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  • Using Tech To Make Transit Accessible For Those Without Smartphones

    Henry Pan

    October 25, 2022 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States

    Solar-powered e-paper signs provide schedule information to riders at transit agencies in the United States for those who can’t access the information on their cell phones.

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  • These Workers Took On One Of Hollywood's Most Iconic Hotels – And Won

    Frances Nguyen

    October 25, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, Hollywood, California

    After years of reported abuse and corresponding attempts to organize, employees at the famous hotel Chateau Marmont in Hollywood, represented by trade organization Unite Here Local 11, reached an agreement with its management to allow them to unionize. The hope is that this unionization serves as an inspiration for others in the hospitality industry seeking fair treatment and work conditions.

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  • South Minneapolis grocery store offers a special on helping

    Gail Rosenblum

    October 21, 2022 |

    Minneapolis Star Tribune |

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    Response Location: United States, Minneapolis, Minnesota

    Good Grocer, a grocery store in Minneapolis, is a nonprofit run by volunteers who receive an additional discount on groceries for their work. The store’s food outlet offers discounts of up to 70% and provides affordable, healthy foods to combat food insecurity.

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  • Indigenous activists look to Rights of Nature laws to stop fracking

    Ray Levy Uyeda

    October 20, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Ponca Nation, United States

    Indigenous tribes are protecting natural resources and land from harmful practices by passing Rights of Nature laws. These laws set the framework to file legal claims to hold those violating the protections accountable.

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  • Is Alabama district's investment in English learner students, staff a roadmap?

    Rebecca Griesbach

    October 19, 2022 |

    Dallas Morning News |

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    Response Location: United States, Russellville, Alabama

    With an influx of COVID relief money, the Russellville school district began hiring and certifying more local, Spanish-speaking staff to help teach English language learners. Districtwide, the percentage of students who met their language proficiency goals increased from 46% in 2019 to 61% in 2022.

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  • Harvesting Water in Arid Lands

    Mitch Tobin

    October 17, 2022 |

    The Water Desk |

    Podcast |

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    Response Location: United States

    Water harvesting is collecting free water, such as rain, stormwater, and greywater, to use and finding ways to make it linger longer into the dry season. This can include active strategies like collecting it in tanks or passive strategies like directing it towards rain gardens to water plants. Water harvesting can help prevent the depletion of lakes and rivers and save money.

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  • Georgia's largest school district seeing success in recruiting, keeping bus drivers

    Jorge Estevez

    October 14, 2022 |

    WSB-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

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    Response Location: United States, Georgia

    Gwinnett County Schools in Georgia is using active recruitment to keep an appropriate number of bus drivers on staff. Their team dedicated to transportation holds weekly job fairs, sends flyers home with students’ meals, and trains potential drivers on site.

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  • These women are defying tradition—by flying

    Jordan Salama

    October 14, 2022 |

    National Geographic |

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    Response Location: Mexico, Cuetzalán

    Women in Cuetzalan, Mexico, taking part in the danza de los voladores, an Indigenous ritual performed to ask for good harvests and rain, are called voladoras. By partaking in a tradition initially performed by only men, they are laying a path for other women to follow and showing it is unnecessary to exclude them.

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  • Here's how one metro district is working to combat school bus driver shortages

    Jorge Estevez

    October 14, 2022 |

    WSB-TV |

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    Response Location: United States, Atlanta, Georgia

    Community members are volunteering to help combat school bus driver shortages by training and receiving their CDL to fill the positions and help out the local school district.

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  • Could an ADU revolution be underway in the Capital Region?

    Jeff Wilser

    October 13, 2022 |

    Sacramento News & Review |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    Accessory dwelling units are small homes in homeowners driveways and yards that can be rented out and might help address California’s housing crisis.

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