Title
& Description
News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
& LENGTH
Slate
Neil Richards
29 January 2021
South Korea
Text
1500-3000 Words
Having learned from a failed response to Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS), the South Korea government and health officials enacted a proactive and effective strategy to contain the spread of 'Covid-...
28 January 2021
West Virginia, United States
Broadcast TV News
3-5 Minutes
West Virginia relied on strategic partnerships, collaboration, and efficient use of medicine to successfully outpace every other state in the U.S. in COVID-19 vaccine distribution. Rather than turning to nationally-ru...
27 January 2021
Kauai, Hawaii, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Hawaii’s North Shore has implemented a plan to embrace a model of tourism that would respect the land, minimize any damage, and create a better community for native residents. Regenerative tourism helped stabilize a f...
24 January 2021
Waco, Texas, United States
Multi-Media
800-1500 Words
A handful of schools across Texas are implementing a telehealth program known as SchoolMed Virtual Care for Families to better serve their student body. The program pairs a virtual doctor with the school's in-person n...
22 January 2021
Tahiti, French Polynesia
Multi-Media
5-15 Minutes
A rapidly changing climate is shaking up how French Polynesian pearl farmers are doing business. Kamoka Pearl Farm is incorporating more sustainable practices like using its own oysters to create the nuclei that form ...
22 January 2021
New Delhi, Delhi, India
Text
800-1500 Words
More than 160 children from near the Singhu border in northern India attend Sanjhi Sathh, a makeshift school run by farmers. The school is open on weekdays from 11:30am to 2pm, and helps children keep up with their sc...
22 January 2021
Rock Hall, Maryland, United States
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
Maryland farmer Trey Hill became the first seller in a tech startup’s carbon marketplace, paying him $115,000 for initiating regenerative farming practices. By introducing cover crops, he has been able to sequester ab...
FreshWater Cleveland
Cindy Hill
21 January 2021
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
When the coronavirus pandemic impeded how home care professionals could perform their jobs, many organizations had to adapt to new protocols. In Ohio, the Visiting Nurses Association pivoted to create a COVID-19 “SWAT...
21 January 2021
Taholah, Washington, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
In Washington state, the Quinault Indian Nation has taken an aggressive and proactive approach to control the spread of COVID-19 amongst their community, and these efforts are showing success. Using a combination of t...
21 January 2021
Kampung Buayan, Borneo, Malaysia
Text
800-1500 Words
An indigenous-led nonprofit group called Tonibung installed a micro-hydro electrical system for a village deep in Borneo’s rainforests. The project not only supplied much-needed energy for the villagers of Kampung Bua...
The Huffington Post
XiaoZhi Lim
18 January 2021
Tucson, Arizona, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
As the amount of farmland decreases in the United States and climate change brings hotter and drier conditions, many farmers are turning to agrivoltaics — growing crops and installing solar panels on the same land — a...
The New York Times
Benjamin Mueller
16 January 2021
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Text
1500-3000 Words
In March when fewer than 100 coronavirus infections had been found in the U.K, researchers in Cambridge decided to begin sequencing coronavirus samples as part of an "unparalleled surveillance system for Covid" that c...
15 January 2021
Detroit, Michigan, United States
Text
Under 800 Words
In Michigan, state officials started offering child care subsidies to online learners ages 5-12, nearly 20,000 children enrolled. The aid is helping parents, guardians, and caretakers of school-age children continue t...
14 January 2021
West Virginia, United States
Text
Under 800 Words
Most states in the U.S. are struggling to effectively and efficiently distribute the COVID-19 vaccine, while "West Virginia became the first state to finish round one of the two-dose vaccine series in nursing homes." ...
14 January 2021
Iraq
Text
800-1500 Words
Hello Future is a non-profit teaching digital literacy at a refugee camp in Iraq. The program aims to teach refugees aged 13-18 marketable skills, and does so through "mobile-first" initiatives, where "90% of the prog...
14 January 2021
Zimbabwe
Text
800-1500 Words
As part of the coronavirus lockdown in Zimbabwe, people were banned from visiting prisons, but a mobile app has allowed relatives to send supplies to those who are incarcerated via their cellphone. This newest initiat...
13 January 2021
Denmark
Text
800-1500 Words
Denmark public health workers have been able to distribute nearly their entire supply of the COVID-19 vaccine thanks in part to early preparation tactics and "a capable health system." Although the country had to proc...
The Buckeye Flame
Caitlin Fisher
11 January 2021
Ohio, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
A free speech clinic in Ohio is providing transgender patients with speech services to help them find their voice through vocal exercises. The clinic, which operates in conjunction with Baldwin Wallace University, has...
8 January 2021
Israel
Text
800-1500 Words
A collaboration between Israel's Ministry of Health and pharmaceutical company Pfizer has resulted in the country receiving thousands of COVID-19 vaccination doses. In return, the country is collecting and delivering ...
8 January 2021
Cross River, Nigeria
Text
1500-3000 Words
The Saving Mothers, Giving Life (SMGL) initiative in Cross River state is helping to address a gap in services that women had been facing during childbirth and reduce the state's and Nigeria's overall maternal mortali...
7 January 2021
West Virginia, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
West Virginia managed to deliver approximately 90% of the COVID-19 vaccine doses allocated to the state within a week by "charting its own path to vaccine distribution." Rather than rely on chain stores as part of the...
5 January 2021
Stockholm, Sweden
Text
1500-3000 Words
The Street Moves initiative in Sweden is pushing local communities to become the designers of their own streets’ layouts and look at urban planning through the lens of the “one-minute city.” Through a public-private p...
4 January 2021
New York, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
A handful of nursing homes in New York have been able to avoid an onslaught of COVID-19 cases by focusing on education and training of the staff and keeping their workforce stable and well-supplied. While these method...
4 January 2021
California, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
School districts and cities in California are looking to create their own local Wifi networks as a long-term solution to the digital divide, and an alternative to hotspots. Some are even becoming internet service prov...
4 January 2021
San Francisco, California, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
The San Francisco Bay Area has had fewer COVID-19 deaths than would be expected for such a densely populated area, largely by "drawing on resources and expertise that predated the coronavirus pandemic." Unlike other l...
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