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  • Public EV chargers are good for the planet. They're also good for business.

    Businesses like the convenience-store chain Racetrac, are seeing an increase in their annual revenue when they install electric vehicle charging stations for customers to use. Racetrac alone has installed eight chargers, contributing to the 61,000 currently available throughout the country. Several other businesses like Walmart, Kohl’s and Subway are also planning to follow suit.

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  • How music therapy is quietly — and sometimes loudly — fighting the teen mental health crisis

    Music therapy is helping teens identify, verbalize and cope with their emotions, and is emerging as a solution to bridge the gap in the national shortage of adolescent mental health professionals. Michigan State University alone has credentialed more than 9,000 music therapists since the degree program emerged in 1944. Studies show that when used in conjunction with medical treatement and traditional talk therapy, music therapy can improve health outcomes and reduce levels of depression and anxiety.

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  • How a Group is Tackling Mental Health Through Open Conversations

    The youth-led Foundation for Younger Generation gives young people a platform to talk about their mental health with peers and licensed therapists. The group hosts events in-person and online through platforms like WhatsApp and has since reached about 400 people.

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  • Borno's New Mass Transit Lightens Commuter's Load, but Challenges Persist

    The government’s new mass transit system is making transportation cheaper and more accessible amid fare increases. With its fleet of buses and taxis, the Borno State Mass Transport System is strategically placing shuttle buses in areas with high commuter traffic, making affordable transportation more accessible.

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  • Under an L.A. Freeway, a Psychiatric Rescue Mission

    Los Angeles County’s Homeless Outreach & Mobile Engagement (HOME) program uses street psychiatry to get psychiatric medication to people experiencing homelessness in an effort to get them a step closer to housing. The HOME team has 223 full-time staff members and served 1,919 people last year, 22% of whom ended the year housed.

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  • The Futures of Right Whales and Lobstermen Are Entangled. Could High-Tech Gear Help Save Them Both?

    Lobster is a crucial economic resource in New England, but entanglements with the fishing line from lobster traps are a major cause of death for endangered North Atlantic right whales. Scientists and lobstermen are testing ropeless, on-demand gear that minimizes the risk for whales and allows fishing to continue in areas that would otherwise be closed for months as the whales pass through.

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  • Fatal overdoses often happen when users are alone. Hotlines, sensors can save lives.

    Technology like chatbots, motion detectors and hotlines are helping prevent overdose deaths, which typically happen when people use alone. The Never Use Alone hotline which was started in 2019 by volunteers with experience using drugs or who have lost someone to an overdose. Since starting, they have received more than 45,000 calls and have called emergency responders about 200 times.

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  • Drones are playing a critical role in Milton and Helene recovery

    A variety of organizations are using drones to find missing persons and airdrop supplies in response to Hurricanes Milton and Helene. A Walmart in North Carolina, for example, sends necessary prescriptions and resources to a nearby senior center with a drone from its commercial drone delivery program.

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  • Hurricane Helene underscores need for more solar-battery microgrids

    A small community in the mountains of North Carolina, Hot Springs, relied on a solar-powered microgrid with battery storage when the substation that supplied its power washed away in the flooding after Hurricane Helene. Microgrids like that could be a critical part of building extreme weather resilience elsewhere, too.

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  • Minnesota cities tap utility fees to help fund local clean energy and climate action

    Cities in Minnesota are using utility franchise fees to fund sustainability projects. The fees, which are usually passed on to customers via a small monthly charge, are collected from utility companies in return for allowing their infrastructure in public rights-of-way.

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