Satélites, mapas e trajeto do boi: saída para reduzir desmatamento já opera no Brasil

Small Midwest towns are converting homes and commercial spaces into clusters of small, fully-equipped childcare facilities that house multiple independent family childcare providers under one roof. Using blended funding from federal dollars, state grants, and local development funds, communities build or renovate spaces that comply with less restrictive family childcare licensing, providing care for small, mixed-age groups of children while sharing resources like substitute teachers, administrative support, and retention bonuses, all in an effort to close childcare gaps.

Hoboken, New Jersey implemented a comprehensive strategy to eliminate traffic fatalities through multiple coordinated responses, including curb extensions that narrow crossing distances and slow traffic, seven-second pedestrian head starts at crosswalks, physical barriers to enforce no-parking zones near intersections, reduced speed limits and high-visibility crosswalk markings. Since January 17, 2017, Hoboken has recorded zero traffic fatalities for nine consecutive years.

In 2019, Colorado passed a pay-transparency law requiring employers to disclose pay ranges and information on health benefits in all job postings, as well as barring them from using applicants’ pay history to set wages. One study indicates that the law may have helped boost wages by as much as 3.6%, but another found that it may have weakened individual workers’ bargaining power.

Digital public infrastructure is helping African countries build more sustainable health systems by replacing fragmented, donor-funded projects with interoperable digital services. In Zambia, for example, the SmartCare Pro electronic health record system uses thumbprints to identify patients and track chronic diseases like TB and HIV, ensuring continuity of care, where it was historically missing.

Throughout the Civil Right Movement, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. advocated for a strategy of “moral witness” in which protestors would build tension with police to help expose their brutality against everyday people and even children, ultimately swaying public sentiment. These tactics helped force government officials to the negotiating table in Birmingham, resulting in the desegregation of the city’s downtown district, and modern day protestors are taking a similar approach in efforts against immigration enforcement operations.

The Rekindle Fellowship aims to bring Black and Jewish people together to help strengthen allyship and encourage dialogue between the communities, with learning sessions that delve into the history and experiences of both demographics and their intersections. The organization now has 20 chapters across the country and graduates of the fellowship report feeling empowered to address hatred against and advocate for each other in their communities.

The KilimoAI app uses artificial intelligence to help Tanzanian smallholder farmers identify crop diseases through their smartphones, enabling thousands farmers to reduce unnecessary pesticide use. Using the app has lowered operational costs and improved yields by catching crop infections early instead of relying on agro-input shops that often oversell chemicals.

Silvopasture—combining native trees with rotational grazing on cattle pastures in the Peruvian Amazon—has more than doubled the number of cattle able to graze per hectare. Within a year, significant carbon has been sequestered and cattle health has improved.

The Global Biodiversity Standard (TGBS) certifies forest restoration projects that demonstrate measurable biodiversity improvements through affordable assessments by regional expert hubs. In its first year, TGBS certified 6 sites and created 15 regional hubs, helping projects to achieve documented increases in native species and forest-dependent wildlife and mentoring failed projects improve their practices.

In an effort to better support its youngest learners, Mississippi implemented sweeping education reforms, including introducing a standardized “science of reading” curriculum, providing more teacher training and support with in-school literacy and math coaches, and holding back third-grade students who don’t meet their reading skills benchmarks. Over a decade, the number of students reading at grade level has climbed from 12 percent to 35 percent, and the state now ranks among the top ten nationally for fourth-grade reading scores.