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  • Are mass shootings preventable? These countries have tried

    October 02, 2015 |

    CNN |

    Broadcast TV News |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Finland

    The U.S. continues to experience mass shootings, and many Americans deny that tightening gun laws will help. However, countries like Australia, the United Kingdom, Finland, and Norway have reduced gun violence through stricter regulations.

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  • How L.A. Gets Kids to Show Up at School

    September 27, 2015 |

    The Buffalo News |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    Schools in Los Angeles have strict consequences for truancy and tardiness but offer rewards and recognition for good attendance. Administrators use iPhones to record the ID numbers of tardy students, tracking them in order to engage the appropriate intervention.

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  • Prison Without Punishment

    September 25, 2015 |

    The Marshall Project |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Both incarceration and crime rates are low is Western Europe where the focus in prison is on rehabilitating prisoners so they can return to society. American leaders visited a prison in Germany to consider implementing certain aspects in the United States.

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  • Kenya's Water Women

    September 22, 2015 |

    Al Jazeera |

    Broadcast TV News |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: Kenya, Kakamega, Kakamega

    Kenya's female water tank masons are delivering measurable benefits to their communities and empowering other women to take up leadership roles.

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  • Can Bats Reduce Nut Farmers' Pesticide Use?

    September 21, 2015 |

    Ensia |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Sacramento, California

    In California some farms lose up to 10 percent of their crop due to coddling moths. Davis University is measuring the impact bats have on various walnut farms, such as potential savings from reduced insecticide use and crop loss to insects.

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  • Doctor slashes the cost of surgeries for India's poor

    September 16, 2015 |

    PBS NewsHour |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: India, Bengaluru, Karnataka

    In a country where millions of citizens make less than $2 a day, a chain of hospitals has brought down the prices of life-saving surgeries and pioneered a health insurance plan that is just 11 cents a month. These hospitals, called Narayana Health Systems, are exemplified by their productivity, efficiency and volume of surgeries performed, far outstripping the rates of American hospitals. To prove that the same model could work in a developed country, the hospitals opened a location in the Cayman Islands, which proved to be vastly successful and offered hope that this model could continue to spread.

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  • 'Pay as You Go' Solar Power Rewriting the Book

    September 14, 2015 |

    The Huffington Post |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Oromia

    In so-called 'developing countries,' the focus is often simply on industrializing areas without electricity. In an effort to think beyond this to create sustainable and forward-looking infrastructure, socially- and environmentally-motivated private-sector initiatives have been pioneering off-grid "pay as you go'' solar-home systems. These have brought clean light and basic electricity services to hundreds of thousands of households across Africa.

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  • Could These Two Environmental Challenges Be the Answer to Each Other?

    September 14, 2015 |

    Ensia |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Kenya, Naivasha, Nakuru County

    Sub-Saharan Africa faces significant challenges in two areas that previously may have been considered in separate spheres: lack of access to sanitary waste disposal, and a growing need for clean, affordable energy. Now, several companies are scaling solutions for how each of these issues actually solve the other. In Kenya, they are finding ways to turn human waste into fuel and fertilizer, effectively addressing both issues simultaneously.

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  • How better seeds make Timor-Leste climate resilient

    September 12, 2015 |

    SciDev.Net |

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    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Timor-Leste

    A Ministry of Agriculture project called "Seeds of Life" grants local farmers genetically-solidified seeds in order to fight food insecurity in the country. The farmers will produce the crops and sell them back to both the Ministry and the community, thus expanding access to quality food and stimulating the local economy. Since the program has started, maize production has increased 50%, rice production increased 25%, and sweet potato production increased 65-130%.

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  • In growing cities, parking challenges require creative solutions

    September 11, 2015 |

    The Line |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

    As cities are flooded with new residents, parking becomes a bigger issue. Some cities, such as Denver and Cleveland, are opting against a parking lot that takes up a lot of place, and are investing in more creative ideas such as new public transport options and parking prices that vary according to a variety of factors.

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