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  • This Appalachian town was America's ‘fattest city.' Here's how it slimmed down.

    April 10, 2019 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, Huntington, West Virginia

    After gaining attention in 2008 for having an obesity crisis, the city of Huntington, West Virginia started making slow and steady changes that have culminated into positive changes in the community's overall health. From a food market that gives back to the farmers and artisans that contribute to it to school cafeteria reform, the city has seen their obesity rate decrease and has shifted to a collective healthier mindset overall.

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  • Barcelona wants to build 500 superblocks. Here's what it learned from the first ones.

    April 09, 2019 |

    Vox |

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    Response Location: Spain, Barcelona

    Calming traffic reduces noise and brings new public spaces to urban neighborhoods. Across Barcelona, Spain, neighborhoods designated as superblocks—where through traffic is prohibited—now serve as shared-use spaces. Existing superblock projects, created through years of collaboration between Urban Ecology Agency of Barcelona and the city’s administration, serve as pilot programs for the city’s broader vision to create hundreds of such spaces.

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  • Millions of dollars' worth of food ends up in school trash cans every day. What can we do?

    April 09, 2019 |

    Ensia |

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    Response Location: United States, Fayetteville, Arkansas

    Across the United States, schools, government agencies, and individuals are taking steps to reduce food waste in our schools’ cafeterias. There are collaborations that are trying to change the systemic processes by creating guides on how to conduct food waste audits, providing research frameworks for innovative change, and providing policy guidance. A large effort is underway to change how children think about food, which means bringing them to farms and into kitchens to bring them closer to the process.

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  • Change the narrative: how a Swiss group is beating rightwing populists

    April 07, 2019 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: Switzerland

    A group called Operation Libero in Switzerland has successfully rallied against rising right-wing populist groups by using different approaches like small-scale crowdfunding, eye-catching tongue-in-cheek campaigns, and viral social media videos. During one campaign, young Operation Libero volunteers handed out branded condoms to nightclubbers.

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  • State youth vote boosted by peer persuasion, rallies, bounce houses - can gains continue?

    March 31, 2019 |

    WMSN-TV |

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    Response Location: United States, Wisconsin

    A group called NextGen Wisconsin is using bounce houses, armies of field organizers, convenient voter registration tables, door knocking, and digital advertising to turn out historically high numbers of youth voters across the state. Other tactics included events with carnivals, petting zoos, therapy dogs, and giant connect four games. The idea is to turn voting into a fun and exciting event, with rallies around youth issues like gun control.

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  • More Young Voters

    March 29, 2019 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Get out the vote groups like Inspire U.S.and Penn Leads the Vote have found that many young people are more engaged than ever before in wanting to vote, but they just need a little nudge in the right direction. From simply answering questions, to apps that make peer to peer vote nudging easier, when universities and other spaces make voting a priority, youth voter turnout grows.

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  • Resorts, desperate to stem crushing traffic, bet on a new ridesharing app that splits lifts to the lifts

    March 27, 2019 |

    The Colorado Sun |

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    Response Location: United States, Sandy, Utah

    RIDE, shorthand for Reduce Individual Driving for the Environment, is an app that incentivizes skiers to carpool. Beyond just the convenience, the easy-to-use phone application provides material incentives such as ski themed water bottles and discounted lift tickets. It also tracks carpool miles and the decrease in carbon dioxide as a result.

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  • This city bans cars every Sunday—and people love it

    March 27, 2019 |

    National Geographic |

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    Response Location: Colombia, Bogotá, Capital Region

    Ciclovía (Bicycle Way) is a well-known initiative from Bogota, Colombia that allows citizens to take over the public space once a week — roughly 75 miles of public streets. Citizens will bike, run, walk, dance, eat, people watch, and more in a weekly tradition that has turned into an egalitarian celebration imitated all over the world in countries like New Zealand and China. Proponents say that the Ciclovía increases the patience and cooperation of citizens are well as enhancing the feeling of community.

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  • Ecuador legalized gangs. Murder rates plummeted.

    March 26, 2019 |

    Vox |

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    Response Location: Ecuador

    When faced with a rise in gang violence, Ecuador tried an approach that was in complete opposition to "zero tolerance," the methodology America has been attempting to use to tackle the problem. Rather than target gang members as wrongdoers, the country "allowed the gangs to remake themselves as cultural associations that could register with the government, which in turn allowed them to qualify for grants and benefit from social programming."

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  • 'Plogging' fitness craze comes to Cleveland to clean streets

    March 26, 2019 |

    WEWS-TV |

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    Response Location: United States, Cleveland

    A new fitness craze called plogging has taken Cleveland, Ohio by storm. Participants pick up trash while jogging, adding physical health to environmental benefits.

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