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    Prisons you can leave every day
    • May 11

    Prisons you can leave every day

    For 12 hours a day, prisoners in India’s open prisons can leave to go out to work or visit family. In virtually every case, they come back.
    Cultural burns helping to save threatened koalas
    • Apr 16

    Cultural burns helping to save threatened koalas

    The 2019–2020 bushfires saw the koala declared as endangered across most of eastern Australia. Now, cultural burns may help save them.
    Co-op takes on building granny flats
    • Mar 2

    Co-op takes on building granny flats

    Co-op builder in Illinois, USA, sees granny flats as one way to achieve more affordable housing.
    Mums on Bikes riding high after needed support
    • Jan 26

    Mums on Bikes riding high after needed support

    People offer bikes, money and support to a group of mums on Elcho Island in Australia’s remote north riding bicycles each night to get fit.
    Talk the Walk answers loneliness in London
    • Nov 20, 2021

    Talk the Walk answers loneliness in London

    After eighteen months of isolation due the COVID lockdowns, Talk the Walk is bringing people together while exploring London on foot.
    Paris turns pricey landmark into public housing
    • Sep 24, 2021

    Paris turns pricey landmark into public housing

    Paris has just opened 96 affordable apartments offering world-class views in one the its priciest neighbourhoods for about US$500 a month.
    No-wait crossing for pedestrians
    • Jul 13, 2021

    No-wait crossing for pedestrians

    Phoenix has been one of the worst US cities for car-pedestrian accidents, but fatalities are dropping as new crossing lights are installed.
    The bees are back and checking in
    • Apr 28, 2021

    The bees are back and checking in

    Bee hotels, bee stops and a honey highway are some of the techniques the Dutch are using to keep their urban bee populations steady.
    ‘Free money’ can be a leg up
    • Mar 5, 2021

    ‘Free money’ can be a leg up

    As one city’s experiment shows, rather than being a handou, t‘free money’ can be a leg up with real tangible results.
    Ex-monk takes on Thai sex trafficking
    • Jan 3, 2021

    Ex-monk takes on Thai sex trafficking

    Operating out of a Thai monastery, Hartanto Gunawan has spent the past 16 years providing girls with another option to selling their bodies.
    Rural America is building its own broadband network
    • Oct 29, 2020

    Rural America is building its own broadband network

    With the covid lockdown, reliable broadband internet has become a new necessity. Co-ops are stepping in where big telcos won’t.
    Yemeni women go solar in a war zone
    • Oct 17, 2020

    Yemeni women go solar in a war zone

    A women-run solar station near the Yemen's war frontline is empowering its owners and improving life in their community.
    India's poorest revive an ancient grain
    • Aug 24, 2020

    India's poorest revive an ancient grain

    India’s marginalised Dalit community is reviving millet to help boost food security, adapt to a changing climate, and improve nutrition.
    Bushfire-ravaged community deeply moved by PNG donation
    • Aug 8, 2020

    Bushfire-ravaged community deeply moved by PNG donation

    When Andy Thorp heard his Rotary Club of Merimbula on the NSW south-coast was sent a donation from people in PNG he was shocked by how much.
    Buying up homes for the people
    • Jun 29, 2020

    Buying up homes for the people

    MEDA is leading an anti-gentrification effort where local non-profits can buy residential buildings to prevent eviction and displacement.
    Better off Americans donate their stimulus money
    • May 15, 2020

    Better off Americans donate their stimulus money

    Americans in a stable financial position are donating part of their stimulus payments to help those badly affected by Covid-19.
    Amid the lockdown, we are rising up
    • Apr 23, 2020

    Amid the lockdown, we are rising up

    A small selection of ways people providing uplifting moments of joy in a world beset by anxiety and fear during the lockdown.
    Sikhs to the rescue
    • Apr 9, 2020

    Sikhs to the rescue

    Sydney’s Sikh community has spent more AU$4,000 setting up a food donation program to help Australia’s elderly stranded in self-isolation.
    Getting back on the bike
    • Mar 12, 2020

    Getting back on the bike

    Elderly people enjoy free bike rides out and about in their neighbourhoods.
    Old hotel converted for homeless
    • Feb 10, 2020

    Old hotel converted for homeless

    In Denver, theColorado Coalition for the Homeless has bought and converted a former hotel into affordable housing.
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