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A Smorgasbord of Solutions for Global Warming

David Bornstein

April 25, 2018 |

The New York Times |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States

While news of failures in the fight against climate change make headlines daily, there are many steps the everyday citizen can take to reduce their impact. Many don't know where to start though. That's where Project Drawdown comes in. This project is a global coalition of researchers, scientists, economists and others, that rate the impact of solutions, creating a way for people to see how they could possibly fit into the equation of climate solutions.

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In India, Products Made From Crop Waste May Curb a Tide of Plastic

Priti Salian

April 24, 2018 |

Bloomberg CityLab |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: India, Bengaluru

India has been a longtime contributor to water and air pollution, largely due in part to the amount of plastic the country generates. To address both kinds of pollution, one company is creating biodegradable packaging made from plant fibers.

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The Amazon's solar-powered river bus

Laura Plitt

April 20, 2018 |

BBC |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Ecuador, Kapawi

The isolated Achuar peoples in Kapawi village in Ecuador live in an area without roads, and they'd like to keep it that way. As a way of proving they can function without them while still allowing for public transport, the village has implemented a solar powered canoe that can transport villagers up a network of interconnected navigable rivers.

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The Unlikely Upside of Cape Town's Drought

Eve Fairbanks

April 19, 2018 |

The Huffington Post |

Multi-Media |

Over 3000 Words

Response Location: South Africa, Cape Town

When faced with the dire likelihood that the city would run entirely out of water, Cape Town communities responded by looking at the challenge with resiliency, rather than complacency or inconvenience. Though not without limitations, those that were able to implement a perspective shift created a social shift that allowed for greater communal efforts and resulted in successful water conservation, including a 40% city-wide decrease in water use.

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Can Dirt Save the Earth?

Moises Velasquez-Manoff

April 18, 2018 |

The New York Times Magazine |

Multi-Media |

Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Marin, California

One tactic for combatting climate change has to do with soil health. Soil can withdraw and store carbon from the atmosphere—at a higher rate when covered by manure—and also supports long-term soil sustainability and saves farmers money. Because agriculture already consumes much of the world's surface, proponents of carbon farming envision a world where large swathes of land act as a carbon sink. Potential drawbacks and things left to explore include how to produce compost without creating more energy than it saves and how to use cows effectively when they also contribute much of the carbon in the atmosphere.

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Police in Illinois Are Helping Substance Abusers Get Into Rehab Instead of Arresting Them

Bill Myers

April 18, 2018 |

Juvenile Justice Information Exchange |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: United States, Dixon, Illinois

Dixon is the second police department in the United States to stop jailing drug addicts and start helping them check into rehab centers instead. “We’re changing the way law enforcement views addiction — to see it as a disease, not a crime,” says Police Detective Jeff Ragan. At least 267 people have gone through the Safe Passage program so far, some multiple times, but the program seems to be working. Residential burglaries, retail thefts, and drug arrests have dropped.

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In North Carolina, Hog Waste Is Becoming A Streamlined Fuel Source

James Morrison

April 17, 2018 |

NPR |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, North Carolina

Swine biogas are making an appearance across North Carolina, a state with more hogs than any other state in the U.S. Turning methane from hog waste into electricity has allowed the state to earn valuable carbon offset credits as they work towards brining emissions to zero.

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AI tool helps law enforcement find victims of human trafficking

Alexandra Ossola

April 16, 2018 |

Futurism |

Multi-Media |

800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States

When Emily Kennedy was a teenager traveling in Eastern Europe she saw street kids she learned were trafficked by the Russian mob and decided to tackle human trafficking in her college work. The company she launched, Marinus Analytics, created a software application that has been used by authorities to rescue hundreds of victims in the U.S. and Canada and is expanding. The data it gathers has also debunked assumptions about how and where trafficking takes place.

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Do wage theft laws in Ohio harm or help workers?

Olivera Perkins

April 15, 2018 |

Cleveland.com (The Plain Dealer) |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

Laws against wage theft can be effective if enforced. The probability of violations decreased in Ohio during a 13-month period of full enforcement, but rose again after the enforcement policy changed.

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Here's how The New York Times is trying to preserve millions of old pages the way they were originally published

Shan Wang

April 12, 2018 |

Nieman Lab |

Multi-Media |

Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, New York

Project Kondo has identified and archived over 7 million New York Times web pages that contain news content in outdated and unsupported formats. Readers can report broken links, but the number of sites to review is too big to do by hand, so the team created an automated tool called ‘munger’ to identify JavaScript with unsupported code and clean it up into HTML that can be shared widely. In order to preserve the content exactly how it was originally published, the websites are moved to a different domain, archive.nytimes.com, where readers are notified that they are reading an archived article.

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