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  • The Push To Reimagine LA's Streets And Alleyways To Fight Both Drought And Floods

    April 21, 2023 |

    LAist |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    Los Angeles organizations and neighborhoods are teaming up to create Green Alleys that mitigate flooding. These alleys consist of permeable pavement and native plants and trees that all help direct water underground, as well as streetlights and murals that make them welcoming community spaces.

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  • What could $1 billion do for Puerto Rico's energy resilience? Residents have ideas.

    April 21, 2023 |

    Grist |

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    Response Location: Puerto Rico, Castañer

    Community-led energy projects are improving access to electricity for Puerto Ricans. One such project, led by a cooperative in Castañer, established two microgrids with backup batteries to keep the power running after an outage.

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  • With help, Afghan refugees make a home in Manhattan, Kansas

    April 20, 2023 |

    The Kansas Leadership Center Journal (KLC Journal) |

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    Response Location: United States, Manhattan, Kansas

    The Manhattan Afghan Resettlement Team (MART) helps Afghan refugees escape Taliban oppression and build new lives in the U.S. MART helps to connect refugees with the local Islamic Center for meetings about adjusting to life in the U.S. and language courses, as well as help getting a Social Security card, a job and enrolling their children in school. To date, over 100 refugees have been successfully resettled.

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  • Philippine tribe boosts livelihoods and conservation with civet poop coffee

    April 18, 2023 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Philippines, Mindanao

    Members of the B’laan ethnic group in a community in the Philippines are improving their livelihoods by foraging for coffee beans excreted by wild palm civets. They can sell the beans at a premium price because they are used to make a luxury coffee brew. And the practice encourages the locals to protect the wild animals, which benefits the ecosystem, too.

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  • The quest to build wildfire-resistant homes

    April 18, 2023 |

    MIT Technology Review |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    The shelter-in-place approach is slowly becoming a more common way to survive wildfires that are too violent and fast to evacuate. People using this method congregate in “defensible” buildings created with wildfire resilience in mind that sit in an area clear of flammable vegetation and fuel.

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  • An underserved neighborhood needed a community center, not another church

    April 18, 2023 |

    Faith & Leadership |

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    Response Location: United States, Blue Island, Illinois

    A pastor in Blue Island, Illinois, closed his satellite campus church and turned it into a community service center. Named the Hope Center, it aims to address community needs through a garden, automotive garage, and technology services department. Each program has a director and volunteers who run workshops to teach community members new skills.

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  • Are 'sponge cities' enough to curb climate-fuelled floods?

    April 18, 2023 |

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    Response Location: United States

    The design firm Arup calculates cities' ability to retain water through nature and helps them implement other solutions to flooding, like building rain gardens or public messaging strategies, depending on individual needs.

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  • From scarcity to abundance: The secret of the 'peace farmers' of Colombia

    April 17, 2023 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Colombia, Meta

    La Cosmopolitana Foundation in Colombia offers courses that teach people to live in harmony with each other and nature. The classes focus on sustainability and helping rural communities to work together to create circular economies. Small fees make the classes largely accessible.

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  • Our home is where we live: volunteering school for teenagers

    April 17, 2023 |

    Рубрика (Rubryka) |

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    Response Location: Ukraine, Vinnytsia

    The Donetsk Regional Children and Youth Center runs the Technology of Good Volunteering School, a program designed to help teenagers build social and civic skills and learn how to contribute to their communities. Graduates have spearheaded projects such as creating a children's room for a local hospital and sewing baby clothes for new mothers.

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  • Athens Repair Café Tackles Climate Change By Repairing Items, Attitudes

    April 17, 2023 |

    Grady Newsource |

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    Response Location: United States, Athens, Georgia

    The Athens Repair Café allows locals to bring in their broken items — like bikes and appliances — to be repaired by skilled volunteers in an effort to utilize a reuse model that extends the life of the items, preventing the need for purchasing replacements. The Athens Repair Café is one of 2,664 Repair Cafés worldwide registered under Repair Café International and over the past year, about 100 items have been successfully repaired.

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