 |

    KBUT Community Radio |

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    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Crested Butte, Colorado

    As tourism activity increases on the trails throughout Colorado and crowds of mountain bikers flock to the Gunnison Valley area, a group born out of the Crested Butte Mountain Bike Association has formed to act as a boots on the ground type of coalition. From trail maintenance to educating newcomers on proper trail etiquette, the Crested Butte Conservation Corps have taken matters into their own hands.

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  • Gender equality key to development

    June 09, 2017 |

    Anglican Journal |

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    Response Location: Tanzania, Masasi

    The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) is working to implement maternal and newborn child health programs in East Africa. Though the project has incorporated a wide-range of initiatives, many of them have relied on a single underlying principle that has proven to be effective: the empowerment of local women.

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  • Pilot program to help young women run for political office

    June 07, 2017 |

    Indiana Daily Student |

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    Response Location: United States, Bloomington, Indiana

    After calling roll at an all-male city council meeting in Bloomington, Indiana, city clerk Regina Moore recruited a group of women to run for office with the Democratic Women's Caucus in 1999. In 2017, she worked with a national organization called Rise to Run to start the recruitment pipeline younger by targeting high school and college-aged women to be more politically engaged.

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  • How sexual assistants are helping disabled Czechs fulfil their ‘right to sex'

    June 07, 2017 |

    Euronews |

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    Response Location: Czech Republic

    An organization in the Czech Republic has hired "sexual assistants to help disabled Czechs explore their sexuality and satisfy their sexual needs" as part of an initiative to decrease the stigma around people with disabilities and the topic of sexuality. The initiative has received some community pushback but has gained support from the government’s Interior Ministry – and in other Western countries, some governments have gone so far as to also offer financial support.

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  • Rwanda's Soccer Sisterhood

    June 04, 2017 |

    The New York Times |

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    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Rwanda

    In Rwanda, women are breaking gender stereotypes by playing soccer. After the Rwandan genocide of 1994, Felicite Rwemarika used her own money to fund the organization Women in Sport. Since then, it’s helped women process their trauma, and challenge traditional gender roles in the country.

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  • The Stickers that Save Lives

    June 04, 2017 |

    BBC |

    Radio |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: Kenya, Nairobi

    Vehicle crashes are the number one cause of death for young adults in nearly every country around the world, but the issue receives less policy attention or funding than diseases or terrorism. One clever initiative called Zusha in Kenya is using a very simple method - stickers - to spread safety messages on public transportation, and have already reduced bus accidents by as much as 25%.

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  • Just 20% of kids got 4-year degrees, so Chehalis schools changed everything

    June 02, 2017 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Chehalis, Washington

    The Chehalis school district has teamed up with the Chehalis Foundation to support students pursue higher education after high school. Only 15% of adults in the area have a bachelor's degree, and only 20% of graduating high school seniors earn a four-year degree. Now, the district is working to transform itself by retraining teachers to provide more rigorous lessons, placing emphasis on college preparation, and demystifying the college application and financial process for students and their families.

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