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How To Reduce Traffic Congestion? Put People Over Cars
How to reduce traffic congestion — oh what a question! Why? Because as we’ve all experienced, congestion is frustrating, it wastes valuable time, and it has HUGE social and environmental impacts. But what if there was a really simple answer for it all. Does that really exist? Does it have to be complicated? Well, for …
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What Happens To Women When They Leave Prison?
Each year, over 630,000 people leave state and federal prisons and return home. And whether they serve a a couple months or a multi-year sentence, 93% will eventually be released and asked to reintegrate back into their community. But, when they do finally return home, it’s not exactly an ideal situation. In most cases, they’ll …
Use These Interactive Tools To Better Understand Gerrymandering
Gerrymandering is the process of manipulating an electoral boundary to favor one political party’s interest over another. For example, if you have a state where 30% of the population is Republican and 70% of the population is Democrat, a gerrymandered state (in this situation) would mean that Republicans control the majority of districts despite the …
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Having A Dog In An Apartment Can Be A Nightmare
Move to the city they said, bring your dogs they said! Welp, I did. And while I wouldn’t give up my dogs for anything, I’ve come to the conclusion that city life just doesn’t work for everyone, especially if you’re a dog owner. But let me be clear, it’s not that city life is bad …
EPA EJSCREEN: The Environmental Justice Screening and Mapping Tool
EPA EJSCREEN: The Environmental Justice Screening and Mapping Tool: Article by John Garner According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), environmental justice is defined as the “fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income, with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and …
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Use This Media Bias Chart To Determine News Reliability
In an era of social media and 24-hour news, it’s hard to differentiate between what’s reliable and what isn’t. Fortunately for us, however, Ad Fontes Media and creator Vanessa Otero are trying to change that. Creating the Media Bias Chart in 2016, Vanessa Otero has steadily built the once static chart into a fully interactive …
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Ancient Wind Catchers May Help Cool Our Cities
The City of Yazd sits within one of the hottest and most arid parts of Iran but has also been at the forefront of “cooling technology” for centuries. Home to several technological wonders — such as an underground refrigeration structure called yakhchal, an underground water system called qanats, and an ancient postal service called pirradaziš — Yazd’s …
Are Churches Dying in America? Let’s Look at the Data
As an American millennial, there’s a common “proclamation” that I hear amongst my same-age brethren — it sounds something like, “Oh yeah, I’m a Catholic” or “Yep, been a Baptist my whole life.” But despite what verbally came out of their mouth in that fantastically unadulterated moment, what most of them are really trying to …
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An American 15-Minute City Is Going To Be A Challenge
In The Elusive Dream of the 15-Minute City, author Alan Ehrenhalt explores the concept of the 15-minute city, and if it can actually work in America. Describing his hometown as an endless stretch of, “factory-town main streets,” he once dismissed this way of life as “tedious,” something he now looks back on with sentimental longing. …
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