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Prisons Rethink Isolation, Saving Money, Lives and Sanity

Erica Goode

March 10, 2012 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, Mississippi

A positive transformation in a Mississippi prison has become a focal point for a growing number of states rethinking the use of long-term isolation. Humanitarian groups have long argued that solitary confinement has devastating psychological effects, but a central driver in the recent shift is economics. Some officials have also been persuaded by research suggesting that isolation is vastly overused and that it does little to reduce overall prison violence.

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Everyone Speaks Text Message

Tina Rosenberg

December 09, 2011 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: Guinea

“For many tiny, endangered languages, digital technology has become a lifeline.” Phones, the web, software systems, these are all technologies being employed to keep heritage languages alive.

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The Power of Positive Coaching

David Bornstein

October 20, 2011 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States

A group called Positive Coaching Alliance is training thousands of coaches and parents to change to culture of youth sports for the better, using a "relentlessly positive" approach, and trading out the win-at-all-costs ethos of professional sports for evidence-based, age-appropriate guidance to players.

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Excess, deprivation mark state prisons

Brian Joseph Tony Saavedra

September 02, 2011 |

Orange County Register |

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Response Location: United States, New York, New York

The California prison system is overwhelmed after adopting tough-on-crime laws with no improvement. New York adopted more tolerant policies and has decreased the state's crime rate and its prison population.

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Making Medical Donations Work

Tina Rosenberg

August 09, 2011 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: Vietnam, Khanh Hoa

Hospitals in the U.S. throw out huge amounts of supplies and equipment, and third-world hospitals need it. Many organizations help bridge the gap to transport supplies, but end up donating unusable equipment - teaching hospitals what to donate as well as knowing where the equipment is going are just some of the ways that efficiency can be improved.

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Facing the Future of HIV Care

Benjamin Ryan

August 04, 2011 |

POZ Magazine |

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Response Location: United States, District of Columbia

When health care funding was cut in the United States, HIV clinics were hit harder than some other areas, impacting not just the medicine, but also the staff in these facilities. The Whitman-Walker Clinic in the District of Columbia, however, found a way to combat these changes by broadening the range of people they were caring for and mimicking service providers that were qualified as federally qualified health centers.

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The Man Who Had HIV and Now Does Not

Tina Rosenberg

May 29, 2011 |

New York Magazine |

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Response Location: Germany, Berlin

The medical community had essentially given up hope for a cure for aids and thus little to no money was devoted to the research. A man with aids was cured in Berlin, by an optimistic doctor and a stem-cell transplant, and the medical community has begun researching again to see if the solution is replicable on a larger scale.

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The Path From Charity to Profit

Tina Rosenberg

May 26, 2011 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: Indonesia, Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta

In Jakarta’s slums, families can’t buy their children nutritious food. So Mercy Corps started a for-profit chain of food carts selling healthy kids’ meals. A second column highlights the challenges NGOs face when they try to start for-profit businesses.

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Reno Site Offers Comparison Shopping for Home Wind Turbines

Maria Gallucci

March 28, 2011 |

Inside Climate News |

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Response Location: United States, Reno, Nevada

In a campaign to boost community interest in and use of urban wind power, city officials in Reno, Nevada, are helping consumers take the guesswork out of buying home turbines. Through an online consumer guide called the Green Energy Dashboard, potential buyers are able to track power output and durability of different turbines and determine which would be most efficient for their community.

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The Burden of Thirst

Tina Rosenberg

April 01, 2010 |

National Geographic |

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Response Location: Ethiopia, Foro, Konso

Foro, a village in southwestern Ethiopia, has suffered from drought conditions for years, leaving the little water the communities can access polluted with waste. While various water projects have been attempted only to be abandoned, groups are working to restore some of these projects by combining technologies with community involvement.

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