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Nugget the cow: Seaweed-munching bovine chews on solution to methane problem

Hadley Barndollar

August 18, 2022 |

Providence Journal |

Multi-Media |

1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, New Hampshire

By feeding cows a seaweed diet, researchers at the University of New Hampshire are testing if the additive can reduce the amount of methane that cows burp, which contribute to climate change. Questions still remain if the seaweed impacts milk, meat, and human health, but trials suggest that the diet can reduce emissions by 20 percent.

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Can Denmark Save Every Smørrebrød?

Charlie Metcalfe

August 18, 2022 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Denmark, Copenhagen

Too Good To Go offers a digital platform where food businesses can offer food approaching its expiration date at a third of its original cost. Too Good To Go helps supermarkets recover costs, connects people with cheap food and reduces food waste. Since launching in 2016, the program has saved more than 11 million meals in Denmark alone and the company has now expanded across 17 countries in Europe and North America.

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5 ways access to mental-health care has improved in Southwest Michigan, and 5 more things in the pipeline

Julie Mack

August 15, 2022 |

MLive.com |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Kalamazoo, Michigan

There are several new projects and services emerging to improve access to mental health care, with more resources in development. From the Integrated Services of Kalamazoo and St. Joseph Community Mental Health now offering subsidized services to improved ease of access when reaching the National Suicide Hotline, state, and federal policymakers are working to allocate more funds to expand access.

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WA's Nooksack River has been sounding the alarm, and people are finally listening

Rochelle Gluzman

August 15, 2022 |

InvestigateWest |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Washington

After being hit by two natural disasters in one year, cities, Indigenous tribes, and government agencies in Whatcom County on the Nooksack River are working together to create a new plan to deal with flood risk and salmon restoration. The Floodplain Integrated Planning team is overcoming distrust among its partners to build a more holistic plan that incorporates tested solutions like fish-friendly floodgates, levee repairs, and property buyouts to remove homes that will continue to be flooded in the future.

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Mental health is finally getting the attention it deserves. Can the Kalamazoo area seize the moment?

Julie Mack

August 14, 2022 |

MLive.com |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Kalamazoo, Michigan

Recently, the importance of mental health has been championed by policymakers, the media and the public and there’s also been a shift in attitudes toward mental health and the value of counseling. Several developments like new behavioral health centers, adding mental health professionals as first responders on 911 calls and 24/7 virtual counseling have all emerged to expand access.

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The organized labor movement has a new ally: venture capitalists

Sam Dean

August 12, 2022 |

Los Angeles Times |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

Unit of Work, an organization backed by venture capital, helps unions organize and win contracts. Organizers provide free consulting to groups of workers forming unions within their own workplaces. Once a contract is in place, members of the new union can decide to pay Unit of Work a monthly fee — like traditional union dues — to keep providing support.

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'Ventilation Corridors' Funnel Cool Mountain Air Into Steamy Stuttgart

Michaela Haas

August 12, 2022 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Germany, Stuttgart

Stuttgart is using a “nature-based response” to climate change by leveraging earth-cooling tools already available in the natural world. The city has created a vast network of ventilation channels – green parkways and corridors of water and trees – designed to funnel cooler breezes into the city at night and naturally lower air temperatures.

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Sustainable housing via 3D printing, foam addresses housing crisis, climate change

Troy Hill Jessica Herrera

August 11, 2022 |

Cronkite News - Arizona PBS |

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Response Location: United States, Phoenix, Arizona

Strata International Group is building homes out of foam and concrete. It's a practice that is gaining traction because when these materials are used, the homes are set to last for upwards of 300 years. It also requires a less energy-intensive construction process — creating big cost savings amid supply chain issues and inflation and also benefiting the environment.

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Program guides Tohono O'odham toward national park careers

Caitlin Schmidt

August 10, 2022 |

Arizona Daily Star |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Tohono O'odham Nation Reservation, United States, Arizona

As a part of the Arizona Conservation Corps’ Indigenous Communities Program, young adults from the Tohono O'odham Nation are working at national parks across Southern Arizona to build experience for careers in the National Park Service. The crews do restoration work, inventory resources, and educate the public and park visitors on the sites’ significance.

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How Delta community developed other professions to survive oil spill

Israel Olatunji Tijani

August 10, 2022 |

The Nation (Nigeria) |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Nigeria, Delta

As a result of incessant oil spills, a rural community that once relied on fishing for food and its main source of income has begun to diversify its skills and occupations by pursuing more lucrative jobs like tapping rubber trees and growing cassava. Pivoting their occupations has helped to keep families out of poverty, children in school and keep the village’s economy afloat.

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