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  • An International Final Four: Which Country Handles Student Debt Best?

    April 02, 2018 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    In a March Madness bracket style competition between Sweden, the United States, Australia, and Britain, experts choose Australia as the country with the most effective student loan repayment system. Judges cite automatic collection of income-based payments as Australia's best feature and discuss what the U.S. can learn by "acknowledging that possible ideas for improvement don't stop at the border."

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  • Drink Your Coffee Black-Owned

    March 27, 2018 |

    In These Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Atlanta, Georgia

    Cafe ULU is the first business started by the Us Lifting Us Economic Development Cooperative, a co-op funded by membership fees. The coffee shop is hoping to serve as a community gathering space for the local African American community, demonstrating the power the black community can have when it bands together economically. The co-op is hoping to open businesses across the country.

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  • The rebel bank, printing its own notes and buying back people's debts

    March 23, 2018 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom, Walthamstow, London

    How is Street Central Bank buying back the debt of ordinary people? Part art installation and part charitable endeavor, the “bank” prints its own money, sells it for real tender and then uses the funds to help neighbors. The project draws inspiration from similar debt buyback efforts in the United States.

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  • Rural Montana summer fairs worth the weight shouldered by civic groups

    March 19, 2018 |

    Great Falls Tribune |

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    Response Location: United States, Choteau, Montana

    Small towns along the Rocky Mountain Front in Montana have a history of putting on summer festivals to attract locals and tourists alike and to earn funds to benefit their communities. As the festivals now face challenges, such as aging populations, locals are coming up with creative solutions. Whether promoting younger community members or finding corporate sponsors, these small towns will work to ensure their communities survive.

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  • Protecting crops with predators instead of poisons

    March 15, 2018 |

    Environmental Health News |

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    Response Location: United States

    Insects, small birds, rodents are just a few of the species that are negatively impacting farmers all over the world. Many traditional deterrents are seen as impractical, inconvenient and oftentimes short-term. Predatory birds may be the solution farmers have been searching for.

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  • Can we fix it? The repair cafes waging war on throwaway culture

    March 15, 2018 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: Scotland, Edinburgh

    Instead of throwing broken items away, what if those items could be repaired? The Edinburgh Remakery and the Reading Repair Cafe are attempting just that. Different remake shops have different approaches: some rely on volunteers and provide repair services for free, others charge a fee to make the company more sustainable. What they all have in common is a passion for remaking what is old into what is new again and helping the planet at the same time.

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  • One hive at a time, backyard beekeepers try saving Detroit, the world

    March 14, 2018 |

    Detroit Free Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    With the bee population decreasing from 6 million hives to about 2.5 million hives since the 1940s, there has been an increase in discussion around the necessity of bees to the ecosystem. To help play their part in sustaining this vulnerable population, community members in Detroit formed a non-profit that cultivates urban beehives while partnering with small businesses to promote the use of the bees' honey.

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  • Tech startup formula finds spark in a changing Montgomery

    March 13, 2018 |

    The Montgomery Advertiser |

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    Response Location: United States, Montgomery, Alabama

    Tech classes in Montgomery, Alabama are targeting unlikely entrepreneurs, including local lawyers and artists who want to learn entrepreneurial skills to help their own sales and services. Taking place as CoWerx46, a co-working space, the series of tech classes is free for the time being due to business sponsorships who support the goals of the program.

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  • From pump factory to Pump House Ministries

    March 13, 2018 |

    Richland Source |

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    Response Location: United States, Ashland, Ohio

    After a manufacturing plant closed and ownership shifted hands, the F.E.Meyers building was transformed into Pump House Ministries, a non-profit that expanded internationally. In its heyday, it served free meals, built transitional housing, distributed shoes abroad, and supported micro-lending and water purification in Africa. Beyond the initial donation of property, most of these efforts were supported by revenue generation through its social enterprise arm: by its catering business, craft shows, and book sales. (This is the first article in a four part series.)

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  • Nkomo Sikenala Tree Nursery Story

    March 06, 2018 |

    Greentumble |

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    Response Location: Malawi, Kapeni

    In Malawi, one man's tree nursery is having impacts on reforestation efforts throughout the region. After spending 10 years with the Malawian forestry department, Nkomo Sikenala now cultivates seedlings and sells them to surrounding communities and villages in hopes people realize the importance of planting and maintaining trees throughout the region.

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