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  • Alaskans work to analyze and reduce risks of glacial outburst flooding

    August 02, 2025 |

    Alaska Beacon |

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    Response Location: United States, Juneau, Alaska

    In response to recurring glacial flooding outbursts, Juneau has implemented an early warning dashboard, $8 million temporary flood barriers, and ongoing scientific research. The solutions are too new to demonstrate measurable flood damage reduction, but increased community participation in preparedness activities is one promising impact.

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  • The warning labels that could be coming for your crisps

    July 31, 2025 |

    Bhekisisa |

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    Response Location: Chile

    In 2016, Chile implemented warning labels on food packaging to alert consumers when a product was high in sugar, salt, saturated fat or artificial sweeteners as a way to warn and deter them from purchasing unhealthy foods. After implementing these labels, locals bought less unhealthy products, and manufacturers began using less unhealthy ingredients, inspiring other countries, like South Africa, to implement similar practices.

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  • Federal cuts to AmeriCorps could make it harder for recent graduates to find jobs

    July 30, 2025 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States

    The AmeriCorps program places students and recent graduates in community service positions across the country, helping to fill local needs for everything from tutoring to wildlife management while also allowing participants to build valuable professional and academic skills. But recent federal cuts to the program's funding have put its future in jeopardy, with some participants being forced to leave their positions early.

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  • A forest garden project attempts to expand into the Sahel

    July 28, 2025 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Senegal

    The creation of forest gardens—the modern term for an ancient agroforestry model that mixes shrubs, herbs, vines, fruit and nut trees, and perennial vegetables—are helping supply communities in sub-Saharan Africa with food, medicine, and animal feed. The U.S.-based NGO TREES claims to have created 38,000 active forest gardens in five countries, each comprising about 4,000 trees. This has restored 99,743 acres of degraded land, having reached 56,273 farmers and their families across 174 community projects.

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  • How One School Turned Career Training Into a Turnaround Strategy

    July 17, 2025 |

    Education Week |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    DeWitt Clinton High School offers formal career pathway programs that allow students to gain real-world work experience and sometimes even earn industry credentials while completing their high school diploma requirements. There are pathways available for everything from visual arts to agriculture to health care careers, and the high school has seen its graduation numbers go up and absenteeism rates drop since establishing the programs.

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  • High school speech and debate allows students to find common ground

    July 08, 2025 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States

    Through the National Speech and Debate Association, students across the country learn to research and argue positions on pressing issues, from the justness of violent revolution to approaches to immigration policy. In a time of political turmoil, participants and coaches report that competing in speech and debate helps students recognize the complexity of societal issues and be more open to differing opinions and perspectives.

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  • Garantizar el agua no es sencillo, pero las ASADAs muestran que es posible

    July 04, 2025 |

    El Colectivo 506 |

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    Response Location: Costa Rica

    Las ASADAs (Asociaciones Administradoras de los Sistemas de Acueductos y Alcantarillados Sanitarios) son organizaciones comunitarias sin fines de lucro que administran sistemas de agua potable para sus comunidades, sirviendo al 33% de la población costarricense a través del compromiso voluntario y la gestión local del recurso hídrico.

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  • Seaweed farming as an eco-friendly alternative for Tanzanian fishing communities

    June 23, 2025 |

    Mongabay |

    Documentary |

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    Response Location: Tanzania, Pemba Island

    Seaweed farming on Pemba Island is allowing women to earn income and support their families. Improved cultivation techniques introduced by the Tanzanian government and The Nature Conservancy via a training program have not only accelerated economic but also environmental rehabilitation.

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  • Local, organic, and bipartisan: How Vermont is challenging Big Food

    June 08, 2025 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Vermont

    Vermont's community-led movement to build a thriving local agriculture economy, through nonprofit infrastructure investments, diversified farming practices, and bipartisan collaboration, has revitalized small farms, boosted food resilience, and offered a viable economic alternative to industrialized agriculture.

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  • How Treating Teens' Trauma Is Stopping Violence in Chicago

    June 05, 2025 |

    Tradeoffs |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    The violence prevention program Choose to Change pairs cognitive behavioral therapy with intensive mentoring for high-risk Chicago teens, resulting in participants being 31% less likely to be arrested than their peers who did not participate in the program.

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