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  • Denver's E-Bike Rebates Are So Hot They're Gone Within Minutes

    October 13, 2022 |

    Bloomberg |

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    Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

    Denver offers rebates up to $1,700 for residents purchasing electric bikes to encourage their adoption, increase accessibility for low-income residents, and help reduce air pollution.

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  • Europe's Green-Building Retrofit Leader Is One of Its Smallest Countries

    September 21, 2022 |

    Bloomberg |

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    Response Location: Lithuania

    In Lithuania, building owners looking to retrofit to improve energy use, reduce heating costs, and lower carbon emissions, can make use of a lending approach that pairs grants and loans. The grants are intended to offset the expense of the loan and can act as a first-loss guarantee for investors.

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  • Money Growing on Trees

    September 20, 2022 |

    Native Science Report |

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    Response Location: Keweenaw Bay Bands of Lake Superior Chippewa, United States, Michigan

    The National Indian Carbon Coalition is helping tribes across the United States use the voluntary carbon market to earn revenue from their sustainable forest management and the carbon dioxide it traps. The coalition helps tribes with the preparation and contract work to set up carbon sales and gets paid back once the revenue comes in.

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  • How Lagos Health Scheme is Enhancing Access to Quality Healthcare Services Among Indigents, PWDs

    September 17, 2022 |

    The Nation (Nigeria) |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Lagos

    The Lagos State Health Scheme in Nigeria helps pay health insurance premiums for people with disabilities who may not otherwise be able to afford health care free of charge.

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  • How a St. Louis church is teaching teens to fly. ‘It really changed everything for me.'

    September 04, 2022 |

    St. Louis Post-Dispatch |

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    Response Location: United States, Chesterfield, Missouri

    The six-week, all-expense-paid, Red Tail Cadet Program teaches high school students to fly and prepares them to pursue a pilot’s license or study aviation in college. The flight school gives students an opportunity they might otherwise be unable to afford with hopes of diversifying the industry.

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  • Germany's Ultra-Cheap Train Ticket Saved 1.8 Million Tons of CO2

    August 30, 2022 |

    Bloomberg |

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    A low-cost monthly public transportation ticket experiment in Germany encouraged commuters to use their cars less preventing 1.8 million tons of carbon emissions.

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  • Pace of Harris County home buyouts slower than hoped for after Hurricane Harvey

    August 24, 2022 |

    Texas Standard |

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    Response Location: United States, Harris County, Texas

    Harris County Flood Control District voluntary buyout program, funded by FEMA, allowed the local government to purchase entire clusters of homes in floodplains that they will repurpose for public projects that will also mitigate flood damage in the future. The district has completed almost 750 buyouts, far below buyouts in previous years, but 5,000 properties are still on the buyout list. Residents receive payments for their homes and coverage of fees like closing costs, moving costs and a variety of bonuses. Some homeowners can also receive down payment assistance and closing costs on a new home.

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  • Coombs camps show kids where to go

    August 17, 2022 |

    Jackson Hole News & Guide |

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    Response Location: United States, Jackson Hole, Wyoming

    The nonprofit Coombs Outdoors runs summer and winter camps for youth to experience and learn about the outdoors. The camps are in high demand because of the affordable price made possible by donor subsidies.

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  • NYC's summer work program for youth called a success, with 100K jobs filled

    August 17, 2022 |

    Chalkbeat New York |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    New York City’s Summer Youth Employment Program helps 14-to-24-year-olds find paid jobs through summer contracts with community organizations, and the city picks up the cost of their paychecks.

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  • Small-scale forest landowners gain foothold in U.S. carbon markets

    August 09, 2022 |

    Thomson Reuters Foundation |

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    Response Location: United States, New Hampshire

    The voluntary carbon market allows small-scale landowners to receive credits for reducing climate-changing emissions, which they can sell to corporations to offset their emissions. The carbon market has provided small landowners with other options to make money besides logging.

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