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  • How Miami Beach Is Keeping the Florida Dream Alive—And Dry

    March 14, 2016 |

    Politico |

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    Response Location: United States, Miami Beach, Florida

    Threatened by increasingly rising sea levels caused by climate change, leaders in Miami Beach are spending equally increasing amounts of money on technology and systems to combat flooding.

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  • Jennifer Pahlka helps improve how government works

    March 11, 2016 |

    SFGate |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Jennifer Pahlka founded Code for America, an organization that provides human-centered design tech solutions to government services. Now they have a growing list of requests from cities all over the US, a network of 44,000 volunteers nationwide who create "civic-hacking" solutions, and an over $10 million yearly budget.

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  • How Libraries Are Becoming Modern Makerspaces

    March 11, 2016 |

    The Atlantic |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

    Throughout the country, libraries are hosting “maker spaces”—places where patrons can use technological tools to develop and fabricate their ideas and use the library to not only consume but create.

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  • One Foot in the Levant

    March 08, 2016 |

    GOOD Magazine |

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    Response Location: Syria

    In the face of terror and war, art and history needed protection. A group of professors, activists, archeologists, and historians created a network to preserve and protect art and history in Syria.

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  • Large malt producer uses wood chips to fuel power plant

    March 04, 2016 |

    Rock Road Recycle |

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    Response Location: United States, Shakopee, Minnesota

    Rahr Malting, a brewery in Shakopee, MN, has found a creative way to sustainably address their energy needs. The company partners with the Mdewakanton Sioux Community to use waste barley hulls from the malting factory to generate electricity for their facilities, selling excess power to the public grid while the waste heat sprouts the malt to make beer.

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  • In Pursuit of Big Data, Mexico City Mapathon Gamifies Crowdsourcing

    February 25, 2016 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: Mexico, Mexico City

    By “gamifying” the process, urban planners can crowdsource data collection. In Mexico City, members of 14 organizations—ranging from government agencies to nonprofits and consultants—launched a city-wide game, Mapatón CDMX, in an effort to collect data and map the complex transportation system. To participate, users downloaded an app and mapped transit routes for points.

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  • How NASA accidentally found a way to make buildings safer during earthquakes

    February 22, 2016 |

    Quartz |

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    Response Location: United States, Huntsville, Alabama

    NASA developed a new stabilizing technology, known as the LOX Damper, in 2013 after working on a violently shaking rocket. Testing revealed that the technology could help design earthquake-proof buildings.

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  • Staying Sober After Treatment Ends

    February 09, 2016 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Fall River, Massachusetts

    Increasingly, continuing care for addicts in recovery means more than handing them a list of A.A. meetings when they leave rehab, as caretakers develop and learn to use apps and video chat to check in on their patients.

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  • Can a Game Help Build Affordable Housing?

    February 09, 2016 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: United States, Pleasantville, New York

    To break through gridlock on fair housing, city planners, citizens, and government officials in wealthy Westchester County, New York, try a new tactic: Using a simulation game to try out different development scenarios. The result has been increased civic participation and efficiency.

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  • Tracking Fish From Hook to Fork

    February 09, 2016 |

    Hakai Magazine |

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    Response Location: Mexico

    Sourcing food locally is an increasingly popular trend. New tracing technologies will make it easier to see where fish are coming from. 

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