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Fandom Forward is using fan activism, training, and community building to empower fans from across the globe and make the world a better place.

When the natural world inspires engineering projects, the results can both protect us from climate impacts and center the needs of frontline communities.

Music has a way of worming into the brain, whether it’s jingles you can’t forget or songs that really resonate. The soundtracks of our lives resonate even more deeply because of the feelings that attach to certain music.

In the Dallas area, more than a dozen nonprofits and government agencies joined forces to launch a new program using the COVID federal aid, aiming for successes that other localities could replicate.

These nonprofit entities invest tax dollars in local projects and entrepreneurs that have been historically denied loans — and they don’t answer to shareholders.

As the Covid-19 pandemic brought shutdowns and quarantines, making students’ lives less stable and connected, it intensified a long-festering youth mental health crisis and left schools searching for answers.

The UK, Germany, and France are Europe’s three biggest economies, and yet they haven’t solved their housing problem. Across Europe, the picture is much the same, except in Finland.

Alexandria, Virginia went fare-free in 2020 and has seen ridership remain close to pre-pandemic levels. With frequent service and plenty of money to fund the buses, the transit experiment appears to be working, for now.

On 3 November 2021, taxi drivers in New York broke their 15-day hunger strike, to celebrate a debt relief plan involving a city-backed taxi medallion guarantee along with a maximum debt limit of $170,000. Jaslin Kaur was a supporter at the forefront of these protests.

At Benevolence Farm, residents live on site and help produce and sell food. Advocates say it’s a way to address major gaps in the rural justice system.

These Republican states are passing clean energy bills in the name of freedom and economics.

Did you know that the US is losing 36 million trees every year? Several organizations have stepped up with creative solutions to save the wood, reduce carbon emissions and create jobs.