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  • Where women lead on climate change

    May 01, 2018 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: Guatemala

    In various parts of the world, women's voices often aren't heard when it comes to ways to mitigate against climate change, despite their intimate experiences with it. Women in Guatemala are fighting agains this roadblock by joining forces to exchange ideas and then working together to implement change in their communities.

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  • Chicago's South Side Finally Has an Adult Trauma Center Again

    May 01, 2018 |

    The New Yorker |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    In 2018, years of community activism resulted in the opening of the first advanced emergency trauma care center on Chicago’s South Side since the 1990s. One study showed gun assaults taking place more than five miles from a trauma center disproportionately affected Black victims and caused higher death rates because of delays in reaching adequate care. One such fatal incident prompted protests and community organizing around demands for a Level 1 adult trauma center at University of Chicago Medical Center, which finally were successful eight years later.

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  • Almost half of pregnancies in the U.S. are unplanned. There's a surprisingly easy way to change that.

    May 01, 2018 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, Delaware

    To reduce unplanned pregnancies, Delaware "embarked on an ambitious experiment" that worked to eliminate barriers that prevented women from pursuing alternative forms of birth control, such as cost and convenience. After two years, rates of unplanned pregnancies decreased by 15 percent.

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  • Where Water is Scarce, Communities Turn to Reusing Wastewater

    May 01, 2018 |

    Yale Environment 360 |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    Water conservation has been a hot topic for the last decade. As nations continue to search for ways to ensure a safe water supply for future generations, some places are looking to history for answers. Taking a page out of the 1970s water shortage era for Orange County in California, these places are finding ways to recycle sewage water into drinkable water.

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  • How safe-injection sites work

    April 26, 2018 |

    WGME-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

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    Response Location: Canada, Montreal, Quebec

    The city of Montreal, Canada is testing how safe injection sites can be used in the fight against opioid overdoses. Montreal has 4 total sites, and one of them, called Cactus Montreal, has already supervised thousands of users in less than a year without a single death. Cactus is often busy with about 100 visitors each day, and they say that their services also prevent public injections and litter of used needles.

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  • After a tragedy, a Yup'ik dance group in Hooper Bay keeps dancing

    April 26, 2018 |

    Alaska Public Media |

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    Response Location: United States, Hooper Bay, Alaska

    Yup’ik community members in Hooper Bay, Alaska founded a dance group for teens. In the six years since it started, the group has provided activity, responsibility, stress relief, and a connection to tradition for its young participants.

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  • Eight months on, is the world's most drastic plastic bag ban working?

    April 25, 2018 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: Kenya, Nairobi

    Curbing society's reliance on plastic has become a top priority on international levels. In light of this, Kenya took the most drastic approach and implemented a ban on all plastic bags enforced with consequence of jail-time and steep fines. After 8 months in action some are still finding this ban to be unjust due to cost infringements on businesses, but Nairobi’s shanty towns are seeing cleaner streets, healthier waterways and improvements in sanitation initiatives.

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  • Kenya jail's 'mindful' scheme aims to bring sides closer

    April 24, 2018 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: Kenya, Nairobi

    In Kenya, prisons are rampant with violence, an overcrowded and harsh environment for people as they serve their sentences. To combat gang violence and heightened tensions between prisoners and guards, Kenya's largest maximum security facility has implemented a new program: mindfulness. The program helps prisoners and guards practice mindfulness and meditation, and ultimately helps to bridge the divide between the two factions.

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  • Ugonjwa Wa Kichocho

    April 24, 2018 |

    Star TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Tanzania

    Idara ya afya nchini Tanzania ilianzisha ratiba ya kutoa tiba ya ugonjwa wa kichocho katika taasisi za umma. Sawia na kupeleka maji masafi ya wanafunzi kunywa.Serikali inapeleka dawa shuleni ambapo walimu wanawaptia watoto dawa kulingana na kipimo cha urefu.

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  • In India, Products Made From Crop Waste May Curb a Tide of Plastic

    April 24, 2018 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: India, Bengaluru

    India has been a longtime contributor to water and air pollution, largely due in part to the amount of plastic the country generates. To address both kinds of pollution, one company is creating biodegradable packaging made from plant fibers.

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