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  • The Rustic Farms Where French Prisoners Wrap Up Their Sentences

    November 03, 2025 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

    Multi-Media |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: France, Coucy-le-Château-Auffrique

    The Moyembrie farm program allows French inmates to spend their final 9-12 months of incarceration working on a farm with social worker support rather than in traditional prison. This strategy has resulted in only 1 in 10 being sent back to prison and over half finding employment or training within three months of release—compared to France's national recidivism rate of over 60% within five years.

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  • To protect angel sharks, a Libyan biologist collaborates with fishing communities

    November 03, 2025 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: Libya

    A Libyan marine biologist built trust with fishing communities through dialogue and education about endangered angel sharks. This led fishers to stop deliberately targeting the species and voluntarily release caught sharks, while researchers identified a vital breeding ground.

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  • Maryland needs teachers. It's filling classrooms with laid-off federal workers.

    October 15, 2025 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Maryland

    Feds to Eds recruits laid-off federal workers to help fill teaching shortages, leveraging these candidates’ specialized experience and helping them convert their skills for the classroom. Participants can complete an alternative certification program at one of five area campuses, and 16 of the 18 students who’ve finished the program so far are now teaching in classrooms.

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  • Making the Invisible Visible

    October 08, 2025 |

    Transitions Online |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: Netherlands

    Citizen science initiatives across Europe are using accessible technology to expose toxic emissions that official monitoring misses, triggering institutional responses ranging from increased enforcement to new pollution-control infrastructure.

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  • Documenting the History Trump Wants to Erase

    September 30, 2025 |

    Hyperallergic |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States

    Volunteer groups such as Citizen Historians and Save Our Signs are documenting artifacts and displays at museums and national parks as the Trump administration moves forward with plans to modify or remove vital historical information. So far, Citizen Historians has taken more than 31,000 photographs in the Smithsonian museum system, while Save Our Signs has collected more than 10,000 photos of signs in national parks.

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  • Budgeting for Equality: How Local Councils in Cameroon are Including Women

    September 24, 2025 |

    Social Voices |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Cameroon

    Gender-responsive budgeting (GRB) in Cameroon requires local councils to include women in budget planning and allocate resources to meet their specific needs, resulting in over 500 women in Tiko and Limbe councils gaining access to market infrastructure improvements, vocational training, agricultural support, and business grants that have enabled them to generate income and support their families.

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  • Are Agricultural Co-ops Seeing a Revival in Hawai‘i?

    September 10, 2025 |

    Overstory |

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    Response Location: United States, Hawaii

    Agricultural cooperatives in Hawai'i pool small farmers' resources to collectively process, market, and sell their crops, with successful examples like the Hawai'i 'Ulu Cooperative enabling nearly 200 members to reach broader markets and the Hawaii Cattle Producers Cooperative shipping 8,000-9,000 cattle annually while returning surplus profits to rancher-members, though some co-ops have failed due to declining membership and market pressures.

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  • University Brains To Solve City Problems

    August 26, 2025 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

    To improve traffic flow, the city of Pittsburgh partnered with researchers from Carnegie Mellon University who helped develop an AI-powered traffic signal system that helped significantly reduce emissions and idling time at stop lights. The collaboration grew into a long-term initiative called Metro21 Smart Cities Institute that brings academics and public officials together to work on municipal issues.

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  • Climate change tests the resilience of people and desert-adapted wildlife in Namibia

    August 21, 2025 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Namibia

    Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) in Namibia gives rural communities the rights to manage and profit from wildlife through organized conservancies, which has dramatically recovered wildlife populations (like elephants growing from 7,000 to 26,000) while providing economic incentives that motivate communities to protect rather than poach animals, even during severe droughts.

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  • City food forests offer a chance to experience nature — and eat it

    August 19, 2025 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: United States

    In some cities, empty urban lots transformed into multilayered "food forests" that mimic natural ecosystems are providing free, accessible fresh produce to city residents through strategically designed edible plantings that feature native and adapted fruit trees, nut trees, and berry bushes.

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