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'Valuable and largely overlooked': Interest in virtual power plants grows

Robert Zullo

April 07, 2024 |

Utah News Dispatch |

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Response Location: United States

Utility companies across the United States are using virtual power plants to meet electricity demand, access backup power, and lower the electric bills of participants. To make these power plants work, the utilities use energy from the battery storage systems of customers who have home solar arrays.

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Friends Don't Let Friends Buy Guns

Katie Worth

April 04, 2024 |

The Trace |

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Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

Inspired by successful public health messaging campaigns of the past, the U.S.-based nonprofit Project Unloaded is using a bottom-up approach to promote gun violence prevention among young people. The nonprofit is working with highschoolers to develop social media messaging campaigns debunking the common misconception that owning a gun makes you safer.

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Over 3,000 Navajo Homes Receive Accurate Addresses

Emily Arntsen

April 04, 2024 |

The Daily Yonder |

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Response Location: Navajo Nation, United States, Utah

To improve voting access for residents of the Navajo Nation, who often don’t have official addresses, the Rural Utah Project partnered with Google to assign and distribute Plus Codes, more accurate address coordinates that use longitude and latitude. The organization has since registered nearly 2,000 new voters using the Plus Codes, and the new addresses have resulted in other unexpected benefits, such as improved response time for emergency responders and better access to delivery services.

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Carmakers give up on software that avoids kangaroos

Sophie Hartley

April 02, 2024 |

Ars Technica |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Australia, Eurobodalla Shire, New South Wales

Fence posts that flash blue and yellow lights while emitting a high-pitched noise when they detect oncoming car headlights are preventing car crashes involving kangaroos and wallabies in Australia. The practice is known as virtual fencing.

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Bees vs. drones: How tech is tackling crop pollination

Nita Bhalla Rina Chandran

April 02, 2024 |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Australia, Two Wells

As bee populations decline, farmers who practice covered agriculture are flying drones over their crops — which vibrates the plants' flowers to disperse the pollen — to pollinate them instead.

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Managing predators from the sky

Kylie Mohr

April 01, 2024 |

High Country News |

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Response Location: United States, Montana

Researchers and livestock farmers in Montana are using drones with speakers that play human voices to scare off predators and mitigate conflict between the animals.

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Green Fuels Are Accelerating Shipping Decarbonization

Sarah Sax

March 27, 2024 |

Time Magazine |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States

Companies in the shipping industry are using green hydrogen as “low-carbon” fuel to reduce their carbon dioxide emissions. It’s created by using renewable energy to split water into hydrogen and oxygen, then mixing the hydrogen with green methanol or ammonia.

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Coding The Future: Ugandan Women Take Refresher Classes To Lead Digital Revolution

Hellen Kabahukya

March 27, 2024 |

Solutions Now Africa |

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Response Location: Uganda, Kampala

Code Queens is a 10-week hands-on coding course designed to get young women interested in STEM careers. To graduate, students must participate in a hackathon that asks them to solve a real-world business challenge through coding.

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In Denver, e-bike vouchers run out as fast as Taylor Swift tickets

Gabriela Aoun Angueira

March 22, 2024 |

Grist |

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Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

The city of Denver, Colorado, is encouraging its residents to reduce their transportation emissions with an incredibly popular e-bike rebate program. Several times a year, the city offers a set amount of income-based vouchers on a first-come, first-served basis that cover up to $1,400 of an e-bike purchase.

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Attendance tracking program helps combat chronic absenteeism

Mariah Thomas

March 19, 2024 |

Ashland Source |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Ontario, Ohio

A specialized software called AttendanceK12 helps school secretaries, attendance counselors, and administrators more easily track student absences so they can intervene with families sooner, even offering options to automatically send parents an email when students reach a certain threshold of missed school hours. School leaders consider the technology an important element of a strategy that has helped reduce chronic absenteeism rates.

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