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  • Street lights are out but you're still footing the bill; how can we prevent wire thefts?

    February 02, 2017 |

    KTUL-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Tulsa, Oklahoma

    After chasing street light wire thieves who have left Tulsa streets in the dark, city officials look to Salt Lake City, who solved their city's stealing problems by investing in their infrastructure. SLC officials replaced copper wire, which was easier for thieves to take, with aluminum, buried light boxes, and placed sensors on their street lights to ensure neighborhoods and highways remained safe and well-lit.

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  • The bizarre and inspiring story of Iowa's fish farmers

    February 01, 2017 |

    Mother Jones |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Webster City, Iowa

    A family in Iowa, living 1,000 miles from the Atlantic Ocean and 1,500 miles from the Pacific Ocean, are paving the way for the future of fish farms. By filling their unused barn with fish tanks, this third-generation Webster City farming family found a solution for successfully and sustainably raise up to 10 million pounds of barramundi per year.

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  • Urban forests increasingly central to planning in poor and rich countries alike

    January 30, 2017 |

    Citiscope |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Canada, Vancouver

    Implementing and maintaining healthy urban forests is becoming more popular throughout communities internationally. Results from cities that have moved in this direction not only include an improvement to community and environmental health but also come with an economic valuation in the form of pollution removal, carbon sequestration and stormwater alleviation.

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  • The costs of growth and change in Nashville

    January 29, 2017 |

    The Tennessean |

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    Response Location: United States, Nashville, Tennessee

    Nashville Mayor Megan Barry is developing a comprehensive strategy for affordable housing to help address the challenges of rising property prices and gentrification for the city's poor and minorities. The city is helping influence more inclusive growth patterns through financial incentives like the Barnes Affordable Housing Trust Fund.

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  • In Kansas City, a lesson in transforming closed schools

    January 24, 2017 |

    Chicago Reporter |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Kansas City, Missouri

    When public schools close, what can communities do with the buildings? Kansas City hired an urban planner to help repurpose school buildings to better engage the community and enabled non-profits a chance to purchase the old properties. This school reuse excelled from increasing the transparency of the decision-making process and “creative financing.”

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  • Making cities safer with public transport

    January 20, 2017 |

    Livemint |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: India, Mumbai

    There is a misconception that making cities safer for women requires more security cameras. Now, the method of improving public transport systems and lighting up public streets is being implemented and its allowing women to feel safer and enjoy greater mobility.

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  • How Mormon Principles and Grassroots Ideals Saved Utah

    January 18, 2017 |

    Politico |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Salt Lake City, Utah

    In Salt Lake City, a bipartisan coalition of public and private actors, including members of the business, industrial, religious, political, and civic communities voluntarily came together to pass an ambitious twenty year land use plan. The plan, which conserves water, promotes clean air, and imposes new taxes for new rail lines, was made possible by Envision Utah, a public-private partnership that capitalizes on many Utahns' cultural and religious heritage.

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  • Kenya's booming digital sharing economy?

    January 05, 2017 |

    African Business Magazine |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Kenya, Nairobi

    Though the big players in the sharing economy like Uber and Airbnb are eyeing growing middle class markets like that of Kenya, the concept of shared access to goods and services is nothing new for Kenyan communities. Whereas in the West, the shared economy structure arose largely from a desire for flexibility, in Kenya, much of it arose from need. Now platforms like Lynk and Little Cabs are helping connect Kenyan customers to a broad range of service providers.

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  • Changing the Face of National Parks

    January 02, 2017 |

    National Geographic |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    At the vanguard of initiatives to increase diversity among visitors to the National Parks are groups like Oakland-based H.E.A.T. (Hiking Every Available Trail), which uses social media and group expeditions to increase minority groups' awareness, use, trust and enjoyment of the outdoors. Emerging alongside changes in policy, such as the Park Services' creation of a Diversity and Inclusion Office, H.E.A.T. demonstrates how local organizers in minority and, often, urban regions around the United States are moving the needle on diversity within the National Park system.

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  • This Small Town Refused to Settle for Wal-Mart When Its Last Local Grocery Store Closed

    January 02, 2017 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Iola, Kansas

    The small town of Iola, KS, and Allen County's GROW Council offer a case study of how local communities across this prairie state have worked to solve the absence of grocery stores in many rural areas. Through local resourcefulness and organizing efforts; knowledge and financial support from the state government; and partnership with Kansas State University's Rural Grocery Initiative, towns have succeeded in bringing grocery stores, from locally-owned coops to school-based distribution hubs, back to their Main Streets.

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