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  • Bees in the D

    Cassidy Hough
    2023-11-12 04:34:09 UTC
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    October 25, 2022 |

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    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    The nonprofit Bees in the D maintains 220 beehives at schools, businesses, and other nonprofits it partners with across Detroit. They are bringing bees back to the city to pollinate urban gardens and support the local ecosystem.

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  • Disaster debris is pushing Puerto Rico's landfills to the brink

    Camille Padilla Dalmau, María E. Ocasio Torres
    2023-01-21 15:25:34 UTC
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    October 21, 2022 |

    Grist |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States Minor Outlying Islands, Puerto Rico

    Puerto Rico’s landfills are filling up quickly, but a nonprofit composting program in Vieques called Isla Nena Composta collects, processes, and composts organic materials from hurricane debris to help ease pressure on the landfills.

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  • Hunting for elk solutions in Devil's Kitchen

    Amanda Eggert
    2022-10-20 22:32:41 UTC
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    October 13, 2022 |

    Montana Free Press |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Montana

    In Montana, landowners, hunters, outfitters, and biologists created the Devil’s Kitchen Working Group to facilitate conversations about elk management which led to a successful management framework that has been relatively unchanged for years.

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  • Waste workers on the frontlines to protect Apo Island from plastic threat

    Jhesset Enano
    2023-01-21 17:56:47 UTC
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    October 11, 2022 |

    Rappler |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Philippines, Apo Island

    In the Philippines the War on Waste - Negros Oriental started a zero waste project on Apo Island to reduce landfill use and improve waste management. Waste workers train residents how to sort their trash into categories and collect the sorted trash twice a week.

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  • Getting Voters the Truth in Whirlwind of Lies

    Lourdes Medrano
    2022-10-27 18:11:14 UTC
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    October 11, 2022 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Phoenix, Arizona

    Amid a climate of targeted election misinformation, grassroots organizations such as One Arizona are intensifying their outreach to Latino voters, with a focus on connecting with younger generations through high school visits and outreach at music and cultural festivals. One Arizona has registered about 120,000 young voters in the state since March.

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  • How we build political power: Lessons from Texas and Florida organizers

    Anoa Changa
    2023-01-04 19:48:20 UTC
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    October 11, 2022 |

    Scalawag |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Texas

    Groups such as Texas Organizing Project are focusing on reaching out to voters year-round rather than just during election season, with the goal of reaching people who are often not a priority for traditional campaigns and political parties.

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  • 42 Months on, How Does Sudan's Democracy Movement Endure?

    Jawhratelkmal Kanu, Jonathan Pinckney
    2022-10-13 13:08:39 UTC
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    October 06, 2022 |

    United States Institute of Peace |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Sudan

    After decentralized protests in Sudan successfully ousted a 30-year dictatorship, nonviolent civic action in the country continues to grow, with highly localized demonstrations calling for everything from greater security against cattle theft to the resignation of corrupt public officials. The protests have been fueled by better exposure via social media, more collaboration among activist groups, and the proliferation of neighborhood-level "resistance committees" that grew out of the movement to topple the dictatorship in 2018 and 2019.

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  • From grassroots to governments, LANDBACK returns stolen land

    Ray Levy Uyeda
    2022-10-11 12:30:04 UTC
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    October 05, 2022 |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Colville Indian Reservation, United States, Seattle, Washington

    Through partnerships with conservation organizations and donation-based rent and land tax programs, Native peoples and tribes are reclaiming land stolen from them hundreds of years ago and raising funds for these efforts from non-Native residents still occupying Native territory. The LANDBACK movement has helped recover parcels such as a 10,000-acre plot in the Seattle area that was returned to the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation via a conservation organization.

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  • State Leaders Are Turning to Students to Shape Education Policy

    Lilah Burke
    2022-10-03 12:26:34 UTC
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    September 29, 2022 |

    EdSurge News |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States

    More students than ever are now providing input on education policies through state boards and councils, with 33 states offering opportunities for student engagement in the policymaking process. Student representatives serving in these positions say the experience has bolstered their interest in politics and given them the chance to weigh in on important issues, and some have successfully lobbied for official voting rights on their boards.

