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  • Indian farmers turn to solar-powered fridges to fight food waste

    December 01, 2022 |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: India

    Solar-powered cold storage units help farmers in India to store their harvests during extreme heat instead of discarding their produce or trying to sell it quickly for cheap to avoid waste. The solar-powered option is significantly cheaper than typical electric cold storage, making it more accessible to small-scale farmers.

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  • Farming After Disaster in Eastern Kentucky

    December 01, 2022 |

    WMMT |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Letcher County, Kentucky

    Several organizations, researchers, and area farmers alike are working to get local farmers back on track after catastrophic flooding in the summer of 2022 destroyed many farmers’ crops, tools, and homes by focusing on shifting toward more climate-resilient farming practices and providing resources like compost deliveries to help replenish soil.

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  • Artists heal their businesses and communities in the wake of devastating floods

    December 01, 2022 |

    WMMT |

    Radio |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Letcher County, Kentucky

    Local art businesses, like dance studios, record stores, and tattoo parlors, that have historically served as community centers for local creatives are working with community members to help rebuild their facilities after catastrophic flooding.

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  • Moving Entire Towns to Escape Climate Change

    November 30, 2022 |

    NBCLX |

    Broadcast TV News |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Charlotte, North Carolina

    A buyout program in Charlotte, North Carolina, pays residents to move out of areas with high flood risk. The program is a form of managed retreat, a practice in which people choose to move away from climate-related threats.

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  • The Florida town that challenged Hurricane Ian and won

    November 30, 2022 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Babcock Ranch, Florida

    Babcock Ranch, Florida, survived Hurricane Ian without sustaining significant damage, losing power, or undergoing a boil-water alert because the town was built with natural disaster resilience in mind. The stormwater management system mimics the natural world, its electricity comes from its own solar grid, and it has its own water plant.

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  • Kenyans turn to tradition to fight rising heat

    November 24, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Kenya, Katilu

    Kenyans are trading iron for grass, palm fronds, and water reeds to build roofs that keep their homes cooler during extreme heat waves.

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  • A Skyscraper in Jakarta Offers Lessons for Quake-Prone Indonesia

    November 23, 2022 |

    Bloomberg |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: Indonesia, Jakarta

    A 51-story skyscraper in Jakarta, Indonesia, built with a belt-truss system kept workers safe and working during an earthquake. The system reduces vibration and movement by linking some of the walls and frames of the building.

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  • Insurgency is pulling children away from school, but an NGO is giving them a chance at education

    November 22, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Abuja

    The FastTrack program aims to help students in camps for internally displaced people improve their literacy and numeracy skills. The program clusters pupils by level rather than age, provides dual-language instruction in both English and Hausa, and uses technology to improve language access, and roughly 2,500 children across six camps have participated in the initiative so far.

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  • Fox Island a model for disaster preparedness

    November 17, 2022 |

    Gig Harbor Now |

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    Response Location: United States, Gig Harbor, Washington

    The Fox Island Community and Recreation Association Emergency Response Organization is a model for community-level emergency planning. Realizing the island would be cut off from any help in the case of a major disaster, they set up a command center, bought equipment and supplies, and worked with government and NGO sources to develop a disaster plan that uses neighborhood response teams that are ready to deploy on short notice.

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  • The Florida Neighborhood Hurricanes Can't Gentrify

    November 17, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, Big Pine Key, Florida

    In the wake of natural disasters, community land trusts (CLTs) are popping up in areas like Florida and Texas where hurricane damage is most severe. CLTs help provide affordable housing options to those impacted by natural disasters. Repairs can be extremely expensive and oftentimes in the wake of storms once affordable neighborhoods become gentrified, pushing out the original residents.

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