BMX biking boosts youth mental health
Teenagers are riding BMX bikes while learning life skills and dealing with mental health challenges due, in part, to the covid lockdowns.
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- Jan 6
111 trees per daughter changes village's future
How an unusual ritual led to fewer child marriages, less flooding, a boom in girls’ education — and a cultural transformation in India.
- Dec 20, 2022
Kashmiri women thrive with a restored internet
With fewer internet shutdowns, Kashmiri women and entrepreneurs have launched online businesses and turned content creators.
- Nov 9, 2022
Two more US states approve marijuana
Von November 8, voters in the US states of Maryland and Missouri passed referendums to legalise recreational marijuana.
- Oct 24, 2022
You want a bike with that book?
Campuses and libraries across the US are increasingly adding bikes to what you can borrow, increasing access to cycling along the way.
- Oct 9, 2022
Getting to know your neighbours
Being friendly with your neighbours has huge social benefits, and getting started can be as easy as a casual wave hello.
- Sep 9, 2022
Staying at home but still getting about
Volunteers run a mini-van to transport residents to keep them living longer in the bush.
- Aug 9, 2022
Fine dining serves up training and dignity
Inspired by his own experience, a chef offers ex-prisoners help to get back on their feet.
- Aug 3, 2022
Greening around Kenya's biggest landfills
From dumpsite to baby shower venue: green spaces are sprouting up within Nairobi’s many landfills.
- Jul 27, 2022
Taking Pontevedra's car-free lead
The Spanish city of Pontevedra banned cars decades before most cities started to think about reclaiming streets for pedestrians.
- Jul 14, 2022
People with dementia working on farms
On Dutch ‘care farms’ people with dementia can tend to livestock, harvest vegetables and make their own decisions.
- May 29, 2022
Artist brightens up her city's drab streets
A British artist paints the facades of some of her city’s rundown and neglected houses, transforming them into a rainbow of colours.
- May 12, 2022
The prison you can leave every day
For 12 hours a day, prisoners can let themselves out to work or visit family. In virtually every case, they come back.
- Apr 17, 2022
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.
- Mar 17, 2022
Single mums form co-housing community
Two single mums raising their children together in a four-unit home have now bought another building to expand housing choices for women.
- Mar 3, 2022
Co-op takes on building granny flats
Co-op builder in Illinois, USA, sees granny flats as one way to achieve more affordable housing.
- Jan 27, 2022
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.
- Nov 21, 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.
- Sep 25, 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.
- Jul 14, 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.
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