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  • How College Students Are Helping Each Other Survive

    November 23, 2020 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States

    Students across the country are dealing with food and housing insecurity, and financial loss, conditions that have been exacerbated because since the pandemic. In response, students in some colleges and universities created mutual-aid networks, raising and distribution thousands of dollars to their peers. “Students continue to lead the fight to address their basic needs.”

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  • Seattle's urban farmers are reclaiming public space

    November 17, 2020 |

    Crosscut |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    Seattle’s urban agriculture community saw a boom during the COVID-19 pandemic and Black Lives Matter protests. BIPOC-led urban farms — like YES Farm and Black Star Farmers — had an increase in volunteers and people wanting to help provide food security, agricultural education, and land access to communities who don’t have their basic needs met. In the first half of 2020, the city of Seattle assigned plots of land to 439 new gardeners to pursue urban farming, with nearly half of them going to underrepresented populations.

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  • Why Las Vegas Is at the Heart of Western States' Water Conundrums

    November 15, 2020 |

    Truthout |

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    Response Location: United States, Las Vegas, Nevada

    After running out of water during a drought in 2002, the Southern Nevada Water Authority and Las Vegas Valley Water District took proactive steps to conserve the region’s water for future generations. Thanks to public service campaigns, outdoor water usage limits, and turf replacement programs, the region’s water usage per capita has dropped by 46 percent. However, many people still don’t fully comply with the city’s water regulations and the region continues to grow at an expanding rate. Yet, similar conservation efforts could be a model for other arid regions around the United States.

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  • Crowdfunded solar puts Red Lake Nation on a path to energy sovereignty

    November 13, 2020 |

    Energy News Network |

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    Response Location: United States, Red Lake Indian Reservation, Minnesota

    The Red Lake Nation in Minnesota is building a 240-kilowatt solar array on top of a workforce training center, which will generate about half of the building’s electricity. This project was financed through crowdfunding, where they raised $250,000 from religiously inclined microlenders. The goal: to allow the tribe to have energy sovereignty, create higher-paying jobs, and maintain a healthy environment.

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  • Disinvested: How Government and Private Industry Let the Main Street of a Black Neighborhood Crumble

    November 11, 2020 |

    ProPublica |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    A series of government programs designed to rebuild a neighborhood badly damaged by the 1968 Chicago uprising not only failed to achieve their goal, but actually made it worse. Hundreds of businesses in the Madison Street area of Chicago's West side were destroyed in days of rioting. Programs that emphasized clearing "blight" over building anew left vacant lots where new businesses might have emerged. Overall, "efforts turned out to be too scattered, too small and too susceptible to shifting politics to make a lasting impact," while opportunistic businesses cashed in without improving conditions.

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  • Target Is Reopening Its Looted Store With Black Shoppers in Mind

    November 11, 2020 |

    Bloomberg |

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    Response Location: United States, Minneapolis, Minnesota

    A Target store looted and destroyed near the site of George Floyd's killing in Minneapolis, Target's corporate headquarters city, was quickly rebuilt with improvements informed by community input. The mostly white-run corporation's store previously had a poor reputation for service and for listening to its mostly Black customers. Led by a new racial justice committee, Target heard complaints about the store's wares, design, and cleanliness. The new store has earned praise from residents.

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  • How the Navajo Nation helped push Democrats ahead in Arizona

    November 10, 2020 |

    Vox |

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    Response Location: Navajo Nation, United States, Arizona

    Voter outreach campaigns effectively boosted turnout among Native voters. The Rural Utah Project left informational flyers inside plastic bags at people’s doors (a Covid-19 tactical adjustment), held drive-through voter registration events, ran hotlines to assist indigenous voters, and partnered with Google to create street addresses using latitude and longitude-based plus codes. Senate candidate Mark Kelly ran ads in the Diné language to reach Navajo Nation voters. Precinct data shows 60-90% of Arizona Navajo Nation voters chose Democrats, a rate that pushed Biden and Kelly to a slim victory.

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  • De Olho na Quebrada virou observatório de violência e saúde de Heliópolis

    November 09, 2020 |

    UOL |

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    Response Location: Brazil, São Paulo, São Paulo

    Em 2009, moradores de Heliópolis, uma das maiores favelas de São Paulo, criaram um projeto para compilar dados da região. Durante a pandemia, os dados foram úteis para planejar estratégias de ajuda em Heliópolis, por exemplo, na distribuição de comida.

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  • It Took a Group of Black Farmers to Start Fixing Land Ownership Problems in Detroit

    November 06, 2020 |

    Planet Detroit |

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    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    Two urban farmers launched a GoFundMe and raised $55,000 to help provide land security to Black farmers in Detroit. Through the Detroit Black Farmer Land Fund, they will select applicants to grow crops for five years and provide technical assistance to growers who want to purchase their own land. The amount raised is not enough to help everyone who needs it, but organizers hope city programs make land more accessible to neighborhood residents.

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  • Cities Want Green Spaces. Here's How to Make Them More Fire-Resistant

    November 06, 2020 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Ashland, Oregon

    A 20-year project by the nonprofit Lomakatsi Restoration Project to restore native plants helped to spare Ashland, Ore., from the worst destruction of a wildfire. Along the Bear Creek greenway in Ashland, the restoration project's work to replace dense thickets of invasive Himalayan blackberries with native shrubs and trees is credited with slowing the speed and severity of the Almeda Fire. Traditional firebreaks and the greenway at other points on the creek failed to slow the fire, and in some ways even sped its destruction.

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