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  • Nature's Carbon Sponges: Restoring Meadows in the Sierra Nevada

    Elizabeth Walsh

    May 16, 2024 |

    The Hitchcock Project |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    The Nevada Irrigation District is restoring meadows, and therefore their carbon-sequestering abilities, in the Sierra Nevada mountains that were degraded by humans through things like building dams and mining.

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  • Carbon removal: What's the local government's role?

    Ysabelle Kempe

    May 15, 2024 |

    Smart Cities Dive |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States

    Local governments in the United States are taking the lead on carbon removal projects to meet net-zero goals, which could help bring down the cost of the technology to make it more widely accessible. A coalition of governments in Colorado, Arizona, Utah, and New Mexico, for example, awarded grants to projects that store carbon dioxide in concrete.

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  • Giant Batteries Are Transforming the Way the U.S. Uses Electricity

    Brad Plumer Nadja Popovich

    May 07, 2024 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    California and Texas are among the states in the U.S. installing giant lithium-ion batteries to store renewable energy to use when the sun isn’t shining and the wind isn’t blowing. These batteries are reducing the use of fossil fuels as a backup energy source when demand is high.

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  • Inspired by Laudato Si', Catholics in Bangladesh work to protect environment

    Stephan Uttom Rozario

    May 06, 2024 |

    National Catholic Reporter |

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    Response Location: Bangladesh, Dhaka

    Catholics in Bangladesh are working to increase environmental conservation efforts in the country through grassroots initiatives that encourage practices like tree planting and reducing litter.

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  • Could better asthma inhalers help patients, and the planet too?

    Martha Bebinger

    May 06, 2024 |

    WBUR |

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    Response Location: United States

    Healthcare professionals are educating their patients on the environmental impacts of metered-dose inhalers, which release a powerful greenhouse gas into the air with each puff. To reduce that impact, they’re offering an option with powdered medicine that patients manually suck into their lungs for those that are able to make the switch.

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  • Trash For School & Health: Ugandan Innovator Uses Technology to Incentivize Plastic Waste Collection

    Leticia Mmeeme

    May 06, 2024 |

    Solutions Now Africa |

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    Response Location: Uganda, Kajjansi

    Recycle Pay encourages residents of Uganda to collect plastic waste by awarding them points that can be redeemed for cash, healthcare credits, or school fees. The whole process is organized on an app.

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  • Can't install your own solar panels? Some areas let you join a community project.

    Alex Brown

    May 03, 2024 |

    Stateline |

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    Response Location: United States, Virginia

    States across the United States are passing legislation that supports the development of community solar programs. These projects allow community members who can’t install their own solar panels to subscribe to other solar projects nearby, often on farms, schools, or stores. Alongside the property owner, subscribers help fund the project and save money on future electricity bills based on the power generated.

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  • Could a Landfill Power Your Home?

    Miranda Lipton

    May 02, 2024 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: United States

    Landfills in the United States are capturing a potent greenhouse gas, methane, that would otherwise be released into the air and converting it to electricity or natural gas.

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  • What will it take to get companies to embrace reusable packaging?

    Joseph Winters

    May 01, 2024 |

    Grist |

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    Response Location: United States

    The nonprofit PR3 is working to standardize reusable packaging systems for businesses like coffee shops and grocery stores to make them easier to scale and adopt as a replacement to single-use materials.

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  • Inside the Icelandic plant turning CO2 into rocks

    Adrienne Murray

    April 28, 2024 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: Iceland

    A direct carbon capture plant in Iceland sucks carbon dioxide out of the air, mixes it with water, and pumps it underground to help combat climate change. When the mixture reaches the basalt bedrock, it causes a chemical reaction that turns the carbon into a solid so it can be stored underground in the porous rock.

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