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  • How ecotourism in Konkan promotes climate-friendly tourism

    Vinaya Kurtkoti
    2022-11-26 22:25:20 UTC
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    September 28, 2022 |

    Mongabay |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: India

    In India, experience-based tourism promotes sustainability and conservation awareness while supporting local economies. For this style of tourism, tourists experience life like local indigenous communities in everything from eating to helping in agricultural fields.

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Solutions Story Tracker® FAQ

  • Solutions journalism…
    • Describes a response to a problem and how it works.
    • Seeks to draw out insights that explain success or failure.
    • Presents the available evidence about the effectiveness of a response.
    • Explains the shortcomings or limitations of the response.
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  • The Solutions Story Tracker® is a curated, searchable database of solutions journalism stories — rigorous reporting about responses to social problems. We vet and tag every story in the Story Tracker, which offers an inspiring and useful collection of the thousands of ways people are working to solve problems around the world.

  • You can learn more about how we source, vet, and tag stories here, as well as how we share them. We also have video tutorials in Spanish and French that show how to use the Solutions Story Tracker to find what you need.

  • Story collections are curated by our staff or other partners to explore a theme, pattern, or trend via selected solutions stories and external resources. Some story collections focus on an in-depth exploration of a topic with solutions journalism; others highlight journalists and how they report on topics. Certain story collections include discussion questions and notes, so that educators and community discussion leaders can lead learners to fully engage with the stories.

  • The Solutions Story Tracker® is powered by user submissions. We encourage submissions from journalists, as well as from anyone who has an eye for solutions journalism. Click here to submit. (Why submit? So many reasons!)

  • You can submit a story directly on the Solutions Story Tracker®. You will be prompted to register or log into the Solutions Journalism Network website, if you are already logged in. (It is free to register!) Logging in allows you to track the status of your submissions under My Profile, as well as save your favorite stories, create story collections and story alerts, and access other helpful features of our website.

  • After you submit a story to us and assign it a topic, it is sent to one of our Solutions Story Tracker team members. Our team member evaluates the story for the four qualities of solutions journalism, and on the basics: The story must come from a news outlet and have a date and a byline. If the story meets our criteria, our team tags it accordingly and adds it to the database. If the story falls short of the mark, our team will include the reason why. We include stories in the Story Tracker that meet our standards of solutions journalism. Inclusion does not mean we support the initiatives, policies, organizations or approaches featured in those stories.

    Discover common reasons why a story may miss the mark for inclusion in the Solutions Story Tracker®.

    Learn more about the history of the database.

  • Solutions Journalism Network features these stories in the searchable database making them publicly accessible to anyone who wants to search for rigorous reporting on solutions to social problems. Any story that is added has the potential to make more impact than its original purpose. Added stories are used in journalism trainings, school curricula, research projects, and independent analysis on issue area trends. This now includes artificial intelligence tools, which are applied for educational value to find stories and support story vetting, as well as to extract insights from the stories. SJN has digital products and newsletters that give new life and exposure to the stories meeting people where they are at. Story data also is used to develop innovative tools to reach the general public with solutions journalism as well as some specific research projects requested by researchers. If you have any questions or concerns about our use of story data or added stories, please contact Lita Tirak.

  • News outlets determine whether all users can access their stories — and some limit the number of stories that anyone can view, or require a subscription. The majority of stories in the database can be accessed for free.

  • We work with journalists, academic researchers and others who feel that our database will support their research. We are especially interested in research that seeks to develop new insights about solutions journalism and its spread and its impact on social problems. Please complete all sections of the Data Request Form, and we will contact you to discuss your request in greater detail.

  • We do not fact-check the stories in the Solutions Story Tracker®. We do ensure that each story comes from a credible news source that has its own editorial infrastructure.

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