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  • Car-Mounted Ads Take a New Direction: Data Collection

    November 20, 2019 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    A startup called Firefly uses a comprehensive approach to its sensor-equipped advertising screens by simultaneously showing advertisements on top of Uber and Lyft vehicles and collecting data about the drive and surrounding environment. While the technology is being piloted in five cities, officials try to solve privacy questions and concerns to ensure collected data can help cities to monitor pollution levels or collect sound data - not invade citizens' privacy,

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  • In Peoria, Green Infrastructure As a Path to Social Equity

    November 20, 2019 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Peoria, Illinois

    Green infrastructure provides a return on investment and improves the quality of life in a community. In Peoria, Illinois, the city’s Public Works Department has piloted several green infrastructure initiatives with the help of funding of a Bloomberg Philanthropies grant. Projects like the Well Farm at Voris Field, zero runoff streets are proving successful at capturing sewer runoff and creating economic value, while the youth volunteer PeoriaCorps are helping make the projects community-based.

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  • After years of academic struggles, Durham schools celebrate new success

    November 19, 2019 |

    WRAL-TV |

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    Response Location: United States, Durham, North Carolina

    In the past few years, Durham's public schools have made significant strides, backed by a new superintendent intent on getting teachers and the whole community to buy into his plan. Frequent teacher evaluations, new hires, and marked efforts to change outside views of the school are at the heart of the plan.

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  • Creative Freedom

    November 18, 2019 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: United States, New York

    New York-based nonprofit, Rehabilitation Through the Arts (RTA), runs theater programs for individuals experiencing incarceration as a way of improving mental health and reducing recidivism. While the United States’ criminal justice system has been focused on punitive measures, there’s been a trend toward rehabilitation across the country in recent years. Participants in RTA have shown a rate of recidivism of just 5% – compared to a 60% national average – but funding and sustainability remain a consistent hurdle.

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  • The police experiment that changed what we know about foot patrol

    November 15, 2019 |

    WHYY |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Of the three most notable experiments testing the effectiveness of police foot patrols at reducing crime, only one – the Philadelphia Foot Patrol Experiment – showed a significant reduction in violence, thanks to a three-month randomized controlled trial. By rethinking an old practice and infusing it with data-driven thinking about focusing on "hot spots," the Philadelphia brand of foot patrols debunked the myth that patrol might, at best, only improve community relations without having an effect on crime. But random car patrols, reacting mainly to radio calls, remains the dominant approach nationwide.

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  • Could 'invisible barcodes' revolutionise recycling?

    November 14, 2019 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: Germany, Andernach

    A pilot recycling sorting method hosted in Germany has created an easier way for recyclable and non-recyclable products to be separated. Designers printed invisible digital codes - much like invisible barcodes that can be picked up by a grocery store scanner - onto a myriad of products for a sensor machine to be able to sort products by material; the sorting machine saw over 90% success in correct allocation. Now, some of the largest food companies in the world are working together to use this technology on a wider scale.

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  • 'The woods, they hide so much': Animal Cruelty out of sight out of mind?

    November 12, 2019 |

    WXIA-TV |

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    Response Location: United States, Pennsylvania

    To address animal cruelty in Pennsylvania, a team of law enforcement officers are receiving special training to better identify and prosecute the guilty. This effort gives limited enforcement powers to those trained and allows them to be hired by animal welfare groups to serve search warrants, charge and arrest those involved, and appear in court.

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  • Getting a Handle on Self-Harm

    November 11, 2019 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Glen Oaks, New York

    Self-injury tactics have been increasing among adolescents, but psychologists are finding success with implementing specialized forms of therapy. Typically used with those diagnosed with a personality disorder, a specialized talk therapy known as dialectical behavior therapy works to teach "mindfulness techniques and opposite action, in which patients act opposite to the way they feel in order to alter the underlying distress."

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  • She gave birth to 150 puppies then was discarded. How Victoria's story could stop puppy mills

    November 10, 2019 |

    WXIA-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

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    Response Location: United States, Pennsylvania

    Pennsylvania has made significant strides in decreasing animal cruelty in the commercial breeding sector. It has overhauled its kennel regulations, making sure dogs have access to outdoor space and exercise space, are visited by a veterinarian bi-annually, and are not allowed to be owned by anyone convicted of animal cruelty. Since these changes were put in place the state has seen a sharp increase in violations and closures, which for them, is a success.

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  • ‘The worth of water' and what conservation strategies are working

    November 09, 2019 |

    Deseret News |

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    Response Location: United States, Salt Lake City, Utah

    To address worsening droughts and limited water resources in the 2nd driest state in the country, Utah government officials are implementing different methods of water metering throughout the state as a tool for water consumption measurement. Residents can have digital access to the amount of water they are using for landscaping comparative to the amount they should be using. Since this implementation, water consumption has drastically decreased in project areas.

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