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  • Meet the man using e-waste to build solar lamps in Nigeria

    October 24, 2022 |

    Euronews |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    QuadLoop is a Nigerian business that produces solar lamps from recycled electronic parts like lithium batteries and screens. This practice makes the lamps more cost-effective and reduces electronic waste.

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  • NJ balks over stormwater fix that works elsewhere

    October 24, 2022 |

    NJ Spotlight |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

    Flood-prone cities in the United States are turning to stormwater utility projects that charge landowners based on the amount of impervious surface on their property. The money earned from the fees is used to build green infrastructure that allows rainwater to seep into the ground instead of overwhelming storm drains and sewage systems.

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  • In Croatia, a hotel trying to heal war wounds

    October 22, 2022 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: Croatia

    A hotel in a small Croatian village near the Bosnia-Herzegovina border has invested in regenerating and bringing together the community that is still scarred from the Balkans war in the 1990s. Hotel owners have refurbished 10 buildings in town, provide guests with firsthand accounts from village residents to learn about the region’s history, and follow staffing policies aimed at bringing together the ethnically diverse community by hiring equal numbers of individuals from the region's ethnic groups.

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  • Volunteer-powered N.H. elections buoyed by national recruitment campaigns

    October 22, 2022 |

    New Hampshire Public Radio |

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    Response Location: United States, Keene, New Hampshire

    Power the Polls is a national campaign that coordinates with companies and organizations across the political spectrum to reach out to potential election volunteers. The campaign then shares the volunteer's information directly with local election officials, with the goal of bolstering the pool of available poll workers.

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  • Disaster debris is pushing Puerto Rico's landfills to the brink

    October 21, 2022 |

    Grist |

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    Response Location: United States Minor Outlying Islands, Puerto Rico

    Puerto Rico’s landfills are filling up quickly, but a nonprofit composting program in Vieques called Isla Nena Composta collects, processes, and composts organic materials from hurricane debris to help ease pressure on the landfills.

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  • From breweries to high schools, unique ways to fight poll worker shortage

    October 20, 2022 |

    NewsNation |

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    Response Location: United States, Kentucky

    Amid poll worker shortages spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic and safety concerns for election officials, some states are tapping a new generation of election staffers by recruiting in the places where young people already hang out, including breweries and community colleges. Kentucky's partnership with breweries helped the state sign up roughly 5,000 people to work the polls in 2020.

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  • US midterm elections: Why Bolivia's lawmakers are 50% women

    October 19, 2022 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: Bolivia

    As the result of an electoral law introduced in the late '90s and later added to the country's constitution, roughly half of Bolivian lawmakers at every level of government are women. Though the country outperforms many others, including the United States, on gender parity in the legislature, women are still underrepresented in executive positions.

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  • Can SB 9 really help build housing for all in Sacramento?

    October 18, 2022 |

    Sacramento News & Review |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    The California Housing Opportunity and More Efficiency Act eliminated single-family zoning so homeowners can split their lots to create rentals and make more housing available statewide.

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  • New road surfaces for the future – a long and winding (and green) road

    October 17, 2022 |

    News48 |

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    Response Location: Italy

    Gipave is a new type of asphalt technology that combines plastic waste with bitumen, a material already used to pave roads, to make recyclable road surfaces with longer lifespans and reduce emissions from road work by 70%.

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  • With FoI Act, NGO is Helping to Spotlight Developmental Issues in Lagos Community

    October 17, 2022 |

    BONews |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Araromi, Lagos

    Media Rights Agenda helped a community in Lagos, Nigeria, submit Freedom of Information Act requests to draw attention to the community’s lack of basic amenities like roads and clean water. When government organizations ignored the requests, the organization took legal action and released a documentary about the issue to gain public support.

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