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  • What Went Into Building Europe's Largest Floating Solar Park

    Evides Waterbedrijf, a drinking water company, created Europe’s largest floating solar park. They installed almost 3,000 solar panels on an island in the middle of a reservoir that allows it to move with the sun to maximize its energy. This setup generates about 15 percent of the electricity the company uses at the site.

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  • After crime plummeted in 2020, Baltimore will stop drug, sex prosecutions

    When Baltimore prosecutors stopped prosecuting most lower-level crimes to ease jail crowding during the pandemic, they discovered that making many fewer arrests did not fuel a crime wave. In fact, crime dropped substantially, counter to what most other cities experienced during the same time. The experiment showed that not prosecuting for drug possession, prostitution, trespassing, and other minor offenses has minimal, if not positive, effects on crime. The policy was made permanent and officials will now connect people with needed health and social services instead of jailing them.

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  • Prison Renaissance program at San Quentin uses art to end cycles of incarceration

    Three men currently or formerly incarcerated at San Quentin Prison founded Prison Renaissance to connect artists and writers inside prison to audiences and potential funders outside. They produced an art exhibit that was shown digitally at the Museum of the African Diaspora. By creating a rehabilitative program on their own without prison administration involvement, the men demonstrate their humanity and talents, while also generating income for the artists.

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  • What one county agency is doing to keep its employees whole

    To help address burnout for child welfare workers in Knox County, Ohio, Knox County Job & Family Services has launched a two-pronged approach that aims to offer wellbeing services to employees. Although the Covid pandemic impeded the rollout of these self-care services and resources, feedback has been positive.

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  • Using drones to save lives

    A drone company and Kentucky Homeplace, a University of Kentucky initiative to address rural health, have used drones to deliver personal protective equipment packages to isolated, rural homes that can become inaccessible by road flooding or other bad weather. The flights, called the Jericho Project, so far have served as tests that the sponsors hope will lead to deliveries of medicine and other necessities during natural disasters or simply to speed delivery in remote areas.

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  • Obawole: Neglected by banks, rescued by PoS agents

    Agency banking and point-of-sales terminals provide financial services to Obawole, a community under-served by banks despite its proximity to Nigeria's banking center. Agents are third parties representing banks. They provide services such as accepting deposits and making withdrawals, replacing often-decrepit and unreliable ATM machines. Technical failures and distrust can mar relationships with the banking public, but the services provide a needed convenience, and create jobs as well.

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  • In Sokoto, emergency ambulances tackling maternal mortality

    A program in Sokoto State uses 300 ambulances to improve access to emergency care in rural areas, which has significantly improved maternal health outcomes. High costs, limited availability of transportation, and traditional gender norms limited women’s access to care, but the program has made it easier to reach care, and more interactions with health facilities helped shift norms about maternal care. Routine immunizations, prenatal care, and nutrition services have also increased. Committees, made up of local leaders and healthcare officials, maintain the vehicles and provide drivers in each ward.

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  • Georgia College Political Society Sparks Conversations as Solution to Political Polarization

    Georgia College Political Society, a non-partisan debate and discussion organization, hosts events where students from across the political spectrum discuss political issues. Discussion topics have included criminal justice, foreign policy, and the 2020 election. The group currently meets on Zoom and posts livestreams of their debates on Facebook. The environment has been friendly, with some agreement on the structural problems, but different ideas about how to solve them. So far, there have been 10 panels and the College’s political science faculty have provided crash courses on the topics being discussed.

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  • Formerly Homeless Seattleites Are Moving Into a Building Designed for Tech Workers — Here's Why

    A “small efficiency dwelling unit” in Seattle has been sold to a nonprofit that serves people experiencing homelessness. The development was initially meant for renters but rental vacancies caused by the pandemic prompted the owners to sell the building to the nonprofit. Now tenants who earn 30-40 percent of the median income in Seattle will pay 30 percent of their income toward rent.

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  • Charlotte nonprofit taking different approach to making affordable housing available

    The Lotus campaign helps people experiencing homelessness by paying landlords upfront and, in return, landlords eliminate security deposits, credit checks, and employment records. At the cost of about $800 a year to house someone in an apartment, the Landlord Participation Program has housed more than 250 people and, as of April 2021, 166 people have renewed their leases or found other housing. The Lotus Campaign focuses on finding the units, while other organizations find the candidates and pay some of their rent. All participants are either employed or receiving Social Security payments.

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