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Marvin Hayes Is Spreading ‘Compost Fever' in Baltimore. He Thinks it Might Save the City.

Aman Azhar

August 21, 2023 |

Capital B |

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Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

The grassroots Baltimore Compost Collective is pushing to end the city’s reliance on waste-to-energy incineration and combat climate change by teaching locals the importance of composting, and how it can improve the polluted urban soil to help them grow food.

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Nonprofits work to fill in gap to provide food to migrants

Noorulain Khawaja

August 18, 2023 |

Spectrum News 1 New York |

Broadcast TV News |

3-5 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Poughkeepsie, New York

Community food organization Fareground is providing free meal donations to migrant men staying in nearby hotels. The group is providing fresh produce and hot meals to those in need as the local government works to push the Biden administration to expedite work authorization for migrants.

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Where sun pays the bills: how a village in India is testing the limits of solar power

Aishwarya Jagani

August 17, 2023 |

Unbias The News |

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Response Location: India, Modhera

Thanks to a government-funded electrification project, Modhera is the first solar-powered village in India, and as a result, nearly all of the residents pay nothing for electricity. Instead, they earn money from selling unused power back to the grid.

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‘We Have a Right to Put It on the Ballot': How Organizers Are Defending Direct Democracy

Daniel Nichanian

August 16, 2023 |

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Response Location: United States, Ohio

Organizations in politically divided states like Arkansas, Idaho and Ohio are hard at work to protect direct democracy through community organizing and education. These groups have rallied to pass measures like minimum wage increases, medical marijuana and have even organized voters to fail ballot measures like Ohio’s recent Issue 1.

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Episcopal mobile ministry distributes necessities to people displaced by Maui wildfires

Shireen Korkzan

August 15, 2023 |

Episcopal News Service |

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Response Location: United States, Maui, Hawaii

A Cup of Cold Water is a volunteer collaboration between four local Episcopal churches that has been providing assistance to residents who lost their homes in the recent wildfires through the group’s community outreach program. Since a day after the wildfires started on August 8, volunteers have driven a van around the island to distribute supplies like toiletries, food, clothing, bottled water and other necessities.

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A Community-Led Approach to Stopping Flooding Expands

Maia McDonald Katrina Pham

August 10, 2023 |

Borderless Magazine |

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Response Location: United States, Illinois

The Center for Neighborhood Technology’s RainReady program is creating flood mitigation projects most suitable for Illinois communities in need by ensuring community members have input. The program designs nature-based solutions, like widening creeks and installing rain gardens, based on demographics and flood data. And community committees are involved throughout.

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How Well-To-Do Individuals Are Installing Boreholes To Mitigate Water Scarcity In Kano.

Victor Christopher

August 09, 2023 |

Nigeria Info FM |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Kano, Lagos

In a village facing water scarcity, generous locals with funds to spare are installing boreholes in their homes with pumps outside for other residents in the village to access clean, safe water.

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Rebuilding lives brick by brick

Deepa Padmanaban

August 09, 2023 |

Asia Democracy Chronicles |

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Response Location: India, Tamil Nadu

Siragugal Bricks is a community-owned brick kiln operated by rescued bonded laborers, aiming to rehabilitate and empower them to explore business endeavors and find more sustainable, safer sources of income. Since April 2022, 100 families have worked for Siragugal and local government organizations have helped obtain funding and supplies to facilitate Siragugal’s operations, such as power supplies, a work shed and a borehole for water.

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5 Lessons from UPS Workers' Successful Bargaining

Sonali Kolhatkar

August 07, 2023 |

Yes! Magazine |

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Response Location: United States

In what is being called the most historic tentative agreement for workers in the company’s history, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters came to an agreement with UPS over contract negotiations. This agreement is serving as evidence of the efficacy of unions and how they can work to achieve better working conditions, benefits and increased wages.

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In This Arizona City, Kids With Autism Are More Than Welcome

Michaela Haas

August 07, 2023 |

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Response Location: United States, Mesa, Arizona

The International Board of Credentialing and Continuing Education Standards trains employees in the tourism industry to become autism certified, ensuring they know how to care for neurodivergent youth and their families when they’re at places like restaurants or theme parks. Several of these businesses have practices in place like offering noise-canceling headphones, access to quiet rooms or even hosting autism awareness weekends, helping to make the city the first Autism Certified City in the world.

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