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Great Salt Lake managers raise causeway berm in effort to stave off rising salinity

Leia Larson

September 23, 2022 |

The Salt Lake Tribune |

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Response Location: United States, Salt Lake City, Utah

Engineers with the Division of Water Resources created a new berm in the Great Salt Lake to help protect the lake’s ecosystem and slow the water exchange and reduce rising salinity between the north and south arms of the lake. Initial findings after the berm’s construction have shown a significant decrease in high-salinity waters, as well as improvements in the lake’s brine shrimp population.

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Europe's Green-Building Retrofit Leader Is One of Its Smallest Countries

Kriston Capps

September 21, 2022 |

Bloomberg |

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Response Location: Lithuania

In Lithuania, building owners looking to retrofit to improve energy use, reduce heating costs, and lower carbon emissions, can make use of a lending approach that pairs grants and loans. The grants are intended to offset the expense of the loan and can act as a first-loss guarantee for investors.

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‘This is what a river should look like': Dutch rewilding project turns back the clock 500 years

Phoebe Weston

September 20, 2022 |

The Guardian |

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Response Location: Netherlands, Grevenbicht

Rewilding Europe is a river-restoration project working to preserve rivers as biodiversity hotspots and prevent damage from human activity. Since Rewilding Europe was founded, its projects have stretched across the continent, including to countries like Spain Italy, Bulgaria, and Sweden and was recently awarded a grant of £4.1m to scale up its work.

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Money Growing on Trees

Melanie Lenart

September 20, 2022 |

Native Science Report |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Keweenaw Bay Bands of Lake Superior Chippewa, United States, Michigan

The National Indian Carbon Coalition is helping tribes across the United States use the voluntary carbon market to earn revenue from their sustainable forest management and the carbon dioxide it traps. The coalition helps tribes with the preparation and contract work to set up carbon sales and gets paid back once the revenue comes in.

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Technology is changing the face of farming in Egypt

Mohamed Kotb

September 15, 2022 |

Quartz |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Egypt

Agricultural projects in Egypt are launching apps to help farmers get the best yield possible while dealing with the effects of climate change. The apps provide weather forecasts, advice, climate warnings, and connections to buyers.

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Mitigating Environmental Degradation through Collecting Plastics

Violah Natukunda

September 14, 2022 |

Royal FM |

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Response Location: Rwanda, Kigali

An initiative in Kigali, Rwanda, pays locals to collect plastic and glass waste to be sold for recycling. The initiative provides income for unemployed youth and women while helping clean up the city and reduce waste.

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Can an Urban Farm Run by Police Create Jobs, Feed People, and Build Trust?

Annie Sciacca

September 14, 2022 |

Civil Eats |

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Response Location: United States, Alameda County, California

Dig Deep Farms provides sustainable jobs for people coming out of jail, who have a difficult time finding work. The farm employs about 15 people who grow food for county health initiatives, runs a job-training program for formerly incarcerated people, and operates a food hub to distribute fresh produce to people in need and recently increased its acreage to provide even more opportunities and resources.

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To build for a warming planet, architects look to nature – and the past

Stephanie Hanes Whitney Eulich Nick Roll Dominique Soguel

September 14, 2022 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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Response Location: Mexico, Mexico City

A global movement to localize the construction process, and design buildings for the climate they reside in, is bringing back practices like green roofs and using natural materials like mud and salt to keep people cool as the planet warms.

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In Pa., climate change can increase flooding risk in places that rarely worried about it. This community is seeking solutions

Rachel McDevitt

September 13, 2022 |

StateImpact Pennsylvania |

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Response Location: United States, Dubuque, Iowa

Increased flooding from storms labeled federal disasters led Dubuque, Iowa, to daylight, or uncover, a creek that was buried and turned into a sewer. This project combined with rain gardens and detention ponds to trap storm water prevents flooding.

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Taos Ski Valley, Already B Corp Certified, Is Now Carbon Neutral

Anneka Williams

September 13, 2022 |

Outside |

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Response Location: United States, New Mexico

Taos Ski Valley, a ski resort in New Mexico, is now CarbonNeutral certified due to practices like reduction of emissions and on-mountain energy use, and investment in carbon offsets.

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