Story Search Results

Advanced Search

There are so many ways to search the solutions journalism stories in this database. Explore our searchable fields:

Search Results

You searched for: -

There are 374 results for your search. View and Refine Your Search Terms

For U.S. Tribes, a Movement to Revive Native Foods and Lands

Cheryl Katz

September 28, 2015 |

Yale Environment 360 |

Text |

1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Duluth, Minnesota

Property rights, circumscribed jurisdictions, and conflicts with neighbors exacerbate Native American efforts to restore tribal land and resources. Some tribes have found success by tapping into a trend of support from the government and conservationists.

Read More
Go to Original Story
Lessons from under the coconut tree

James Vaznis

September 12, 2015 |

The Boston Globe |

Text |

1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Haiti, Nippes

Boston professors visit countries and homes of foreign students to better understand their culture and gain insights about how to better teach them. The goal is to reach across cultural divides to help a big part of the student population — emigres from faraway lands — that is plagued with low standardized test scores and high dropout rates. Accompanying photojournalism: http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/bigpicture/2015/09/12/seeking-cultural-connections/L3mIQAQM3v9YT9A2K4JliL/story.html

Read More
Go to Original Story
How Seattle Made Dark Alleys Safer—By Throwing Parties In Them

Araz Hachadourian

August 26, 2015 |

Yes! Magazine |

Text |

800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

Alleys in Seattle were once places of illicit, illegal, and unsanitary activity. The International Sustainability Institute in Seattle began organizing music and art events to bring in people, which, in turn, cleaned-up the crime and garbage. As an urban development strategy, adjacent vacant storefronts re-opened for business and beautification could be seen in new gardens.

Read More
Go to Original Story
Four Ways Mexico's Indigenous Farmers Are Practicing the Agriculture of the Future

Leah Penniman

August 10, 2015 |

Yes! Magazine |

Text |

1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Mexico, Oaxaca

With a global food crisis, farmers look for how to get long-term high yields out of difficult farmland. In Oaxaca, Mexico, farmers farm like a forest, eat low on the food chain, restore damaged land, and have reverence for the planet.

Read More
Go to Original Story
Amazon tribe creates 500-page traditional medicine encyclopedia

Jeremy Hance

June 24, 2015 |

Mongabay |

Multi-Media |

Over 3000 Words

Response Location: Brazil

The Matsés, an indigenous population in Brazil in Peru, teamed up with Acaté, a conservation group, to create a medicinal knowledge encyclopedia. The encyclopedia was compiled by five shamans, took two years, is 500 pages long, and “details every plant used by Matsés to cure a massive variety of ailments.” It not only preserves ancestral knowledge, but is seen as a way to improve the health of Matsés and future generations. “Until their encyclopedia, the Matsés entire traditional health system was on the unchecked verge of disappearance.”

Read More
Go to Original Story
Montana Offers A Boost To Native Language Immersion Programs

Amy Martin

May 02, 2015 |

NPR |

Radio |

3-5 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Missoula, Montana

Montana, home to nine Native American languages, becomes the second state to fund indigenous language immersion programs in public schools. The same languages were once forbidden, but now they are helping to preserve a disappearing culture and closing the graduation rate gap for Native American students.

Read More
Go to Original Story
Can grains of the past help us weather storms of the future?

Shreya Dasgupta

February 09, 2015 |

Ensia |

Text |

800-1500 Words

Response Location: India, Sundarbans

After a devastating cyclone changed the nature of local soil, NGOs preserved Indian rice crops by reintroducing traditional rice varieties that can be cultivated even in salt-ridden earth. Although some first met this idea with skepticism, many farmers have now adopted the practice after witnessing the success of the crops.

Read More
Go to Original Story
How the Fight Against Ebola Tested a Culture's Traditions

Amy Maxmen

January 30, 2015 |

National Geographic |

Text |

1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Sierra Leone, Freetown, Western Area

In the face of the deadliest Ebola outbreak in modern history, health officials found themselves struggling to prevent the virus from spreading due to clashes with local traditions, cultural mistrust of outsiders, conflict, and misconceptions about healthcare in West Africa. To effectively treat patients and stop the spread of the disease, organizations had to work closely with locals and adapt procedures to incorporate their culture.

Read More
Go to Original Story
When I Grow Up

Rebecca Mead

January 15, 2015 |

The New Yorker |

Text |

Over 3000 Words

Response Location: Mexico

KidZania is a theme park in a dozen countries where kids engage in different types of work, ranging from working on a car assembly line to putting out fake fires with real water and examining a doll’s teeth as a dentist. They earn a paycheck, which they must pay taxes on, and then can spend the money they earn at stores within the park. Although the parks promote free markets and brand loyalty, owners have also worked with local governments to incorporate lessons that promote good citizenship and awareness of civic institutions, health and safety, environmental sustainability, and appreciation of diversity.

Read More
Go to Original Story
Smong: The Tsunami Story

Jacopo Pasotti

December 10, 2014 |

Medium |

Text |

800-1500 Words

Response Location: Indonesia, Simeulue

Ten years after the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, researchers are looking at how one community used traditional cultural knowledge to avoid major casualties.

Read More
Go to Original Story