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Win For Wetlands: Program Helps Farmers Conserve More Flood-Prone Land

Nicole Erwin

August 03, 2018 |

Ohio Valley ReSource |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Kentucky

For landowners living in close to proximity to the Mississippi River, this means continuously facing the impacts of unexpected flooding. The Wetland Reserve Enhancement Program offers the farmers on these lands the opportunity to protect and restore the wetlands in order to reduce the side effects of living in flood territory.

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Green Upgrade: How California Is Pioneering ‘Energy Justice'

Patricia Leigh Brown

July 30, 2018 |

Yale Environment 360 |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, California

Boasting one of the top five largest greenhouse gas cap-and-trade programs that has raised over $6.5 billion, California is leading the way in financially successful renewable energy initiatives. One of the state's more recent projects now aims to allocate a percentage of those funds to bringing renewable energy resources to lower socioeconomic communities.

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US-China may be in a trade war, but Pakistan is looking at solutions

Bilal Hussain

July 24, 2018 |

The Express Tribune |

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Response Location: Pakistan, Karachi

Product-based free trade agreements allow countries to exchange specific goods without tariffs and taxes. The approach is growing. Pakistan and Kenya are negotiating an agreement to exchange tea and rice. Iran, Russia, and India have also adopted the model.

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A New Child Psychiatry Fellowship Could Make Midland A Boomtown For Mental Health Services

Caroline Covington

July 18, 2018 |

Texas Standard |

Radio |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Texas

Most Texas counties don't offer psychiatry services, so Texas Tech University is sponsoring an $8 million fellowship that trains psychiatrists and then incentives them to remain in the area. In an effort to get immediate services in the hands of rural patients, doctors are also offering telepsychiatry options to augment in-person services.

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How San Francisco sends less trash to the landfill than any other major U.S. city

Katie Brigham

July 14, 2018 |

CNBC |

Multi-Media |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

San Francisco is aiming to achieve zero waste by 2020. Thanks to the implementation of public policy that made recycling and composting mandatory and a focus on city-wide awareness, however, the Californian city has already been able to divert 80 percent of its waste from landfills. It diverts more waste from landfills than any major city.

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Can Norway help us solve the plastic crisis, one bottle at a time?

Matthew Taylor

July 12, 2018 |

The Guardian |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Norway, Oslo

Norway runs a return and recycling program for bottles and cans that is a measurably successful. They tax companies that produce plastics—unless the companies can prove they recycle more 95% of production. Consumers are encouraged to return plastic with a small cash incentive.

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Training the Brain to Stay out of Jail

Eli Hager

June 26, 2018 |

The Marshall Project |

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Response Location: United States, Charleston, South Carolina

A nonprofit in Charleston, South Carolina, uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help formerly incarcerated men shift their mindsets in order to meet the hefty challenges they face re-entering society. Turning Leaf Project actually pays students to take at least 150 hours of CBT and connects them to entry-level jobs in the city and county. So far participants have stayed out of prison, but keeping students in the program is challenging.

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Britain built an empire out of coal. Now it's giving it up. Why can't the US?

Carolyn Beeler

June 18, 2018 |

Public Radio International (PRI) |

Multi-Media |

1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United Kingdom, London

Despite being the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, the UK passed the Climate Change Act in 2008, a move that reduced coal-fired electricity generation by 33 percent in only five years. The UK's carbon tax helped spur the phasing out of coal, but the political and economic conditions that enabled it are by no means universal.

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'The Daddy quota': how Quebec got men to take parental leave

Mireille Silcoff

June 15, 2018 |

The Guardian |

Multi-Media |

800-1500 Words

Response Location: Canada, Quebec

Influenced by Scandavian countries, the province of Quebec created its own paid paternity leave program, which offers 70-75% paid leave. The program is aimed at dad’s, who have traditionally faced stigma and judgement for accepting paternity leave. Quebec offers “five weeks of “use-it-or-lose-it” benefits, for fathers and non-biological mothers in lesbian couples.” The program has been an instant hit: “Over 80% of Quebec fathers take their paternity leave.”

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With Shootings on the Rise, Schools Turn to 'Active Shooter' Insurance

Natalie Delgadillo

June 01, 2018 |

Governing |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States

With the rise in mass shootings around the United States, more municipalities and schools are buying active shooter insurance so they can handle costs that come from mass casualty incidents and not go bankrupt. Some insurance companies also offer risk assessment and their advice often contradicts some of the recent popular suggestions, such as arming teachers. Many insurers say the most effective steps are behavioral interventions with potentially violent students.

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