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  • Colombia's Women-Led Electric Bus Fleet Is Reshaping Bogotá's Public Transit

    Jose Orozco

    May 08, 2023 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: Colombia, Bogotá

    La Rolita is a public transit service in Bogotá, Colombia that prioritizes hiring women drivers and runs completely on electric buses. Women make up nearly half of the fleet's drivers, and the system now includes 11 routes covering roughly 210 miles in the city.

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  • The world's best rainforest guardians already live there

    Peter Yeung

    May 01, 2023 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: Indonesia

    Empowering Indigenous peoples in Indonesia with land rights allows them to protect and manage rainforests and biodiversity. One tribe that’s doing so, the Kajang, relies on substance agriculture and does not allow practices like cutting down trees, hunting, or using technology on most of the land.

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  • Mayor's Youth Climate Action Council

    Courtney Duchene

    April 27, 2023 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    Los Angeles’ Mayor’s Youth Climate Action Council allows a group of 14 local youth to work with the mayor and city council on climate goals and initiatives. They meet monthly to set their own agenda, vote on priorities, connect with city resources and organizations, and bring their projects to life.

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  • Grandmother's battalion: how elderly Zhytomyr residents help the front

    Alice Smahina

    April 26, 2023 |

    Рубрика (Rubryka) |

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    Response Location: Ukraine, Zhytomyr

    The Grandmother's Battalion is an initiative organized by the organization Care for the Elderly in Ukraine. Retired volunteers sew and distribute items such as pillows, work gloves, underwear, socks, and other needed clothing to Ukrainian soldiers fighting on the front lines.

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  • Weathering the Future

    Kiran Kapany David Murdock

    April 12, 2023 |

    PBS |

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    Response Location: United States

    Communities across the United States combat and adapt to extreme weather with local solutions. In California, drought-striken Orange County recycles wastewater into safe drinking water, and the Karuk Tribe prevents forest fires with controlled, cultural burns. A farmer in Iowa practices no-till farming to prevent soil erosion from heavy rain. Indigenous tribes on the Louisiana coast gather empty oyster shells and use them to create artificial breakwater reefs that slow down erosion from rising ocean waters.

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  • The Mexican women breathing new life into Yucatán's mangrove forests

    Lorena Arroyo Gladys Serrano

    April 10, 2023 |

    El País |

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    Response Location: Mexico, Yucatan

    A group of women from a fishing village in southern Mexico are restoring mangroves on the Yucatán Peninsula. While the group, known as las chelemeras, is reviving the local ecosystem, the members also find personal empowerment from the work and the pay.

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  • Kenya's community-first climate approach lets locals pick projects

    Geoffrey Kamadi

    April 04, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Kenya, Isiolo

    The Kenyan government provides direct funding to local governments and communities to address climate change adaptation. This ensures locals have a say in the solutions and projects do not inadvertently cause harm.

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  • Restaurant Revolution

    Joel Kotkin

    April 01, 2023 |

    City Journal |

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    Response Location: United States, Sacramento, California

    Small, local restaurants in Orange County, California, are thriving by taking advantage of the entrepreneurial and ethnic food culture to fill market gaps and appeal to diverse customer bases.

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  • Un programa de ASU está abordando la brecha de diversidad y la retención de maestros en la fuerza laboral educativa de Arizona

    Beatriz Limón

    March 31, 2023 |

    Arizona Luminaria |

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    Response Location: United States, Arizona

    Los nuevos programas educativos multilingües y multiculturales como el de la Universidad Estatal de Arizona (ASU) ayudan a preparar a los futuros maestros para satisfacer las necesidades de los estudiantes latinos y disminuir la crisis de retención de maestros en el estado.

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  • A Smart Bridge Between Generations

    Anna Debreczeni

    March 29, 2023 |

    Transitions Online |

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    Response Location: Hungary

    A program run by Hungary’s largest phone company pairs high school students with seniors to teach them how to use smartphones, computers, and the internet. These after-school sessions allow students to fulfill their community-service graduation requirements.

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