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  • Israeli company invents plastic packaging you can compost

    June 14, 2018 |

    Haaretz |

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    Response Location: Israel

    Plastic is consuming the planet, yet is still found throughout store aisles everywhere. TIPA film, invented by an Israeli company, has surfaced as a solution in realistic plastic composting.

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  • Would you give a job to this gangster?

    June 08, 2018 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: El Salvador, San Salvador

    In El Salvador a nonprofit partners with employers to find jobs for gang members who want a way out of that life. It's a key component to helping people escape gang violence, although companies must work with churches and community groups to get the former gang members job training and to negotiate their separation with the gang leaders. They must also convince their fellow companies this is a viable solution, as well as their own employees, who will work with the former gang members.

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  • Mexican women drivers' collective aims to eliminate risks to drivers, passengers

    June 08, 2018 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

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    Response Location: Mexico, Tuxtla Guitierrez, Chiapas

    Safe Drivers, or Choferas Seguras, is a collective of women drivers that offer secure rides to “family members and friends who need to get to school, work, doctor’s appointments and other places.” The collective helps both the drivers and the women get around in a state where driving around can sometimes be dangerous.

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  • The Restaurant Chain With Nothing But Food Waste On The Menu

    June 07, 2018 |

    The Huffington Post |

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    Response Location: Netherlands

    To play a part towards the reduction of food waste, especially that which was being perpetrated by his own store, grocery store manager Bart Roetert decided to pitch an idea to the Netherlands grocery chain owner Albert Heijn. With the support and financial backing securing, he and two colleagues launched Instock - a niche startup restaurant that serves meals only made from surplus food.

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  • Netherlands to build world's first habitable 3D printed houses

    June 06, 2018 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: Netherlands, Eindhoven

    After facing a shortage of bricklayers, the Netherlands found a housing solution which also doubled as a way of cutting development costs and damage to the environmental. Project Milestone, a development that creates 3D printed houses, is the first of its kind and is already drawing a steady residential candidate pool.

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  • Feeding the World

    June 05, 2018 |

    East Side Monthly |

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    Response Location: United States, North Kingstown, Rhode Island

    An American woman founded a company that produces a life saving food ration for malnourished children. She employs 70 workers, mostly refugees, and her products nourish 2 million children yearly.

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  • Solar to the people: This Detroiter is making solar technology accessible to all

    June 05, 2018 |

    Model D |

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    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    Solar power has found its way to Detroit thanks in part to one man's efforts to make the resource more available to community members. Through the power of connections and cross sector collaboration, Ali Dirul's project management company has implemented a series of clean energy projects throughout the city.

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  • Dick's Sporting Goods overhauled its gun policies after Parkland. The CEO didn't stop there.

    May 31, 2018 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, Parkland, Florida

    In a response to the 2018 Parkland, Fla. shooting that killed 17 people, Dick's Sporting Goods removed guns from several locations around the country and carried on conversations with Congress about tighter gun laws. The sporting goods company, which sold a shotgun to the Parkland shooter before the shooting occurred, has taken a comprehensive approach in looking at the school shooting crisis around the country by reducing gun sales and working with legislators on firearm legislation.

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  • In Lebanon, a Controversial Approach to Ending Domestic Worker Abuse

    May 29, 2018 |

    Bright Magazine |

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    Response Location: Lebanon, Beirut

    Equip is a business in Lebanon that is trying to prevent further abuse of domestic workers, by helping them communicate better with their employers. “Their business model relies on employers paying for the company’s services, which range from $10 to $550, and include English lessons, first-aid training, legal translation, and conflict mediation.”

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  • They Make Gourmet Products and Pull Women Out of Poverty. Meet the Women's Bean Project.

    May 22, 2018 |

    Slate |

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    Response Location: United States, Denver

    The Women's Bean Project is a successful social enterprise that helps women experiencing poverty - for whatever reason - to gain the skills necessary to retain jobs through classes and experience on an assembly line. Approximately 93% of program graduates have retained a job after a year, an impressive statistic for most social enterprises.

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