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A Shave, a Haircut – and a Blood Pressure Check

Joseph P. Williams

April 15, 2019 |

U.S. News & World Report |

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Response Location: United States, Inglewood, California

The African American community is disproportionately impacted by high blood pressure, but barbershops across Los Angeles County are stepping up to fill a gap between diagnosis and care. The businesses offer a detection and management program to that includes checking patrons blood pressure as well as connecting the client with an on-site pharmacist.

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Despite Many Challenges, the U.S. Has More Young Farmers Than it Did Five Years Ago

Julia Hotz

April 12, 2019 |

Civil Eats |

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Response Location: United States, Boone County, Kentucky

With the average age of the American farmer at 57.5 and the number of farmers over 65 outnumbering farmers under 35 by a factor of 6 to 1, many are worried about a severe shortage of ecologically-minded young farmers to take over from the older generation. To address this gap, states and institutions are launching initiatives like debt-free agricultural college, tax incentives, and loan programs.

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NH recovery centers model how to treat recovering employees

Annmarie Timmins

April 11, 2019 |

New Hampshire Business Review |

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Response Location: United States, New Hampshire

When people begin treatment for addiction, it can impact how they are viewed as an employee at their place of work. New Hampshire is working to change this stigma through the Recovery Friendly Workplace initiative that focuses on seeing treatment as a strength rather than weakness and also builds in practices to the workplace environment including trainings and evidence-based health and safety practices.

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Borussia Dortmund: The structures behind the club's fight against the far right

Felix Tamsut

April 09, 2019 |

Deutsche Welle (DW) |

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Response Location: Germany, Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia

A highly popular German sports club named Borussia Dortmund is taking advantage of its fanbase and following to promote anti-extremist messages, praise diversity, and celebrate inclusion. They do so in a variety of ways, including elevating and supporting independent fan initiatives like ballspiel.vereint!, requiring fan clubs and members to sign statues that reject far-right ideology, hosting educational field trips to former concentration camps for youth, and donating over a million dollars to the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in Jerusalem.

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Beyond the Stigma: Closing the gap in cancer treatment for those with serious mental illness

Shawne K. Wickham

April 09, 2019 |

New Hampshire Union Leader |

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Response Location: United States, Massachusetts

People with mental illnesses often do not receive patient-centered care that takes into consideration the mental illness along with the health concern they’re facing. Aiming to address this issue as is specifically pertains to cancer patients, a model in Massachusetts is seeing a higher success of completing cancer treatments by addressing patient’s needs for accommodations.

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The Country Winning The Battle On Food Waste

Max S. Kim

April 08, 2019 |

The Huffington Post |

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Response Location: South Korea, Seoul

In South Korea, a combination of grassroots movements and government campaigns have dramatically reduced the country's food waste by 95% (about 400 metric tons a day). Residents are required to buy special biodegradable bags, which serves as a tax that finances 60% of the city's food processing. It's a pay-as-you-waste tactic that also prompts citizens to find creative ways to recycle and compost, and special weighing machines encourage them to extract the moisture first, saving even more money on collection costs.

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Change the narrative: how a Swiss group is beating rightwing populists

Jon Henley

April 07, 2019 |

The Guardian |

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Response Location: Switzerland

A group called Operation Libero in Switzerland has successfully rallied against rising right-wing populist groups by using different approaches like small-scale crowdfunding, eye-catching tongue-in-cheek campaigns, and viral social media videos. During one campaign, young Operation Libero volunteers handed out branded condoms to nightclubbers.

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Yankees Suck Slightly Less After Joining the Paris Climate Agreement

Yessenia Funes

April 05, 2019 |

Gizmodo |

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Response Location: United States, New York, New York

The New York Yankees are the first and only baseball team to sign onto the United Nation’s Sports for Climate Action Framework. In doing so they hope to lead their fanbase into committing to five principles: making systemic changes to improve environmental responsibility; reducing overall climate impact; education; promoting sustainable consumption; and advocating. The team has recently hired their first environmental science advisor, but they still have a long way to go to achieve the goal of “net-zero emission economy of 2050”.

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When Your Stuff Breaks, Don't Throw It Away — Go to These Cafes

Monica Humphries

April 05, 2019 |

NationSwell |

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Response Location: Netherlands, Amsterdam

Encouraging people to repair their broken items is an important step toward reducing consumer-generated waste. The Repair Cafe Foundation, a nonprofit based in the Netherlands, helps volunteers open their own repair cafes worldwide. So far, thirty-five countries have opened such cafes, with more expected as consumer-rights advocates push for “Right to Repair” legislation.

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How a Bipartisan Caucus Aimed to Change U.S. House Rules

Tina Kelley

April 04, 2019 |

CivicStory |

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Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

Shortly following the 2018 Midterm elections in the U.S. House of Representatives, a group of legislators known as the Problem Solvers Caucus used their numbers to change House rules easing the passage of bipartisan legislation. After working to build consensus on issues like health care, infrastructure, gun control, and immigration since 2013, the congressional membership organization noticed that their bipartisan bills often did not receive a fair chance due to the significant power that Speaker and committee chairs held in deciding which bills advanced. Their "Break the Gridlock" reforms changed that.

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