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  • Les potagers urbains nantais, premier pas timide vers la “résilience” alimentaire

    December 10, 2020 |

    Médiacités |

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    Response Location: France, Nantes

    À l'issue du premier confinement, Nantes a transformé ses parcs et jardins pour cultiver des fruits et légumes destinés aux bénéficiaires de l'aide alimentaire. 25 tonnes de légumes récoltés, tandis que 2 500 familles ont profité d’au moins un panier. Si cette initiative ne comble pas tous les besoins, elle a permis de créer du lien social.

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  • Reusing, recycling, rethinking

    December 10, 2020 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, Alexandria, Virginia

    Mason & Greens is a zero-waste store that reduces environmental impact by selling package-free items, from shampoo bars to organic produce. Dry goods and the wines, oils, and kombucha on tap are bought with reusable containers and priced by the ounce, which reduces plastic waste and allows customers to buy only what they need. In addition to minimizing products' carbon footprints, the store has been profitable since it opened and the owners say that, while prices are initially higher for consumers, reusable products may be less expensive in the long run because they don’t have to be replaced as frequently.

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  • Breaking Buildings' Addiction to Fossil Fuels

    December 10, 2020 |

    Gimlet Media |

    Podcast |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    BlocPower retrofits buildings with energy-efficient equipment in financially underserved communities by offering loans to building owners for no money down. The company has completed about 1,000 projects by bundling the financing for many projects and finding investors willing to provide capital for the larger sum, which reduces investor risk. The group also created technology to reduce the costs of building inspections and energy usage monitoring. The new equipment increases building values and reduces energy costs so that owners pay less in monthly loan repayments than they would with the old equipment.

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  • How Canada's first Indigenous coast guard program is already saving lives

    December 10, 2020 |

    The Narwhal |

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    Response Location: First Nations of British Columbia, Canada, British Columbia

    The Canadian Coast Guard is building a working relationship with indigenous communities that live on the coast of British Columbia, in order to better coordinate rescue efforts. The indigenous tribes "have intimate knowledge of the geography, which allows them to expertly respond to emergencies on the water." The result has been the formation of the Coastal Nations Coast Guard Auxiliary.

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  • Some NC rent relief recipients have no 'HOPE' of using money

    December 10, 2020 |

    WCNC-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

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    Response Location: United States, Charlotte, North Carolina

    North Carolina's rent-relief program, Housing Opportunities and Prevention of Evictions (HOPE), has helped 3,000 families pay their rent and utilities. But the program's reach has been cut short by some landlords' refusal to accept the government aid because it comes with a required eviction ban and a cap on rent increases. The program pays up to six months' rent. Charlotte officials are debating a measure that would block landlords from discriminating based on the source of money used to pay rent.

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  • What Comes Next for Portland's Protests?

    December 09, 2020 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Portland, Oregon

    Black Lives Matters protests have been sustained by an autonomously organized mutual aid network providing a range of services for protesters and community members. Requests for information and assistance are sent using encrypted communication. The groups provide medics, public protest art, legal and financial aid, and even mechanics to service protesters’ cars and a group that helps protesters replace glasses that were damaged or lost due to police encounters. The extensive mutual aid network enables flexibility to respond to a diverse set of changing needs, sustaining protests longer than in other cities.

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  • How Portland Protesters Keep Each Other Safe

    December 09, 2020 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Portland, Oregon

    Behind the nightly protests against racism and police brutality on Portland's streets for more than five months stands a network of street medics and mutual aid groups dedicated to equipping and protecting protesters, and treating their injuries after clashes with police. Portland's already-vibrant street medic community responded to the policing protests with emergency medical care. Their work, plus that of other mutual aid groups, has taken on an added dimension during the pandemic, with masks and hand sanitizer added to the list of supplies.

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  • Learning the hard way

    December 09, 2020 |

    Africa in Fact |

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    Response Location: Democratic Republic of the Congo

    A failed response to the outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo has helped prepare the country's government and health officials to respond more successfully to the coronavirus pandemic and other public health crises. Several lessons that have proved especially important include the development of a research unit, focusing attention on supporting the community members rather than suppressing the virus, and improving public health communication.

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  • Give Us a Chance

    December 09, 2020 |

    Euro |

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    Response Location: Czech Republic, Jihlava

    After a Housing First program in Brno, the Czech Republic's second-largest city, stabilized families' housing and health status, the city of Jihlava used local and European Union money, plus a charity's services, for a two-year pilot to provide subsidized apartments and social services to a dozen families. Nationwide, EU-supported Housing First projects have found housing for about 400 people in 16 cities. Though often opposed as a giveaway, the programs both longer-term and in the pilot phase have shown that after a family is housed, the resulting stability helps set them up to solve many other problems.

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  • A secret settlement hid an officer's misconduct. Outside Maine, it would have been different.

    December 09, 2020 |

    Bangor Daily News |

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    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    A Colorado law enacted in 2016 requires law enforcement officers to disclose their past disciplinary records when seeking a new job at a different agency. By making such disclosures automatic, the law standardizes hiring practices statewide, protects past employers from liability for making the disclosures, and most importantly prevents rogue officers from hopping from one job to the next undetected. Maine has no such requirement., and so some of its agencies might unknowingly hire an officer with a record of misconduct.

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