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  • If Universities Made This Course a Pre-Requisite, Campuses Would Be Safer for Female Students

    June 07, 2016 |

    NationSwell |

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    Response Location: United States, Palo Alto, California

    Rapes at college campuses occur at significant rates, and many proposed fixes are not working. Campus self-defense classes could potentially help women, such as at Stanford where Daly Montgomery (a student) created a self-defense class called "Protecting Your Bubble" to teach women how to defend themselves, hear from victims, and learn that it is ok to take action to protect yourself.

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  • Reading, writing and results in Binghamton classrooms

    June 04, 2016 |

    Press & Sun-Bulletin |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Binghamton, New York

    Literacy rates can be a problem, especially in low-income school districts. Amid a years-in-the-making revision of literacy instruction, the Binghamton school district is seeing a payoff.

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  • The Surprising Success of Micro Hydro

    June 01, 2016 |

    International Rivers |

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    Response Location: Myanmar, Yangon, Yangon Region

    The Hydropower Empowerment Network takes a country-by-country approach to helping establish micro hydro and other technologies in rural places where electricity is difficult to come by. Micro hydro has even proven to be more durable and sustainable than solar, though solar is cheaper and quicker to install - the reason is the depth of community involvement required. When villagers participate on longer-term, complex projects, they develop pride in their work, learn invaluable new skills, and are empowered to engage with the solution.

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  • Farming in the Desert

    June 01, 2016 |

    The Atlantic |

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    Response Location: United States, Ajo, Arizona

    Ajo, Arizona is home to a growing collective, collaboration of local agriculture and food-based initiatives. The small town coordinates actors from schools, restaurants, the farmers’ market, local gardens, and community supported agriculture initiatives in a network under the Ajo Regional Food Partnership. The network also works with the Desert Senita Community Health Center, making sure the benefits of the collaboration equitably reach all citizens.

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  • Climate change is rewiring government-citizen relationships

    May 30, 2016 |

    Newsweek |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    As climate change drastically alters the land, sea, and how humans subsist in the face of a changing environment, governments are finding that traditional methods of development are no longer sufficient or sustainable. To adapt, governing bodies around the world are turning to their citizens - especially those most at-risk to the effects of climate change - to lend their ideas and experiences to ensure better, more sustainable development for the future.

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  • From adversaries to allies in the fight for forest health

    May 29, 2016 |

    The Taos News |

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    Response Location: United States, Taos, New Mexico

    Locals around Taos, New Mexico take control over forest thinning efforts as part of The Collaborative Stewardship program. Rather than import larger thinning companies to work on local forests, the program sells plots of land to residents with timber experience, and these locals have a year to thin their allotted forest area.

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  • Sharing the shortage

    May 27, 2016 |

    The Taos News |

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    Response Location: United States, Talpa, New Mexico

    Farmers and land owners in the Rio Grande del Rancho region are using a collaborative, community-based approach fostered by acequias to ensure better sharing of water resources in times of scarcity.

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  • After years of drought and overuse, the San Luis Valley aquifer refills

    May 26, 2016 |

    High Country News |

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    Response Location: United States, Centre, Colorado

    An over-taxed basin in Colorado is getting its water use under control through the sub-district project, an innovative user-led solution for solving water problems.

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  • The Flint of California

    May 25, 2016 |

    Politico |

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    Response Location: United States, Matheny Tract, California

    The Flint lead crisis has made us think of tainted water as an urban problem, aging pipes slowly poisoning the children of poor communities - but a huge amount of America’s substandard drinking water is actually consumed in all but invisible rural areas. An arsenic-poisoned community in California becomes the test case for a new legal idea: the 'human right to water.'

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  • JPD Targets ‘Bandos': A Different Kind of ‘Broken Windows' Policing

    May 25, 2016 |

    Jackson Free Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Jackson, Mississippi

    Jackson PD's Community Improvement division has been charged with destroying dangerous, dilapidated houses in low income neighborhoods, even though many are state-owned. In a resources-strapped city, where blight contributes to a vicious cycle of crime and poverty, the police take down the abandoned houses—an unusual role, but one that actually tackles the root causes of crime in an arguably more effective way than low-level fishing for arrests.

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