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How one Minneapolis neighborhood reduced its carbon emissions by 1,600 metric tons

Kristoffer Tigue

October 16, 2025 |

Minnesota Star Tribune |

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Response Location: United States, Minneapolis, Minnesota

One Minneapolis resident launched a grassroots education campaign to help her neighborhood reduce carbon emissions from home heating by upgrading her home insulation and using electric appliances. She then shared information about the energy-efficiency improvements and available rebates to fund them. Between 2019 and 2024, area residents using these strategies reduced natural gas use by 29%, and is now being replicated in other neighborhoods throughout the city.

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A Wall of Trees is Reversing Desertification and Empowering Communities in Nigeria

Chinonso Kenneth

October 12, 2025 |

Triple Pundit |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Makoda, Kano

The Wall of Trees initiative in Nigeria's Makoda village created a four-tiered barrier of windbreak, orchard, woodlot, and economic trees that tripled crop yields and provided income opportunities for 200 women, successfully reversing desertification on 15 hectares over two decades.

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Volunteer scientists work 'nights and weekends' to guide vaccine advice in US

Mariana Lenharo

October 06, 2025 |

Nature |

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Response Location: United States, Minneapolis, Minnesota

When the Trump administration fired the federal vaccine advisory panel, a group of volunteer scientists created the Vaccine Integrity Project to conduct independent, comprehensive reviews of vaccine data. Their review has influenced real-world vaccine policy, with several major medical organizations using their data to update guidelines and share vaccine information publicly.

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Sydani bridges vaccine gaps in Anambra

Alfred Ajayi

October 02, 2025 |

Radio Nigeria |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Ogbaru, Anambra

The Saving Lives and Livelihoods Project tackles vaccine access barriers in hard-to-reach communities by bringing immunization services directly to families on farms and in remote camps with trained mobile health teams. Since the work began, immunizations have increased in several areas, and children who were previously overdue have since been vaccinated.

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Transforming life in cities

Chhavi Sachdev

September 23, 2025 |

BBC |

Podcast |

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Response Location: India, Mumbai

In an area long-known for poverty and poor health outcomes, residents in Mumbai are joining forces to lead a community-building initiative that works to create shared community spaces, such as libraries, workshops and designated areas for rest and play, specifically with women and children in mind, as city planning historically overlooks these needs and groups.

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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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TB: How Champions are Advancing Detection and Treatment in Kenya

Gift Briton

September 04, 2025 |

Science Africa |

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Response Location: Kenya, Nairobi

The Network of TB Champions in Kenya works with volunteer TB survivors to go door-to-door, screen people in public spaces, provide treatment support, trace contacts and link patients to nutritional assistance. Volunteers complete a two-day "Tuberculosis 101" course and then work under the supervision of local health facilities, using their lived experience with TB to build trust and overcome stigma in hard-to-reach populations.

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The Anarchic Playgrounds Where Putting Kids At Risk Is The Point

Peter Yeung

September 04, 2025 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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Response Location: Germany, Berlin

Adventure playgrounds such as Berlin’s Kolle 37 put kids in charge of play, giving them the space, tools, and freedom to solve conflicts, learn new skills, and even build their own play structures as adults monitor for hazards from a distance. Research shows that this type of “risky play” can help children mature and learn to navigate complex psychosocial situations.

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Changing the Narrative: Men in Rano Championing Childbirth Spacing Through Majalisa Forums

Victor Christopher

September 03, 2025 |

Nigeria Info FM |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Rano, Kano

The Majalisa Forum model embeds childbirth spacing conversations into existing male gathering spaces, leveraging trained male health educators to discuss reproductive health through storytelling, peer dialogue, and religious references. The approach encourages men to see birth spacing as a joint family decision rather than solely a woman's responsibility. More than 50 men participate daily across different forum sessions, and since the initiative started, local health clinics are seeing a dramatic increase in the number of patients who come in each day for childbirth spacing services.

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An Old Timber Town's "Freedom Church of the Poor"

Betsy Froiland

August 29, 2025 |

The Daily Yonder |

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Response Location: United States, Grays Harbor County, Washington

Chaplains on the Harbor, also known as the Freedom Church of the Poor, supports area residents experiencing poverty and homelessness through a resource center, a farm, outreach in prisons and encampments, and support with pursuing political advocacy. The organization helped community members to file a lawsuit against the city alleging a local ordinance made it difficult for outreach workers to access encampments, which ended with the city allocating funding for a sanctioned camping area.

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