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  • Cómo usar la lluvia en un hotel, una escuela y un centro comunal para ahorrar dinero y agua potable

    June 27, 2020 |

    La Nación (Costa Rica) |

    Multi-Media |

    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: Costa Rica

    Este reportaje explica cómo 4 lugares (un hotel, una escuela, un salón comunal y una casa de guardaparques) usan un sistema de captación de agua de lluvia para ahorrar agua potable en actividades que puede usar agua pluvial. Se explica cómo funcionan los sistemas, cuánto cuestan, cuáles son sus limitaciones, y se analiza el problema del desperdicio de agua potable en Costa Rica en usos como la descarga de inodoros.

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  • How to Defund the Police

    June 26, 2020 |

    The New Yorker |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    On the front lines of the defund-police movement, groups like Elite Learners and Save Our Streets Bed-Stuy mediate conflicts in ways that have lowered violence without the involvement of police, thus reducing arrests and incarceration at the same time. CMS workers often use the Cure Violence approach of "violence interruption," a form of outreach by community members to offer needed social services while preventing violence. The city, which credits these programs with a 15% decline in shootings in 17 precincts in a three-year span, is expanding the budget for this to nearly $50 million per year.

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  • 'Nip the virus in the bud': How Germany showed Europe the way on coronavirus testing

    June 26, 2020 |

    The Local |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Germany, Bavaria

    Germany has implemented a variety of methods to contain the coronavirus, but their policy of "open public testing" has been a vital component of successfully slowing the spread of the virus. Although the policy was not in place from the start due to insurance limitations, once enacted, it allowed for asymptomatic people to be tested and has reportedly slowed outbreaks throughout the country.

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  • The peak that wasn't

    June 26, 2020 |

    Montana Free Press |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Montana

    Montana has largely been able to avoid the worst of the coronavirus pandemic by implementing very early measures – including a state of emergency, school closures, and social distancing protocols – before the virus had a chance to spread amongst the community. Having learned from how past communicable diseases spread throughout the state, such as whooping cough, health officials also quickly put a contact tracing effort into place. According to Dr. Laurel Desnick, Park County Health Officer, “Montana is still the safest place in the country.”

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  • COVID-19 Quarantine Facility Links Homeless To Range Of Services

    June 26, 2020 |

    Honolulu Civil Beat |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Iwilei, Hawaii

    When Covid-19 began spreading throughout the United States, officials in Hawaii set up a quarantine facility for those experiencing homelessness that helped connect residents with other services to reduce their risk of contracting the virus. While it's too early to know if this could be a viable model for health care in the long run, the practice of temporary housing has currently helped curb the spread of the virus among the community's "unsheltered people."

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  • Into Their Own Hands: Kibera, Kenya's Largest Slum, Tames COVID-19

    June 26, 2020 |

    InfoNILE |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Kenya, Kibera, Nairobi

    The densely populated region of Kibera in Kenya has managed to slow the spread of Covid-19 and protect vulnerable residents despite facing "overcrowding and unhygienic conditions" due to communal and collaborative efforts from local residents, the government and non-governmental organizations. These efforts have included an information campaign, the implementation of hygiene stations and community-delivered water to each household.

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  • The World's Best Healthcare Systems: Ezekiel Emanuel

    June 26, 2020 |

    How Do We Fix It? |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States

    As evidenced in COVID-19 case comparisons, the U.S. health-care system has not performed as well as other countries to offer health-care access, yet is still "spends far more money on healthcare than any other nation." Other countries, such as Switzerland and Taiwan, offer guidance on how to learn from the system's failures, especially as it relates to emergency preparedness and price regulations.

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  • Northern Ireland's police transformation may hold lessons for the US

    June 26, 2020 |

    The Conversation |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Ireland

    With lessons for American police-reform advocates, the transformation of the Royal Ulster Constabulary – a militarized enforcer of inequality hated by the people of Northern Ireland – into an entirely new organization was founded on the necessity of community support. Neither easy nor simple, this 20-year process, following 30 years of conflict, intentionally included recruiting local Catholics in order to win local support. Citizen oversight served as another pillar of the new structure, which still has problems but has won critical political support from Sinn Féin, the leading nationalist political party.

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  • From farm labor to food trucks, Sikhs adapt langar to serve the masses during a pandemic

    June 26, 2020 |

    Religion News Service |

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    Response Location: United States

    The Sikh community’s long tradition of feeding those in need through volunteer-run community kitchens called langar was primed to provide COVID-19 food aid, which many gurdwaras (Sikh places of worship) did through active outreach rather than simply opening their doors. One group, Khalsa Aid, expanded into a multistate project to improve access to food in rural and other underserved areas, including a project in New Jersey to supply the Ramapough Lenape Tribe with food and help it start a farm to grow its own food. Many of America’s 246 gurdwaras already were equipped with large-scale cooking operations.

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  • NC Entertainment Venues Look To Asia As They Plot How To Reopen

    June 26, 2020 |

    WFAE |

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    Response Location: South Korea

    Some North Carolina entertainment venues are looking to South Korea and Taiwan, where theaters and sports venues have remained open during the coronavirus pandemic. The venues have prevented the spread of COVID-19 by using clear protocols and procedures like requiring temperatures and detailed health information upon entry, as well as mask wearing and good hygiene while in the venue. Ushers closely monitor the audience and enforce compliance. Venue and health officials were also transparent when a COVID-19 case did occur, quickly notifying everyone potentially exposed so they can isolate and minimize spread.

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