
Tilling North St. Louis, Planting for a Healthier Future
Large swaths of St. Louis are without easy access to fresh food and nutritious produce. These “food deserts,” are most often in low-income communities. Organizers, farmers, and nonprofits are using a variety of creative methods to ensure people have access to the food they need
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Period Poverty: Celebrating Efforts to Destigmatize Menstruation and Increase Access to Sanitation Supplies
This movement for menstrual equity has grown in recent years and aims to make sanitary products affordable and accessible and reduce stigma surrounding menstruation. Organizations, activists, and governments are increasingly taking action to solve this problem.
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How an Italian Denim Manufacturer Has Created the World's Most Sustainable Jeans
Candiani's denim operation is sometimes called “the greenest mill in the blue world.” And their denim formula has been awarded Global Organic Textile Standards GOTS approval and won numerous awards.
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CT Scans Have Been Saving Lives for 50 Years — Thanks To An Eccentric Engineer at the Beatles’ Record Company
The CT scan has benefited the health of many patients around the world, helping identify tumors and determine if surgery is needed.
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L.A.'s New Reflective Streets Bounce Heat Back into Space
Cities are painting their streets white. The air in these neighborhoods is getting cooler — with huge (positive) implications for the planet.
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Meet the World-Changing Fellows of the 2021 MacArthur Program
By investing in solution-makers, the Foundation remains committed to doing real, actionable good. As part of their program, the foundation has an annual fellowship where some of the brightest minds are given a no-strings-attached grant of $625k over the course of 5 years.
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This App is Fighting Food Insecurity in the U.S.
Food banks and nonprofits do an amazing job helping people who live with food insecurity. But the stigma around asking for help causes some people to go without. Using mobile technology and existing food sector systems, this startup is connecting hungry people.
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This Experiential Learning Farm Helps Youth Build a Better World
At Freetown Farm, members of the community can learn the names of medicinal herbs and harvest vegetables, all while developing a deeper relationship to the land and local community.
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Youth Climate Protesters Around the World Have Returned to the Streets
Greta Thunberg's Fridays for Future movement has resumed mass street protests for the first time since the pandemic began.
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These Two Young Entrepreneurs Are Combating Food Waste With Delicious Vegan Cookies
Reyanne Mustafa and Kristian Krugman were working as servers when they noticed how much food restaurants throw away at the end of the day.
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17 Innovative and Life-Saving Medical Advancements from the Last Century
It’s easy to see that health care looks drastically different than it did just a few generations ago — and it’s for the betterment and wellbeing of our communities.
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Virtual Health Care Fills Coverage Gaps In Rural America
Instead, they use remote controls to move high-resolution cameras within emergency rooms, where nurses and other health care professionals work directly with patients under the guidance of these remote physicians.
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