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  • How New York and Paris Got Women Into the Bike Saddle

    February 12, 2021 |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Citi Bike started the NYC Critical Workers program, which offered free bike-share memberships to essential workers in New York City because of the coronavirus pandemic. The free membership started for one month but was extended to a year. Nearly 30,000 people signed up. Since a large proportion of healthcare workers are women, almost 60% of the new members were women, which increased the company’s female annual members from 32.8 percent to 38.9 percent. Several other cities also saw progress in the gender-balance of bike riders during the pandemic.

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  • Wales's "One Planet" Policy Is Transforming Rural Life

    February 12, 2021 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Wales, Pembrokeshire

    Wales’ One Planet Development Policy allows people to live a more sustainable lifestyle by using only the resources on the land where they reside. For one family, they get their electricity from their own solar array, heat from firewood, and food from their gardens and livestock. Each year, they must prove that they are using only their “global fair share” of resources. So far, 46 farms have signed on to the program and the lessons learned from the experiment are helping to inform the government’s actions on other policies like housing.

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  • Health Care Institutions Invest in Tenant Protections for Community Health

    February 12, 2021 |

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    Response Location: United States

    Hospitals and other health care institutions across the United States are investing funds into surrounding communities to tackle issues that directly impact them: Housing stability. They’re funding campaigns that strengthen tenant protections due to the direct link between health outcomes and housing stability.

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  • How the Indian Stammering Association has empowered thousands to find self-acceptance

    February 12, 2021 |

    The National |

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    Response Location: India

    In India, where stuttering is not recognized as a disability, The Indian Stammering Association (TISA) offers "free online courses, counseling, communication workshops, and daily virtual meeting" to help those who struggle with a stutter. Although the offerings are limited to those who have access to a computer, more than 4,000 people have joined TISA with many reporting stories of success.

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  • How a Brooklyn Coalition Is Fighting Isolation in Seniors with Low-Tech Conference Calls

    February 11, 2021 |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    To address the growing isolation facing senior citizens, a Brooklyn-based organization started an initiative called The Sharing Network to connect volunteers with seniors via telephone calls. Taking the participants' interests into account, the initiative has expanded to include the moderator-led discussion groups that focus on a wide variety of topics, with more than 70 seniors signing up to be included.

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  • American Democracy Is Only 55 Years Old—And Hanging by a Thread

    February 11, 2021 |

    The Atlantic |

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    Response Location: United States, Mississippi

    The federal Voting Rights Act required states to ensure access to the polls for Black voters and created federal enforcement mechanisms. The law worked well in the Jim Crow South, but it wasn't built to deal with racial disenfranchisement more broadly. Congress and the courts have stripped important provisions from the bill over time, like those ensuring enforcement. A 2013 Supreme Court ruling dismissed the need for preemptive measures to protect Black voters, which created an opening for states to pass more restrictive voting laws that have created unfair burdens for Black, Latino, and Indigenous voters.

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  • ‘What's at stake is the life of every being': Saving the Brazilian Cerrado

    February 11, 2021 |

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    Response Location: Brazil

    The National Campaign in Defense of the Cerrado coalition of Indigenous peoples and organizational partners is fighting political challenges to preserve the region’s native vegetation and biodiversity. The Cerrado is a tropical savanna In Brazil that is home to about 5 percent of the planet’s animal and plant species, yet only 3 percent of the land is under “strict protection” regulations. Pressure from the campaigners has led to a public hearing and proposal with more than 500,000 signatures to declare the region a World Heritage site.

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  • Oonee Wants to Fix New York Bike Parking with Free, Secure Storage Pods

    February 11, 2021 |

    Bloomberg |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    An early-stage startup with big plans to change bicycling culture and commuting habits has notched one victory already, with its first secure-parking pods in New York City: Out of 60,000 times they've been used, the pods have only suffered one theft, at a time of rampant bike theft. Startup Oonee provides an alternative to locking up bikes and scooters on the street during work hours. Parking in an enclosed shelter is advertising-supported, so it's free to users. Ultimately, Oonee hopes to surround parking with a suite of services useful to two-wheeled commuters.

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  • Hawaii Homeless Program Failed After Prosecutors And Police Wouldn't Play Ball

    February 11, 2021 |

    Honolulu Civil Beat |

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    Response Location: United States, Honolulu, Hawaii

    LEAD (Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion) proved itself in Seattle as effective at addressing the underlying problems of people experiencing homelessness, by waiving their criminal charges if they accepted needed services. But the program's two-year test in Honolulu failed to gain traction because only some police bought into it, and the prosecutor's office never did. Instead of using criminal citations as leverage, the program was stripped down to an ordinary outreach effort, and managed to enroll only 50 people, not all of whom were helped. A new prosecutor and the police will make another go of it.

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  • The cinemas now hiring out their screens to gamers

    February 11, 2021 |

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    Response Location: South Korea

    The largest cinema chain in South Korea is renting screen time and auditorium space to video gamers as a way to supplement business income during the coronavirus pandemic. Though it doesn't generate a comparable amount of income as movies do, it has still attracted over 100 consumers thus far and other movie vendors have adopted the idea.

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