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  • How NYC Is Stopping Textile Waste With Low-Tech Donation Bins

    February 24, 2021 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    RefashionNYC provides bins for commercial and residential buildings with more than 10 units, though the Department of Sanitation, to recycle clothes and textiles. When full, the contents are sorted by Housing Works, who either sells donations in their thrift shops, sends them to other nonprofit second-hand stores, or exports them to overseas markets. Clothing that is too damaged to be donated is sold to companies that reprocess them as rags or seat padding. 1,300 bins have been installed and over 12,200 tons of clothing and textiles have been diverted from landfills.

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  • Beaver believers: Native Americans promote resurgence of 'nature's engineers'

    February 23, 2021 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: United States, Tulalip, Washington

    While beavers might seem like a nuisance to many, the Tulalip Tribes in Washington state — after a long legal battle — are relocating the creatures to their lands as a way to create healthy ecosystems. The tribe has spent two years successfully capturing beavers from private lands and moving them with help from the Cascade Forest Conservancy. Their work could become a model for other tribes as a way to reclaim their land management methods.

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  • Collaboration between White Earth Nation, Mahnomen Co. leads to one of highest vaccination rates in MN

    February 19, 2021 |

    MPR News |

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    Response Location: United States, White Earth Reservation, Minnesota

    A partnership between the White Earth Nation and Mahnomen County in Minnesota has been a key factor in the above-average vaccination rates in the county. Because the county is located within the borders of the White Earth Reservation, which is a sovereign nation, everyone living in the region – regardless of tribal affiliation – has been allowed to obtain the vaccine.

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  • A College Program for Disadvantaged Teens Could Shake Up Elite Admissions

    February 18, 2021 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States

    About “1,500 (High School) students from 75 of the nation’s poorest schools in 35 cities,” are enrolling in college courses in elite universities like Harvard and Columbia through an initiative started by a nonprofit—and succeeding. The aim of the program is to prepare underprivileged students for the rigors of college education, and give them a confidence boost before they enter college. They complete the same coursework as the college students and get a grade. “All of these schools talk this game, ‘We want diversity, but we can’t find these kids,’ and this proves they can build a pipeline."

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  • Integration Starts in the Village

    February 18, 2021 |

    Transitions Online |

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    Response Location: Georgia

    Ethnic Azeri students face disproportionate barriers in achieving university education compared to Georgians. One of those reasons is due to language barriers. Isolated from Georgian society, it's not uncommon for Azeri communities to not speak Georgian fluently. The center has now expanded into a network of multiple centers. One center serves as many as 160 children. It’s working. Some of the centers had a 100% success rate in helping Azeri students enter college.

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  • A dug solution to drought in an Indonesian village

    February 16, 2021 |

    From a Climate Correspondent |

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    Response Location: Indonesia, Patemon, Java

    Indonesian villagers were experiencing water shortages as natural springs started to dry up in part due to climate change, so they installed infiltration wells to collect and absorb rainwater. Not everyone, at first, wanted to implement the wells on their property, but by 2020, there were 320 infiltration wells in Patemon village. This water conservation project is not being implemented throughout the rest of the country.

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  • Vaccines Go Mobile to Keep Seniors From Slipping Through the Cracks

    February 16, 2021 |

    KFF Health News |

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    Response Location: United States, Contra Costa County, California

    A mobile "strike team" comprised of workers from Contra Costa County, local home health agencies, advocates, and nonprofit groups is helping seniors living in assisted-living facilities to get access to the Covid-19 vaccine. Although the team is small, they have been able to help more than 800 seniors across 50 facilities get their first shot.

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  • Opera Singers Help Covid-19 Patients Learn to Breathe Again

    February 16, 2021 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: England, London

    To help patients recovering from COVID regain respiratory and vocal strength, the English National Opera worked with a London hospital to create a program that offers patients clinically proven recovery exercises taught by opera-singing tutors. While some regard the program as "a bit touchy-feely,” participants have expressed that it has helped both with recovery and feelings of isolation, and it is now being expanded to post-Covid clinics throughout England.

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  • ‘Learning pods' taking root in Black, Latino neighborhoods

    February 14, 2021 |

    The Boston Globe |

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    Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

    In Boston, four organizations that serve Black and Latino families formed an alliance to provide low-cost learning pods to students of color. Run out of two churches, the full-day learning pods “serve nearly two dozen kindergarten through sixth-grade students.” The service comes at a crucial time, since pandemic learning is leaving behind students of color who already were at a disadvantage.

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  • Washington state's COVID-19 vaccine planning fell short on logistics, sowing disorder and mistrust

    February 14, 2021 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington

    Because Washington state health officials failed to prioritize the planning of basic logistics for disseminating the COVID vaccine, the state quickly fell behind others in vaccinating the most vulnerable and at risk. Realizing that a significant part of the failure stemmed from a reliance on the already overtaxed healthcare sector to deliver the vaccine, the state has since enlisted the National Guard to provide vaccinations at various sites and has seen some improvement.

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