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  • This Restaurant-Led Agriculture Effort Wants To Help Farmers And Ranchers Fight Climate Change

    May 03, 2021 |

    Colorado Public Radio |

    Radio |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Boulder County, Colorado

    A new county initiative in Colorado aims to support regenerative agriculture projects on farms as a way to take carbon from the atmosphere and store it in the soil in an effort to combat climate change. Restaurants donate 1 percent of their profits to the Restore Colorado initiative in Boulder County. The McCauley Family Farm is one of the first to sign on to this initiative and plan to plant more trees on their grazing land. While it can take years to see any benefits, organizers are looking to scale the initiative to be statewide.

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  • After a century of dispossession, Black farmers are fighting to get back to the land

    May 01, 2021 |

    Mother Jones |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States

    In the U.S., a movement of Black farmers is trying to reclaim their legacy as agrarians. Only 1.7 percent of farms were run by Black farmers according to the U.S. Census of Agriculture. Black farmers are forming collectives, creating land trusts, creating conferences.

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  • Will This Impact Fund Save America's Music Venues?

    April 30, 2021 |

    Next City |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Louisville, Kentucky

    The Live Venue Recovery Fund offers a path for independent music operators to purchase their venue. The fund buys the properties, and collects rent, but are limited to a 12% return rate and the contract lays out a path and timeline of operator ownership. Any additional funds are donated to the National Independent Venue Association. Eligible venues must be seen as culturally significant to the community and vulnerable to redevelopment, as well as show strong financial statements from before COVID-19. The fund forgave a year of rent to some venues hurt by the pandemic, allowing them to get back on their feet.

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  • The climate solution adding millions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere

    April 29, 2021 |

    MIT Technology Review |

    Multi-Media |

    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, California

    A decade after California established its forest offset program as a way to incentivize saving trees to store carbon, a new analysis shows that it might not be working. Loopholes in the program allow for people to claim credits for trees that aren’t delivering the carbon benefits they should and ultimately results in companies emitting more pollution than is being stored. While this program has provided economic benefits for several Indigenous tribes, some argue that “the program creates the false appearance of progress when in fact it makes the climate problem worse.”

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  • The detection dogs tracking poachers and Covid-19

    April 27, 2021 |

    BBC |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: Tanzania

    Detection dogs and their handlers can be trained to sniff out any number of problems. In eastern Africa, the Canines for Conservation project has deployed dogs to search for poachers and illegally harvested wildlife products. By tracking poachers from the scenes of illegal kills and finding ivory and rhino horns stashed in warehouses and shipping containers far more efficiently than X-ray methods, the project has contributed to nearly 400 product seizures, higher conviction rates, and elimination of elephant poaching in parts of Kenya. The next frontier being tested: detecting COVID-19 infections.

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  • This Market Helps Cincinnati's Kid Entrepreneurs Go Beyond the Lemonade Stand

    April 21, 2021 |

    Next City |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Cincinnati, Ohio

    An annual flea market in Cincinnati is honing the entrepreneurial skills of children. The City Flea Kid’s Market allows young vendors to sell a variety of goods, learn about business and gain confidence in themselves.

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  • Energiesprong wants every home to be net-zero

    April 20, 2021 |

    Hothouse Solutions |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: France, Hem

    Inspired by the Dutch concept of “Energiesprong,” or “energy jump,” a developer in France retrofitted a group of townhouses for social housing to be more environmentally friendly. They installed polyurethane facades to avoid heat loss and solar panels on the roof. Upgrading the units to be more green cost more than a conventional retrofit, but over time, energy bills were cut in half. These green retrofits are being implemented in towns around the world and could be a model for developers that want to reduce their carbon footprints.

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  • In a first for the region, Hannaford says its grocery stores have achieved zero food waste

    April 20, 2021 |

    The Boston Globe |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Scarborough, Maine

    The Hannaford supermarket chain has achieved their goal of creating zero food waste. Over the past year, they diverted 65 million pounds of unsellable products to food banks, de-packing facilities, and anaerobic digestion facilities where it’s converted to energy. The grocery store is also making adjustments to how it purchases and sources food and how it’s displayed with the hopes of extending the food’s shelf life.

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  • Pedal power: How bicycles can change lives

    April 20, 2021 |

    BBC |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: Zambia

    Onyx Connect sprang from the imagination of one entrepreneur who saw how poor roads and poverty made bicycles the only practical alternative to walking great distances in southern Zambia. Onyx sells sturdy bikes with a monthly payment plan that makes them affordable but also gives bike owners a personal stake in maintaining their own investment, instead of just having it donated to them. Bikes have given girls greater access to education and farmers more income because they can deliver fresh milk or other goods more often, more quickly, at greater distances than before.

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  • Is Seaweed The Key To Carbon Offsets?

    April 17, 2021 |

    Freethink |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Maine

    Running Tide Technologies, a shellfish hatchery in Maine, is betting on kelp forests as a way to store carbon deep in the ocean and sell that carbon to corporations looking to combat climate change and offset their own emissions. The startup is growing mini-farms of kelp on biodegradable floats and after a few months, they sink to the seafloor. More research is needed to see if it works, but they already have about 1,600 floats adrift in the ocean and the e-commerce company Shopify is the first to buy carbon offsets from them.

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