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Kenyan farmers embrace new and sustainable way to build resilience

Leopold Obi

June 01, 2018 |

Down To Earth |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Kenya, Nakuru

Motivated by crop devastation from a severe drought, farmers in parts of Kenya took action to prevent a similar event from impacting them in the future. Working together, these small-scale farmers implemented conservation agriculture practices to ensure crop viability during even the harshest climate conditions.

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Fuel, Oxygen, and Heat

Emily Stifler Wolfe

May 28, 2018 |

Mountain Outlaw |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Boise, Idaho

A diversity and inclusion task force in the Bureau of Land Management is working to change a culture that makes it hard for women to stay in fire-fighting professions. Through creating room for conversation, hosting focus groups, and hiring a full-time diversity and inclusion employee, the culture is on its way to changing for the better.

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School resource officer persists in changing student's perception of police

Theresa Cottom

May 26, 2018 |

Akron Beacon Journal |

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Response Location: United States, Akron, Ohio

A school resource officer in Ohio decided to persist with one specific student who distrusted police and deliberately avoided talking to them. Over the course of four years, the officer persisted in efforts to reach the young man and gradually the two built a relationship of mutual respect. That has changed both of their outlooks regarding how to address racial tensions between police and the black community.

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How Max's injury became Max's Law

Lee van der Voo

May 23, 2018 |

InvestigateWest |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Portland, Oregon

After a high school football player in Oregon was concussed in a game, his condition elevated to a traumatic brain injury when he was sent back in to play without proper rest. To combat this lapse in judgment from happening again, the state passed legislation that "set out guidelines that a coach must follow in the event that he or she suspects a player has received a blow to the head or body and then exhibits signs or symptoms consistent with a concussion."

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Opioid Crisis Compels New York to Look North for Answers

J. David Goodman

May 21, 2018 |

The New York Times |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Canada, Toronto, Ontario

Supervised injection sites in Canada have prevented hundreds of heroin overdose deaths. Now, New York City is looking to follow Canada's lead with a city-wide initiative to establish safe injection sites. While the Trump Administration is not in support of such sites, experts believe that it is unlikely that the federal government would interfere with a site if a city is in support of it.

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Transit Oriented Development

Mark Dent

May 21, 2018 |

The Philadelphia Citizen |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Oakland, Pennsylvania

Oakland, California is showing big cities that transit-oriented development is possible. After a decade of planning between public transportation officials, developers, and a neighborhood organization, the Fruitvale Transit Village opened in 2004. It includes commercial space, affordable housing units, and a health clinic. Instead of gentrifying the area, the Fruitvale Transit Village helped turn around a struggling neighborhood while keeping people of color in the community.

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Britain's Studio Schools: when best practice met political reality

Thomas Graham

May 16, 2018 |

Apolitical |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: England

In 2010, the Studio School identified an opportunity to expand a promising new model in British education - noting growing support for project-based and hands-on learning, the organization took steps to develop a curriculum and bring it to scale. However, eight years after the first schools opened, a third of the schools have closed. This article offers lessons for administrators and educators designing for widespread adoption.

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U.S. environmental groups are largely white. Here's what some are — and some aren't — doing about it.

Virginia Gewin

May 15, 2018 |

Ensia |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States

A lack of diversity in the environment and conservation sector has been well calculated, documented and established, but the story doesn't end there. Many groups across the U.S are looking to not just recruit a more diverse population, but actually change organizational culture. "“We learned we need to be intentional about change, not just well-intended,” Jamie Williams, President of The Wilderness Society explains, as one group working to achieve this change.

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A promising new tool against child abuse

Lauren Villagran

May 12, 2018 |

Searchlight New Mexico |

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Response Location: United States, Albuquerque, New Mexico

A pilot program in New Mexico shows promise in helping stabilize families at risk of homelessness by giving them subsidized housing combined with social services like therapy and addiction treatment. Keeping Families Together prevented numerous children from entering foster care and reduced repeat cases of abuse and neglect, and is cost-effective. But it's unclear if it will continue with state funding, bringing instability once again to many participants.

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Secrets Of A Maya Supermom: What Parenting Books Don't Tell You

Michaeleen Doucleff

May 11, 2018 |

NPR |

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5-15 Minutes

Response Location: Mexico, Yucatan

For generations, parenting advice provided to American parents was based less on science than on a “WEIRD” bias—Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic societies. Researchers are now trying to identify these biases and expand the study of parenting strategies past the small segment of American parenting.

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