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  • Half a billion people need reading glasses. Why can't they get them?

    October 09, 2024 |

    NPR |

    Radio |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Mexico, Zacatecas

    RestoringVision addresses the global shortage of reading glasses by tackling supply and demand challenges. On the demand side, they partner with local NGOs and governments to provide vision screenings and free initial glasses, particularly for those in regions who either don’t know reading glasses are an option or don’t realize they’re losing their vision. On the supply side, they work to build retail networks and educate employers about productivity benefits, as workers receiving glasses show productivity increases up to 32%.

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  • Una oportunidad para que los niños crezcan: el norte de Argentina combate la desnutrición

    October 08, 2024 |

    El País |

    Text |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Argentina

    La asociación Pata Pila acompaña a madres para cuidar la salud de sus hijos en el Chaco salteño, una de las regiones con más pobreza y falta de servicios básicos.

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  • Ancient seeds, new roots: Cherokee corn thrives at St. Edward's University's food forest

    October 08, 2024 |

    Hilltop Views |

    Text |

    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, Austin, Texas

    A food forest at St. Edward’s University has cultivated two heirloom varieties of Cherokee corn, helping Cherokee peoples connect to their ancestors and agriculural history.

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  • Hotline connects formerly incarcerated people with reentry resources

    October 08, 2024 |

    North Carolina Health News |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, North Carolina

    In North Carolina, the Recidivism Reduction Call Center connects people who were formerly incarcerated with resources that will help them reenter their communities, like housing options and second chance employers.

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  • Why don't we use more geothermal energy?

    October 07, 2024 |

    BBC |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: Germany

    Germany-based Vulcan Energy combines lithium extraction with geothermal energy production to make geothermal more financially feasible. It pulls the lithium directly from the hot water that's used to generate power and heat for local communities and sells it to be used for electric car batteries.

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  • Coffee agroforestry holds promise for smallholder growers in Malawi

    October 07, 2024 |

    Mongabay |

    Text |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Malawi

    The Food and Agriculture Organization and the Slow Food Coffee Coalition are helping coffee farmers in Malawi adopt agroforestry practices by teaching them new techniques, helping them improve coffee quality, and showing them how to attract international markets. This way, the farmers earn more for their products and benefit the environment with their work.

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  • Turning the tide: Tri-Cities business offers free laundry service to storm survivors

    October 07, 2024 |

    Kingsport Times News |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, Johnson City, Tennessee

    Dry Clean City is offering free laundry services to Hurricane Helene survivors, as most of them lost their belongings in the storm and/or still don’t have electricity. The need for these services is significant. In just eight days, the business washed about 4,000 pounds of clothes from both hurricane survivors and their normal customer intake.

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  • How Denver Could Become the First City to Ban Slaughterhouses

    October 07, 2024 |

    Sentient |

    Text |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

    Animal rights activists in Denver, Colorado, got a slaughterhouse moratorium on the city’s upcoming election ballot by switching up their approach and having deeper, sincere conversations with people while canvassing. Instead of focusing on personal choice, the campaign centers on collective action via voting.

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  • Where Has Vienna's 'Coolness' Gone?

    October 07, 2024 |

    Transitions Online |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Austria, Vienna

    Vienna’s cool streets provide a safe outdoor space to escape the heat in the summer. The city used a heat map and population data to select streets with high concentrations of residents who are particularly vulnerable to extreme heat, like children and the elderly. At the selected locations, traffic was limited and asphalt was covered with turf, benches, mist machines, and water fountains. When the city challenged the project, a citizen’s initiative in the Ottakring district worked with the local council to keep one cool street open last summer, saving a public safe outdoor space.

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  • Precision agriculture promises rural farmers efficiency, but barriers hold local implementation back

    October 06, 2024 |

    The People-Sentinel |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, South Carolina

    Farmers are transitioning to precision agriculture to mitigate and adapt to climate change. The practice uses technology like artificial intelligence, satellite imagery, and soil probes to collect and analyze data so farmers know how to manage specific parts of their fields.

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