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  • Showing doctors the way to lower cost, improved care

    May 06, 2015 |

    Southern California Public Radio (KPCC) |

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    Response Location: United States, Sacramento, California

    The United States health care system is expensive and enables doctors to prescribe costly brand name medication instead of generic versions. Sutter Health assembles its doctors a few times a week to review with electronic records the prescribing of brand name drugs and the necessity of procedures as an effort to reduce health care costs and to reduce unnecessary tests. In two years, the initiative has saved $30 million.

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  • The Secret Lives of Homeless Students

    May 05, 2015 |

    Bright Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    Homeless and impoverished kids still have the chance to receive a college education, they just need to have the confidence that they can do so and a little pushing from outside forces. The author shares her own story of accomplishing just that.

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  • Can mobile homes save home ownership?

    April 27, 2015 |

    Deseret News |

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    Response Location: United States, Barnstable, Massachusetts

    Thirty-five percent of Americans will never own their home and risk a rent increase or eviction. Owned Communities USA enables working-class families to become home owners through manufactured homes, loans, and legal aid.

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  • After the Wars, Common Ground in Oregon's Forests

    April 27, 2015 |

    InvestigateWest |

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    Response Location: United States, Ashland, Oregon

    Summer in the Northwest presents a great risk of wildfires. A pile burning operation, just one facet of the strategy that Oregon has enacted to conserve its forests, clears undergrowth to lessen the risk of mega-fire. The work stimulates the local economy and provides employment, but it's also a very small part of what needs to be done.

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  • Carbon Pricing Helping Farmers Ease Methane Pollution

    April 24, 2015 |

    Climate Central |

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    Response Location: United States, Sacramento, California

    The government wants more farmers turning waste methane into biogas to help combat the negative effects of global climate change. California is leading the initiative, largely through a cap-and-trade program.

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  • In India, Profitable Farming With Fewer Chemicals

    April 24, 2015 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: India, Telangana

    In India, many farmers, especially women farmers, have transitioned to organic farming. While it requires a serious set of skills and knowledge, organic farming increases yields and decreases costs by eliminating the need to buy pesticides. The move is both ecological and economical, and the Indian government is trying to spread the solution.

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  • 7 hopeful climate stories from around the world

    April 20, 2015 |

    Center for Global Development |

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    Response Location: India

    Evidence continues to build that humans are contributing to a climate change issue that is nothing but bad news for the planet. Hopeful stories from seven countries, including India, Indonesia, and China, show that efforts to combat climate change might finally be working.

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  • Anchored in hope: How Toronto is learning from Cleveland's return to prosperity

    April 18, 2015 |

    Toronto Star |

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    Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

    After decades of economic and social despair that once saw it named the poorest big city in America, Cleveland has become a model of revitalization, thanks to a unique “anchor strategy” that harnesses the immense wealth and power of the city’s public institutions.

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  • Making Wood Without Trees

    April 13, 2015 |

    Bloomberg |

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    Response Location: United States, Green Island, New York

    Using mycelium from mushrooms offers a sustainable and biodegradable alternative to synthetic polymers. Mushrooms produce a natural structure that can be used in building and construction, in lieu of plastics or processed wood products that often contain urea-formaldehyde or other harmful bonding agents. Ecovative Design uses a mushroom-based material to create products ranging from packing to furniture.

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  • Transforming banking for the poor

    March 31, 2015 |

    Wall Street Journal |

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    Response Location: Kenya

    Microfinance started to help reduce world poverty but, in the long run, without bank accounts it is hard for beginning entrepreneurs to really get going and to help the economy. Now that paying is possible through cellular phones, more people will have the opportunity to have a bank account and hopefully cause a decrease in poverty.

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