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How a Low-Tech Solution Helped Anchorage, Alaska's Gardeners

Sara Hudson

June 13, 2018 |

Slate |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Anchorage, Alaska

Starting small has had a big impact in Anchorage, Alaska as the city looks at low-tech composting solutions that could alleviate their growing landfill problem. By revisiting a once-failed attempt to encourage composting, the local government found a way to not only build trust with the community, but also increase sustainability and resiliency efforts city-wide.

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Latin America is fighting corruption by opening up government data

Anoush Darabi

June 11, 2018 |

Apolitical |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Argentina, Buenos Aires

Reduce corruption by making public data accessible and transparent. In Buenos Aires, Argentina, information about public works projects is available online, so excess spending is hard to hide. Meanwhile in Brazil, an observatory analyzes government expenditures and investigates suspicious transactions. Credit card expenditure fell by 25 percent after the data was published.

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How 6.5 tons of trash generated at an IPL match gets managed in Bengaluru

Seema Prasad

May 23, 2018 |

Citizen Matters |

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Response Location: India, Bengaluru

At Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru, some 40,000 spectators per match are testing a waste management system that helps reduce pollution and encourage recycling. The program has shown promise. To boot, the project provides an opportunity to educate captive audiences about waste management.

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Estonia To Become The World's First Free Public Transport Nation

Regina Schröter

May 16, 2018 |

Pop-Up City |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: Estonia, Tallinn

Free public transport is so popular and cost-effective in Estonia’s capital of Tallinn that the country wants to scale the idea nationwide. Public official Allan Alaküla shares insights for cities looking to experiment with similar programs.

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Where Water is Scarce, Communities Turn to Reusing Wastewater

Jacques Leslie

May 01, 2018 |

Yale Environment 360 |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, California

Water conservation has been a hot topic for the last decade. As nations continue to search for ways to ensure a safe water supply for future generations, some places are looking to history for answers. Taking a page out of the 1970s water shortage era for Orange County in California, these places are finding ways to recycle sewage water into drinkable water.

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The Unlikely Upside of Cape Town's Drought

Eve Fairbanks

April 19, 2018 |

The Huffington Post |

Multi-Media |

Over 3000 Words

Response Location: South Africa, Cape Town

When faced with the dire likelihood that the city would run entirely out of water, Cape Town communities responded by looking at the challenge with resiliency, rather than complacency or inconvenience. Though not without limitations, those that were able to implement a perspective shift created a social shift that allowed for greater communal efforts and resulted in successful water conservation, including a 40% city-wide decrease in water use.

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Why Massachusetts is the best state for landfill solar arrays

Elizabeth McGowan

March 28, 2018 |

Energy News Network |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: United States, Lexington, Massachusetts

Repurposing contaminated sites for clean energy production may not sound like a common tactic to take, but Massachusetts has found a way to be highly successful at it. In fact, out of over 250 renewable energy installations across the United States, Massachusetts accounts for 40 percent of them. The state attributes this success to a combination of an enhanced ease of the bureaucratic process and opportunities for revenue stimulation for towns.

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Safe, happy and free: does Finland have all the answers?

Jon Henley

February 12, 2018 |

The Guardian |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Finland

In the past 150 years, Finland has gone from famine-ridden to renowned as one of the world’s strongest democracies with leading global rankings in health, education, and innovation. Culture is key to this transformation. Finns are both self-reliant and highly cooperative with a long history of putting independence, freedom, and opportunity for all people front and center in policymaking.

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Here's one idea to make ‘Storrowing' a thing of the past

Matt Rocheleau

February 08, 2018 |

The Boston Globe |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

A persistent problem in Massachusetts of trucks going through tunnels or underpasses that are too low for safe clearance has prompted officials to look to Sydney, Australia for a possible solution. Officials in that city worked with a private company to develop a system where if a truck is too tall, it triggers a warning so officials can activate a sheet of water at the tunnel entrance upon which is projected the holographic image of a giant red Stop sign. It's proven successful in stopping drivers before they enter the tunnel.

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Gwadar's Growing Water War

Mariyam Suleman

January 04, 2018 |

Pak Voices |

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Response Location: Pakistan, Gwadar District, Balochistan

When Gwadar’s dams ran dry in May 2017, the government began trucking in water. But the solution is costly, the water isn’t clean, and the trucking companies protested in November, claiming they weren’t paid on time. Desalination is an alternative, but it’s expensive too and fatal design flaws have crippled prior attempts at desalination in the province.

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