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Moving Through the City Can Be Dangerous for Indian Women. Can These Apps Help?

Kalpana Sunder

July 01, 2022 |

Next City |

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Response Location: India, Mumbai

The Woloo mobile app helps women locate and access clean and hygienic restrooms at restaurants and cafes. The app partners with 10,000 restaurants and cafes across 50 cities that allow women to use their restrooms free of charge. “Hygiene officers” from the app also evaluate the restrooms to ensure their clean and suitable for use. There are currently about 1,200 certified restrooms on the app and 30,000 users.

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Are you watering your lawn wrong? USU's Water Checkers will help you figure it out

Nadia Pflaum

June 30, 2022 |

KUER Radio |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Salt Lake City, Utah

Water Checkers visit homeowners in Salt Late City for free to help asses soil quality and determine if their sprinkler systems’ water distribution is working and efficient. By participating in this program, residents have reduced their irrigation by 7,900 gallons per month, which helps keep waters in tributaries of the Great Salt Lake.

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With Branded Pothole Repairs, Private Companies Make Their Mark on Johannesburg's Roads

Ray Mwareya

June 23, 2022 |

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Response Location: South Africa, Johannesburg

Two insurance companies, Discovery and Dialdirect, implemented a smartphone app for drivers to report potholes in their city. The companies then fill the potholes and brand them with their logos.

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Residents 13 and up get another pick of city projects to receive funding

Ted Glanzer

June 20, 2022 |

Hartford Courant |

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Response Location: United States, Hartford, Connecticut

Hartford residents 13 and older can decide how some public funds are spent. The Hartford Decides participatory budgeting initiative considers public input on small capital projects that cost between $10,000 and $25,000 and have a useful life of at least five years. City officials vet the projects for feasibility and those that pass are put on a ballot for the public to vote on. Previous winning projects include improvements to libraries, schools, and other publicly accessible resources. Residents can vote online or in-person and, depending on available funding, two to four projects can win approval.

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Una ciudad con menos basura: reciclar en San Cristóbal

Neiyer Angarita

June 16, 2022 |

Historias que laten |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Venezuela, Táchira

En el 2020, ingenieros y arquitectos del estado se reunén para encontrar una solución a los problemas de manejo de desechos en sus comunidades y deciden crear un centro de recolección de desechos revalorizables y reciclaje. En el proceso crean además una escuela de reciclaje para educar a la población y además trabajan con los gobiernos locales para colocar una red de contenedores públicos para clasificación de desechos.

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El cálculo imposible de las ollas comunes: ¿cómo repartir cuatro pescados entre trescientas personas?

Stefanie Pareja

June 16, 2022 |

Salud con Lupa |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: Peru, Lima

Las Ollas Comunes son comedores comunales que proporcionan almuerzo a los miembros de las comunidades aledañas de manera gratuita. Las ollas funcionan con el trabajo organizado y voluntario de las mujeres de las comunidades, quienes se aseguran de dividir los alimentos que logran recolectar, de manera equitativa.

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How Nigeria's Only Biogas Mini-grid Project Failed With Lessons To Learn

Chinonso Kenneth

June 15, 2022 |

Prime Progress |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Rije

A local farm builds a biogas electric grid for its community to access electricity. The grid is powered with chicken feces through anaerobic digestion, which occurs when bacteria break down the waste into a gas.

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Could more entrepreneurs help revive the heartland?

Mike Sherry

June 06, 2022 |

The Kansas Leadership Center Journal (KLC Journal) |

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Response Location: United States, Ord, Nebraska

The community in Ord, Nebraska, revived their town by supporting and encouraging entrepreneurs and making it easier to start small businesses.

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Blackburn Middle Schoolers Grow, Sell Produce at Own Farmers Market

Aliyah Veal

May 20, 2022 |

Mississippi Free Press |

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Response Location: United States, Jackson, Mississippi

In Blackburn Middle School's Learning Garden, students get hands-on experience with planting, cultivating, and selling their own crops. The school also hosts a student-led farmers market and collard greens cook-off where they can show off the fruits of their labor.

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A Landlord ‘Underestimated' His Tenants. Now They Could Own the Building.

Ronda Kaysen

May 06, 2022 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, New York, New York

Thanks to teamwork and the help of a Housing Development Fund Corporation Co-Op apartment tenants will be able to buy their apartments for $2,500 each. This practice helps to combat rent hikes and creates generational wealth for individuals owning their apartment.

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