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  • IDB Aims to Catalyze Energy Efficiency in Latin America

    July 03, 2017 |

    Clean Energy Finance Forum |

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    Response Location: United States

    Barriers, such as lack of standardization and information dispersion, are preventing market development for global financing of energy-efficient projects. The Inter-American Development Bank's Energy Savings Insurance Team has developed a scheme that could increase investments resulting in greater energy efficiency; through implementations such as standardized contracts, market auditors, and an engagement framework.

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  • How Long Beach Coordinated the Fight Against Homelessness

    June 29, 2017 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: United States, Long Beach, California

    Unlike the rest of Los Angeles County, the City of Long Beach has managed to decrease its homeless population; coordination of key departments has been crucial to the city's success. "Since 2015, Long Beach has increased housing units for homeless residents and veterans from 1,354 to 2,144," in part because of their use of a Multi-Service Center, which serves as a hub for their coordinated entry approach -- but there are reasons to believe the approach will not be easy to scale to other cities.

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  • Earth's Table, Community Food Share help families in need find fresh produce

    June 28, 2017 |

    Boulder Daily Camera |

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    Response Location: United States, Boulder, Colorado

    For many food banks, the majority of the donations they receive are non-perishable goods, cans of food and other leftovers. Earth's Table grows produce for food banks in Boulder Colorado on privately-owned land that's been donated for the cause.

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  • Meet the woman behind Colorado's highest trails

    June 26, 2017 |

    High Country News |

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    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    Colorado is home to 54 fourteeners – mountains that rise to 14,000 feet high or higher and serve as popular routes for many avid hikers despite not having designed trails. To keep hikers safe while also preserving plant life on these mountains, the Colorado Fourteeners Initiative, which is made of a group of statewide outdoor nonprofits, has been rerouting and restoring the trail system.

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  • Fight or Flight

    June 22, 2017 |

    Boulder Weekly |

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    Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

    As immigration policy fluctuates under the current administration and the future of thousands of undocumented migrants remains volatile, uncertain, and complex, many find themselves in a heightened state of stress and fear. But activists in Colorado are attempting to take positive steps and support the immigrant community, specifically through the creation of the Colorado Rapid Response Network and 24-hour hotline. The network helps ensure accurate information about ICE activity is shared and that trained volunteers are available to assist with legal, human, or civil rights concerns.

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  • An unlikely big player in digital media: unions

    June 21, 2017 |

    Columbia Journalism Review |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    As a relatively new field, digital media companies were without the “building blocks” that formed the infrastructure of traditional media companies. Unionizing efforts at digital media companies are an effort to put this infrastructure in place and they touch upon issues of pay and editorial independence.

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  • Community Power Offers Fukushima a Brighter, Cleaner Future

    June 19, 2017 |

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    Response Location: Japan, Aizu, Fukushima

    Once a household name across the world for the disaster caused by the 2011 earthquake and nuclear disaster, Fukushima is on the path to revitalization. Locals in Fukushima are working to dispel any myths left behind in order to move the city and people forward through sustainable practices. Dubbed as "community power," these community members have taken significant steps to bring new energy options to the region.

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  • Paris offers a model to bring swimming to Charles River

    June 18, 2017 |

    The Boston Globe |

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    Response Location: France, Paris

    In many places, polluted water deters people from enjoying nature or treating waterways as spaces for community recreation. Even when the water is clean, this aversion persists. In Paris, the reveal of three public swimming pools in a once-contaminated canal is being treated as a model for other urban waterways in cities like Boston.

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  • U-Haul Invests in New England Wild Spaces

    June 15, 2017 |

    Triple Pundit |

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    Response Location: United States, Success, New Hampshire

    U-Haul and supermarket supplier C&S Wholesale Grocers are striving to help offset their wood use by increasing donations to The Conservation Fund. This partnership has led to the promotion of the conservation of the Success Pond and its surrounding forest, the establishment of newly planted trees, and a significant investment in land easements that will restore and protect native habitats.

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  • Muslim and Latino communities in Southern California mix during Ramadan — thanks to taco trucks

    June 08, 2017 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

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    Response Location: United States, Santa Ana, California

    Under an administration that frequently spouts racist rhetoric and enforced divisive legislation such as the Muslim ban and the border wall, minority communities - particularly Islamic and Latino communities - are having to work harder than ever to combat the dichotomy of their neighborhoods. In Santa Ana, the Islamic Center has created a clever way to unite the varied demographics of the community: taco trucks - once the punch line of a derogatory quip from a Trump supporter - open during Ramadan to help foster cultural exchange and neighborly relations.

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