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Learning when to be hands-off

Jodi Hausen

September 30, 2021 |

Boulder Weekly |

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Response Location: United States, Boulder County, Colorado

Although several Colorado law enforcement agencies have trained officers on how to de-escalate interactions with people in a crisis, including people with disabilities, the state in 2022 will become the latest to mandate such training for all law enforcement officers. The training is backed by a study that suggests it helps police better recognize and understand the reactions that people with disabilities might have under stress in a confrontation with police. Trained officers in Boulder last year successfully ended one potentially violent incident without serious inury.

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Community-owned mobile parks keep eviction at bay. Can they work in North Carolina?

Victoria Bouloubasis

September 30, 2021 |

Southerly |

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Response Location: United States, Texas

Some states and cities protect residents of mobile-home communities from eviction with opportunity-to-purchase laws, which require the corporations that rent the land beneath a mobile home to give residents a chance to buy a community when it's for sale. But most places in the U.S. lack such laws, and often zoning rules favor corporate owners. So organizations like ROC USA provide the financial leverage to help residents band together to own their communities, which are also called manufactured housing. ROC has helped 280 communities in 18 states make such purchases.

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Das zurückgewonnene Paradies

Michaela Haas

September 30, 2021 |

SZ Magazin |

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Response Location: Egypt

Um die Klimaerwärmung zu stoppen, ist es notwendig den Prozess der globalen Entwaldung nicht nur zu bremsen, sondern zum Teil auch umzukehren. Vergangene Projekte haben gezeigt, dass dies auch in sehr öden Landstrichen möglich ist. Ein niederländischer Geo-Ingenieur hat nun einen Plan entwickelt, um aus der Sinai-Halbinsel in fünf Schritten eine grüne Oase zu machen. Er meint, die wieder ergrünte Gegend könnte dann Milliarden Tonnen CO2 binden.

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Planting a Life—and a Future—After Prison at Benevolence Farm

Stephanie Parker

September 30, 2021 |

Civil Eats |

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Response Location: United States, Graham, North Carolina

Benevolence Farm hosts a small number of formerly incarcerated women as live-in laborers growing herbs that end up in body-care products. The farming experience teaches marketable skills, as the women learn the finer points of horticulture. It also provides outdoor, hands-on experiences that are therapeutic to women after they spent months or years locked up in a sterile prison. The rural location poses some challenges, but the dozens of women who have spent 12-18 months living and working there have shown much lower-than-average rates of recidivism.

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California outlawed the all-white-male boardroom. That move is reshaping corporate America

Evan Halper

September 29, 2021 |

Los Angeles Times |

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Response Location: United States, California

A 2018 law requires all publicly traded companies headquartered in California have at least one woman on their board, and as many as three women by the end of 2021 depending on the company’s size. The law, inspired by those in Europe, caused a ripple effect nationwide where women now occupy 50% more corporate board seats than before California’s law. The Nasdaq exchange became an influential force recently by requiring that nearly all of its listed companies’ boards have one woman and one person of color or a person who identifies as LGBTQ. Despite challenges, federal regulators approved the requirement.

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California's new vote-by-mail system is a big win for marginalized groups

Umme Hoque

September 29, 2021 |

Prism |

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Response Location: United States, California

A new California law makes universal mail-in voting permanent after it was temporarily adopted for the 2020 election in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Expansion of mail-in voting in 2020 resulted in higher voter turnout, especially among low-income and communities of color. Moving forward, all voters will receive a ballot in the mail 29 days before each election. Voters can fill out their ballot, return it using a prepaid envelope or drop it in a secure drop box, and track in transit online. They also still have the choice to vote in person.

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Mradi wa ‘Elimu Ni Sasa Initiative' Wasaidia Wanafunzi Kwale

Athuman Luchi

September 29, 2021 |

RadioRahma |

Radio |

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Response Location: Kenya

Mradi wa serikali ya Kaunti ya Kwale iitwayo "Elimu ni Sasa" imewawezesha zaidi ya watoto 32,000 wanaofanya vyema na hawawezi kulipa karo kupata elimu. Kupitia kwa bajeti ya kaunti, watoto werevu ambao ni mayatima ama wanatoka kwa familia maskini wanahifadhiwa kujiunga na shule ya upili na kulingana na jinsi wanavyotia bidii wanasomesha hadi chuo kikuu.

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Atlanta Tried Housing Police in Disinvested Black Communities to Increase Trust. Is it Working?

Adina Solomon

September 29, 2021 |

Next City |

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Response Location: United States, Atlanta, Georgia

The Secure Neighborhoods program lets select police officers buy houses at subsidized prices if they move into a mostly Black, historically disinvested neighborhood. The aim of the program is to make police officers part of a community, build community trust, and discourage crime. While violence and auto theft in the chosen neighborhood have dropped, and some community members say the program improved relations, others complain that the gesture has been fairly superficial and just adds to gentrification pressures.

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Killing gas guzzlers: what can Lithuania learn from Denmark?

Rūta Nikitinaitė

September 29, 2021 |

Lithuanian Radio and Television (LRT) |

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Response Location: Denmark

Transportation accounts for some of the most emissions in the EU, one-third, out of those 72 percent are from road transportation. In Denmark, the government places high tax-rates on vehicles and tax reductions on electric cars. The tax cuts are leading some to switch over to electric cars, and the method might be replicated in other EU countries like Lithaunia.

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Paris shows how to make public housing greener and more habitable at the same time

Colin Kinniburgh

September 29, 2021 |

Grist |

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Response Location: France, Paris

Old and neglected housing contributes to climate change because it runs on fossil fuels. In New York, outdated heating systems waste two-thirds of energy. The New York City Housing Authority is not only trying to create better, safer, livable affordable housing, but also cleaner and more sustainable housing. While the city is just beginning to explore how to do that, other cities, like Paris, have already begun the work of updating old buildings that are used for affordable housing and can offer a model for American cities.

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