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  • Community Cooperative battles hunger and pollution one plant at a time

    February 12, 2019 |

    Changing Florida |

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    Response Location: United States, Lee County, Florida

    A soup kitchen in Lee County, Florida, is feeding the community and also educating people about sustainability. Access to urban farming and the resulting fresh produce allows the initiative to teach adults and students about growing food, nutrition and making better lifestyle choices. The urban garden also contributes to reducing air pollution.

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  • How a team of researchers and high school students in California are working together to reduce pesticide exposure in children

    February 08, 2019 |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Berkeley, California

    An on-going research study out of UC Berkeley's Center for Environmental Research and Children’s Health has partnered with youth from the Salinas Valley for two decades to investigate the influence of pesticides on child development. Their findings have been published more than 150 times; the PSA that they designed is regularly aired on 10 radio stations across California, Oregon and Washington; and the children in the study grew up to form the first Youth Council to lead their own research on the impact of pesticides. As a result, many farmworkers in CA are now more educated about pesticide risks.

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  • New Platform Gives Black-Led Baltimore Groups a Chance to Shine

    February 07, 2019 |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    New grassroots efforts often struggle to get off the ground due to lack of funding. In Baltimore, a group called CLLCTIVLY aims to fix this problem for black-led non-profit organizations by offering a $1,000 prize every month for a year through its Black Futures Micro-Grant program. CLLCTIVLY has also launched an asset map to connect these smaller efforts to each other.

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  • Punjab's marginalised communities struggle for their right to cultivate common lands

    February 07, 2019 |

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    Response Location: India, Punjab

    Balad Kalan’s Scheduled Castes, popularly called Dalits, collectively bid to win the rights to fertile common lands that big landlords had taken control of. Each family contributed what they could and, after protests due to the lack of transparency in the bidding process, won 53 hectares, or one-third of the common land, which was distributed among 145 families. Fifty other villages have since won collective land rights by replicating the joint bidding process. An 11-member cooperative manages the land in each village, which is distributed to families in proportion to their monetary contribution.

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  • San Francisco shares its schoolyards, opening communities to green spaces and one another's lives

    February 06, 2019 |

    WHYY |

    Radio |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Access to green spaces improves the well being of individuals and neighborhoods alike. By turning schoolyards into publicly accessible green spaces, the city of San Francisco’s Shared Schoolyard Program created spaces where not only children, but also urban communities, can interact with and experience nature. The schoolyards provide a vital recreational resource and meeting space for entire neighborhoods and communities.

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  • Rooftop gardens: the coolest roofs around

    February 06, 2019 |

    Changing Florida |

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    Response Location: United States, Naples, Florida

    An ecologist is installing a rooftop garden on a home in Florida and early results suggest that the green roofs have helped moderate indoor temperatures. While the initial cost of these gardens can be high, these green rooftops can be beneficial for the environment and can even provide a longer lifespan for the roof.

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  • FGCU's geothermal air conditioner reduces impact on the environment

    February 06, 2019 |

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    Response Location: United States, Fort Myers, Florida

    Florida Gulf Coast University utilizes a cooling plant that serves as the primary air-conditioning unit for multiple buildings on campus. This plant uses geothermal energy, which compared with traditional air conditioning units, has less of an impact on the environment and saves the university money on its power bill. FGCU currently has 146 total thermal storage tanks producing over 23,000 tons of cooling capacity for its academic buildings.

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  • Why your neighborhood school probably doesn't have a playground

    February 06, 2019 |

    WHYY |

    Multi-Media |

    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Making schoolyards and public spaces green improves the health and wellbeing of communities. But without a way for schools in Philadelphia to allocate more funding toward schoolyard construction, the city’s school district relies largely on philanthropy. In public-private partnerships, the school district contributes a portion of funding to projects lead by nonprofit organizations. Creating greener spaces has many positive second-order effects, acting as an investment the in community.

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  • Inside Marygrove College's new direction: How it was saved and where it's going

    February 05, 2019 |

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    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    Like many institutions of higher education, Marygrove College in Northwest Detroit has faced significant financial strains in recent years. However, perhaps unique to Marygrove, the college is in the process of transforming the community anchor and asset into a more sustainable educational model -- a cradle-to-career approach that includes a new preschool and K-12 school on the campus. "It's a big leap. The hope is that this is going to become an educational model that can be used in urban areas throughout the country," Marygrove's president Elizabeth Burns said.

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  • No More Shooting Crows. Nampa, Idaho Gets Creative To Solve Bird Problem

    February 05, 2019 |

    Wyoming Public Media |

    Multi-Media |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Nampa, Idaho

    In urban centers, crows aggregate in huge numbers, causing headaches for business owners and residents. In Nampa, Idaho, officials are getting creative in dissuading the birds nightly visits. The tactics--from noise guns to laser pointers--are nonlethal, but the crow's renowned intelligence makes these methods more arms race than quick fix.

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