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  • How A Small Canadian City Took On Chronic Homelessness

    Leif Gregersen

    August 11, 2022 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: Canada, Medicine Hat, Alberta

    A town in Canada uses a housing-first approach to reduce homelessness. They help people experiencing homelessness get housing before offering support for other issues they might be facing.

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  • Greece's Islands Are Zero-Waste Laboratories

    Sebastien Malo

    August 11, 2022 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Greece, Tilos

    Tilos, Greece, works with a network of companies to collect and sort the island residents' waste to be composted, recycled, or reused instead of using a landfill.

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  • How a 100-day solution to homelessness could help Knox County

    Grant Ritchey

    August 08, 2022 |

    Richland Source |

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    Response Location: United States, Knox County, Ohio

    Reinstitute is a global non-profit, focusing on lowering homelessness across the world. The organization works with communities, both rural or urban, and constructs a “100-day challenge” to gather various groups and resources together to make a consequential change in homelessness in 100 days. The program has seen great success across the U.S., most recently housing 1,852 people following a campaign in California.

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  • Glitter has proven it can clean our streets. Will the City finally back it up?

    Nick Russo

    August 08, 2022 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    The street cleaning startup Glitter facilitates paid cleanups on blocks that slip through the cracks of the City’s waste management services. The company has cleaners assigned to blocks in every section of the city, with new people jumping on board each week to help clean up the streets.

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  • Repair Ukraine: How volunteers "clean up after russia" in Chernihiv region

    Maria Smyk

    August 05, 2022 |

    Рубрика (Rubryka) |

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    Response Location: Ukraine, Lukashivka

    Volunteers from the Repair Together project travel to liberated towns in the Chernihiv region of Ukraine to clear rubble, so the residents can rebuild their homes.

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  • Plastic pens for chickens reduce plastic pollution

    Dishon Amanya

    August 05, 2022 |

    Look Up TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: Kenya

    Utumizi wa plastiki kujenga nyumba ya vifaranga kaunti ya Bungoma inatunza mazingira pamoja na kupunguza gharama ya kujenga nyumba hizo. Kwa kutumia mabaki ya plastiki hususan mtungi za mafuta ya kupika, wafugaji wa kuku wanajenga sanduku zinazotumika kama nyumba ya kufuga vifaranga wa siku moja hadi mwezi mmoja.

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  • Would an innovative approach to child care work in Knox County?

    Cheryl Splain

    August 05, 2022 |

    Knox Pages |

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    Response Location: United States

    Along the Way is filling a crucial gap in the community by providing in-home childcare services to single mothers who work shifts during the nights or weekends. Through a holistic approach, the organization has enabled mothers to enter or remain in the workforce, ensured fair wages to the caregivers it employs, and is going to start partnering with for-profit employers to make this a community effort.

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  • Europe's New Trams Are Reviving a Golden Age of Transit

    Eric Krebs

    August 04, 2022 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: France, Strasbourg

    The extensive, all-electric tram system in Strasbourg has emerged as a solution to address air pollution and street congestion caused by cars as well as a critical medium of transport as the city expands its low-emission zones. The tramway's ridership has been resilient, even during the pandemic, and its inspiring a revival of the system across France.

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  • ‘Walking' forest of 1,000 trees transforms Dutch city​

    Anne Pinto-Rodrigues

    August 04, 2022 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: Netherlands, Leeuwarden

    One thousand trees are “walking” through the city of Leeuwarden in the Netherlands as part of a project meant to highlight the importance of urban forests in a warming world. Not everyone thinks this exhibition is an effective use of funds, but it has also inspired locals and businesses to install trees and plants. “The trees created such a calming effect, people immediately felt relaxed,” said one local resident.

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  • Dallas parents flocking to schools that pull students from both rich and poor parts of town

    Kate Rix

    August 04, 2022 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States, Dallas, Texas

    Transformation Schools in Dallas, Texas, admit students by lottery to combat concentrated poverty and declining enrollment with more socioeconomically diverse students.

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