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  • Taos Ski Valley, Already B Corp Certified, Is Now Carbon Neutral

    Anneka Williams

    September 13, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, New Mexico

    Taos Ski Valley, a ski resort in New Mexico, is now CarbonNeutral certified due to practices like reduction of emissions and on-mountain energy use, and investment in carbon offsets.

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  • Waste Data Center Heat Is Warming Up Dublin Homes. Is It Working?

    Aishwarya Jagani

    August 31, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Ireland, Dublin

    Ireland’s energy efficiency agency, Codema, and Amazon partnered to use waste heat from data centers used for computing needs to heat council buildings and a university campus.

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

    Stefan Nicola Josefine Fokuhl

    August 30, 2022 |

    Bloomberg |

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    Response Location: Germany

    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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  • Germany's €9 train tickets scheme ‘saved 1.8m tons of CO2 emissions'

    Kate Connolly

    August 30, 2022 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: Germany, Berlin

    Germany’s three-month experiment with €9 tickets for a month of unlimited travel on public transportation saved about 1.8 metric tons of CO2 emissions. The experiment was launched in an effort to cut fuel consumption and relieve a cost of living crisis and sold about 52 million tickets.

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  • The city that pioneered Europe's car-free future

    Aitor Hernandez-Morales

    July 27, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Spain, Pontevedra

    A European city banned cars from most of the city in 1999 and has not had a single road-related death in over a decade and approximately 15,000 people have moved to the area. And, in response to the growing climate crisis, air pollution has decreased by 67% and neighboring cities and countries are looking to adopt the practice, too.

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  • Sale of Carbon Curbing Mangrove Loss Along Kenyan Coast

    Sharon Atieno

    July 22, 2022 |

    Science Africa |

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    Response Location: Kenya

    The Vanga Blue Forest group manages mangrove regrowth to conserve the plants, prevent deforestation, and sell carbon credits. These credits are purchased by individuals or companies to offset their carbon emissions by supporting a project limiting or eliminating emissions elsewhere.

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  • Is Tree Planting A Get-Out-Of-Jail-Free Card On Climate?

    Rachel Nuwer

    July 21, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Sri Lanka

    Many tree-planting projects are too poorly designed and maintained to benefit the environment. Long-term upkeep, increased transparency, and listening to scientific evidence can help these projects succeed, but tree planting should not be the only practice relied on to midigate climate change.

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  • Manure-Eating Worms Could Be the Dairy Industry's Climate Solution

    Grace van Deelen

    July 15, 2022 |

    Inside Climate News |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington

    The Royal Diary farm in Washington uses a vermifiltration system to filter wastewater to cut down on nitrate pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. The system runs the water through a bed of earthworms that feast on the waste removing the harmful chemicals and nutrients.

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  • Low-cost sensors are helping communities find gaps in air quality data

    Diana Kruzman

    June 24, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, Belmont County, Ohio

    A group of Belmont County residents, supported by universities and nonprofits, installed portable air sensors that test for pollution using laser beams and measure the local air quality near fracking sites. The sensors help residents understand when the air quality was unsafe and showed gaps in county monitoring data.

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  • 'The future of agriculture': B.C. farmers, ranchers move to curb carbon emissions

    Stefan Labbé Pippa Norman

    June 21, 2022 |

    Pique Newsmagazine |

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    Response Location: Canada, Merritt, British Columbia

    In an effort to curb carbon emissions to mitigate the disastrous effects of climate change, ranchers and farmers in British Columbia, Canada, are turning to sustainable practices like rotational grazing and planting cover crops.

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