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  • The community hub of the future isn't a library or a shopping center. It's city hall

    Emily Nonko

    August 12, 2019 |

    FastCompany |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Sweden, Kiruna

    In Kiruna, Sweden's northernmost city, a new city hall building is embodying transparency and community engagement. The building boasts a public cafe, seating nooks, studios, and a public art museum among the more traditional municipal offices of typical city halls. There are no barriers in this city hall, and the public has full access to everything except the offices and the chamber.

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  • The Viking Guide to Oil Wealth Management

    Mitch Anderson

    August 10, 2019 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Norway

    Norway has been able to have a productive relationship with oil companies, while, at the same time, retain control over resource development and grow its resource revenue. Through the country’s culture of local control and indigenous governance, its resource revenue is over $1 trillion and helps pay for some of the country’s social programs; a model that could be potentially work in other places around the world.

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  • Improving our own environment

    Madison Kuklentz Gabriella DeMelfi Thomas Garlick

    August 09, 2019 |

    The Mercury |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Schwenksville, Pennsylvania

    Pennsylvania’s Perkiomen Watershed Conservancy has built a grassroots base of volunteers that help clean up the local environment. Through education at schools and summer workshops, outreach projects, and asking volunteers to recruit new people, the Conservancy saw over 1,000 volunteers at its annual stream cleanup event. While the organization is still trying to figure out how to retain volunteers for long-term projects, the response to immediate projects has been overwhelming.

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  • Oregon Rethinks Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Life After the Chinese Import Ban

    Maggie Mertens

    August 09, 2019 |

    Bitterroot |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Portland, Oregon

    After China stopped buying recycling near the end of 2017, Oregon faced mounting piles of mixed recycling that seemed bound for the landfill--a move that might have been illegal under Oregon law. Instead, the state's recycling industry made adjustments, including limiting the types of items to be recycled and using local processing plants instead of Chinese ones.

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  • This Oakland Community Hub Was Designed for Restorative Justice

    Emily Nonko

    August 08, 2019 |

    Next City |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    Partnerships between nonprofits strengthen efforts to promote economic justice. Working together, several nonprofits focused on economic and restorative justice in Oakland have succeeded in opening Restore Oakland, a community and multipurpose center. The new building, which received funding from private donations and from the Akonadi foundation, provides a space nonprofits like the Ella Baker Center and the Restaurant Opportunity Centers United (ROC United).

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  • Tribal communities in Michigan use traditional knowledge to tackle modern public health crisis

    April Van Buren

    August 08, 2019 |

    Michigan Radio |

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    Response Location: United States, Michigan

    In Michigan, infant mortality for Native American babies is almost triple the rate of infant mortality for white babies. To combat this troubling reality, tribal communities are working to reintegrate traditional knowledge into parenting practices, starting with culturally aware breastfeeding classes. The program is helping to ensure that indigenous communities and families have the resources they need to keep their babies safe and healthy.

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  • A Public Library of, by, and for the People

    Deborah Fallows

    August 06, 2019 |

    The Atlantic |

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    Response Location: United States, Brownsville, Texas

    A public library in Brownsville, Texas continues to remain relevant through its dedication to learning from failed initiatives, investing in new technology, and ensuring that the space keeps up with ever-changing town culture. Beyond housing a plethora of books, the library has invested in 3D printers for local creators, studio space for a local television channel, and a colorful computer lab for teens to utilize.

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  • Volunteers Fill A Green-Space Void In The International District

    Marisa Demarco

    August 06, 2019 |

    KUNM |

    Radio |

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    Response Location: United States, Albuquerque, New Mexico

    Residents and volunteers from The Nature Conservancy, Rocky Mountain Youth Corps and Artful Life joined forces to create a "pop-up park" in a long neglected vacant lot in the International District of Southeast Albuquerque. Too many dirt lots have sat empty in Albuquerque's most diverse legislative district. The pop-up park installed is mobile: it can be made permanent with added investment or moved to another dirt lot.

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  • Cotton For Livelihood In Bidibidi

    Christine Kabazira

    August 02, 2019 |

    Things That Work Uganda |

    Multi-Media |

    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: Uganda, Bidibidi

    Refugees in Bidibidi Refugee Settlement need a new source of income after relocating, so a program with NGO Mercy Corps has now given a number of farmers seeds for a cash crop: cotton. Farmers received a special modified version of the seeds, allowing them to harvest much earlier, and they sell the cotton to Gulu Agricultural Development Company. One man in particular, Ismail Matata, urges his neighbors to grow it and says that he had recently earned 700,000 UGX (about $189 USD) from his harvest.

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  • Refugees and host community gang up to fight climate change

    Noah Omuya

    August 02, 2019 |

    Things That Work Uganda |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Uganda, Bidibidi

    The Bidibidi refugee settlement in Uganda, the largest such settlement in the world, is working with a number of agencies including the UNHCR and The Office of the Prime Minister to address environmental issues in their ever-growing settlement. They are strategizing about a number of initiatives to improve life and conditions where they live with topics like Water Sanitation and Hygiene, Education, Health, or Infrastructure. Current solutions include planting over 470,000 trees, local communities donating land for settlers to build their own crops, and environmental education in the local schools.

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