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  • This California city just ended chronic homelessness

    January 06, 2021 |

    FastCompany |

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    Response Location: United States, Bakersfield, California

    The city of Bakersfield, California, was able to functionally end homelessness even with the onset of the pandemic, after implementing a data-driven strategy led by “Built for Zero.” The initiative focuses on frequent data collection which is then used to create a master command center that all agencies, shelters, and nonprofits work on in conjunction. Pooling resources and working together leads to clearer insight into where the most pressing need is and prevents unhoused people from falling through the cracks.

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  • Black Women Find Healing (But Sometimes Racism, Too) in the Outdoors

    January 06, 2021 |

    KFF Health News |

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    Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

    To encourage more Black people to explore outdoors, individuals and organizations in Colorado are working to address underlying barriers such as access to transportation and gear, as well as fear and concerns of safety. Despite the groups still encountering "frustrating" incidents with other outdoor recreationalists, the movement has spread to other states and steadily attracted a growing community of members.

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  • Skirtingų tautybių vaikus mokanti gimnazija: tėvai ir vaikai suprato, kad reikia gerai mokėti lietuvių kalbą

    January 06, 2021 |

    Lithuanian Radio and Television (LRT) |

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    Response Location: Lithuania, Kaunas

    Kauno Aleksandro Puškino gimnazijos, kurioje vaikų lavinimas vyksta rusų kalba, lietuvių kalbos egzaminų rezultatai yra kur kas geresni, nei kitose rusų k. ugdančiose mokyklose. Taip yra todėl, kad jau 13 metų gimnazija taiko unikalią individualizuotą lietuvių kalbos mokymo strategiją, kuri duoda gerų rezultatų.

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  • A Traveling, Pop-Up Library Holds Exclusively Books Written by Black Women

    January 06, 2021 |

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    Response Location: United States, New York

    A pop-up library is highlighting books written by Black women and has over 3,000 books in circulation with books from every genre. Founder Ola Ronke Akinmowo also travels to other states with several hundred books and does presentations on Black writers. The initiative has inspired similar projects in Detroit, Atlanta, Houston, and Los Angeles.

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  • The U.S. Could Make New Cars a Lot Less Deadly

    January 06, 2021 |

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    American cars made since the early 1980s have carried ratings from the federal New Car Assessment Program, showing how risky they are to human life in a crash. NCAP ratings motivated a host of safety enhancements by manufacturers. Since the 1990s, similar programs in the European Union, China, Australia, Korea, and Japan have also rated vehicles' risks to pedestrians and bicyclists, and their fatalities have dropped. Not so in the U.S., where industry resistance has stalled expansion of NCAP ratings. Advocates hope the Biden Transportation Department will finally expand the program.

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  • A felony could have ruined his life. This program gave him a second chance.

    January 05, 2021 |

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    Response Location: United States, Vermont

    Vermont's decades-old court diversion program uses restorative justice practices to erase criminal records and give people charged with lower-level offenses a shot at being held accountable, and giving back, without incarceration and convictions. Expanded significantly after legislators in 2017 applied the program to more categories of cases, the program has helped more than 90,000 people and now is used in as many as one-third of all misdemeanor cases. The program saves the state money and appears to contribute to lower rates of re-offending.

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  • Make Way for the ‘One-Minute City'

    January 05, 2021 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: Sweden, Stockholm

    The Street Moves initiative in Sweden is pushing local communities to become the designers of their own streets’ layouts and look at urban planning through the lens of the “one-minute city.” Through a public-private partnership, residents in four sites in Stockholm can help determine how much street space is used for parking, outdoor dining, and children’s play spaces. The goal is to increase participation in the community, address climate resilience, and create a more livable city.

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  • California hospital distributes 850 vaccines in 2.5 hours when refrigerator fails

    January 05, 2021 |

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    Response Location: United States, Ukiah, California

    When a hospital refrigerator that was housing 850 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine stopped working, local health officials in Mendocino County, California worked together to quickly devise a distribution plan. Through strategic outreach and localized pop-up distribution sites, the health officials were able to successfully distribute all of the vaccines to individuals before they expired.

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  • It Spied on Soviet Atomic Bombs. Now It's Solving Ecological Mysteries.

    January 05, 2021 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States

    Environmental scientists are using modern computing software to correct, orient, and analyze satellite images from the Corona spy project, launched in the 1960s and ’70s to monitor the Soviet military. The images have revealed human environmental impacts, challenged long-held assumptions, and helped predict future challenges. Within the last two years alone, the images have contributed to new information about climate change including rock glacier movements in Central Asia, shoreline changes in Saudi Arabia, and ice loss in Peru, helping scientists fill in knowledge gaps.

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  • Therapy From the Living Room

    January 05, 2021 |

    Seznam Zpravy |

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    Response Location: Czech Republic

    When the coronavirus pandemic made in-person therapy sessions too risky to schedule, therapists in the Czech Republic moved their services online and set up a hotline for patients to call when needed. Although it's yet to be seen if the service will remain financially viable in regards to health insurance reimbursements, it has helped eliminate many barriers including transportation troubles and feelings of stigma.

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