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  • Juventud del Caribe Sur de Costa Rica revela el pasado y protege el futuro de su comunidad, buceando

    El Centro Comunitario de Buceo Embajadoras y Embajadores del Mar (CCBEM) implementa un modelo de ciencia ciudadana que combina el conocimiento tradicional de jóvenes pescadores del Caribe Sur con formación científica en buceo y arqueología subacuática, utilizando su filosofía "ABCD" (Arqueología, Buceo con propósito, Conservación coralina y Desarrollo juvenil) para simultáneamente recuperar la historia afrocostarricense a través de expediciones arqueológicas submarinas y proteger los arrecifes de coral mediante programas comunitarios de monitoreo y conservación marina.

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  • Maine's Heat Pump Boom Has Been Promising for Rural Workforce Development. Can It Last?

    To meet the state’s clean energy goals, Maine communities and institutions like Kennebec Valley Community College are launching training initiatives to bolster HVAC, refrigerant and electrical knowledge to support the clean energy workforce. With the help of these initiatives, in Somerset County alone, where KVCC is located, the number of clean energy workers has grown by 44% since 2020.

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  • This city is exploring an unconventional solution to water scarcity: sewage

    St. George, Utah, is building wastewater recycling plants to convert sewage into usable irrigation and drinking water, a solution already proven effective in communities like Las Vegas in conserving water resources and supporting sustainable urban growth.

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  • No Bull: Nepal's Biogas Revolution Reaches a Turning Point

    Between 1992 and 2011, Nepal and the Netherlands collaborated to install 260,000 domestic biogas digesters across the country that convert livestock and human waste into clean cooking fuel to address energy security and deforestation challenges. The program has helped families save $111 annually on gas and prevents over-consumption of firewood.

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  • Local, organic, and bipartisan: How Vermont is challenging Big Food

    Vermont's community-led movement to build a thriving local agriculture economy, through nonprofit infrastructure investments, diversified farming practices, and bipartisan collaboration, has revitalized small farms, boosted food resilience, and offered a viable economic alternative to industrialized agriculture.

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  • Ciencia comunitaria hecha por mujeres para anticipar sequías, cuidar cultivos y alimentar familias

    En Ahuachapán, un grupo de mujeres están liderando un espacio de ciencia comunitaria para proteger el medioambiente e informar a su comunidad cuando sembrar o proteger cultivos. Colocan pluviómetros, anotan datos cada mañana y, a través de grupos de WhatsApp, van informando a la comunidad sobre la cantidad de lluvia que ha caído; tambien envían los datos cada mañana al Ministerio de Medio Ambiente para que el gobierno sepa lo que pasa en el campo.

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  • How Shared Electric Cargo Bikes Are Changing Cities

    Shared electric cargo bike programs like CargoB and Re:Ciclos offer affordable, sustainable transportation alternatives that can significantly reduce urban car dependency; however, their long-term success hinges on overcoming infrastructure, cultural, and economic barriers.

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  • Where the garbage goes

    A grassroots community initiative (VNEQS) organized local expertise, advocacy, labor activism, and legislative collaboration to oppose a landfill expansion and push for stronger environmental monitoring and accountability, resulting in increased public awareness, regulatory scrutiny, and pending policy reforms.

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  • Most new cars in Norway are EVs. How a freezing country beat range anxiety.

    Norway achieved nearly 90% electric vehicle adoption through a 25-year strategy of generous tax incentives (including a 25% VAT exemption), government-subsidized charging infrastructure, and legal guarantees for charging access, resulting in EVs becoming cheaper than gas cars and transforming even remote Arctic regions into EV-dominant markets.

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  • Maine is training an army of HVAC pros to meet its heat pump goals

    Maine's coordinated workforce training programs—including state-funded community college labs, apprenticeships, and business-led initiatives—are rapidly building a skilled HVAC workforce, significantly accelerating heat pump adoption to meet the state's ambitious climate and employment goals, though challenges around training consistency, licensing standards, and funding uncertainty remain.

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