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  • When Boston's public schools closed in March, their gardens went untended. Then a volunteer effort grew.

    September 08, 2020 |

    The Boston Globe |

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    Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

    After Boston Public Schools closed in March because of the COVID-19 pandemic, about 70 volunteers tended schoolyard gardens at 14 schools to grow food for local families experiencing economic hardship. While students were not able to participate because of COVID restrictions, residents during the summer months cleaned garden beds and planted vegetables like eggplants, cucumbers, and peppers. Organizers expect to harvest about 300 pounds of vegetables by the end of September.

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  • How the Lebanese Diaspora Is Mobilizing Against Food Insecurity at Home

    September 08, 2020 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: Lebanon, Beirut

    Volunteer-run organizations are helping those facing food insecurity throughout Beirut by preparing and delivery food on a daily basis. Although the food system in the country remains heavily strained, the grassroots network of organizations are relying on one another for support which has resulted in diverting aid and strategically funneling resources where they're most needed.

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  • How Efforts To Save Hawaii's Forests Are Preventing A 'Freshwater Crisis'

    September 06, 2020 |

    Honolulu Civil Beat |

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    Response Location: United States, Hawaii

    Landowners, state employees, environmental groups, and local hunters are working together to protect Hawaii’s forests and drinking water by eradicating invasive plants from the state’s protected forests. By allowing native plants to flourish, these forests could help combat climate change by sequestering carbon and allowing freshwater quivers to recharge with rainfall. Since 2013, the state has built 132 miles of fence to keep grazers away from forests to prevent the spread of seeds of invasive plants. However, this method can be expensive; a 1,400-acre fence cost over a million dollars.

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  • Blazing the trail: How coast slum flattened the curve

    September 04, 2020 |

    Nation Africa |

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    Response Location: Bangladesh

    Although residents in Bangladesh were initially hesitant to take precautionary measures against COVID-19, once one county began reporting cases, the community took swift action. From implementing hand washing stations at the borders of the regions to teaching children and other community members how to make soap and face masks, Bangladesh has not only been able to flatten the curve of coronavirus cases, but has also been able to avoid the typical influx of cholera cases that occur during the rainy season.

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  • Interest in Community Police Watch Training Soars as Courses Go Online

    September 02, 2020 |

    San Francisco Public Press |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Groups in the Bay Area that have successfully sought to have police disciplined for misconduct and won new police-accountability policies have turned their form of organized monitoring into a training platform for protesters nationwide. Responding to widespread Black Lives Matter protests, groups like Berkeley Copwatch and Wecopwatch use online education to teach hundreds of activists nationwide how to use videotape archives to systematically document abuses, and how to perform the work of legal observers at protests. Those activities are meant to act as deterrents to abuse.

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  • How Switzerland delivered health care for all -- and kept its private insurance Audio icon

    September 02, 2020 |

    PBS NewsHour |

    Broadcast TV Programs |

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    Response Location: Switzerland, Oberhofen am Thunersee

    Switzerland is home to the world's lowest avoidable mortality rate and residents of the country live longer lives and are healthier than those who live in the United States. Health policy experts credit the Swiss health care system for playing a significant role. Despite the high cost and the penalty for not carrying insurance, the system is praised as guarateeing access to quality health-care and "unlike the U.S., people rarely go bankrupt from medical bills."

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  • Fishing for change: Local management of Amazon's largest fish also empowers women

    August 31, 2020 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Brazil, São Raimundo

    After high demands for arapaima fish led to near extinction, a co-management system in the Amazon rainforest has resulted in the recovery of the fish as well as the economic empowerment of local women. The work includes counting, catching, protecting, harvesting, and bringing fish to market. When more workers were needed, women stepped in and gained respect in the community as being essential members of the fishery. The women collecting an income from the program previously fished for subsistence and now receive payment for their work.

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  • Lawmakers want to revive FDR's Depression-era "tree army" to help boost rural economies

    August 31, 2020 |

    The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia Media Network) |

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    Response Location: United States

    The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a New Deal program to build outdoor recreation facilities, creating thousands of jobs during the Great Depression and building iconic state parks. Delaware programs, like the Senior Corps that enlists the help of people over 55, encourage civic engagement modeled after the CCC. Pennsylvania's Outdoor Corps hires young people to restore public lands over the summer. Congress introduced bills to revive CCC-like initiatives that could support rural economies hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic, but environmental funding is not a priority of the current administration.

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  • The Navajo Nation and White Mountain Apache Tribe chase down a virus

    August 28, 2020 |

    High Country News |

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    Response Location: United States, Fort Apache Reservation, Arizona

    The White Mountain Apache and the Navajo Nation are using contact tracing to not just slow the spread of coronavirus but to "completely contain" it in their communities, and they are already seeing success from their aggressive efforts. The tribes originally had some of the highest numbers of cases, but according to a local epidemiologist and physician at Whiteriver Indian Hospital, they have now “seen a significant decline in cases on the reservation at the same time that things were on fire for the rest of the state."

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  • In India, an ancient grain is revived for the modern era

    August 25, 2020 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: India, Thottampatti, Tamil Nadu

    The Women’s Collective is a nonprofit that works with more than 10,000 subsistence farmers in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu to promote food security using millets, a crop resilient to drought and climate change. For Pavitra, one of those farmers, she began cultivating the ancient grains in 2015 and now has more than enough food to feed her family year-round. However, there’s a lack of public investment in millet production and machinery. And there’s no unified effort to create demand for millets: Some state governments lead the charge and in other states, it’s led by grassroots organizations.

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