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  • 'This is ours' - Somaliland women smell success as frankincense business takes off

    May 17, 2023 |

    The Fuller Project |

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    Response Location: Somaliland, Erigavo

    Beeyo Maal is a collective of women running their own businesses in Somaliland’s male-dominated frankincense industry. The group, which has about 280 members, allows women to make roughly five times what they were paid when previously working for exploitative companies.

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  • An Appalachian model for building place-based community wealth

    May 15, 2023 |

    Prism |

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    Response Location: United States, Morganton, North Carolina

    The Industrial Commons (TIC) strives to create an inclusive economy based on community between employee-owned social enterprises and industrial cooperatives, creating a more democratized, worker-centric environment. Since 2015, TIC has launched five cooperative businesses, employing more than 100 workers, and is working to grow the number of businesses to 75 by 2025.

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  • Cannabis cloud kitchen helps entrepreneurs break into the industry

    November 02, 2022 |

    el Don |

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    Response Location: United States, Santa Ana, California

    My Green Network is a “cannabis cloud kitchen” that offers a shared-use facility for those looking to enter the cannabis industry launch their small businesses. It also provides business needs like legal advice, meeting space, storage, distribution and help applying for state and local permits.

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  • Saving the Great Lakes, one laundry load at a time

    May 13, 2022 |

    CollingwoodToday |

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    Response Location: Canada, Parry Sound, Ontario

    A pilot experiment in Canada shows that adding a filter on a washing machine can prevent microfibers from entering the wastewater system and ending up in marine ecosystems. After installing these filters on machines in a community, there was a 41 percent decrease of microfibers in the washing machine liquid waste. This will not keep all microfibers from ending up in the environment, but legislators are working on passing bills requiring manufacturers to get these filters installed on new machines.

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  • In the Battle Over the Right to Repair, Open-Source Tractors Offer an Alternative

    April 27, 2022 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Response Location: United States, Tarrytown, New York

    Amid a growing “right to repair” movement, farmers are calling for new, open-source production models, like The Oggún, a universally designed, easily modified tractor that farmers can customize to fit their needs. Farmers have found that the tractor cuts down on repair costs by enabling them to fix it themselves or take it to a local mechanic, rather than working with large commercial manufacturers.

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  • The Eco-Friendlier Future of the Disposable Spork

    February 11, 2022 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Germany, Schwedt

    A clean-tech startup in Germany is producing sustainable food packaging out of agricultural waste as an alternative solution to single-use plastic. Bio-Lutions claims its products are compostable and uses less water than other products, but the material used won’t work for some food items like hot beverages. The company already has investors such as Delivery Hero that will use its products when the factory is producing compostable packaging.

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  • How to recycle the unrecyclable

    February 11, 2022 |

    Deutsche Welle (DW) |

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    Response Location: Germany

    A chemical recycling plant in Germany is taking old tires and turning them back into their original components. From there, those materials can be used in the production of insulation, steel, and oil. The gas that is discharged during the process is also used to power the whole plant. Other plants around the world are also exploring how to take plastic waste and chemically recycle it instead of burning it, so there are less carbon emissions.

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  • Steel is recycled more than almost anything. Why does it create so much pollution?

    January 25, 2022 |

    Business Insider |

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    Response Location: Australia

    Steel is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions, even though lots of it is recycled every year. Recycling steel uses coal too, but an Australian steelmaker is experimenting with alternatives. These alternative include using briquettes made from plastic waste, which is less polluting.

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  • How Kitimat B.C. is catching its breath

    June 16, 2021 |

    Living Here |

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    Response Location: Canada, Kitimat, British Columbia

    A new aluminum plant in British Columbia would have ended up putting more sulphur dioxide into the air, but the Kitimat Terrace Clean Air Coalition (KTCAC) helped bring this to light and encourage them to install air monitoring stations. They wrote letters to the government and took the company to court. As a result of their efforts, three air monitoring stations were installed to measure the particulate matter and alert residents if levels increased. “Industry and government are listening to people who are concerned in Kitimat,” says Steve Stannus, a founder of KTCAC.

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  • The Cherokee Nation to Produce Its Own PPE

    May 13, 2021 |

    The Daily Yonder |

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    Response Location: United States, Stilwell, Oklahoma

    The Cherokee Nation had a hard time sourcing personal protective equipment for health workers, citizens, and others during the COVID-19 pandemic. Tribal leaders decided to use a portion of the CARES Act funding to create their own manufacturing facilities to produce PPE for both Cherokee Nation citizens and non-citizens. Though still in the testing phase, the facilities are already training 10 people and plan to employ a minimum of 25 people. They will make about 200,000 surgical masks a day and will also produce N95 and N99 masks that they will distribute to healthcare workers and other organizations.

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