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27 May

Gravity and The Simon Community Collaboration: Using a Mobile App to Help Homeless Find Shelter and Food

Gravity is a London-based modern tech company that normally specializes in creating large-scale digital products for businesses through mobile or web platforms. However, in 2014 they partnered with the homelessness-focused charity The Simon Community, which works to provide services and...
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27 May

Madécasse – Curbing the Global Supply Chain to Empower Cocoa Farmers in Madagascar

Madécasse is a Brooklyn-based chocolate and vanilla company that was established in 2006 by two Peace Corps volunteers who had served in Madagascar. The mission of the company is to empower Madagascar’s cocoa farmers, strengthen the local economy and protect...
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26 May

Pew’s Project Eyes on the Seas – Partnering with Satellite Applications Catapult to Combat Illegal Fishing

The Pew Charitable Trusts is a nonprofit organization established between 1948 and 1979 with the purpose of improving public policy and public awareness of environmental, health, state and consumer issues through the provision of useful data and rigorous analysis. In...
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26 May

Solar Sister: Ending energy poverty by empowering women

Solar Sister is a group that helps to provide clean energy to women and girls in Uganda, Tanzania, and Nigeria. Their mission is to eradicate energy poverty by empowering women with economic opportunity. “We are creating deliberately woman-centered direct sales...
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22 May

Sustainable Food Trade Association: Organic leaders for sustainability

The Sustainable Food Trade Association (SFTA) is a peer-to-peer network and learning community for the organic food industry. Their mission is “to build the capacity of the organic food trade to transition to sustainable business models” (Sustainablefoodtrade.org). Organic farming is based on practices...
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21 May

Map of the Week: Red Nose Day

Today is Red Nose Day, a day to highlight the child poverty that exists in the country. People are having fundraisers through entertainment. The map below displays the percent of children in poverty throughout the states. 22%, 16 million, of children in...
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21 May

GeoMakers: A global community of innovators

Introducing GeoMakers Within the Geospatial community, there is an abiding interest in anything involving location, surveying and mapping, remote sensing (such as satellite or airborne imagery), 3D terrain characterization, navigation, and understanding change over time within a particular geography. GeoMakers...
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13 May

AGS Newest Volunteer in HQ: Sophie Collings

My name is Sophie Collings, I am a 25 year old geographer from the UK currently volunteering at the American Geographical Society in New York. I have been volunteering here since the beginning of the year, with particular emphasis on supporting...
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13 May

BioCarbon Engineering: A Geospatial Approach to Improve Carbon Sequestration in the Amazon

BioCarbon Engineering, a company in Oxford, United Kingdom, has developed drone technology to tackle global climate change. The company aims to use drones in order to upscale reforestation, planting billions of trees a year using ‘Precision Forestry” in the Amazon....
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12 May

Get to know Jared Novick: AGS Councilor out to change the world!

With a keen interest in technology and innovation, AGS Council member Jared Novick has set the benchmark for not only facilitating new knowledge about the world around us, but for outer space as well. A self-confessed “tinkerer” with a math...
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