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  • Anyone Who Needs Help Seeing Has 2 Million Pairs of Eyes Available With This App

    April 17, 2019 |

    NationSwell |

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    Response Location: Denmark

    Using the camera of a smartphone, individuals who are blind or visually impaired can receive quick and easy help from volunteers. The Danish company, Be My Eyes uses a smartphone application to connect those who are blind or visually impaired to an international network of sighted volunteers ready to assist. The on-demand access to assistance provides visually impaired individuals with more independence in their daily lives.

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  • This Website Empowers People in Need to Make Art — And Sell It for Thousands of Dollars

    April 16, 2019 |

    NationSwell |

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    Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

    For individuals who are homeless or otherwise disadvantaged, art can be more than therapeutic—it can be lucrative. ArtLifting, a public benefit corporation started in Boston, MA, specializes in helping homeless and disabled artists sell their art. Business including Staples and Microsoft have bought art for their offices. ArtLifting splits the profits with artists and also funds art programs.

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  • How Drones and GPS Are Helping Indigenous People in Ecuador Save the Amazon

    April 16, 2019 |

    Pacific Standard |

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    Response Location: Ecuador

    The indigenous Cofan community in Ecuador, battling miners and other seeking to use their ancestral land, have a new tool to fight them: mapping. By working with non-profits who trained locals to use data and GPS technology, the Cofan now map the environmental resources worth protecting. They are using this data to make the case for why the land should stay in their hands.

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  • Meet Mr. Trash Wheel: Baltimore Harbor's Googly Eyed Garbage Gobbler

    April 16, 2019 |

    WBUR |

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    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    A trash interceptor floats along a tributary of the Baltimore Harbor removing trash from the water before it can reach the ocean. Known to the community as Mr. Trash Wheel, the machine is powered by the river’s current and collects floating debris that moves along a conveyor belt and ends up in a dumpster. While it doesn’t solve the problem of how trash gets into the water in the first place, it has collected 1,100 tons of trash and one million Styrofoam containers since it started 2014.

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  • Six years later: Learning from the deadly West fertilizer plant explosion

    April 16, 2019 |

    KXAN-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, West, Texas

    Following a deadly explosion at a fertilizer plant, cities in Texas are taking preventative measures. Emergency Management Specialists have updated and are employing software that tracks hazardous material storage in facilities around the state and generates disaster scenarios. The software can be used in real-time by firefighters and other emergency responders on their way to the scene.

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  • How drones are delivering lifesaving medical supplies in Rwanda

    April 16, 2019 |

    PBS NewsHour |

    Broadcast TV News |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Rwanda, Kigali

    Drone-powered medical deliveries are no longer a concept of the future, thanks to Zipline, a California-based start-up that is delivering medical supplies to rural hospitals in Rwanda. While the drones are limited to carrying less than four pounds and dropping the supplies by parachute, this technology is allowing faster delivery and better access to care across the nation.

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  • Endangered rhinos are now being protected by powerful data analytics

    April 15, 2019 |

    FastCompany |

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    Response Location: South Africa

    To fight a recent surge in endangered rhino poaching, the South African government began utilizing data analytics typically used to study consumers to map out poaching networks. Piecing together data from sources as varied as the serial numbers on guns left behind in parks, police data, intelligence data, and social media posts that show relationships between people, the government was able to isolate a European supplier that supplied most of the poachers' guns.

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  • In African Villages, These Phones Become Ultrasound Scanners

    April 15, 2019 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Uganda

    In rural parts of Africa, where access to quality medical attention is hard to come by, a hand-held portable ultrasound scanner is revolutionizing care. Although primarily being used to diagnose cases of pneumonia, doctors in these isolated areas are finding that the device has other uses, such as organ scanning which leads to proactive medical attention for many community members.

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  • One Way to Combat Climate Change: A Smartphone App That Lets Farmers Control Where Their Cows Graze

    April 15, 2019 |

    Inc. Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, San Diego, California

    A San Diego startup called Vence has created a device that can help farmers control their livestock’s movements and behavior. The new technology – a collar with accompanying software – buzzes when an animal is somewhere it shouldn’t be and shocks them if they keep going. While the practice of shocking animals isn’t universally approved, doing so can prevent overgrazing and thus improve overall land health.

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  • Can This Breakfast Cereal Help Save The Planet?

    April 13, 2019 |

    NPR |

    Radio |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Human beings' reliance on crops like wheat and rice has a detrimental environmental effect: because these annual crops need replanting every year, farmers are required to destroy any existing vegetation in order to get the seeds to germinate. But scientists with the Land Institute are promoting kernza, a perennial relative of wheat that provides seeds year after year.

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