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  • What If Hip Hop Can Make Architecture and Planning Better?

    November 06, 2018 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Madison, Wisconsin

    Kids will be the ones carrying out the effects of current city planning efforts. To get kids involved in city planning at a young age, Michael Ford started a series of “Hip Hop Architecture Camps.” By teaching about building, development, and neighborhoods through the lens of hip hop music, young people could engage creatively and connect to the process. The camps now takes many forms and have spread internationally.

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  • Could you float for four hours? Drowning prevention program saves kids

    November 04, 2018 |

    The Sydney Morning Herald |

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    Response Location: Thailand, Surat

    Thailand's Surat Thani province, consists of more than 100 waterways making drowning a very real concern – especially for children – but strategic preventions have resulted in no child drownings in the last two years. Children as young as two are taught water safety tactics and eventually are trained how to float for up to four hours to survive.

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  • Why Green Classrooms Could Be the Schools of the Future

    November 02, 2018 |

    NationSwell |

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    Response Location: United States

    Whether they have access to an excess of land or a spare rooftop on their building in the middle of a cramped city, schools across the United States are making efforts to incorporate more green space into their properties. Gardens and trees, in lieu of traditional asphalt playgrounds, offer a multitude of mental health and environmental benefits. Advocates of the green schoolyard movement emphasize that adding green spaces to schools is essential and should be thought of as part of any municipality's larger park planning process.

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  • After decades of silence, L.A.'s Triforium becomes the 'pipe organ of light' its creator meant it to be — for three nights

    November 02, 2018 |

    Los Angeles Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    In Los Angeles, three young creatives tried to bring a renewal to the public art building the Triforium, aiming to “signal the flickering of a new movement.” They were met with limited success, in the form of a grant that sustained their project for just three nights. Though the project was not sustainable, the young idealists jump-started a project in an area of town that many had forgotten. The progress they made may inspire others to pick up where they left off.

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  • To Get Rid of Blight, Baltimore Tries Something New

    November 01, 2018 |

    Governing |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    As Baltimore's population has rapidly declined in the past few decades, outmigrants have left a trail of over 16,000 vacant homes. After decades of underwhelming initiatives, the city thinks it might have found a partial fix - the Vacants to Value program sells city-owned vacant homes to individuals or developers who then have a set period of time to rehab the property.

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  • The Pirate Cell Towers of Rural Mexico

    November 01, 2018 |

    New York Magazine |

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    Response Location: Mexico, Talea de Castro, Oaxaca

    Indigenous communities in rural Mexico have typically faced challenges accessing internet and cell phone service. This is changing thanks to TIC, a nonprofit cell service provider. Lower costs, local community management, and open source technology keep the service affordable. After overcoming several legal battles, the nonprofit cell model is spreading to other areas in Mexico, Brazil, and more.

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  • ReCity. Durham, North Carolina

    November 01, 2018 |

    How Do We Fix It? |

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    Response Location: United States, Durham, North Carolina

    In Durham, North Carolina, ReCity is bringing together various non-profit organizations, social activists, and mission-driven companies in a shared coworking space to meet, innovate, and collaborate with each other. This “WeWork for non-profits” encourages knowledge sharing (e.g., vetted technology vendors or other best practices) and mentorship among these groups, placing an emphasis on the benefits that come from sharing the same physical space, at a time when community groups are declining.

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  • How to tackle climate change, even without the help of the White House

    October 31, 2018 |

    FastCompany |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    Despite a lack of support from the current White House administration to move forward with climate conscious decision making, organizations and local governments across the world are mobilizing to enact change. From satellites that can measure methane and carbon dioxide concentrations to clean energy startups, people are working together to contribute to the the fight.

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  • In North Dakota, Native Americans Try to Turn an ID Law to Their Advantage

    October 30, 2018 |

    The New York Times |

    Multi-Media |

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    Response Location: Great Sioux Nation, United States, Fort Yates, North Dakota

    After a Republican led state law that bans people without an address from voting took effect, Native American tribes in North Dakota began organizing to get out the vote. They even began creating their own addresses. They teamed up with Claremont Graduate University in California and overlaid “ voting precinct maps on satellite images of the reservations and assigned each precinct one address.” “The right to vote can be taken for granted until someone tries to take it away from you, and then it can be the reason you do vote.”

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  • Law & Disorder: Progressive Prosecutors Hope to Dismantle Mass Incarceration

    October 30, 2018 |

    News Beat |

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    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States

    Across the United States, individuals and organizations are seeking to shift the criminal justice system through District Attorney elections. From online communities like colorofchange.org, which seeks to support grassroots election efforts, to individuals like Minnesota’s Mark Haase, who is running on a platform of diversity and inclusion, to the Texas Organizing Project that wants to empower Black and Latinx communities, each of these missions seeks to create more equity and transparency in the criminal justice system.

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