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  • Un velero decomisado al narcotráfico como solución para que todas las personas puedan participar de la "tradición marinera" gallega

    Maribel Ángel-Moreno

    October 04, 2024 |

    Maldita.es |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: Spain, Galicia

    Tras una cesión a una asociación de personas con discapacidad de Galicia, el velero Laion esta utilizado como herramienta de inclusión para que navegar sea una actividad abierta a todos—un caso de cómo los bienes incautados y decomisados al crimen organizado pueden reutilizarse socialmente y revertir en beneficio de toda la sociedad. En torno a 5.000 personas se han beneficiado de la actividad desde 2002.

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  • The Future of Seaweed Farming in America

    Alexandra Talty

    September 05, 2024 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States

    Seaweed farms in the United States are working to fight climate change by offering a more sustainable food source and a versatile raw material that could replace petroleum feedstocks and help industries decarbonize.

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  • A Firewood Lot is Helping This Timber Town Recover

    Ashli Blow

    August 12, 2024 |

    Triple Pundit |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Oakridge, Oregon

    A locally-owned wood lot in Oakridge, Oregon, collects piles of debris from the surrounding forest that could become fuel for wildfires and turns it into firewood for the community. Alongside wildfire mitigation, the business reduces the air pollution residents create when their only option is to burn wet wood for heat.

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  • Youth Business Spain: alianzas, mentoría y financiación para el emprendimiento juvenil

    Daniel Jiménez

    July 24, 2024 |

    Revista Haz |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: Spain

    Youth Business Spain, una ‘alianza multiactor’ de entidades sociales especializadas en promover el autoempleo, ha ayudado a 4.500 emprendedores en su primera década a poner en marcha su negocio.

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  • California Is Showing How a Big State Can Power Itself Without Fossil Fuels

    Bill McKibben

    June 27, 2024 |

    The New Yorker |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    The California-based startup Magrathea Metals is producing magnesium with renewable energy to make the process less expensive and material-intensive. The company aims to make the more environment-friendly metal competitive with steel and aluminum.

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  • One Small Credit Union Is Powering Brooklyn's Economy

    Oscar Perry Abello Lucas Grindley

    May 13, 2024 |

    Next City |

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    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    The Brooklyn Cooperative Federal Credit Union provides small business loans to local Black and Brown businesses, through average investments of $24,000. This small, community lender provides more funding to local businesses than larger national banks like Citibank, Wells Fargo and Bank of America, helping support local businesses and finance community development.

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  • Plastic-choked rivers in Ecuador are being cleared with conveyor belts

    Kimberley Brown

    April 22, 2024 |

    BBC |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Ecuador, Quito

    The startup Ichthion created a system that skims plastic off of rivers in Ecuador to prevent it from reaching the ocean. A floating barrier stretches across the river to catch the plastic without disrupting fish, and a person manually guides the pollution onto the shore where it’s sorted for recycling.

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  • This self-taught innovator in Nigeria upcycles e-waste into power banks

    Johnstone Kpilaakaa Joey Shekwonuzhibo

    April 19, 2024 |

    Benjamindada.com |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Nigeria

    Zang Technologies creates portable chargers out of recycled materials, having sold 21,000 power banks since 2018. The chargers are compatible with a variety of devices, including smartphones, and offer sustainable power that also helps reduce waste by recycling electronics and turning them into alternative power sources.

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  • Un millón de monedas

    Natalia Sánchez Loayza

    April 16, 2024 |

    Radio Ambulante |

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    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: Venezuela

    Para sobrellevar una crisis económica, millones de venezolanos reccurieron a un mundo de fantasía—Runescape—y convertió el videojuego en un trabajo a tiempo completo. Mensualmente, personas han podido ganar hasta cuatro veces más de lo que hubieran podido ganar en otros trabajos en Venezuela.

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  • Caribbean startups are turning excess seaweed into an agroecology solution

    Marlowe Starling

    April 16, 2024 |

    Mongabay |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Barbados

    Entrepreneurs in the Caribbean are collecting harmful sargassum seaweed that washes up on the beaches and turning it into agricultural products that reduce the need for synthetic fertilizers. Red Diamond Compost, for example, uses growth-stimulating hormones from the seaweed to create a soil additive that improves plants’ ability to absorb nutrients.

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