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  • Cloud Catchers In Peru

    January 01, 2017 |

    BBC |

    Radio |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: Peru, Villa Lordes, Lima Metropolitan Area

    Abel Cruz "catches" clouds on his fog net farm to help provide free water for his community in a slum on the outskirts of Lima, where access to water is very limited and costly. While this solution may never compete with large scale and traditional technologies, many argue there is enormous potential for this simple concept in certain, rural areas of the world.

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  • Maine looks north, hoping to become a gateway to the Arctic

    December 27, 2016 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Portland, Maine

    The state of Maine has been feeling the negative effects of climate change including the rising sea waters. Businesses have decided to make the best of it and do it in an environmentally sound and sustainable way. They have sought out new fisheries, renewable power, and trade distributions through the Arctic.

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  • Stockholm's Ingenious Plan to Recycle Old Christmas Trees

    December 20, 2016 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Sweden, Stockholm

    In Stockholm, old Christmas trees are being converted into biochar. When integrated into the city's highly-efficient power grid, the project has been wildly successful--not only in improving soil, but also in retaining groundwater, greening the city, and lowering carbon emissions. For this reason, officials as far away as California have been eying the plan with interest.

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  • How To Make Hydropower More Environmentally Friendly

    December 20, 2016 |

    Ensia |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Dover, Delaware

    Dams make for complex and often controversial infrastructure. While hydropower generated from large dam projects is currently providing the bulk of the planet's renewable energy, dams can also cause major environmental and social damage by interrupting animal migrations, displacing indigenous communities, and collecting toxins. A number of solutions are being implemented, however, to address the various issues caused by dams, to help make them a more eco-friendly and viable source of clean energy.

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  • Breakthrough Communication Apps Give Hope to Autistic Students

    December 14, 2016 |

    Bright Magazine |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States

    Companies like Good Karma allow people with autism to use apps to communicate through pictures and icons. Yet, the apps require users to do a lot of complicated movements, some of who may not have that mobility. However, brain interference technology, could be the answer. Through the technology “a mere thought can get a computer to speak a word or phrase .”

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  • Panic button: how can safety apps for women curb sexual assaults in India?

    December 12, 2016 |

    The Guardian |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: India

    Sexual violence is a huge problem in India. The mobile apps and online maps created in response aren’t helping. Why? The tools are unreliable, not integrated with government services, and don’t address the cultural dynamics surrounding sexual harassment and assault.

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  • The Sesame Street of Sex Ed: Ugandan Show Uses Puppets to Break Taboos

    December 08, 2016 |

    News Deeply |

    Multi-Media |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Uganda, Kampala

    Uganda has some of the highest fertility and HIV prevalence rates in the world. Yet the government has banned comprehensive sexuality education in schools, and parents feel uncomfortable talking about the taboo subject. So Chicken & Chips, a television show about puppets, was created to educate the country’s young people about sexual and reproductive health.

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  • Experimental City: How Rotterdam Became A World Leader In Sustainable Urban Design

    December 05, 2016 |

    FastCompany |

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    Response Location: Netherlands, Rotterdam

    Rotterdam, a port city once at the center of trade and commerce, is now threatened by climate change. The city has responded to this threat by totally transforming itself into a hub for sustainable design. It embraces crazy, environmentally friendly solutions. From a floating dairy farm to a home enclosed in a greenhouse to basketball courts that soak up rainwater, Rotterdam has established itself as a leader in sustainable urban design. By 2025, the city plans to be completely climate-proof.

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  • World's first city to power its water needs with sewage energy

    December 01, 2016 |

    New Scientist |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: Denmark, Aarhus

    With climate change an ever-increasing threat, one city in Denmark is helping to inspire hope through the successful implementation of a self-sustaining treatment plant that provides fresh water to the local community using only energy produced from the waste and sewage it filters. Other cities are now looking to replicate the model.

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  • Malawi: Combating maternal deaths with innovations

    November 28, 2016 |

    Center for Solutions Journalism Malawi (CSJ News) |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Malawi, Balaka

    Women in Malawi face numerous challenges in reproductive health, especially HIV-positive mothers, and maternal deaths are still rampant in rural areas of the country. Technology is helping change the landscape of maternal health, with devices such as cell phones being used to provide women in rural villages with vital health information, and drones delivering medications where the roads are too rough for emergency services to access quickly.

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