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  • This Walkable Gathering Space Has Transformed a City's Main Street

    October 27, 2025 |

    Governing |

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    Response Location: United States, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

    The city of Lancaster invested nearly $12 million to create a walkable mixed-use development area along a main thoroughfare, with nine blocks of businesses and community spaces such as a library and a museum. The development has generated more than $270 million in economic output and residents say the area is now welcoming and encourages a sense of community.

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  • Memphis' response to youth mental health needs? Free, flexible therapy outside school

    October 21, 2025 |

    Chalkbeat Tennessee |

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    Response Location: United States, Memphis, Tennessee

    Through the Youth Connect program, Memphis teens can access up to 12 sessions with an out-of-school therapist, helping to fill gaps in school-based mental health services and give students more choice in who they see. So far, nearly 350 students have taken advantage of the program.

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  • A Wall of Trees is Reversing Desertification and Empowering Communities in Nigeria

    October 12, 2025 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Makoda, Kano

    The Wall of Trees initiative in Nigeria's Makoda village created a four-tiered barrier of windbreak, orchard, woodlot, and economic trees that tripled crop yields and provided income opportunities for 200 women, successfully reversing desertification on 15 hectares over two decades.

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  • Volunteer scientists work 'nights and weekends' to guide vaccine advice in US

    October 06, 2025 |

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    Response Location: United States, Minneapolis, Minnesota

    When the Trump administration fired the federal vaccine advisory panel, a group of volunteer scientists created the Vaccine Integrity Project to conduct independent, comprehensive reviews of vaccine data. Their review has influenced real-world vaccine policy, with several major medical organizations using their data to update guidelines and share vaccine information publicly.

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  • Are Agricultural Co-ops Seeing a Revival in Hawai‘i?

    September 10, 2025 |

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    Response Location: United States, Hawaii

    Agricultural cooperatives in Hawai'i pool small farmers' resources to collectively process, market, and sell their crops, with successful examples like the Hawai'i 'Ulu Cooperative enabling nearly 200 members to reach broader markets and the Hawaii Cattle Producers Cooperative shipping 8,000-9,000 cattle annually while returning surplus profits to rancher-members, though some co-ops have failed due to declining membership and market pressures.

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  • The Anarchic Playgrounds Where Putting Kids At Risk Is The Point

    September 04, 2025 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Germany, Berlin

    Adventure playgrounds such as Berlin’s Kolle 37 put kids in charge of play, giving them the space, tools, and freedom to solve conflicts, learn new skills, and even build their own play structures as adults monitor for hazards from a distance. Research shows that this type of “risky play” can help children mature and learn to navigate complex psychosocial situations.

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  • An Old Timber Town's "Freedom Church of the Poor"

    August 29, 2025 |

    The Daily Yonder |

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    Response Location: United States, Grays Harbor County, Washington

    Chaplains on the Harbor, also known as the Freedom Church of the Poor, supports area residents experiencing poverty and homelessness through a resource center, a farm, outreach in prisons and encampments, and support with pursuing political advocacy. The organization helped community members to file a lawsuit against the city alleging a local ordinance made it difficult for outreach workers to access encampments, which ended with the city allocating funding for a sanctioned camping area.

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  • Climate change tests the resilience of people and desert-adapted wildlife in Namibia

    August 21, 2025 |

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    Response Location: Namibia

    Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) in Namibia gives rural communities the rights to manage and profit from wildlife through organized conservancies, which has dramatically recovered wildlife populations (like elephants growing from 7,000 to 26,000) while providing economic incentives that motivate communities to protect rather than poach animals, even during severe droughts.

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  • City food forests offer a chance to experience nature — and eat it

    August 19, 2025 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: United States

    In some cities, empty urban lots transformed into multilayered "food forests" that mimic natural ecosystems are providing free, accessible fresh produce to city residents through strategically designed edible plantings that feature native and adapted fruit trees, nut trees, and berry bushes.

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  • This Farmer-Led Co-op is Growing a Sustainable ‘Ulu Industry for Hawai‘i's Small Farmers

    August 13, 2025 |

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    Response Location: United States, Hawaii

    The Hawai'i 'Ulu Cooperative, a farmer-owned collective founded in 2016, has grown to nearly 200 members across four islands by providing guaranteed markets, stable pricing, and collective processing. Through this, farmers have revitalized traditional Hawaiian agriculture and created year-round supply chains.

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