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In today’s edition, the Spanish government helps companies reduce working hours whilst increasing productivity, Denver uses e-bike vouchers to make streets greener and grandmas around the world help improve lives.
Spanish trial run reduces working hours to see how it boosts productivity
The pilot project in Spain aims to find a way to reduce the hours worked in small and medium-sized industrial companiess without cutting salaries, and whilst boosting productivity.
Source: Euronews
Vouchers for e-bikes successfully bring thousands out of their cars
Denver has successfully used an e-bike voucher scheme to get more people out of their cars and onto greener modes of transport. It could be a national model.
Source: The Washington Post
Indian microfinance providing women with dignified borrowing options
Microfinance institutions in India are providing low-cost loans to women in remote areas that typically only have access to loan sharks. The women are using the money to break the poverty cycle and start their own businesses.
Source: Context
Canadian single-use plastics ban begins
A step forward in the path to sustainability, Canada’s ban on single-use plastics will start this week.
Source: blogTO
Tokyo rules new houses to have solar panels fitted from fiscal year 2025
Tokyo’s government has announced it will introduce a scheme requiring new houses built from the 2025 fiscal year onwards to be fitted with solar panels.
Source: Kyodo News
Deconstructing the US’s largest jail system
Activists in Los Angeles County have been focusing on dismantling the biggest violent jail systems in the country to replace them with mental health facilities and reallocate funding towards social services.
Source: Yes! Magazines
Schools looking to solve student absences, without suspensions
Arizona schools are tackling a rising lack of attendance after the pandemic by helping address the problems of keeping students from school instead of immediately suspending them for absences.
Source: Hechinger Report
Using bubbles to clean up rivers, criminalizing torture, and more
The Christian Science Monitor collected five stories of progress around the globe. Among them are an organization using bubbles to catch rubbish in rivers, homelessness initiatives succeeding in dropping rates of homeless veterans, and more.
Source: The Christian Science Monitor
Communication lifelines for activists detained and isolated
Through a collection of letters and postcards, this activist has kept her passion for her campaign alive even during her imprisonment of 77 days.
Source: Euronews
Grannies solving the world’s problems
These programs from all over the globe are using the power of grandmas to solve societal problems.
Source: BBC
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