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  • How to beat air pollution? Stop burning the fields

    October 16, 2018 |

    The Guardian |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: India, Bangalore

    Autumn in India is known for the season of bad air quality, largely in part due to stubble-burning, a practice used by farmers to dispose of crop waste. To counter this practice, private companies are coming up with ways to essentially recycle the crop waste which not only helps the environment but also is a more profitable approach for the farmers.

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  • How an Unlikely Family History Website Transformed Cold Case Investigations

    October 15, 2018 |

    The New York Times |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Lake Worth, Florida

    GEDmatch started as a "casual side project," but investigators have been using the genealogy website to solve murder and sexual assault cases, opening a new set of both opportunity and ethical questions. The site is free to all, so investigators have used it to match DNA information and find suspects using family connections - a strategy that concerned the founders of the site at first, although they've come around to the idea after seeing the positive impact it has had.

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  • How to Turn a Car Town into a Cycling City

    October 15, 2018 |

    Next City |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: Netherlands, Eindhoven

    The Dutch city of Eindhoven was built around the car, even into the 1970s, but as part of remaking itself after its main industries declined or moved away, it has made a dramatic shift to emphasizing cycling. City officials took steps to improve infrastructure as a way to elevate the city’s image internationally and also meet the needs of locals through high-profile projects that proved so popular the city was emboldened to revamp a major motorway into a public greenspace.

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  • Farms Race

    October 15, 2018 |

    Logic Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Cambridge, Massachusetts

    True to hacker form, an MIT team wants "open-source agriculture," a technology that takes food production back from big corporations and makes it widely accessible. To this end, the OpenAg community, comprised of coders, horticulturalists, engineers, plant scientists, and teachers, is developing food computers. But the technology is still being developed, and the economics don't yet pencil out for profitability.

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  • SamTrans prepares to roll out 10 electric buses in fleet-replacement program

    October 15, 2018 |

    San Francisco Chronicle |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, San Mateo, California

    In California, Governor Jerry Brown has implemented a deadline to have "all transit agencies to eliminate carbon emissions" by 2040. San Mateo County is moving towards this goal by releasing a fleet of electric buses.

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  • Sexual-Harassment-Reporting Apps Help Stop Abuse in Global City Streets

    October 12, 2018 |

    New York Magazine |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: India

    Using data collection and visualization, apps like SafeCity, HarassMap, and #WalkFreely are crowdsourcing locations where individuals have been sexually harassed or assaulted so that others know to take precautions. Some operate on a global scale, others locally, but what they all offer is a platform for people to share their story and hopefully prevent it from happening again. Such apps have led to action from community members, the media, and officials who have taken notice of the high rates in certain places and taken action.

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  • A rural Montana district goes all in on makerspaces

    October 11, 2018 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States, Havre, Montana

    A coalition of philanthropic and professional development organizations are partnering with a rural Montana school district to provide donated hardware and software and professional development training. By developing "makerspaces," the initiative aims to ensure students and teachers learn tech literacy, a skillset many of their urban and suburban counterparts take for granted.

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  • Mass tourism is ruining historic cities. Only government can stop it

    October 11, 2018 |

    Apolitical |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Spain, Barcelona

    With tourism on the rise, governments are figuring out how to limit overcrowding and environmental damage. Replicable ideas include marketing beaches and other attractions off the beaten path, regulating hotels and vacation rentals, and even requiring that every tourist must be accompanied by a local guide.

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  • The Crime Machine, Part I

    October 11, 2018 |

    Gimlet Media |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    The creation of CompStat fostered a huge drop in crime rates in New York City by the 1990s. The idea came from an odd and obsessive transit cop was to track every single crime daily in every precinct and use that data to systematically go after everything from murders to low-level crimes once ignored by police. It was a drastic shift in the way NYPD worked and was credited with making the city far safer, but was also flawed.

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  • Lab-grown Meat on your Table

    October 10, 2018 |

    BBC |

    Radio |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, California

    "Farm to table" is a well-known saying in the food industry, but "lab to table" is also rapidly joining the rank of commonplace terminology. To both reduce the amount of animals killed and lessen the impact on the environment to raise livestock, researchers have found a way to manufacture cell-based meat that is created in a lab, yet still has the texture of meat.

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