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  • This Cheap Street Fix Saves Lives. Why Don't More Cities Do It?

    Cities in the United States are implementing daylighting to improve driver visibility and keep pedestrians safer. The practice consists of many different methods, such as building curb extensions or adding new signage, but all of them focus on the corners of crosswalks where most crashes occur.

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  • CT agencies help clients find job opportunities, build self-sufficiency

    The nonprofit Person to Person offers its clients a Financial Opportunity Center program alongside other support services like providing food and clothing. Those enrolled in the program are paired with caseworkers who help them with activities like career training, managing their finances, and accessing income support after meeting their basic needs.

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  • How artificial intelligence plus local expertise can promote ‘good fire' in Montana

    The Potential Operational Delineations (PODs) framework combines analytics and local expertise to assess fire risk by marking out locations on a map where fire can best be stopped. The risk is then used to identify where best to suppress the fire and where it can continue to burn to benefit the environment and prevent future fires. From there, experts decide how to respond to a fire in each section of the map in advance, which can also include prevention tactics.

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  • How New York's Public Hospitals Cut Carbon Emissions: More Vegetables

    Plant-based food is now the default option at New York City’s 11 public hospitals, and the change is decreasing their greenhouse gas emissions. In fact, meat is only served upon special request.

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  • How Houston Cut Its Homeless Population by Nearly Two-Thirds

    Houston’s The Way Home collective is made up of 100 nonprofits with different approaches to combatting homelessness. Case managers enter information about people experiencing homelessness in the city into a database that shows all of the programs each person is eligible for and which nonprofits have space available.

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  • Automation is Transforming the World's Leading Vertical Farm Companies

    Automated indoor farming harnesses technology like artificial intelligence, robotics, and climate-controlled systems to limit the negative environmental impacts of growing food while maximizing nutrients and yields.

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  • Virtual Power Plants Offer A Climate-Forward Response To Increasingly Hot Summers

    Virtual power plants are emerging in the United States and partnering with utility companies to manage energy demand during extreme weather and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. These plants are actually a portfolio of energy resources, anything from smart appliances in homes to solar panels and electric vehicle infrastructure outside of homes, that are tracked and managed digitally. This enables virtual power plants to encourage minimal peak energy use, increase the amount of renewable energy sent back to the grid, and decrease the use of peaker power plants that rely on fossil fuels.

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  • The money wives in Cross River State

    The Basic Rights Counsel Initiative in Cross River State, Nigeria, teaches women who were forced into marriage and slavery as young girls the skills necessary to start their own businesses and support themselves and their children.

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  • How Can Electric Vehicles Overcome Their Limitations?

    When compared to gas-powered cars, electric vehicles save drivers money on fuel and maintenance, are more energy efficient, and emit significantly fewer greenhouse gases.

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  • Reviving the Lost Waterways of India's 'City of Lakes'

    After reviving a lake with no experience, Anand Malligavad went on to restore 30 lakes in Bengaluru, India. He and his team created a restoration model that includes dredging and cleaning the lakebed, planting native grasses and trees along the banks, and developing wetlands nearby.

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