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Angela Wang, staff editor, The Christian Science Monitor. Final year, Boston Public Schools parent: volunteer & advocate for parent engagement.
When thinking big works. www.csmonitor.com/World/Points...
How to create affordable housing for more people, and make a whole city a sponge
Progress roundup: Copenhagen’s sponge-city strategy protects from floods, and more places in the U.S. adopt social housing to lock in affordability.
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September 29, 2025 at 7:06 PM
When thinking big works. www.csmonitor.com/World/Points...
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Why some Israeli journalists only now are turning a lens on Gaza devastation
Why some Israeli journalists only now are turning a lens on Gaza devastation
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September 7, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Why some Israeli journalists only now are turning a lens on Gaza devastation
Please be careful @northeasternu.bsky.social neighborhood - serious accident at Brigham Circle 🙏
August 2, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Please be careful @northeasternu.bsky.social neighborhood - serious accident at Brigham Circle 🙏
In the largest land-back deal in California history - note that it took the Yurok Tribe and Western Rivers Conservancy more than 20 years of work, including raising millions from a long list of funders to buy the territory. www.csmonitor.com/World/Points...
In California and in Poland, new laws for who belongs where
Progress roundup: A $56 million purchase doubles the Yurok tribe’s holdings along the Klamath River, and Shanghai bus riders create new routes.
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July 26, 2025 at 1:50 PM
In the largest land-back deal in California history - note that it took the Yurok Tribe and Western Rivers Conservancy more than 20 years of work, including raising millions from a long list of funders to buy the territory. www.csmonitor.com/World/Points...
In Alabama, hurricane damage prompted voluntary building standards by @ibhs.org and insurance discounts. One key to their success is third-party verification. www.csmonitor.com/World/Points...
Protecting homes from hurricanes, rice crops from heat, and seas from trawling
Progress roundup: Science reveals how rice crops can resist heat for better yields and quality, and how building codes work against hurricanes.
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July 8, 2025 at 3:36 PM
In Alabama, hurricane damage prompted voluntary building standards by @ibhs.org and insurance discounts. One key to their success is third-party verification. www.csmonitor.com/World/Points...
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It's hard to avoid recalling this passage from the English historian Tony Judt:
July 2, 2025 at 3:51 PM
It's hard to avoid recalling this passage from the English historian Tony Judt:
A woman transforms agriculture in Brazil, a Chinese woman in school in Germany discovers how an ocean microbe makes its own surfactant that could break down oil spills, and the women running a hotel in Sri Lanka, a country w. low female workforce participation
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Helpful microbes: For cleaning up oil spills and helping crops grow
Progress roundup: Science enables Brazil to transform its economy, German researchers to find a microbe that makes detergent, and California to filter PFAS.
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July 1, 2025 at 4:23 PM
A woman transforms agriculture in Brazil, a Chinese woman in school in Germany discovers how an ocean microbe makes its own surfactant that could break down oil spills, and the women running a hotel in Sri Lanka, a country w. low female workforce participation
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Person dead after being hit by Needham Line train in West Roxbury
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#Boston #MBTa
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#Boston #MBTa
1 person dead after being struck by MBTA commuter rail train in Boston
BOSTON — One person is dead after officials say they were struck by an MBTA commuter rail train in Boston on Monday morning.
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June 30, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Someone please come get your white helicopter it’s been making a racket here for a good 20 minutes @universalhub.com (??)
June 30, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Someone please come get your white helicopter it’s been making a racket here for a good 20 minutes @universalhub.com (??)
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This is a fascinating and thorough analysis of the 77 bus and why buses have problems in general.
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A couple of things I'd add to this:
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A couple of things I'd add to this:
A few months ago, I paid a visit to Boston and spent some quality time with the MBTA’s bus service. After spending a while digging through T’s (excellent) open data, I had some Thoughts to share about the experience—and bus operations in general.
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How a Bus Route Falls Apart
All opinions in this post are solely my own, and do not represent the positions of my employer or any organizations of which I am part. About two months ago, I found myself waiting for a 77 bus in …
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June 29, 2025 at 5:33 PM
This is a fascinating and thorough analysis of the 77 bus and why buses have problems in general.
cc @universalhub.com
A couple of things I'd add to this:
cc @universalhub.com
A couple of things I'd add to this:
Wondering if we in the U.S. could do this - let people rip out the pavement in front of their house to plant green things. No permits, no red tape. (Granted, in the Netherlands, the hardscape is often tiles)
June 18, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Wondering if we in the U.S. could do this - let people rip out the pavement in front of their house to plant green things. No permits, no red tape. (Granted, in the Netherlands, the hardscape is often tiles)
Two examples of empowerment via autonomy (Bear with me here): In the U.S. a small study found that home health care workers who owned the company reported greater satisfaction (so less turnover). & Greta Garbo, part 2: leaving uncontacted peoples alone in Colombia
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How independence helps caregivers on the job and Indigenous people in Colombia
Progress roundup: Philippine island boosts incomes and mangrove forests, Colombia protects isolated tribes, and U.S. home care workers thrive in co-ops.
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May 25, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Two examples of empowerment via autonomy (Bear with me here): In the U.S. a small study found that home health care workers who owned the company reported greater satisfaction (so less turnover). & Greta Garbo, part 2: leaving uncontacted peoples alone in Colombia
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www.csmonitor.com/World/Points...
For me as a reader, some relief and hope in this desire for peace, 5,000 miles away. I’ll take it. Thank you, @taylorluck.bsky.social
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Across Arab Mideast, a new alignment rises: An axis of cooperation
A new regional alignment rising in the Middle East shifts power away from Iran’s “Axis of Resistance.” Moderate Sunnis seeking stability and prosperity now have friendly governments in Beirut, Damascu...
