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'Ventilation Corridors' Funnel Cool Mountain Air Into Steamy Stuttgart

Michaela Haas

August 12, 2022 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Germany, Stuttgart

Stuttgart is using a “nature-based response” to climate change by leveraging earth-cooling tools already available in the natural world. The city has created a vast network of ventilation channels – green parkways and corridors of water and trees – designed to funnel cooler breezes into the city at night and naturally lower air temperatures.

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Greece's Islands Are Zero-Waste Laboratories

Sebastien Malo

August 11, 2022 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Greece, Tilos

Tilos, Greece, works with a network of companies to collect and sort the island residents' waste to be composted, recycled, or reused instead of using a landfill.

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Sustainable housing via 3D printing, foam addresses housing crisis, climate change

Troy Hill Jessica Herrera

August 11, 2022 |

Cronkite News - Arizona PBS |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: United States, Phoenix, Arizona

Strata International Group is building homes out of foam and concrete. It's a practice that is gaining traction because when these materials are used, the homes are set to last for upwards of 300 years. It also requires a less energy-intensive construction process — creating big cost savings amid supply chain issues and inflation and also benefiting the environment.

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Program guides Tohono O'odham toward national park careers

Caitlin Schmidt

August 10, 2022 |

Arizona Daily Star |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Tohono O'odham Nation Reservation, United States, Arizona

As a part of the Arizona Conservation Corps’ Indigenous Communities Program, young adults from the Tohono O'odham Nation are working at national parks across Southern Arizona to build experience for careers in the National Park Service. The crews do restoration work, inventory resources, and educate the public and park visitors on the sites’ significance.

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How Delta community developed other professions to survive oil spill

Israel Olatunji Tijani

August 10, 2022 |

The Nation (Nigeria) |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Nigeria, Delta

As a result of incessant oil spills, a rural community that once relied on fishing for food and its main source of income has begun to diversify its skills and occupations by pursuing more lucrative jobs like tapping rubber trees and growing cassava. Pivoting their occupations has helped to keep families out of poverty, children in school and keep the village’s economy afloat.

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How Salt Marshes Prevented Development but Forever Changed Wetlands in the South Bay

Skylar Knight

August 09, 2022 |

Yes! Magazine |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

The South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project, a collaboration between multiple nonprofits and government agencies, is restoring wetlands in an area previously covered with man-made salt ponds to recreate habitat for native species, maintain flood protection, and improve the ecosystem.

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Kansas, Nebraska researchers use plants to limit exposure to toxic lead in soil

Niara Savage

August 09, 2022 |

Nebraska Public Media |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Nebraska

Using biochar to plant crops on soil contaminated with lead reduces the amount of lead the crops soak up.

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Small-scale forest landowners gain foothold in U.S. carbon markets

Carey L. Biron

August 09, 2022 |

Thomson Reuters Foundation |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, New Hampshire

The voluntary carbon market allows small-scale landowners to receive credits for reducing climate-changing emissions, which they can sell to corporations to offset their emissions. The carbon market has provided small landowners with other options to make money besides logging.

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The Democracy Deficit

Ravi Agrawal

August 09, 2022 |

Foreign Policy |

Podcast |

Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: France

In response to the yellow vest movement, France decided to experiment with "open democracy" by convening the French Citizens Convention on Climate, which asked 150 randomly-selected citizens to consider ways for the country to curb greenhouse gas emissions. With the help of more than 100 experts, the convention developed 149 recommendations that were used as the basis for France's most ambitious climate legislation proposal to date.

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Glitter has proven it can clean our streets. Will the City finally back it up?

Nick Russo

August 08, 2022 |

The Philadelphia Citizen |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The street cleaning startup Glitter facilitates paid cleanups on blocks that slip through the cracks of the City’s waste management services. The company has cleaners assigned to blocks in every section of the city, with new people jumping on board each week to help clean up the streets.

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