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  • Hot? Hungry? Step inside these food forests.

    January 29, 2024 |

    Grist |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Organizations in cities across the United States, including Philadelphia and Tucson, are simultaneously combatting urban heat and hunger by planting fruit trees and edible plants that provide shade and food that community members can harvest.

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  • Minneapolis solar nonprofit is proving patience can bring results to lower-income residents

    January 29, 2024 |

    Energy News Network |

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    Response Location: United States, Minneapolis, Minnesota

    The nonprofit Solstar provides free solar panels to lower-income homeowners in Minneapolis by encouraging wealthy individuals to invest in its solar panel installations and cover the costs. The investors earn a modest return on their investment from Solstar and can take advantage of tax credits, while the homeowners see a drop in their electricity bills.

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  • A Ranch, Rewilded: The Transformation of California's Next State Park

    January 25, 2024 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    A floodplain restoration project in California’s Central Valley is preventing flooding, replenishing groundwater, and providing habitat for wildlife. Most of the restoration work involved rewilding the land after removing the berms that protected the area from flooding when it was an agricultural field.

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  • An overlooked climate solution unfolds in Memphis' energy challenges

    January 23, 2024 |

    Tennessee Lookout |

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    Response Location: United States, Memphis, Tennessee

    Memphis Gas Light and Water’s weatherization program is helping city residents prepare their homes for increasingly intense storms in ways that also reduce their energy use from fossil-fuel-derived sources and their utility bills. Contractors may install a new air conditioner or repair walls, but the resident is never charged for the services because ratepayers round up their bills to cover the cost.

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  • Pre-Pesticides, Pro-Farmer: The Rise of Agroecology

    January 23, 2024 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Philippines

    Farmers around the world are implementing agroecology practices to make their farms more resilient to climate change while promoting climate justice to strengthen farming communities. Agroecology follows 13 principles that include ecological practices, like using organic fertilizers, and political and social values, like embracing land rights.

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  • Plastic bag bans have already prevented billions of bags from being used, report finds

    January 23, 2024 |

    Grist |

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    Response Location: United States, New Jersey

    A plastic bag ban in New Jersey helped eliminate more than 5.5 billion plastic bags annually, keeping the single-use plastic out of the environment where it can harm wildlife and contribute to pollution. However, some researchers question whether plastic bags are truly worse for the environment than single-use paper bags or reusable cotton bags, and some states have passed laws preventing local governments from adopting their own bans on plastic bags.

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  • At Sahara's edge, old habits protect crops from new climate

    January 19, 2024 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: Senegal, Ndiob

    Farmers in Ndiob, Senegal, have returned to an ancient technique called zaï to combat drought, use less fertilizer, and increase their yields. Zaï involves drilling holes in the soil so rainwater can fill them and soak into the land instead of running off.

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  • Power of Mama: the women firefighters of West Borneo

    January 18, 2024 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: Indonesia, Ketapang

    An all-women firefighting team in Ketapang, Indonesia, is stopping people from setting fires to clear land, a practice called slash and burn, and putting out the fires they can’t prevent. Arsonists often set fire to peatlands, which pollutes the air and releases stored carbon dioxide.

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  • A drying sea half a world away carries a message for those worried about the Great Salt Lake

    January 18, 2024 |

    Great Salt Lake Collaborative |

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    Response Location: United States, Utah

    At the steadily shrinking Aral Sea and the Great Salt Lake, officials have stemmed some of the water, salinity, and biodiversity losses by sectioning off healthier sections of the bodies of water with a dam and a causeway.

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  • Yellowstone Club becomes first ski resort in Montana to turn wastewater into snow 

    January 18, 2024 |

    Montana Free Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Montana

    The Yellowstone Club ski resort in Montana is misting treated wastewater into the air with machines to make snow. This keeps its ski runs open during dry winters and produces more runoff in the summers to recharge crucial aquifers.

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