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  • Cardboard Bombay cafe by Nudes is made entirely from cardboard

    April 13, 2019 |

    Dezeen |

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    Response Location: India, Mumbai

    A new cafe in Mumbai is made entirely of cardboard to showcase the material's structural stability and dynamism, as well as its environmental sustainability. Everything from walls to chairs, and tables to lampshades, has been crafted from cardboard. The architecture firm is just one of many around the world experimenting with cardboard.

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  • Can This Breakfast Cereal Help Save The Planet?

    April 13, 2019 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Human beings' reliance on crops like wheat and rice has a detrimental environmental effect: because these annual crops need replanting every year, farmers are required to destroy any existing vegetation in order to get the seeds to germinate. But scientists with the Land Institute are promoting kernza, a perennial relative of wheat that provides seeds year after year.

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  • Jury of their peers: Youth court aims to keep students out of criminal justice system

    April 13, 2019 |

    NBC News |

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    Response Location: United States, Newark, New Jersey

    In Newark Youth Court, the common mistakes and misbehavior of childhood lead to a trial in which all of the participants are high school students, and the outcomes center on second chances and atoning for wrongdoing through community service and decision-making classes. The court, which hears about 100 cases per year, serves as an alternative to pushing allegations of minor fights, vandalism, and truancy into the justice system, where punishment falls most heavily on youth of color and can wreck lives without solving the discipline problems.

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  • How giving entrepreneurs 30 days of free retail space revived a North Avenue storefront and built a collective

    April 12, 2019 |

    Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |

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    Response Location: United States, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

    Pop-Up MKE was a pilot program that provided a risk-free way for artists to see if their products would sell in a retail space by giving 19 urban entrepreneurs 30 days of free retail space and mini-grants up to $2,000. Four participants formed The Bronzeville Collective MKE LLC and, after negotiating to stay in the retail space, they doubled their own sales and feature products from other creatives, particularly entrepreneurs of color. They split the rent four ways and collect a 20% vendor fee. Other participants in the pilot moved to permanent storefronts and/or expanded their retail presence.

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  • How Norway designed a more humane prison

    April 12, 2019 |

    Vox |

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    Response Location: Norway, Halden

    Halden Prison in Norway has re-designed itself so that the look and feel of prison life isn’t an added punishment to restricted freedom. Designers took into consideration the role campus design plays in promoting or disrupting guard-inmate relations and created a campus that promotes community rather than violence and isolation. Also included was landscaping, more natural light, and the use of softer materials, like glass and wood, instead of metal and brick.

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  • How to Restore a Million Acres of Strip-Mined Land? Bring in the Elk

    April 12, 2019 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Grundy, Virginia

    Strip mining, a method in which the entire top few hundred feet of mountain are blown up to expose coal seams, has left Virginia and other Appalachian states with nearly a million acres of flat, problematic lands. Environmental scientists have released a herd of elk at one of these former strip mine sites to enrich the habitat for diverse animal species and to revitalize the local economies through wildlife tourists and hunters.

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  • Hospital develops AI to identify patients likely to skip appointments

    April 12, 2019 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: England, Greater London

    When people don't show up for an appointment, it can cost hospitals a lot of money and also unnecessarily increase wait times for other patients. A hospital in London is trying to reduce both the cost and wait problems by using artificial intelligence to predict which patients are most likely to be no-shows.

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  • Despite Many Challenges, the U.S. Has More Young Farmers Than it Did Five Years Ago

    April 12, 2019 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Response Location: United States, Boone County, Kentucky

    With the average age of the American farmer at 57.5 and the number of farmers over 65 outnumbering farmers under 35 by a factor of 6 to 1, many are worried about a severe shortage of ecologically-minded young farmers to take over from the older generation. To address this gap, states and institutions are launching initiatives like debt-free agricultural college, tax incentives, and loan programs.

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  • This company uses AI to flag racist and sexist comments from potential hires

    April 12, 2019 |

    CNN |

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    Response Location: United States

    A company called Fama Technologies has developed a tool for businesses to analyze a potential candidate's public digital footprint for problematic comments or behaviors around sexual harassment, bigotry, and bullying. The company's analysis does not give a yes or no, nor does it provide a score. Rather, it surfaces the examples of bigotry and lets the company decide what to do. Fama also reports a 99.98% accuracy rate with its artificial intelligence-driven tool.

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  • LeBron James Opened a School That Was Considered an Experiment. It's Showing Promise.

    April 12, 2019 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Akron, Ohio

    One year after LeBron James' I Promise School opened its doors, its students, picked for being some of the worst performing in Akron, Ohio, have shown significant improvement on district assessments. I Promise is funded like other public schools, but also benefits from an additional $600,000 from the James' foundation for more teaching staff, after-school programs, and a family resource center with G.E.D. preparation and career counseling. Teachers say these add-ons have been the key to the school's early success.

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