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  • Inside the moss mystery: How the organisms helped reveal Portland's pollution

    Julia Rosen

    May 02, 2016 |

    High Country News |

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    Response Location: United States, Portland, Oregon

    Throughout the city of Portland, there is moss growing in urban trees. When scientists began studying its growth, they were able to not only detect a citywide air pollution problem, but also pinpoint the origin of it which allowed city officials to take steps towards mitigating the issue.

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  • A Tale of Two Leaks: Fixed in California, Ignored in Alabama

    Neela Banerjee

    March 17, 2016 |

    Inside Climate News |

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    Response Location: United States, Eight Mile, Alabama

    Eight years after a mercaptan spill in Eight Mile, Alabama, its mostly black and working class residents still suffer from respiratory issues, rashes and headaches.

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  • A Billboard That Acts Like 1,200 Trees

    Niamh Ni Mhaoileoin

    November 21, 2015 |

    OZY |

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    Response Location: Peru, Lima Metropolitan Area

    Lima has the worst air quality of any city in Latin America due to its mostly windless climate, growing economic developments and ongoing construction. A local engineering school, however, has set out to transform billboards throughout the region to act as air purifiers and water generators.

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  • Urban Farming

    Paolo Patrizi

    June 18, 2015 |

    Maptia |

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    Response Location: Japan, Tokyo

    A growing number of people in the famously crowded Tokyo metropolis are becoming ‘city farmers’, planting crops atop tall buildings or deep underground. In an age of detrimental climate change, urban cultivation and green roof agriculture will soon be necessary as food, water and energy resources become scarcer.

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  • 7 hopeful climate stories from around the world

    Jonah Busch

    April 20, 2015 |

    Center for Global Development |

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    Response Location: India

    Evidence continues to build that humans are contributing to a climate change issue that is nothing but bad news for the planet. Hopeful stories from seven countries, including India, Indonesia, and China, show that efforts to combat climate change might finally be working.

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  • Tiny Blue Bubbles Designed to Help Save the Planet

    Alan Jeffries Amy Marino

    March 16, 2015 |

    Bloomberg |

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    Response Location: United States, Livermore, California

    The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has designed a new technology that captures carbon dioxide at power plants before it goes into the air. This new method, which is much more efficient and affordable than other carbon dioxide capturing methods, uses microcapsules filled with a fluid that absorbs carbon dioxide. While it’s not going to solve climate change entirely, this new technology has shown promising results for at least slowing it down.

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  • Climate Change Mitigation's best-kept secret

    Jim Motavalli

    January 06, 2015 |

    Ensia |

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    Response Location: United States, Bridport, Vermont

    The breakdown of the ozone layer is one of the most well-known effects of climate change. Citizens enact different ways to protect the atmosphere from a build up of methane gas.

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  • Medical Inhalers To Track Where You Are When You Puff

    Alison Bruzek

    December 18, 2014 |

    Popular Science |

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    Response Location: United States, Louisville, Kentucky

    In Louisville, KY, many people suffer from allergies or asthma and need to take inhalers to assist their breathing. A new inhaler called Propeller Health connects to Bluetooth devices to help patients track their inhaler dosages as a form of self-surveillance. The data collected also has a broader impact, offering scientists insight on people’s breathing patterns in different geographic regions as well as the effectiveness of certain medicated inhalers.

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  • Big Ideas in Social Change, 2014

    Tina Rosenberg

    December 11, 2014 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Charleston, South Carolina

    A overview of 2014's Fixes columns - connecting the dots between 60 or so ways that people are trying to change the world.

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  • Green Roofs in Big Cities Bring Relief From Above

    Tina Rosenberg

    May 23, 2012 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    New York City black tar roofs cause a number of environmental problems, including air pollution, heat absorption that raises energy consumption, and storm water runoff in the sewer system. Efforts to turn these old roofs into green spaces cool the buildings, enable the containment of more rainfall, reduce sewer discharge, generate energy, and absorb carbon emissions. New York City has a pilot program offering financial help for green roofs.

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