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  • Nature calling: how can Sweden's success story help rewild London?

    February 05, 2021 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: Sweden, Malmö

    As London starts to implement its plan for boroughs to implement sustainable urban greening strategies, officials look to Malmö as a guide after the Swedish city used a green space factor (GSF) as a way of calculating green space requirements for new developments. The GSF system allows governments to integrate biodiversity-focused incentives into their urban planning, while allowing designers and architects to respond to local needs.

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  • It Spied on Soviet Atomic Bombs. Now It's Solving Ecological Mysteries.

    January 05, 2021 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States

    Environmental scientists are using modern computing software to correct, orient, and analyze satellite images from the Corona spy project, launched in the 1960s and ’70s to monitor the Soviet military. The images have revealed human environmental impacts, challenged long-held assumptions, and helped predict future challenges. Within the last two years alone, the images have contributed to new information about climate change including rock glacier movements in Central Asia, shoreline changes in Saudi Arabia, and ice loss in Peru, helping scientists fill in knowledge gaps.

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  • Make Way for the ‘One-Minute City'

    January 05, 2021 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: Sweden, Stockholm

    The Street Moves initiative in Sweden is pushing local communities to become the designers of their own streets’ layouts and look at urban planning through the lens of the “one-minute city.” Through a public-private partnership, residents in four sites in Stockholm can help determine how much street space is used for parking, outdoor dining, and children’s play spaces. The goal is to increase participation in the community, address climate resilience, and create a more livable city.

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  • A New Tool in Treating Mental Illness: Building Design

    January 05, 2021 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Mountain View, California

    Across the U.S. an influx of new mental health facilities are being designed through a lens of "evidence-based" architecture that aims to use the design itself as a means of treatment. With studies indicating that access to nature and green space can reduce stress, these new facilities aren't "just about being warm and fuzzy."

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  • 'Where Are The Women?': Uncovering The Lost Works Of Female Renaissance Artists

    January 02, 2021 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: Italy

    Advancing Women Artists (AWA) is a nonprofit foundation that has identified around 2,000 pieces of art by women artists that were forgotten or stored away in Italy’s museums and churches. The organization has financed the restoration of 70 works from the 16th to the 20th centuries. Although women generally couldn’t study or devote themselves to art, some of the artists’ works were known during their times but disappeared from public writings around the 19th century. AWA’s work restoring, documenting, and exhibiting women’s art has contributed to increased interest in and awareness of art by women.

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  • Iranian women's group empowers amid pandemic by making masks

    December 29, 2020 |

    Associated Press |

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    Response Location: Iran, Tehran

    An organization in Tehran, Iran is helping women "looking for work to make handicrafts" by allowing them to use donated sewing machines as a means of becoming self-sufficient despite high rates of unemployment. When the coronavirus pandemic impacted the market, however, they shifted to making masks. Specific sales figures for the masks aren't available, but participants say they are grateful to be able to learn a new skill for free.

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  • How A 24-Year-Old CEO Makes Sustainable Tees from Milk

    December 15, 2020 |

    Planet Forward |

    Broadcast TV Talk Show |

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    Response Location: United States

    After witnessing milk going to waste on his uncle dairy’s farm in China, Robert Lou came up with the idea to turn the leftover milk into clothing. It takes five glasses of milk to produce one t-shirt and he’s sold over 3,000 of them since launching his company Mi Terro. He hopes to use 15 percent of the world’s food waste in 20 years to lower greenhouse gas emissions and supply income to farmers. He’s also piloting a new flexible packaging material out of grain products.

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  • Coat as shelter: Designer Bas Timmer creates for people who have no home

    December 08, 2020 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: Netherlands, Amsterdam

    Since 2014, the Sheltersuit Foundation has distributed more than 12,000 combination jackets and sleeping bags in multiple nations to protect unhoused people from cold weather. Dutch clothing designer Bas Timmer designed the Sheltersuit, and a warmer-weather version, using donated leftover fabrics with liners from sleeping bags donated or discarded at festivals. Since the pandemic increased homelessness, the foundation has distributed the clothing to nearly 2,000 people in the Netherlands and South Africa. The foundation's workforce is made up mostly of refugees and the formerly homeless.

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  • Female climate activists using Instagram to fight for Earth's future

    November 25, 2020 |

    The 19th |

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    Response Location: United States

    A growing number of climate activists — mostly young women — are using social media to post about sustainability and encourage others to live a greener lifestyle. While climate activism can be a slow process, people are using Instagram to help make climate change feel more personal and energize followers to advocate for action at the local and national level.

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  • Richmond art studio helps people with disabilities stay connected

    November 20, 2020 |

    Richmond Confidential |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    Nurturing Independence through Artistic Development provides classes and studio space for artists with disabilities. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the organization now offers six hours of daily virtual services to the 67 artists it serves, including sculpting, drawing, ceramics, and fashion making classes. Social activities, like bingo, cooking, meditation, and movement classes, are also offered online. The programming keeps the artists connected during the isolation of the pandemic and staff regularly text and call the artists who opt out of the virtual programming to maintain that connection.

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