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  • How Farmers Used California's Floods to Revive Underground Aquifers

    July 27, 2023 |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    Tulare Irrigation District in California encourages farmers to flood their fields with water during the wet season, so it can slowly seep underground and recharge the groundwater aquifers. Those who do so earn credit that can be redeemed during the dry season to extract more water than they would otherwise be allowed.

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  • Could a historic Sacramento corridor hold the key to solving the region's housing crisis?

    July 27, 2023 |

    Sacramento Bee |

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    Response Location: United States, Sacramento, California

    After decades of planning and development, Sacramento’s R Street corridor went from an area full of abandoned warehouses to a flourishing, walkable neighborhood. The city planners’ prioritization of building high-density housing, bringing in new businesses, ensuring access to a light rail transit line, and safe, pedestrian-friendly streets helped this project succeed.

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  • Black students find allies in quest for better mental health: each other

    July 27, 2023 |

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    Response Location: United States, East Orange, New Jersey

    A summer youth-employment program at a local school district led to a student-led forum where Black high school students could open up about their experiences with mental health, racism and stigma. Students who participated in the forum could also join a peer-mentoring program where students worked with middle schoolers to mentor them on how to understand and cope with their feelings.

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  • Nursing oil palm plantations back to nature in Malaysian Borneo

    July 26, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Malaysia

    In October 2020, the Rhino and Forest Fund in Malaysian Borneo began to buy land once cleared for oil palm plantations, and reforests and rehabilitates the tracts into wildlife corridors. After replanting 40 tree species in the last 3 years, an increase in several threatened species has been documented traveling through the project sites.

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  • Zimbabwe's therapeutic 'friendship benches' coming to a city near you

    July 26, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Zimbabwe, Harare

    Through the Friendship Bench project, local elderly women are trained in the basics of cognitive behavioral therapy and given a park bench in their communities where locals experiencing mental health issues can meet with them to talk and seek therapy. Founded in 2007, the project has helped 280,000 people in 70 communities throughout the country.

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  • Twin Falls Optimist Youth House has shown great success in the community; looking for community's help to expand

    July 26, 2023 |

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    Response Location: United States, Twin Falls, Idaho

    The Twin Falls Optimist Youth House cares for at-risk youth and those who have aged out of the foster care system. Youth can join the program once they turn 18 and receive a place to live plus valuable life skills, employment and education assistance. The House opened five years ago and can house 17 people at a time, though there are plans to expand. Since opening, it has helped 50 kids in need.

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  • Pushed to action (II) : To prevent diseases, these communities unite to provide clean water

    July 26, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Akakwu, Enugu State

    As a result of locals writing to their political representatives, the Nigerian government began a borehole intervention project to provide more than 2,000 residents with clean, easily accessible water. The project also provided a generator to address the village’s lack of power supply and residents pay N20 ($0.02) to access the borehole, which covers the cost of running the generator.

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  • A Campus Community Is Empowering Students With Sustainable Blockchain Skills

    July 26, 2023 |

    The Solutions Paper |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Enugu State

    Blockchain UNN is a student organization and campus tech community that focuses on educating the next generation of blockchain leaders. Through both physical and online training and tutoring, the group teaches students valuable tech skills like web development, crypto trading and financial market analysis for free. Since forming in 2021, the organization has trained more than 3,000 students, helping them to secure good jobs in the tech sector.

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  • Portland drag performers raise funds at ‘Drag the House Up!'

    July 26, 2023 |

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    Response Location: United States, Portland, Oregon

    Groups like Portland: Neighbors Welcome and Black & Beyond the Binary Collective aims to provide safe, affordable housing to people in crisis — specifically members of the LGBTQ+ community. The group partners with other local organizations to raise funds through donations and events like drag shows to help address extreme rates of homelessness and housing discrimination within the LGBTQ+ community. These groups have helped more than 200 people access housing in the past four years and are continuing to acquire funds to expand their services.

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  • In Baltic Sea, citizen divers restore seagrass to fight climate change

    July 26, 2023 |

    Reuters |

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    Response Location: Germany, Kiel

    The SeaStore Seagrass Restoration Project in Kiel, Germany, is teaching locals to harvest and replant the underwater grasses. The project is restoring areas these plants used to inhabit because they store large amounts of carbon.

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