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  • Culture and conservation thrive as Great Lakes tribes bring back native wild rice

    March 04, 2024 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians, United States

    Native tribes and First Nations in the Great Lakes Region are successfully reviving wild rice, a native crop that is deemed “extremely vulnerable” to climate change and lost much of its wetland habitat. The tribes’ restoration projects involve seeding lakebeds, monitoring water levels and quality, educating others on the importance of the crop, and harvesting it by hand.

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  • Underground seed banks hold promise for ecological restoration

    March 01, 2024 |

    High Country News |

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    Response Location: United States, Oregon

    Indigenous peoples across the western United States are bringing back native plants that disappeared many years ago by practicing natural regeneration. By slowly bringing ecosystems that were disrupted by human activity back to their natural state over time, the seeds and roots preserved underground are given the chance to flourish.

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  • How an Omaha art space is shaping the future of the city's scene

    February 28, 2024 |

    The Art Rebellion |

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    Response Location: United States, Omaha, Nebraska

    The Union for Contemporary Art makes the local art scene more inclusive by uplifting marginalized artists and supporting them at all stages of their development. The Union hosts exhibitions, public studios and classes and also offers fellowships, grants and residencies for artists. In the past decade, The Union has awarded 20 artist fellowships and distributed $312,000 in grants to over 200 local artists.

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  • Emprendimientos migrantes claves para el desarrollo local

    February 26, 2024 |

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    Response Location: Argentina, Gualeguaychú

    En Gualeguaychú existen varios emprendimientos gastronómicos que están ayudando a solucionar el desempleo y aportando al desarrollo sostenible local.

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  • Mt. Everest is plagued by garbage. These Nepali women are transforming it into crafts

    February 25, 2024 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: Tharu community, Nepal, Kathmandu

    A coalition of local businesses in Kathmandu, Nepal, is sorting non-recyclable waste collected from mountaineering activities in the Himalayan mountains. Once it is sorted, skilled Indigenous craftswomen make it into new products, like placemats and jewelry boxes, to earn a living.

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  • How Mill Creek mobile home residents bought the land under their feet

    February 21, 2024 |

    The Everett Daily Herald (HeraldNet) |

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    Response Location: United States, Mill Creek, Washington

    ROC USA helps residents of manufactured home communities form co-ops to purchase the property their homes are built on, giving residents more stability and control over where they live. The organization has helped create 312 manufactured home communities in 21 states since 2008.

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  • The Black Immigrant Women Who Bought a Minneapolis Mall

    February 20, 2024 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Minneapolis, Minnesota

    Ignite Business Women Investment Group and the nonprofit African Career, Education & Resources Inc. (ACER) are working together to raise funds to collectively acquire commercial real estate for members of the group and other small businesses — particularly those owned by African immigrants — in the community. Joint efforts allowed members to acquire and revitalize an old strip mall, providing retail space for local small business owners.

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  • Bad roads: Community bridges gap amid government neglect

    February 19, 2024 |

    Prime Progress |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Karim-Lamido, Taraba State

    After a badly needed road construction project was abandoned by officials and contractors, community members banded together to pool their resources and build wooden bridges that made the road passable again.

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  • How a Northwest tribe is escaping a rising ocean

    February 19, 2024 |

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    Response Location: Quinault Indian Nation, United States, Taholah, Washington

    The Quinault Indian Nation is building new housing for its community about a mile from its current village on the coast of the Pacific Ocean. The goal is to relocate the whole village to a place further above sea level to avoid flooding and sea-level rise.

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  • The all-women crew fighting Indonesia's peatland fires

    February 16, 2024 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: Indonesia, West Kalimantan, Borneo

    The Power of Mama is an all-female firefighting unit that protects the health and livelihoods of the local community and environment by working with village authorities to educate local farmers on safe practices to prevent wildfires and preserve the ecosystem. The unit formed in 2022 with just 44 volunteers, but has since grown to 92 members aged 19 to 60 across six villages.

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