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Electric Trucks Are Making Their Way In California. We Took A Ride To See What It's Like

Erin Stone

July 07, 2023 |

LAist |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

Electric semi-trucks get less hot than their diesel counterparts and emit no fumes, improving the driving experience for drivers while reducing emissions.

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Agroecology schools help communities restore degraded land in Guatemala

Aimee Gabay

July 07, 2023 |

Mongabay |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Guatemala

Farmer associations and Indigenous and local communities across Guatemala are working together to recover ancestral agricultural practices and educate farmers in agroecology. The collective, called the Utz Che’ Community Forestry Association, is building agroecology schools that are free to attend and facilitate co-learning in which students learn from each other. Their work protects native forests and local livelihoods from the damage caused by intensive monoculture.

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Can a City Feed Itself?

Peter Yeung

July 06, 2023 |

Bloomberg |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: France, Paris

In Paris, building-based agriculture, like rooftop gardens, allows for the production of nutritious food close to where they will be eaten. The practice helps eliminate carbon emissions, improve food security, and improve climate resilience.

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Breadfruit: A starchy, delicious climate and biodiversity solution

Claudia Geib

July 06, 2023 |

Mongabay |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Puerto Rico

Nonprofits are spreading knowledge of breadfruit trees to communities facing food insecurity around the world because it is a reliable, resilient crop that produces abundant yields. Local farmers are taking an agroecology approach to planting the trees — which produce a nutritious, potato-like fruit — with other mixed crops so the plants can benefit from each other.

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These climate advocates don't care about your carbon footprint. They care about whether you vote.

Claire Elise Thompson

July 05, 2023 |

Grist |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States

In an effort to fix the climate movement’s voter turnout problem, the Environmental Voter Project’s 6,000 volunteers use behavioral and data science in their outreach campaigns to encourage environmentalists to become consistent voters so the issues they care about are prioritized by politicians.

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Trees like women best: Nepal's forests thrive with female bosses

Mukesh Pokhrel

July 05, 2023 |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Nepal, Kathmandu

The Federation of Community Forestry Users Nepal manages the country’s community forest. For the past 30 years, the organization made a point to ensure half of its employees are women, and that women have access to leadership roles. As a result, a path has opened for more women to work in politics and the forests managed by women are thriving the most.

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Seeds of hope: the charity helping to replant Peru's rainforest

Laura Joffre

July 04, 2023 |

Pioneers Post |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Peru

Plant Your Future is working with Peruvian farmers to reforest the Amazon rainforest by helping them earn an income while growing trees instead of doing so by cutting trees down. The charity does outreach, teaches farmers about agroforestry, intercropping, and the carbon market, and then supports them throughout the transition to those practices.

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Once cold, now too hot: Efforts to cut rising temperature in Nigeria's plateau intensifies

Patrick Obia

July 04, 2023 |

Prime Progress |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Nigeria, Obanliku, Cross River

The nonprofit Africa Research Association Managing Development teaches communities in Obanliku, Nigeria, to run their own businesses in things like gardening, soap making, and marketing, and helps establish cocoa cooperatives to keep them from depending on deforestation for income. The program also requires communities to designate parts of the forest for conservation and trains members to protect those areas.

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Gwanda Women Revolutionise Diaper Disposal With Eco-Conscious Solution

Lynnia Ngwenya

July 03, 2023 |

The Citizen Bulletin |

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Response Location: Zimbabwe, Gwanda

Local women have begun washing diapers and using the inner cotton material as stuffing to make reusable sanitary pads. This practice of cleaning and repurposing the materials from these diapers helps to prevent excess waste from disposable diapers, which has a significant impact on local waste management, long-term sustainability and environmental preservation.

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The black market endangered this frog. Can the free market save it?

Sarah Gonzalez Stan Alcorn Charlotte de Beauvoir Willa Rubin Jess Jiang

June 30, 2023 |

NPR |

Podcast |

Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: Colombia

Ivan Lozano Ortega went from running a wildlife rescue center to breeding and selling critically endangered poison dart frogs, legally. He’s trying to stop poachers from taking the few frogs remaining in the wild in Colombia by making the species readily available to collectors.

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