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  • Springfield could be a template for Bridgeport

    August 26, 2019 |

    Republican American |

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    Response Location: United States, Springfield, Massachusetts

    Springfield, Massachusetts leaned into urban renewal and public-private partnerships to keep their local economy alive amid the manufacturing downfall. Now, Bridgeport - a town of similar size and economic fate - looks to Springfield as a model for success at it struggles with its own economic insecurities.

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  • Homes are a big part of Salt Lake City's air pollution problem. They also are the solution.

    August 26, 2019 |

    The Salt Lake Tribune |

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    Response Location: United States, Salt Lake City, Utah

    Across Salt Lake City, Utah, housing developers are building more net zero energy homes. Facing air quality issues, the state has yet to set more energy efficient codes for new homes, which means the kind of homes being built by developers like Redfish, Garbett Homes, and Ivory Homes, are being constructed on a much smaller scale. Such homes, while costing 2-5% more to build, have shown to decrease energy costs by 50-60%.

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  • Can Flexible Pricing be Fair?

    August 24, 2019 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    San Francisco is using technology to calculate the cost of parking throughout the city, depending on the demand in specific neighborhoods at any given time. While critics were wary of the effect flexible pricing would have on lower-income residents, the pilot program resulted in lower parking costs on average and demonstrated that flexible pricing could promote equity. In other cities around the world, flexible pricing systems implemented through the use of technology have been effective in raising revenue from higher-income people and neighborhoods to reduce prices and reinvest in equitable solutions.

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  • Equity, Health, Resilience, and Jobs: Lessons from the Just Growth Circle

    August 22, 2019 |

    Nonprofit Quarterly |

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    Response Location: United States, Atlanta, Georgia

    A collaboration between an Atlanta-based nonprofit and an international climate organization sparked the Just Growth Circle, an initiative that brings topics like racial equity, economic justice, and climate change to the forefront of urban planning in Atlanta. The organization puts responsibility into the hands of residents and has updated city plans to center around building community trust and long-lasting relationships between locals and city officials.

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  • How a 276-person town in Kansas is turning an empty school into a business incubator

    August 21, 2019 |

    Burlington Free Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Hanston, Kansas

    When the city of Hanston, Kansas had to shut down the local middle/high school, residents refused to let the school sit vacant; instead, the building now houses a town-owned business incubator called Elk Plaza. Uses of the transformed building include the town's only commercial kitchen and movie theatre, a flexible event space, and office space for local entrepreneurs.

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  • How one African American mom tackles racism head-on

    August 21, 2019 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, St. Louis, Missouri

    As a reaction to police shootings of Black people in Missouri, one mom created a group called "Touchy Topics Tuesday" to invite White people and people of color to have frank conversations about race. By building trust and personal relationships, this group facilitates tough yet critical conversations surrounding race and racism in America and creates more empathy, support, and acceptance in the community.

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  • Creating a Sustainable Energy Future

    August 16, 2019 |

    Native Science Report |

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    Response Location: United States, North Dakota

    Tribal colleges in North Dakota and Minnesota are shifting to renewable energy practices as a means of lessening their energy footprint. According to the facilities manager at North Dakota's Turtle Mountain Community College, “It goes into our culture. We don’t want to hurt the environment.” The shift to sustainable energy has resulted in financial savings and provided classroom lessons for students.

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  • South Mountain HS cross-country team pushing for electric school buses

    August 16, 2019 |

    KPHO-TV |

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    Response Location: United States, Phoenix, Arizona

    Because of a collaborative effort between a high school cross country team and Chispa, an environmental advocacy group, Arizona’s Phoenix Union High School District has bought its first electric school bus. While nearly three times more expensive than a regular school bus, the school district considered the long-term sustainability, not just in terms of fuel and maintenance costs, but in regards to larger, environmental efforts as well.

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  • "Pop-up Park" Blooms in ABQ's International District

    August 16, 2019 |

    KNME-PBS |

    Broadcast TV Programs |

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    Response Location: United States, Albuquerque, New Mexico

    The Nature Conservancy in New Mexico and the Rocky Mountain Youth Corps joined together to transform a dirt lot into a pop-up park, created and maintained by surrounding neighborhoods. Community members work together to build planters and green space to encourage community engagement and interaction in an otherwise vacant lot.

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  • Former Juvenile Inmates Are Earning Double Minimum Wage to Grow Crops — and Business Skills

    August 16, 2019 |

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    Response Location: United States, Atlanta, Georgia

    For young adults leaving prison in Atlanta, they have the opportunity to participate in Gangstas to Growers, a local nonprofit that provides job skills training and personal development. The program, created in 2016, gives participants the opportunity to learn skills like farming, gardening, and how to run a business, and supplementary knowledge like financial literacy and environmental sustainability. Even more, Gangstas to Growers pays participants working on black-owned farms $15 per hour, which is almost twice the minimum wage.

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