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  • How Catfish and Algae Are Cleaning Up the Chicago River

    December 22, 2015 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    By releasing fish into the Chicago River, the city of Chicago aims to help clean up its ecosystem, as the fish hopefully will eat the river's excess algae.

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  • From Sustainability to Abundance

    December 21, 2015 |

    Stanford Social Innovation Review |

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    Response Location: Denmark, Samsø

    Sustainability’s vagueness and scarcity orientation may be preventing the future it seeks to create. The time has come to adopt a new mindset: That of the Abundance Cycle.

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  • Innovators Changing Education, Health By Thinking Outside The Box

    December 18, 2015 |

    The Huffington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, Camden, Maine

    This year’s Poptech Conference, a 19-year-old gathering for thinkers and world-changers, celebrated hybrid thinking across industry sectors, or “when disciplinary boundaries fall by the wayside" - four of their projects are discussed.

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  • Malaria Deaths Dropped Below Half A Million In Past Year: WHO

    December 09, 2015 |

    The Huffington Post |

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    Response Location: Tanzania, Arusha, Arusha

    The number of people killed by malaria dropped below half a million in the past year, reflecting vast progress against the mosquito-borne disease in some of the previously hardest-hit areas of sub-Saharan Africa. Mosquito nets have proven widely successful.

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  • African Farmers Are Building Sustainable Beehive Fences to Protect Their Crops From Wild Elephants

    December 09, 2015 |

    GOOD Magazine |

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    Response Location: Tanzania

    A team of entrepreneurial zoologists have devised a way to help farmers in rural Africa protect their property from the persistent threat of wild elephants trampling their crops. Christened the Beehive Fence, it’s a remarkably simple solution to this elephantine problem.

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  • Building Greener Ships, to Keep the Sea From Rising

    December 08, 2015 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Puerto Rico, San Juan, San Juan

    With projections that global shipping could account for 16 percent of carbon emissions by 2050, experts are looking to natural gas and so-called "slow steaming" to limit energy consumption.

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  • Africa's Future is Clean Energy

    December 04, 2015 |

    African Business Magazine |

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    Response Location: Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Oromia

    At the mention of “clean energy” in Africa, six countries stand out as beacons of the change to new, clean future energy sources on the continent, boosted by foreign investment.

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  • Another Giant Leap

    December 04, 2015 |

    Al Jazeera |

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    Response Location: India, Sukhrali, Haryana

    The rapid development of emerging economies across Asia and Africa is lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty - but there is much debate as to how to best structure this growth. If these economies evolve in the same way as in the West - with unchecked, excessive resource consumption and heavy pollution - the planet may be on the fast track to disaster. Earthrise explores how these nations can grow sustainably using improved, eco-conscious technologies like renewable energy and eco-friendly farming practices.

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  • 12 Strategies for Moving from Water Scarcity to Abundance

    December 03, 2015 |

    Ensia |

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    Response Location: Israel, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District

    Israel has an abundance of water and independence from climate conditions through public ownership and government management of all water, a water-respecting culture, and innovative agriculture practices.

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  • Two New Apps Offer Tools For Journalists in Conflict Areas

    November 24, 2015 |

    The Washington Diplomat |

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    Response Location: Democratic Republic of the Congo

    Journalists can find themselves in unsafe regions without anyone knowing their whereabouts. 'Reporta' is a new app that allows journalists to send alerts, provide information about their location, and send an SOS incase of emergency.

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