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  • The New Jersey Mayor With a Plan to End Traffic Deaths

    Sarah Holder

    November 20, 2023 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: United States, Hoboken, New Jersey

    The Vision Zero campaign aims to eliminate traffic deaths around the world. So far, Hoboken has made several changes to its streets and transportation policies to increase safety, such as repaving crosswalks to increase visibility, building curb extensions and adding bike lanes to roads. With these new safety measures in place, the city hasn’t reported a single traffic death since January 2017 and traffic-related injuries have dropped 41%.

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  • Is Chicago Public Schools' approach to safety and restorative discipline working? Some say yes.

    Becky Vevea

    September 28, 2023 |

    Chalkbeat |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Chicago public schools are changing how they approach discipline to prevent over-policing and the school-to-prison pipeline. Instead of automatic suspensions and out-of-school punishment, they’re focusing on restorative practices.

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  • Hallett Academy's approach of 'we will love your child into learning' helps boost rating

    Melanie Asmar

    September 14, 2023 |

    Chalkbeat Colorado |

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    Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

    To successfully lift Hallett Academy from the state’s lowest ranking to its highest, school leadership focused on hiring diverse and passionate teachers who use love as a main tool for learning.

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  • A 'Cool Roof' Can Help You Beat The Heat — And Save Money

    Erin Stone

    August 17, 2023 |

    LAist |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    Cool roofs — or roofs that are bright white, reflect sunlight, and radiate heat instead of absorbing it — can help keep indoor temperatures lower and reduce the urban heat island effect.

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  • Virtual Power Plants Offer A Climate-Forward Response To Increasingly Hot Summers

    Cristian Salazar

    August 04, 2023 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States

    Virtual power plants are emerging in the United States and partnering with utility companies to manage energy demand during extreme weather and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. These plants are actually a portfolio of energy resources, anything from smart appliances in homes to solar panels and electric vehicle infrastructure outside of homes, that are tracked and managed digitally. This enables virtual power plants to encourage minimal peak energy use, increase the amount of renewable energy sent back to the grid, and decrease the use of peaker power plants that rely on fossil fuels.

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  • Could a historic Sacramento corridor hold the key to solving the region's housing crisis?

    Ryan Lillis

    July 27, 2023 |

    Sacramento Bee |

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    Response Location: United States, Sacramento, California

    After decades of planning and development, Sacramento’s R Street corridor went from an area full of abandoned warehouses to a flourishing, walkable neighborhood. The city planners’ prioritization of building high-density housing, bringing in new businesses, ensuring access to a light rail transit line, and safe, pedestrian-friendly streets helped this project succeed.

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  • Little Scandinavia looks at whether we can do better in U.S. prisons

    Christina Griffith

    July 18, 2023 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Chester, Pennsylvania

    As a part of the Scandinavian Prison Project, a section of the Pennsylvania state prison was remodeled to house fewer people who are incarcerated and include things like a common area, kitchen, and even a fish tank. The community orientation includes the staff, of which the ratio is higher than other sections of the prison, who are specially trained for the program. The effort aims to reduce recidivism rates and make prisons safer and more effective based on successful models from Scandinavian countries.

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  • Breadfruit: A starchy, delicious climate and biodiversity solution

    Claudia Geib

    July 06, 2023 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Puerto Rico

    Nonprofits are spreading knowledge of breadfruit trees to communities facing food insecurity around the world because it is a reliable, resilient crop that produces abundant yields. Local farmers are taking an agroecology approach to planting the trees — which produce a nutritious, potato-like fruit — with other mixed crops so the plants can benefit from each other.

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  • At Alaska's prison farm, a different way of serving time

    Michelle Theriault Boots

    June 30, 2023 |

    Anchorage Daily News |

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    Response Location: United States, Alaska

    Point Mackenzie Correctional Farm is a 640-acre farm, owned by the Alaska Department of Corrections, that operates as an alternative prison model. Select minimum-security inmates labor to keep the farm going throughout their sentence, producing tons of vegetable harvests (745,000 pounds of hay, nearly 5,000 pounds of tomatoes, 14,000 pounds of lettuce, 12,000 pounds of celery, 22,000 pounds of cabbage) and raising 150 cattle, 50 pigs and 300-400 chickens that produce 51,000 eggs—all of which is redistributed to other prisons and community food banks.

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  • The black market endangered this frog. Can the free market save it?

    Sarah Gonzalez Stan Alcorn Charlotte de Beauvoir Willa Rubin Jess Jiang

    June 30, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Colombia

    Ivan Lozano Ortega went from running a wildlife rescue center to breeding and selling critically endangered poison dart frogs, legally. He’s trying to stop poachers from taking the few frogs remaining in the wild in Colombia by making the species readily available to collectors.

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