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  • Gerrymander reform opens up Florida politics

    December 01, 2016 |

    Sacramento Bee |

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    Response Location: United States, Orlando, Florida

    For the third election in a row, House Republicans got bonus seats in 2016, through gerrymandering. Thanks to a grassroots citizen movement and computer sleuthing, Florida admitted to breaking the law and has replaced state maps with more competitive, voter-friendly districts.

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  • Small-Scale Manufacturers See New Markets Tax Credits as Future Hope

    November 30, 2016 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    As major manufacturers keep "pulling the rug" from under urban areas, low skilled job loss increases. Nevertheless, small-scale businesses have instrumental in their ability to counteract job loss in improvised urban areas. Small businesses are using tactics such as creative tax cut regulation to cut corners to pay livable wages to low-income workers.

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  • JPS Students Avoid Conflict with Peer Mediation

    November 30, 2016 |

    Jackson Free Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Jackson, Mississippi

    Whitten Preparatory, a mostly black middle school, is one of four schools in Jackson that are trying to combat disciplinary issues and keep violence low by using peer mediation - training students to be mediators so they can help their classmates come to a peaceful resolution to their issues.

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  • Uganda's LGBT faith leaders say God's love is unconditional

    November 29, 2016 |

    Religion News Service |

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    Response Location: Uganda

    In Uganda, religious leaders and anti-gay individuals have been very vocal against the LGBTI community and have disowned many LGBTI religious leaders. This has led some of these leaders to publicly come out and advocate for others and speak of their own experiences, showing the possibility of being LGBTI and religious.

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  • Hospitals Can Be Key to Healthy People, Healthy Economies

    November 29, 2016 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States

    Hospitals in the United States spend over $340 billion on health services, but with those funds, they could also help the numerous neighborhoods struggling with poverty. The Democracy Collaborative is a research center that helps hospitals link up with local institutions to encourage job growth, buy regionally produced food, and reinvest into their local economy.

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  • Planting roof roses to attract Edinburgh's rare butterfly

    November 27, 2016 |

    The Herald Scotland |

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    Response Location: Scotland, Edinburgh

    Edinburgh has begun a conservation project where roof space is transformed into a habitat for butterflies. The success of the project is being closely monitored with hopes of helping butterflies survive in the area, and attract new butterfly species to the area.

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  • Campus Kitchen helps feed families in Atlantic City

    November 27, 2016 |

    The Press of Atlantic City |

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    Response Location: United States, Atlantic City, New Jersey

    Food access for low-income Americans is still a challenge across the country. Campus Kitchen Project, a national community service project that operates at 53 colleges, leverages the readily-available manpower and compassion of university and high school students to help provide meals to those in need.

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  • America's First All-Renewable-Energy City

    November 17, 2016 |

    Politico |

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    Response Location: United States, Burlington, Vermont

    Burlington, Vermont counts itself as America's first all-renewable city, satisfying its energy needs through a combination of sustainably harvested pine and timber wood chips, hydroelectricity, four wind turbines, and a solar panel array near the local airport. Aside from the environmental benefit of renewable energy, the city has seen other benefits in the form of cheaper energy costs and healthy, locally-grown food.

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  • Taking Back the South Bronx

    November 17, 2016 |

    WNYC |

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    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    In the face of gentrification in their South Bronx neighborhood, Mott Haven, residents responded by creating the Mott Haven Port Morris Community Land Trust. Inspired by the Cooper Square Committee land trust, Mott Haven’s land trust wants to be responsible for the area’s affordable housing, and it also hopes to facilitate community-building.

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  • How Mysuru became India's ‘cleanest city'

    November 17, 2016 |

    Citiscope |

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    Response Location: India, Mysuru

    Mysuru has become a gleaming example for solutions to India's vaster struggles with solid-waste management, toilet construction, sanitation strategy, public outreach, and other measures. The city uses a decentralized model that leverages a mix of municipal resources, NGO leadership, civil society, and cooperation from proud residents and businesses.

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