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  • Want to save your job and make more money? Buy out your boss

    March 14, 2018 |

    The Guardian |

    Text |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United Kingdom, Glasgow

    The owners of Novograf, a UK-based marketing company, faced a challenge when they were ready to retire. They did not want to sell their company and risk a relocation of the factory, which would take away jobs from the local economy. Instead, they sold their company to their employees. Data shows that employee-ownership leads to higher wages and higher job satisfaction. One year after the transition to employee-ownership, Novograf sales grew by 20%.

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  • Worker-owned businesses

    March 14, 2018 |

    The Guardian |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: Scotland, Glasgow

    Rather than selling his business in the traditional way, a business owner in Glasgow decided to transfer ownership to his employees through an employee ownership trust after researching the best ways to plan for succession in a way that will benefit current employees. The trust granted shares to employees based on their length of time at the company, and this unusual succession plan saves companies from being shut down in the hands of new owners.

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  • How close are we to a hamburger grown in a lab?

    March 08, 2018 |

    CNN |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States

    Could clean meat be the solution for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, feeding an ever-growing human population and saving water? A growing number of food innovators think so, as do investors such as Bill Gates and Richard Branson. Although too expensive to hit the market immediately, production is in the works to create clean meat from animal cells that may be better for human health and the health of the environment.

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  • The factory that combines school and work to give El Salvador a brighter future

    March 05, 2018 |

    PBS NewsHour |

    Video |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: El Salvador

    A garment factory in El Salvador combines work and education by offering classes and incentives to study for the one-fifth of its workforce without an education. Those who do not study are often let go, but have the chance to return should they resume their studies.

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  • One Fish, Two Fish, Strange Fish, New Fish

    February 13, 2018 |

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    Multi-Media |

    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Maynard, Massachusetts

    Genetically engineered foods have found their place in the world's diet through a variety of means. AquaBounty Technologies has taken this practice and found a successful way to apply it to the engineering of salmon, introducing a means to potentially cut back on overfishing while also supplying a nutritious alternative to more affluent counties and simultaneously help aid the people of the developing world that have little access to meat. Despite facing years of pushback from North America, the company has successfully been selling the salmon in Canadian grocery stores and hopes to expand the sales soon.

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  • The Hydroponics Revolution

    February 06, 2018 |

    BBC |

    Radio |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: England, London

    Hydroponics works by growing plants in water without soil, fields or farms. Across the globe, this method is already being implemented as a more cost-effective way of growing food. Farmers and scientists are debating whether it will be the method of farming in the future.

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  • How a private company is bringing affordable houses to Indian Country

    February 05, 2018 |

    High Country News |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Kansas City, Missouri

    A private company called Travois acts as a bridge between tribes and private investors in order to help make affordable housing more accessible in tribal homelands across the West. The company brings investors to tribal land and, in turn, helps to attain tax credits for investments in this land.

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  • This simple solution to smartphone addiction is now used in over 600 U.S. schools

    February 05, 2018 |

    The Washington Post |

    Multi-Media |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States

    Smartphones can inhibit natural human engagement, invade privacy, or distract us from any number of things we need to pay attention to. So Yondr and companies like it provide ways to lock up people's phones, denying them an outlet for those urges to stay glued to the little screen. One school of many that mandates putting phones in Yondr pouches during school hours cites higher grades and lower disciplinary problems. At concerts, people pay more attention and are less preoccupied by the impulse to video everything they could simply be watching.

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  • 'I used to see them as a bunch of rioters': Brazil's radical farmers

    January 25, 2018 |

    The Guardian |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Brazil, Ribeirão Preto

    In Brazil, 45% of agriculturally viable land is owned by 1% of tenants. To combat this inequitable ratio, the Landless Workers’ Movement formed and took a stand for seizing lands that are "not fulfilling a productive or social use." The group successfully reclaimed an area known as Mario Lago and has since begun a reforestation process alongside agroforestry which has allowed for an increase in diversity of food produced. The farmers haven't stopped there, however. To sell their produce, they have implemented a system of turning the consumer into a co-producer thus ensuring economic stability.

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  • The controversial Silicon Valley-funded quest to educate the world's poorest kids

    January 22, 2018 |

    Quartz |

    Text |

    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: Kenya

    Founded by Silicon Valley veterans and funders in 2007 to serve the world's poorest students and most under-resourced teachers, Bridge International Academies now operates 600 low-cost private schools in Kenya, Nigeria, Liberia, Uganda, and India. In Bridge's model, teachers read scripted lessons developed abroad directly from their tablets. While supporters say Bridge is delivering an otherwise unavailable service, at scale, and is seeing improved scores and teacher attendance, critics fear Bridge takes the human element out of learning, strips teachers of agency and fails to teach critical thinking skills.

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