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Our Better Nature: How The Great Outdoors Can Improve Your Life

Shankar Vedantam Thomas Lu Tara Boyle

September 10, 2018 |

NPR |

Radio |

Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: United States

Psychologist Ming Kuo has spent her career studying the impacts of nature on human health, especially amidst a growing surge to build up communities in place of natural environments. During her study, she has found that greater access to greenery and nature leads to more positive behaviors including a resilience to mental fatigue.

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New Orleans floods with heavy rainstorms. Magnolias could be part of the solution

Joseph Darius Jaafari

August 17, 2018 |

NationSwell |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, New Orleans, Louisiana

New Orleans, Louisiana is infamously known as a place of cultural celebration and community, but it's also a city plagued by consistent flooding. To reduce the impacts of heavy rainfall, one city-backed initiative is incentivizing people to replace their anti-absorbent concrete with plants and flowers that are designed to take in large amounts of water.

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Welcome To The World's First Vegan Soccer Club

Jamie Millar

August 11, 2018 |

The Huffington Post |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United Kingdom, Nailsworth, England

The consumption of meat and dairy has long been deemed a leading cause of climate change, yet production continues to rise. To contribute to environmental sustainability, Dale Vince – owner of the U.K.’s Forest Green Rovers soccer team – has achieved the status of having the world's first carbon neutral team. From vegan-only menus to a solar-powered grass-cutter, the organization is bringing light to this topic in front of a new audience.

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Planting Trees to Help Dallas Breathe

Katelyn Newman

August 07, 2018 |

U.S. News & World Report |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Dallas, Texas

In 2016, the Texas Trees Foundation and federal Trust for Public Land partnered to use GIS technology in greening Dallas, Texas, and plant some 1,000 trees to start. Not only does the initiative reduce respiratory problems like asthma--over the next 40 years, the new tree cover is expected to create about $2.9 million in environmental benefits, sucking around 250 tons of CO2 from the air and capturing around 4 million gallons of stormwater.

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A new way to preserve West Virginia's beauty

Audrey Hoffer

August 02, 2018 |

The Washington Post |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Broomgrass, West Virginia

Family farms are facing challenges nationwide amidst a backdrop of land development. A community in West Virginia took a stand by piloting a new way or rural co-habitation in the form of a farm community protected via a farmland protection program that allows very limited development.

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The Upside of Underpasses

Rob Turner

August 01, 2018 |

Sactown Magazine |

Multi-Media |

800-1500 Words

Response Location: Canada, Toronto

After the success of New York City’s High Line, several cities have tried to emulate that success with a twist--by transforming underpasses below highways into activated space for the community. Toronto’s Bentway offers an ice skating rink, art, and music, and Seattle’s I-5 Colonnade has a mountain bike course. Miami is on an ambitious plan to launch the Underline, a 10-mile stretch of bike and walking trails. Cities like Sacramento are hoping to emulate these success stories.

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Green Upgrade: How California Is Pioneering ‘Energy Justice'

Patricia Leigh Brown

July 30, 2018 |

Yale Environment 360 |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, California

Boasting one of the top five largest greenhouse gas cap-and-trade programs that has raised over $6.5 billion, California is leading the way in financially successful renewable energy initiatives. One of the state's more recent projects now aims to allocate a percentage of those funds to bringing renewable energy resources to lower socioeconomic communities.

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How States Are Rethinking Roads

Andrew Soergel

July 17, 2018 |

U.S. News & World Report |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

As cities grapple with higher temperatures, state and local governments are looking for ways to play a larger role in combatting the impacts. Throughout the United States, some of the entities are turning their attention towards solutions that make road more heat-resistant.

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How the efforts of a single resident (and a few friends) beautified Yorkshire Woods

Aaron Mondry

July 10, 2018 |

Model D |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

In the Yorkshire Woods neighborhood of Detroit, where there was once blight and vacant properties, there is now a community garden. Thanks to the enterprising efforts of Mose Primus, a community activist, the neighborhood has gained the funding, volunteers, and land to change the area. Little by little it is being restored to the tight-knit community of families it used to be.

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The man who paves India's roads with old plastic

Kamala Thiagarajan

July 09, 2018 |

The Guardian |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: India, Madurai

Dr. Rajagopalan Vasudevan, a chemistry professor in India, has a new approach to plastic. "It's time we stop seeing plastic as the enemy and turn it into our biggest resource," Dr. Vasudevan says. By adding molten used plastic into a mixture of bitumen, a substance that binds roads, the professor found a solution that stuck. India has since paved over 16,000 km of roads since 2002 using plastic as part of the process.

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