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  • L'enseignement à ciel ouvert, l'espoir des enfants nomades

    Le système éducatif tchadien dans sa mise en œuvre écarte une bonne partie des enfants des éleveurs nomades. Pour y remédier, un diplomé en psychologie de l'éducation a monté une école de fortune. Elle accueille aujourd'hui plus de 180 élèves.

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  • Financiamiento de pequeñas empresas en Costa Rica: eslabones de una cadena rota

    Desde el 2008, el Sistema de Banca para el Desarrollo en Costa Rica ha sido presentado como la solución a la brecha entre las microempresas y el crédito. Los resultados son mixtos y la brecha continúa, pero esfuerzos comunitarios muestran una posible ruta hacia una mejora.

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  • Pontevedra, o cómo atajar las muertes por atropello convirtiéndose en Ciudad 30

    La implementación de zonas peatonales, restricciones de parqueo y disminución de la velocidad máxima de circulación de vehículos ha permitido que la ciudad de Pontevedra reduzca en casi su totalidad las muertes por atropello y además ha regresado los espacios públicos a las poblaciones más vulnerables, como la niñez y adolescencia.

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  • What can Houston teach L.A. about solving homelessness?

    Houston's success in drastically decreasing rates of homelessness can be a blueprint for the same goal in Los Angeles. Houston's "strategic clarity" includes a streamlined process for accessing homelessness services - organization that is lacking in LA. Additionally, Houston has been able to offer a path to permanent housing while decommissioning homeless encampments. Although the two cities grapple with unique challenges, the strategy employed in Houston can be applied to Los Angeles.

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  • Pima County programs help keep drug users out of jail, save taxpayers money

    Tucson’s Drug Treatment Alternative to Prison program, or DTAP, offers intensive treatment and recovery services to certain people convicted of nonviolent offenses as an alternative to serving a sentence behind bars. Participants also receive support and counseling around job and life skills, transportation, and other critical needs, and at least 119 people have successfully completed the program since 2011.

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  • Climate change activists look to increase voter turnout in 2022 and beyond

    The Environmental Voter Project (EVP) is a nonpartisan nonprofit working to increase voter turnout among irregular voters who care about the environment. The EVP has 6,000 volunteers who contact infrequent voters in 17 states via text, phone, postcards, and door-knocking. Volunteers identify would-be voters who care about the environment but don’t actually talk about the environment. Instead, their goal is to engage voters and get them to vote regardless of whether anything related to environmental regulation is on the ballot. EVP uses peer-pressure and sends many reminders to get people to the polls.

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  • Heat dome made British Columbians more anxious. Could prescribing nature help?

    A Canadian doctor partnered with the British Columbia Parks Foundation to launch PaRx, A Prescription for Nature. The program helps health care providers prescribe time in nature for patients experiencing depression and anxiety related to climate change.

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  • Giving Up Glyphosate

    Glyphosate is herbicide that kills deciduous trees, weeds, and shrubs and it is one of the most used herbicides in Canada. However, the World Health Organization stated that the herbicide is probably carcinogenic. Indigenous groups have linked it to the deaths of plants and animals. Across Canada, various groups and organizations are trying to end the use of the herbicide, from indigenous groups, to timber companies, and grassroots activists.

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  • Steel is recycled more than almost anything. Why does it create so much pollution?

    Steel is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions, even though lots of it is recycled every year. Recycling steel uses coal too, but an Australian steelmaker is experimenting with alternatives. These alternative include using briquettes made from plastic waste, which is less polluting.

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  • Virginia clean energy job training program climbs its own learning curve

    To ensure that marginalized communities, include Black residents and the formerly incarcerated, have the skills and opportunity to be a part of the growing solar and energy-efficiency industry in the community, Bridging the Gap offers free, intensive solar-training courses to them.

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