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  • La recolección y exportación de textiles logra desviar 9 millones de libras de ropa de los vertederos

    April 22, 2022 |

    El Nuevo Día |

    Multi-Media |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Puerto Rico

    La Asociación de Coordinadores de Reciclaje Municipal en Puerto Rico ha logrado desviar 9 millones de libras de ropa a través de dos métodos—poniendo contenedores de recolección en varias áreas de diferentes comunidades de la isla, y también a través de la exportación.

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  • How Los Angeles Became the Leader of a Tree-Planting Revolution

    April 22, 2022 |

    Outside |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    City Plants, an organization in Los Angeles, is partnering with other nonprofits, government agencies, scientists, and residents to create a more equitable urban forest throughout the city. By working together and using technology, they have planted more than 65,000 trees to combat climate change, systemic racism, and high temperatures that affect all Angelenos.

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  • Indigenous knowledge and science team up to triple a caribou herd

    April 21, 2022 |

    Mongabay |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Canada, British Columbia

    A collaboration between two First Nations communities, scientists, private businesses, and the Canadian government are recovering caribou populations in British Columbia. Because of their work, they have been able to triple the number of caribou in their herd over the last decades. While their methods of protecting the animals are controversial, they’ve been able to protect more than 7,000 hectares of additional land for caribou habitat.

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  • Jailed for a crime she didn't commit, Dreama Caldwell is now taking on the system

    April 20, 2022 |

    The Real News Network |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Alamance County, North Carolina

    Community organizers are leading grassroots efforts for racial and economic justice in North Carolina. Dreama Caldwell is working with the Down Home North Carolina group to engage with local residents, participate in political races, counteract misinformation, and build “a political platform that emphasizes multiracial and cross-class solidarity.”

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  • What Is the Future of America's Greenest Town?

    April 19, 2022 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

    Multi-Media |

    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Greensburg, Kansas

    After a tornado devastated Greensburg, Kansas, the town decided to use the disaster as an opportunity to become more environmentally sustainable. For example, they built a new school out of recycled wood and it was powered with geothermal heat. While the maintenance of these sustainable features can be tricky, this shift to a greener town can be a case study for others looking to make the transition.

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  • Living with COVID in Toronto: When you feel alone even though 'we're all in this together'

    April 11, 2022 |

    The Green Line |

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    Response Location: Canada, Toronto, Ontario

    During the 1918 influenza pandemic, a sophisticated network of volunteer groups mobilized across Toronto to help people in need. The organizations coordinated with the U.S. Postal Service to distribute survey cards to homes where people were isolating to gather requests for food aid and other assistance.

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  • The world's most polluted capital city

    April 05, 2022 |

    BBC |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: India, New Delhi

    To address the issue of heavy outdoor pollution and related deaths and illnesses, Delhi-based Indian Agricultural Research Institute has formulated an "organic microbial spray" called the Pusa decomposer. It serves as an alternative to crop residue burning, one of the main sources of pollution. One of 12 companies licensed to use this technology, nurture.farm, has been working with farmers in neighboring Haryana to provide training as well as to make both access and use of the spray easier for them.

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  • Opium production down as communities in Mexico's Golden Triangle turn to forestry

    March 29, 2022 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Mexico, Durango

    Four communities in Durango, Mexico, turned to sustainable forestry practices to earn their livings and stop dependence on illegal crop production.

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  • Montreal neighbours build community, and climate resilience, through geothermal energy

    March 28, 2022 |

    Ricochet |

    Multi-Media |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Canada, Montreal, Quebec

    Geoexchange systems are most popular in large building projects, and in Montreal, it's becoming a potential sustainable approach for single-family homes. Neighbors teamed up with a nonprofit to install the infrastructure for a geoexchange system to heat and cool their homes. Geoexchange works by using high-temperature geothermal energy and feeding this energy to homes through pipes installed in the houses.

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  • Wildflower revolution would lead to investment in our community, environmental future

    March 26, 2022 |

    Richland Source |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Ohio

    In order to attract and sustain pollinators, communities in Ohio and Wisconsin are resorting to a more "unkempt" approach. In Mansfield, Ohio the community started planting "butterfly and pollinator gardens" in various areas of the city, as well introduced new mowing patterns which include mowing less areas and letting some areas overgrow. In Appleton, Wisconsin, the city council has instituted "No Mow May" during which "communities suspend the enforcement of their long-grass rules for the month, allowing property owners to delay lawn care as a way to promote pollinator-friendly habitats."

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