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How 'Farmfluencers' Are Making Vietnam's Rice Fields More Sustainable

MaryLou Costa

May 30, 2024 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Vietnam

The Viet Nam Farmers Union rolled out a train-the-trainer program focused on encouraging rice farmers in Vietnam to take up more sustainable practices. This style of training helps farmers overcome any hesitation towards trying new methods by allowing them to learn from their peers and see the success of demonstration plots.

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Revolution in the Soil: How One School is Responding to Food Insecurity

Latasha Rouseau

May 29, 2024 |

Sapelo Square |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Atlanta, Georgia

A community garden is part of the curriculum at the Mohammed Schools of Atlanta to teach students how to grow their own food. Amid a food desert, the garden provides fresh food for the school cafeteria and produces enough that students can take crops home to their families each week.

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Just coffee in an unjust world

Amy Frykholm

May 29, 2024 |

The Christian Century |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: Mexico, Agua Prieta, Sonora

Café Justo offers an alternative model to traditional fair-trade operations, keeping the entire means of coffee production in the farmers’ hands. They connect the farmer directly to the consumer, eliminating the need for people in the middle who would often gather up the profits. In Salvador Urbina, the Café Justo cooperative has about 80 farming families and sends out more than 1,000 pounds of coffee a month.

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Guerrilla urbanists are 'doing it our damn selves'

Adina Solomon

May 23, 2024 |

Smart Cities Dive |

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Response Location: United States, Chattanooga, Tennessee

Guerrilla urbanism by groups like Chattanooga Urbanist Society develop low-cost, short-term interventions to community problems, like installing bike lanes and painting crosswalks, to fill gaps left by local government. Chattanooga Urbanist Society is focused on making the city more pedestrian-friendly and has installed more than 60 benches in the area. The group also accepts service requests from locals to handle issues the local government hasn’t touched.

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Want to See Community Solar Done Right? A Project in Michigan's Upper Peninsula Can Serve as a Model

Dan Gearino

May 23, 2024 |

Inside Climate News |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, L'Anse, Michigan

A community solar project in a rural Michigan town is making energy more affordable for low-to-moderate-income households. Fifty community members and organizations subscribed to receive energy from and support the construction of a solar array. As a result, their electricity bills are about $300 cheaper each year, and the local utility reported fewer late payments.

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Dollar Stores Force Local Grocery Stores to Close. This Woman Opened One Anyway.

Aallyah Wright

May 20, 2024 |

Capital B (National) |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Webb, Mississippi

Farmacy Marketplace is a neighborhood grocery store that partners with local farmers through the non-profit In Her Shoes to provide community members with access to fresh produce and meat. Local grocery stores are emerging as a solution to food accessibility in rural communities and Black neighborhoods as dollar stores close shop. Similar locally owned grocers are also popping up around the country in cities like Detroit and Milwaukee.

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One Strategy for the Arts to Beat Gentrification: Buy the Building

Anjulie Rao

May 19, 2024 |

Bloomberg |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

Arts nonprofits across the U.S. are using creative, often complex, financial and organizational models to continue to provide a stable place for artists to thrive despite high real estate prices. In one example, a gallery director in Chicago created a nonprofit and a noncharitable LLC to purchase and redevelop a building that will have space for a retail tenant on the first floor.

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St. Louis Fills a Downtown Void With Soccer

Mark Byrnes

May 16, 2024 |

Bloomberg CityLab |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, St. Louis, Missouri

In an effort to restore a sense of urbanism and community to the city, CityPark repurposed an old manufacturing plant to develop a 32-acre soccer campus, attracting sports teams, fans and other patrons to the city for games, shopping, dining and other festivities. During CityPark’s first season, it brought in an extra $73 million in revenue for the city.

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The queer book bike serving Brooklyn

Jill Webb

May 15, 2024 |

Xtra |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, New York, New York

Volunteers distribute free LGBTQ2S+ literature to the Brooklyn community via the Nonbinarian Book Bike, a mutual-aid project focused on filling the gap in bookstores and libraries to connect people to queer literature.

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Sin Título extends their brand from T-shirt slogans to mental health events

Doreen Abril Albuerne Rodriguez

May 15, 2024 |

The Columbia Chronicle |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

Sin Título started as a socially conscious clothing brand but has since evolved into a mutli-faceted brand that hosts mental health discussion panels and other events that aim to amplify marginalized voices and offer healing opportunities for the local Latinx population. One such event is their journaling series, the first of which, “Self Love Journal Club,” attracted about 100 people.

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