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Are Agricultural Co-ops Seeing a Revival in Hawai‘i?

Noelle Fujii-Oride

September 10, 2025 |

Overstory |

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Response Location: United States, Hawaii

Agricultural cooperatives in Hawai'i pool small farmers' resources to collectively process, market, and sell their crops, with successful examples like the Hawai'i 'Ulu Cooperative enabling nearly 200 members to reach broader markets and the Hawaii Cattle Producers Cooperative shipping 8,000-9,000 cattle annually while returning surplus profits to rancher-members, though some co-ops have failed due to declining membership and market pressures.

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The Anti-Trump Strategy That's Actually Working

Michael Scherer

September 02, 2025 |

The Atlantic |

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Response Location: United States

During President Donald Trump’s second term in office, organizations such as Democracy Forward and Democracy Defenders Fund have pulled together attorneys, public-interest groups, unions, and political operatives to file legal challenges to the administration’s sweeping executive orders. As of the end of August, 130 of the 384 cases filed have led to Trump policies being at least partially blocked, including cuts to various government agencies.

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The invisible 'giant nets' that catch the smallest songbirds

Kylie Mohr

August 27, 2025 |

High Country News |

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Response Location: Canada

The Motus network—a collaborative system of 2,200 radio towers across 34 countries that track tiny migratory animals using lightweight tags—has successfully mapped previously unknown migration routes for over 55,000 animals across 450+ species, revolutionizing conservation research for small songbirds and other creatures too tiny for traditional GPS tracking.

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One Tree at a Time

Peter Yeung, Georgeta Carasiucenco

August 22, 2025 |

Transitions Online |

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Response Location: Republic of Moldova

Moldova's National Reforestation Project, launched in 2023 with a €739 million budget, has planted over 10,000 hectares of new forest (36+ million trees) with a 67% survival rate, demonstrating early success in restoring degraded land and supporting rural communities, though it's currently achieving only half of its annual planting targets due to personnel shortages, supply chain issues, and weather challenges.

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This Farmer-Led Co-op is Growing a Sustainable ‘Ulu Industry for Hawai‘i's Small Farmers

Noelle Fujii-Oride

August 13, 2025 |

Overstory |

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Response Location: United States, Hawaii

The Hawai'i 'Ulu Cooperative, a farmer-owned collective founded in 2016, has grown to nearly 200 members across four islands by providing guaranteed markets, stable pricing, and collective processing. Through this, farmers have revitalized traditional Hawaiian agriculture and created year-round supply chains.

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'It's everyone's business.' In Finland, national security is a shared responsibility.

Mark Sappenfield

July 18, 2025 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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Response Location: Finland

Finland’s approach to national security focuses on creating a comprehensive culture, emphasizing the idea that defending the country is a shared responsibility. Regular citizens can take volunteer courses in everything from using firearms and recognizing disinformation to surviving in the wild and interpreting maps, and the country’s men are conscripted at 18 for military or community service.

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Comment financer les luttes écologiques ?

Thibaut Schepman

July 16, 2025 |

Socialter |

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Response Location: France

Le Fonds des luttes soutient les efforts des citoyens contre les projets de développement néfastes, dans le but de rendre la collecte de fonds plus équitable et d’encourager la coopération entre les causes liées. Le fonds a soutenu une vingtaine de projets sur deux ans.

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How Norway Is Proving That Homelessness Is a Solvable Problem

Peter Yeung

June 26, 2025 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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Response Location: Norway

Norway’s approach to tackling homelessness hinges on collaboration, with the national government providing data, strategy, and support that allows municipalities and local nonprofits to implement the best initiatives for their populations. Since 1996, the country’s rate of homelessness has dropped by nearly half.

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Local, organic, and bipartisan: How Vermont is challenging Big Food

Stephanie Hanes

June 08, 2025 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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Response Location: United States, Vermont

Vermont's community-led movement to build a thriving local agriculture economy, through nonprofit infrastructure investments, diversified farming practices, and bipartisan collaboration, has revitalized small farms, boosted food resilience, and offered a viable economic alternative to industrialized agriculture.

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Ciencia comunitaria hecha por mujeres para anticipar sequías, cuidar cultivos y alimentar familias

Adriana González

June 05, 2025 |

El Colectivo 506 |

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Response Location: El Salvador, Ahuachapán

En Ahuachapán, un grupo de mujeres están liderando un espacio de ciencia comunitaria para proteger el medioambiente e informar a su comunidad cuando sembrar o proteger cultivos. Colocan pluviómetros, anotan datos cada mañana y, a través de grupos de WhatsApp, van informando a la comunidad sobre la cantidad de lluvia que ha caído; tambien envían los datos cada mañana al Ministerio de Medio Ambiente para que el gobierno sepa lo que pasa en el campo.

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