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How Mexico's waste pickers are getting decent, green economy jobs

David Lyons

December 19, 2024 |

Pioneers Post |

Podcast |

Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: Mexico, San Lorenzo Cacaotepec, Oaxaca

GO SiKanda supports informal waste pickers in their efforts to professionalize, set up enterprises, and improve their communities’ waste management. To date, health and safety policies have developed, respect has grown, and wages have increased.

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When AI Meets Conservation

Manon Verchot, Sanshey Biswas

December 19, 2024 |

Neighbird |

Video |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: Gabon

Okala, a technology company, has developed smart camera traps equipped with a mini-computer and a satellite connection that, with the help of artificial intelligence, send researchers real-time notifications about which species pass by. Real-time camera alerts are not only helping researchers, but also surrounding communities intent on keeping people and crops safe from wild animals.

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How Foundation Tackle Open Defecation Using Pet Bottles

Aisha Gambo

December 18, 2024 |

News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) |

Text |

1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Nigeria, Womio

In an effort to increase access to clean water, Rockians Medical Foundation rehabilitated a hand pump borehole and constructed four toilets made out of recycled materials in a rural village for community members to use.

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Southern Black Farmers Sow Rice and Reconciliation

Nicole J. Caruth

December 17, 2024 |

Civil Eats |

Text |

1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States

Jubilee Justice, a nonprofit helping small-holder Black farmers in the South grow specialty rice with a “dry-land” method developed in the 1970s and 1980s (rather than growing rice in flooded paddies, farmers treat rice like a vegetable, irrigating it as needed), now supports 10 farmers from Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Kentucky; together, they have lowered the global warming potential of their rice production by 25 percent on average.

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Could pilot programs bringing heat to low-income residents in Denver, NY work in Dallas?

María Ramos Pacheco

December 16, 2024 |

Dallas Morning News |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States

Pilot projects in New York City and Denver have successfully installed electric heat pumps in a variety of tenant spaces, citing ease of installation, attractive aesthetics, and energy and financial savings as boons for both tenants and the environment. In New York, heat pump units achieved an 85% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and an estimated 50% reduction in fuel costs compared to traditional central steam heating systems.

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This Outer Banks Resort Centered the Environment From the Start, and It Paid Off

Taylor Haelterman

December 12, 2024 |

Triple Pundit |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Corolla, North Carolina

Due to its sustainable design, the Corolla Light Resort has seen far less seawater intrusion and damage to properties compared to other Outer Banks resorts, plus much healthier dune structures. With 450 privately owned and managed homes, over half of which are dedicated to vacationon rentals, coordinated limited development has led to some of the tallest dunes on the island and minimal erosion.

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How the Navajo Nation is using mutual aid to connect families to the electric grid

Kaleb Roedel

December 10, 2024 |

KUNR |

Radio |

3-5 Minutes

Response Location: Navajo Nation, United States, Arizona

Mutual aid program Light Up Navajo is helping families get connected to the power grid through volunteer workers and private and federal funding. Over the past five years, crews have built miles of powerlines across the reservation, powering nearly 850 households, many of whom are receiving power for the first time.

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Why Community Solar Is Key to the Clean Energy Transition

Sarah Sax

December 10, 2024 |

Time Magazine |

Text |

800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States

In the U.S., around 6.5 gigawatts of installed capacity of community solar—typically households or small businesses who subscribe to, or sometimes own, a portion of the energy generated by a solar array—are currently in use. This saves around 5.9 million metric tons of CO2, equivalent to powering almost 1.2 million homes’ electricity for one year, or taking almost 1.5 million cars off the road.

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GHGSat and Carbon Mapper satellites take flight as landfill gas monitoring tech matures

Jacob Wallace

December 09, 2024 |

Waste Dive |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: United States

Monitoring satellites are starting to play an important role in helping nations find and address greenhouse gas emissions; from space, new satellites' data and other technologies are identifying methane plumes around the world.

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Fertiliser: Women embrace sustainable alternative for food security, soil preservation

Bushrah Yusuf-Badmus

December 05, 2024 |

News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: Nigeria

In 2020, Nigeria's Centre for Community Empowerment and Poverty Eradication (CCEPE) and Small Scale Women Farmers Organisation of Nigeria (SWOFON) began to train women farmers on the use of dung and plant wastes as organic fertiliser and pesticides; to date, CCEPE has trained 40 women farmers in Asa and 20 women farmers in Kaima, resulting in more bountiful harvests and economic savings.

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