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  • On a Honduran island, a community effort grows to protect its precious reefs

    March 25, 2022 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Honduras, Rotán

    Bay Islands Conservation Association is an environmental organization in Rotán, Honduras, working with local communities to balance tourism and the safety of the natural environment. It does so through science and data collection, supporting and informing authorities, and educating the communities.

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  • Can Small Seaweed Farms Help Kelp Scale Up?

    March 16, 2022 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Response Location: United States, Maine

    Atlantic Sea Farms strives to create sustainable ocean livelihoods by growing seaweed, which is good for both people and the planet. It's nutritionally dense, provides an extra source of revenue for fishermen, and is environmentally low impact. Ongoing studies also indicate it might absorb carbon dioxide in the ocean and tamp down ocean acidification. In 2018, Atlantic Sea Farms was producing 30,000 wet pounds of seaweed a year but expects a harvest of 1.2 million pounds this year, making it the largest in the U.S.

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  • Could Sacramento's Surreal Estates experiment be the key to more housing for the creative economy?

    March 10, 2022 |

    Sacramento News & Review |

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    Response Location: United States, Sacramento, California

    Surreal Estates, a tiny housing community in a city block, gives creatives a place to own homes and studios near like-minded people.

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  • Catching Crabs in a Suffocating Sea

    March 01, 2022 |

    Hakai Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Newport, Oregon

    Frances Chan, a researcher at Oregon State University first came across hypoxia or dangerously low-levels of oxygen in the ocean in Oregon back in 2002. To better understand the issue and empower crab fishers whose livelihoods suffered as a result, he helped develop "small, low-cost oxygen sensors" that fit into their crab pots and read the levels of oxygen in water in real time as they fish. This year, 38 instruments were sent out on eight boats, and with time, the information could help fishers adapt.

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  • Belarusian Diaspora Helps Victims of Repression

    February 28, 2022 |

    Transitions Online |

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    Response Location: Belarus

    INeedHelpBy connects Belarusians living abroad with families currently experiencing government persecution and loss of income in the country. Donors have given over $1 million in emergency food aid directly to over 2,000 families in need. Donors pledge to buy at least two weeks of groceries and communicate directly with families to understand their needs. The organization verifies everyone’s identity, that they aren’t government infiltrators and that political repression led to loss of income for recipients. Connecting donors and recipients directly has also led to community building and emotional support.

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  • Pandemic Disruptions Created an Opportunity for Organic School Meals in California

    February 28, 2022 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    The West Contra Costa Unified School District saw loosened regulations during the pandemic as an opportunity to tie up with local organic farms and producers and ensure hundred percent organic meals to students from low-income families. This is part of a growing effort in the state that recognizes school lunch as a way to not just provide the healthiest food to students but also to support a more sustainable food system that helps address climate change.

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  • The turnaround strategy inside St. Louis Public Schools that may be working—and may get discontinued

    February 28, 2022 |

    St. Louis Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, St. Louis, Missouri

    A pilot program, organized by the Consortium Partnership Network, seeks to improve school outcomes by shifting key decisions to staff inside the school, which schools remain under district supervision. The schools also partner with a nonprofit to provide technological support and bring in philanthropic dollars. The partially autonomous governance model is supported by the teacher’s union and has improved teaching-focused aspects as well as programs addressing the mental health, clothing, and food needs of students.

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  • Restaurant Resiliency Program's Rocky Start Tests East Harlem Restaurants

    February 10, 2022 |

    NY City Lens |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    The Restaurant Resiliency Program, which was adapted as a government initiative during COVID, tied up restaurants with charities with the aim of ensuring that vulnerable communities had access to meals while the restaurants were able to keep their business running in those uncertain times. However, when the funding abruptly ended on February 3 without reaching all the beneficiary restaurants, it showed how the much-needed program required better implementation and thought.

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  • Food waste? There's an app for that.

    February 09, 2022 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Food Connect is a nonprofit that acts as a middleman between businesses with edible food waste and people battling food insecurity. From donations to delivery, the whole process is streamlined through an app.

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  • Virginia clean energy job training program climbs its own learning curve

    January 25, 2022 |

    Energy News Network |

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    Response Location: United States, Richmond, Virginia

    To ensure that marginalized communities, include Black residents and the formerly incarcerated, have the skills and opportunity to be a part of the growing solar and energy-efficiency industry in the community, Bridging the Gap offers free, intensive solar-training courses to them.

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