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  • Tourism in time of pandemic. How the Safar Project opened minds and borders

    July 19, 2021 |

    News48 |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Italy

    An Italian travel writer and a publishing house partnered to recreate the experience of travel to new places, providing tourists with a virtual experience and tour guides with a source of income to replace their lost businesses when the pandemic shut down actual travel. Called the Safar project (Arabic for travel), the service charges 15 euros for one and a half hour Zoom tours featuring live explanations and interactions with local people, limited only by time zones and cellular reception. An average of 50 tourists have signed on with the seven tour guides who have been recruited so far.

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  • Agroforestry: A solution to farming's biggest problems?

    July 09, 2021 |

    Deutsche Welle (DW) |

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    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Germany

    In agroforestry, traditional farming of plants and animals is combined with the planting of different types of trees. It is much more sustainable than traditional agriculture, which takes a huge toll on the environment. In an agroforestry system, the trees planted around a crop can provide shelter and food for the animals, reducing overall greenhouse emissions. The trees also increase other wildlife like bees and insects, and they add more nutrients to the soil.

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  • How HAWK beacons save pedestrians' lives

    July 09, 2021 |

    KNXV-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

    Under 3 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Phoenix, Arizona

    Pedestrian-activated traffic signals that flash red to allow people to cross busy streets midblock have saved lives in one of the nation's most dangerous cities for pedestrians. On one stretch of Phoenix highway where three people were killed within one month, there have been no deaths in the three years since a HAWK beacon was installed. The city has installed 66 of the lights, supplemented by pedestrian education and traffic enforcement. Since 2018, pedestrian fatalities – which make up half of Phoenix's fatal accidents – have fallen by one-third.

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  • To Save Lives, This Nonprofit Links Blood Donors To Recipients Using Telegram Bot, Facebook Messenger

    July 06, 2021 |

    Prime Progress |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Nigeria

    J Blood Match uses intelligence-enabled bots to match people in need of blood with registered donors. Registered users answer a series of prompts to determine their needs, the program identifies matches among a pool of registered donors, and once a match is accepted contact information is shared.

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  • A social initiative shows that remote working could feed the relocation to small villages

    June 30, 2021 |

    Revista Haz |

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    Response Location: Spain

    Urbanites get the taste of small-town living through an initiative that is bringing digital workers to the countryside. Rooral is tapping into the remote work market to increase rural development while connecting people from cities to a way of life that emphasizes community and connection.

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  • Una iniciativa social muestra el teletrabajo como la antesala de una mudanza al pueblo

    June 30, 2021 |

    Revista Haz |

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    Response Location: Spain

    En España, Rooral ofrece a nativos digitales urbanos la oportunidad de disfrutar la vida en pueblitos rurales —con buen acceso al internet. Rooral atrae a jóvenes a pueblos que los necesitan y conecta a los residentes urbanos a un estilo de vida centrado en la comunidad.

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  • Get There Fast or Safe? A Crowdsourced Map Gives You the Option

    June 29, 2021 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: India, Gurgaon

    In 71 cities around the world, users of the My Safetipin mobile app can decide whether to visit a particular neighborhood or plan a travel route based on how safe others deem those places. While the 100,000 or so users, more than half in India, constitute too small a user base to make the mapping app truly universal, its crowdsourced data already have prompted the Delhi and Bogota governments to improve street lighting on streets deemed unsafe because they are not well lit. The app's primary goal is to make the streets safer for women.

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  • A New Project Is Bringing the Gay ‘Green Book' Online

    June 29, 2021 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States

    In 1965 a traveling salesman published a series of travel guides with gay or gay-friendly businesses across the U.S. that became survival guides for the LGBTQ community. “Mapping the Gay Guides” has digitized those collections, allowing users to explore the original descriptions and added historical content written by graduate students. Reasons for why locations appear and disappear from year-to-year are provided, which sometimes intersect with LGBTQ hate crimes. A $350,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities will allow them to continue to preserve and make the forgotten history accessible.

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  • The Big Idea: using AI to breed more sustainable crops

    June 22, 2021 |

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    Response Location: Israel

    For the past 200 years, crops have been bred for yield, for feeding livestock, rather than nutritional value. However, as more people shift away from meat the industry is looking to produce crops for flavor and nutritional value. Yet, finding the right crops with the right traits can take a long time. One company is trying to speed up the process. Equinom, is a company that is using AI technology to select the best genes from each plant and then predict the outcomes. The technology has resulted in 100k acres of specialized crops.

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  • State employees work from home when threat of bad air quality looms

    June 22, 2021 |

    KSTU-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

    Under 3 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Salt Lake City, Utah

    Although work-from-home was mostly a reaction in response to the pandemic, in Salt Lake City, Utah, the strategy has developed the potential to improve air quality. Most state employees are now required to telework certain days in order to help curb bad air quality days, and are given at least a 48-hour notice. During the pandemic, having close to 9,000 state employees stay home reduced pollution by 40 tons over the course of April 2020 to May 2021.

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