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The landfill where you once dumped your garbage might be a great spot for a solar farm

Bill Trotter

December 10, 2019 |

Bangor Daily News |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: United States, Maine

Landfills can offer prime real estate for solar potential due to the lack of trees and access to direct sunlight, and Maine is taking advantage of this. Seen as a sustainable renewable energy project, this is just one more method the state is implementing in order to advocate for increased solar power as an environmentally-friendly strategy.

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Power Struggle

Mitch Anderson

December 07, 2019 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Humboldt County, California

The Blue Lake Rancheria Tribe in California installed its own small-scale electrical supply grid using solar panels and Tesla batteries to make their community more resilient to energy disruptions and lower carbon dioxide emissions. This proved useful during the 2019 wildfire season when utility companies shut down power for millions of residents. The tribe is now helping other Native reserves to build their own microgrid systems.

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Indigenous women in Kenya rebuild resilience amidst an eco-cultural crisis

Wangũi wa Kamonji

December 05, 2019 |

OpenGlobalRights |

Multi-Media |

800-1500 Words

Response Location: Kenya, Tharaka

To build resilience against climate change, women in Kenya are spreading the knowledge of traditional farming and grains, offering sustainable alternatives to mass-produced crops like corn and wheat. By reinstating native farming practices, these women have grown less reliant on foreign imports while reinvigorating cultural traditions in their communities.

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Small Farms and Community Markets Create Space for Revitalization

Violet Baron

December 04, 2019 |

Indiana Environmental Reporter |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Orleans, Indiana

Small farmers in Indiana are working together to "manage the spaces they share, and to use those resources to improve their community by growing healthy food, and distributing that food to the people around them." Although the efforts started with a retiree population, young adults are now joining in, and the coop is gaining attention from economists and universities.

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The Case for Portland-to-Vancouver High-Speed Rail

Gregory Scruggs

December 04, 2019 |

Bloomberg CityLab |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

In an age of congestion and bumper-to-bumper traffic along the Pacific Northwest I-5 corridor, Seattle, Portland, and Vancouver, BC look to the success of high-speed trains in Europe for inspiration. The international phenomenon of cross-country bullet trains - some reaching up to 250mph - has reduced transport time and competes with short-term flights that expend massive amounts of fuel. Now, the Pacific Northwest cities discuss plans to overhaul their current lagging transportation in exchange for a new high-speed railway.

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What happened when schools used science to revamp how reading is taught

Katherine Long

December 01, 2019 |

The Seattle Times |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Danville, Pennsylvania

School districts in Pennsylvania are overhauling traditional reading curricula in favor of new neuroscience research that shows how the human brain processes sounds and symbols. The program is time-intensive, requiring teachers to learn a new way of teaching literacy, but has shown early promising results.

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Can old fridges be recycled to make new ones?

Dougal Shaw

November 29, 2019 |

BBC |

Broadcast TV News |

3-5 Minutes

Response Location: United Kingdom, Telford

A recycling plant in Telford, England has found a way to recycle old refrigerators into new ones using a new technology that preserves the plastic without contamination from the refrigerator coolant. Usually, recycled refrigerator materials can only make simple products, like plant carriers; now, new technology can reduce the waste created from thrown-away fridges.

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An apple revival near Four Corners is restoring hundreds of historic fruits — and the local ag economy

Nancy Lofholm

November 28, 2019 |

The Colorado Sun |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Colorado

The Four Corners region in southwest Colorado has become home to nearly 500 varietals of apples, revitalizing the industry as a whole, thanks to the Montezuma Orchard Restoration Project. The practice of researching and replicating apple varietals has spread to other areas of the state and has helped in promoting the concept of farm to table for both communities and businesses such as in the cider industry.

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Med school free rides and loan repayments — California tries to boost its dwindling doctor supply

Elizabeth Aguilera

November 26, 2019 |

CalMatters |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

To counter a growing concern around doctor shortages, California has implemented a series of measures that aim to keep more doctors in the state, especially focusing on rural areas where they are most needed. From loan repayment plans to expansion and creation of new training programs, the state has already begun to see success in doctor recruitment and retention.

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How this North Salt Lake plant will turn table scraps into natural gas

Amy Joi O'Donoghue

November 24, 2019 |

Deseret News |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Salt Lake City, Utah

Food waste often ends up in landfills, but the Wasatch Resource Recovery facility in Utah transforms the thrown-out food into renewable energy instead. Companies such as Kroger, Dannon, and Nestle send their food waste to the facility on a daily basis, where it is liquefied, broken down by microbes and eventually converted into natural gas.

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