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It turns out that the single most significant way to reduce CO2 emissions is to change the way we...
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Most journalism is about what’s wrong in the world, with very little focus or reporting on what...
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Journalism and democracy are inextricably linked. The practice of journalism plays a critical...
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The stories in this collection illustrate approaches taken toward achieving the UN’s goal to end...
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Wind turbines are rapidly becoming cost competitive with electricity generated by coal-fired...
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The stories in this collection (one of three about Discovering What Works) provide an overview of...
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The 2018 midterm election witnessed a dramatic increase in young voter turnout—by some measures,...
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The third UN Global Goal—good health and well-being—aims to ensure healthy lives for all people...
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Project Drawdown ranks reducing food waste as the third most significant strategy for reducing...
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This is the third of three teaching collections on Discovering What Works in the field of social...
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We are all familiar with the idea that every vote counts in a democracy. One person, one...
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The UN's fourth Goal—achieving quality education—seeks to ensure inclusive education for...
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Project Drawdown ranks a plant-based diet as the fourth most powerful strategy for slowing and...
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This is the second of three teaching collections on Discovering What Works in the field of social...
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Extreme polarization does not just make for unpleasant Thanksgiving dinners with relatives who...
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Achieving gender parity is a necessary precondition for the UN Global Goals. Providing women and...
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Eating a diet rich in fruits, vegetables and whole grains is good for human health, and it turns...
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Sometimes what seems like a great idea to solve a social or environmental problem fails—or worse,...
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Teenagers and young adults in Boston decide how to spend one million dollars of the city's budget...
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Water management is one of the most challenging Goals on the 2030 Agenda. As the UN Economic and...
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Tropical rainforests provide many ecosystem services, including absorbing carbon and filtering...
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Can a science of philanthropy inform spending in a way that maximizes the benefit? This...
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As a citizen, you observe from day to day how well your local government works. It is likely that...
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Ensuring universal access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern sources of energy is...
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"Education lays a foundation for vibrant lives for girls and women, their families, and their...
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Many well-meaning social programs don’t quite get to the root of the problem—they only treat the...
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In a world of 7.5 billion people, there are innumerable scenarios where individual ownership of a...
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The UN’s 2030 Agenda relies in large part on achieving decent work for all and creating...
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Effective family planning strategies that focus on well-being, education and empowerment not only...
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The solutions journalism stories in this collection illustrate how cultivating collaborations can...
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This collection is adapted from the SolutionsU Pro Innovation in Action series on COVID-19. The...
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Investments in sustainable industrial development, resilient infrastructure, and the innovations...
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Solar farms provide an unlimited and clean source of energy, that in many countries is now...
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What the solutions journalism stories in this collection all have in common is that they are...
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This collection is adapted from the SolutionsU Pro Innovation in Action series on COVID-19. The...
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The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals call for us to build more equitable societies—leaving no...
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Project Drawdown ranks silvopasture as the ninth best solution for reducing carbon emissions and,...
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Success factors are the tactics critical to a response’s success. The success factor, empowering...
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Microfinance - or creating financial products such as savings plans, small loans, or insurance to...
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Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals requires creating cities that are more inclusive,...
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Installing rooftop solar has become an effective climate change mitigation strategy as well as a...
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Human-centered design strategies such as behavior nudges, humor or can help change makers create...
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Last mile delivery focuses on building the last step in a delivery model to make sure people...
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Goal 12 calls for consumers and producers to reverse current trends, decoupling resource...
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In the modern era, industrial monoculture has taken a huge toll on global biodiversity. Large...
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America's healthcare is by far the most expensive in the world, and in 2014 there were still 33...
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Goal 13 calls on the global community to take urgent action against climate change. Currently,...
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Temperate forests lie mostly in the Northern Hemisphere and in total cover 1.9 billion acres,...
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Focusing on assets, not needs explores programs that take advantage of pre-existing assets and...
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Expanding access is often about getting products and services to new people, in new markets, in...
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The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals aim to ensure the sustainable use of marine resources and...
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Project Drawdown ranks planting and harvesting tropical staple trees as the 14th best solution...
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Certain challenges — questions of scaling and impact measurement and evaluation — are endemic to...
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Ten years ago, a book called "The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid," introduced the idea that...
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Goal 15 reminds us that healthy human communities rely on the health of our land and forest...
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Conservation agriculture, when looking at a single acre, does not appear to do much in the way of...
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Sometimes the underlying causes of a social challenge are so large or complex that uniting...
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When communities have reached solutions that deviate from cultural norms, they have overcome a...
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Legal systems provide the framework for countries to implement the Global Goals in the 2030...
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Tree intercropping is mixing trees and crops together in order to create a richer ecosystem and...
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There are very few (if any) "silver bullet" solutions for the myriad of complex problems society...
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In an age of economic globalization and rapidly-increasing access to technology, new avenues are...
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Goal 17 calls for increased international cooperation in the implementation of all the...
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Beneath the surface of the earth is an energy source, geothermal, that could provide 39 countries...
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The root causes of familiar social challenges such as poverty or violence are often difficult to...
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The stories in this collection illustrate how real-world businesses are innovating and remaining...
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This collection is adapted from the SolutionsU Pro Innovation in Action series on COVID-19....
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With the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases rising by the day in the United States and around the...
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Volunteer groups like Invisible Hands, COVID-19 Neighborhood Volunteers and thousands of others...
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With the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases rising by the day in the United States and around the...
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With the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases rising by the day in the United States and around the...
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Creative thinking, managing risk, having fresh perspective and overcoming concerns about failure...
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While the United States, the UK, Italy and other wealthy Western countries have struggled to...
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Sandra Larson is a Boston-based journalist covering urban and social issues and policy. Since...
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