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  • In syntropic agriculture, farmers stop fighting nature and learn to embrace it

    July 30, 2020 |

    Mongabay |

    Multi-Media |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Brazil, Gandú, Bahia

    Ernst Götsch, an agronomist and cocoa farmer in Brazil, uses a different method of agriculture that could be more beneficial to small farmers. His method, known as syntropic agriculture, is an agroforestry system where different plants interact with each other to create more complex ecosystems and more fertile soils. While the method involves more labor and observation, it doesn’t use pesticides or fertilizers and has resulted in larger crop yields and more income on his own farm. He is sharing his process with other farmers looking to improve their farms.

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  • ‘Transparência é fundamental para reduzir riscos de fraudes em contratações'

    July 30, 2020 |

    Nexo Jornal |

    Text |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Brazil, João Pessoa, Paraíba

    Trata-se de uma entrevista com Ludinaura Regina Sousa dos Santos, controladora-geral de João Pessoa, capital da Paraíba. Ela como a cidade foi considerada a mais transparente do país nas aquisições de equipamentos para o combate à covid-19, segundo a ONG Transparência Internacional.

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  • A.D.A. Now!

    July 30, 2020 |

    NPR |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States

    Congress' passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act 30 years ago made life-changing advances for millions of people with all manner of disabilities. Beyond removing physical barriers and opening education, employment, and public accommodations, it also opened minds to see people with disabilities as fully human – a barrier that had existed historically. The protests and lobbying to put a civil rights lens on these barriers as discrimination got the law enacted, but social change is still a work in progress.

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  • As Murders Rise, New York City Turns to a Police Alternative

    July 30, 2020 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    In New York City, 14 organizations have more than 200 people performing street outreach to intervene in potentially deadly gun crimes in at least 20 of the city's most violent "hot spots." These "violence interrupters" mediate disputes and offer social services in a process that relies on former gang members and others with street experience rather than police. While studies have shown mixed evidence of success, New York's programs have been credited with significant crime decreases. With violence on the rise after a long decline, the city is upping its budget for these programs to $39 million.

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  • How Lithuanian farmers help preserve endangered bird

    July 30, 2020 |

    Lithuanian Radio and Television (LRT) |

    Multi-Media |

    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: Lithuania, Šilutė

    A Lithuanian government program pays farmers to delay working in their fields in an effort to preserve the aquatic warbler, an endangered bird species. While there are 186 farmers who participate in the program, more work could be done to protect the birds around water bodies. Once farmers are able to cut their grass, they can bring their grass to a factory to make biofuel.

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  • Business Unusual: Local manufacturers adapt, preserve jobs, and carry on during pandemic

    July 30, 2020 |

    FreshWater Cleveland |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Ohio

    Local businesses in Northeastern Ohio pivoted their operations to manufacture supplies needed to fight Covid-19 in an effort to fill a dire public need while preserving jobs for their employees. Employees were trained in industrial sewing machines to create masks, gowns, and other personal protective equipment for those on the frontlines. A Small Business Recovery grant allowed a distillery to use its existing technology to produce hand sanitizer instead of whiskey. Face shields were particularly tricky to produce effectively but 30 Northeast Ohio companies came together to create a custom product.

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  • Use of plastic bags in England drops by 59% in a year

    July 30, 2020 |

    The Guardian |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United Kingdom, England

    The sales of single-use plastic bags has dropped by more than 95 percent in England’s supermarkets since 2015 when a monetary fee was introduced to encourage shoppers to reduce their plastic waste. Despite this reduction, research suggests that the amount of plastic waste in the world’s oceans was still likely to triple in volume in the next 20 years.

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  • Virus hunters: Contact tracing slows spread through painstaking investigation

    July 29, 2020 |

    Jackson Hole News & Guide |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Teton County, Wyoming

    Contact tracing has helped identify hundreds potential cases of Covid-19 in Teton County, Wyoming. Conducted by the county's health department, the process works much like it does for other communicable diseases, such as measles. According to the data collected from the efforts, 60% of those who have been contacted as being in contact with the coronavirus have tested positive for the virus themselves.

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  • Want More Housing? Ending Single-Family Zoning Won't Do It.

    July 29, 2020 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

    Text |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Houston, Texas

    Abolishing single-family zoning rules as an affordable-housing solution has failed in places such as Minneapolis and Oregon because their narrowly drawn reforms left other obstacles in place. Houston serves as an example of effective policies that promote "missing middle" housing – denser developments than detached houses – because it combined its lack of single-family zoning with a reduction in minimum lots sizes. The result is far more affordable housing than in other booming job markets. Lot-size restrictions are among several other rules that can frustrate the desire for more housing.

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  • Black voter mobilization efforts begin to bear fruit

    July 29, 2020 |

    Los Angeles Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Georgia

    HeadCount, a voter mobilization group, held registration drives at concerts and other events and collaborated with celebrities, music industry leaders, and athletes to form March on Ballot Boxes (M.O.B.B.), an informal coalition harnessing the activism of the Black Lives Matters movement. They provided voter registration tools such as text messaging and QR codes, which protesters could print and display on their signs. They also partnered with Atlantic Records to launch ATL Votes, a digital registration campaign aimed at young voters. They registered over ten times as many new voters in 2020 than in 2016.

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