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May 25, 2025 at 1:24 PM
For me as a reader, some relief and hope in this desire for peace, 5,000 miles away. I’ll take it. Thank you, @taylorluck.bsky.social
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Thinking Greta Garbo. Smithsonian mag wrote in 2017 that she said in 1955: “I never said, ‘I want to be alone,’ ... I only said, ‘I want to be let alone! There is all the difference.”
May 14, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Thinking Greta Garbo. Smithsonian mag wrote in 2017 that she said in 1955: “I never said, ‘I want to be alone,’ ... I only said, ‘I want to be let alone! There is all the difference.”
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Cacao trees can be less productive over time. But a tried-and-true technique – grafting – can rejuvenate a tree and help prevent the deforestation that is practiced when starting a new plantation. #chocolate
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Grafting for chocolate in Peru, and going after invasive species in New Zealand
Progress roundup: Grafting revives cacao trees, reforms in Fiji strengthen democracy, and New Zealand commits to pest eradication on three islands.
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May 6, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Cacao trees can be less productive over time. But a tried-and-true technique – grafting – can rejuvenate a tree and help prevent the deforestation that is practiced when starting a new plantation. #chocolate
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www.csmonitor.com/World/Points...
Earth Day post! This is how Points of Progress works: We read lots. We choose stories of positive change and squish them into short reads. You'll never see me write "BREAKING," it's more ICYMI. Here, @katharinehayhoe.com gave us facts about Finland's leadership. Links to original articles included.
Innovations from Dallas to Finland - Finland news thanks to @katharinehayhoe.com www.csmonitor.com/World/Points...
How to reuse exhaust from jets and store energy in sand
Progress roundup: Dallas airport captures jet exhaust for electricity, Finland innovates with heating methods, plus rights rulings in Japan and Kenya.
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April 22, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Earth Day post! This is how Points of Progress works: We read lots. We choose stories of positive change and squish them into short reads. You'll never see me write "BREAKING," it's more ICYMI. Here, @katharinehayhoe.com gave us facts about Finland's leadership. Links to original articles included.
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Reading about the dire wolf news? Read this ⬇️
I have devoted my life to ice age ecosystems, and I feel an acute responsibility to tell the stories of extinct species and to help people to know them better. To see this work being done with such a casual disregard not only for the truth but for life itself is genuinely abhorrent to me.
April 7, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Reading about the dire wolf news? Read this ⬇️
Do you hesitate to give your rideshare 5 ⭐? @larivera.bsky.social explains studies on job evals: A 6-point scale instead of 10 eliminated gender gaps, maybe because a 6-out-of-6 rating is not as associated with perfection, which is more often attributed to men. www.csmonitor.com/World/Points...
When a ‘thumbs-up’ beats 5 stars, and where paralegals aid women’s land rights
Progress roundup: three equity questions on job performance grades, the worthiness of women as landowners, and Indigenous people’s quality of life.
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April 8, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Do you hesitate to give your rideshare 5 ⭐? @larivera.bsky.social explains studies on job evals: A 6-point scale instead of 10 eliminated gender gaps, maybe because a 6-out-of-6 rating is not as associated with perfection, which is more often attributed to men. www.csmonitor.com/World/Points...
In 2022, the president of Argentina took a climate class required of all public officials. He said, "We are complying with a law that imposes an obligation for public officials to listen to information about the scope of climate change and the consequences it can bring."
April 3, 2025 at 6:52 PM
In 2022, the president of Argentina took a climate class required of all public officials. He said, "We are complying with a law that imposes an obligation for public officials to listen to information about the scope of climate change and the consequences it can bring."
Where a Supreme Court struck down a pro-development law, and a Congress put animal rights into its constitution (OK, I’ll tell you – it’s Nepal and Mexico)
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The rights of animals and the environment, from Mexico to Nepal
Progress roundup: Nepal’s Supreme Court disallowed development in protected areas. And in Mexico, Congress put animal welfare in the constitution.
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March 27, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Where a Supreme Court struck down a pro-development law, and a Congress put animal rights into its constitution (OK, I’ll tell you – it’s Nepal and Mexico)
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NEW: Feds say Lebanese transplant doctor deported from Boston airport had 'sympathetic' photos of Hezbollah leaders on her phone
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Deported Brown University professor had ‘sympathetic photos’ of Hezbollah leaders on her phone, DOJ says
The government’s explanation for Rasha Alawieh’s deportation came before a judge postponed a hearing on whether it defied a judge’s order that she not be deported without advance notice to the court.
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March 17, 2025 at 2:24 PM
NEW: Feds say Lebanese transplant doctor deported from Boston airport had 'sympathetic' photos of Hezbollah leaders on her phone
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We *can* all just get along, said the sheep to the solar panel. www.csmonitor.com/World/Points...
Low-tech and upside-down: The solutions under our feet
Progress roundup: Fish advance science on China’s space station, solar farms host sheep on the ground, and across Africa, new publishers boost writers.
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March 17, 2025 at 2:13 PM
We *can* all just get along, said the sheep to the solar panel. www.csmonitor.com/World/Points...
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Shut down for the first time since 1942
News: Journalists at Voice of America were just informed that they’ve been put on administrative leave. Two people there told me this went to all fulltime employees.
“From what we can tell, VOA is effectively shut down from this moment.”
“From what we can tell, VOA is effectively shut down from this moment.”
March 15, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Shut down for the first time since 1942