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  • Phoenix replacing diesel-fueled garbage trucks with natural gas ones

    January 31, 2020 |

    Cronkite News - Arizona PBS |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, Phoenix, Arizona

    Arizona has the second most-polluted air of any state in America, but local government leaders are championing the Cleaner Trucks Initiative as one tool to improve air quality. The city of Phoenix received $1 million from the EPA to transition garbage trucks from diesel to compressed natural gas to reduce emissions and pollution.

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  • How Nigeria's seed regulator is fighting fake seed

    January 30, 2020 |

    The Nigerian News |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Nigeria, Abuja

    The Nigerian government is cracking down on fake seed peddlers by enacting a system that detects fraudulent bags of seeds and removes them from distribution. The technology places a scratch code with a unique, one-time PIN on the bag of seed to help users identify the authenticity of the product.

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  • Soulardarity: A community's success in energy democracy

    January 29, 2020 |

    Planet Forward |

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    Response Location: United States, Highland Park, Michigan

    After DTE Energy removed streetlights from Highland Park, Michigan when utility bills went unpaid, local residents teamed up to form Soulardarity, a community-owned organization that installs solar-powered street lights throughout the city. The lights are more cost-effective, but beyond that, Soulardarity offers a platform for residents to join the environmental justice movement in advocating for more clean energy options for their neighborhoods and at scale.

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  • Cities and Nonprofits Rescue Abandoned Properties to Reduce Housing Shortage

    January 28, 2020 |

    Nonprofit Quarterly |

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    Response Location: United States, Lincoln, Nebraska

    Nonprofits and city governments are looking to abandoned homes and vacant lots as a potential source of land on which to build affordable housing.

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  • The secret gardens of Rohingya refugees

    January 28, 2020 |

    Equal Times |

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    Response Location: Bangladesh, Ukhia, Cox's Bazar

    The Kutupalong camp in Bangladesh, the largest refugee camp in the world, is overcrowded and increasingly isolated. A program by the World Food Programme (WFP) and the Bangladeshi NGO BRAC offers refugees equipment, advice, fertilizer, and seeds to make their own garden. These gardens have become hugely popular, taking up what little space there is between tents, but also offer refugees a source of peace and a food source to supplement their meals. Compost for these gardens are prepared outside of the camp by Bangladeshi women, which helps improve the relationship between the two groups.

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  • As Seattle Seeks to Tax Amazon (Again), What Can It Learn From California?

    January 24, 2020 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    In 2018, a per-employee tax levied on Amazon and other Seattle businesses making over $20 million a year was struck down by council members with unfavorable polling. In 2020, that same referendum is being brought back to life with renewed support. This article compares Seattle's past failures to San Francisco's current success in implementing a tax inspired by Seattle's. The processes differ in many areas, and this article considers what would happen if Seattle now followed someone else's lead.

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  • Books behind bars: Pilot Pell Grant program helps inmates look toward the future

    January 24, 2020 |

    The Connecticut Mirror |

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    Response Location: United States, Suffield, Connecticut

    At Connecticut’s MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution, people experiencing incarceration have the opportunity to participate in postsecondary classes, even completing a certificate or degree. They’re able to do this because of the Second Chance Pell pilot program, started in 2015, which offers financial aid for inmates to access education. With bipartisan support, there’s hope that the pilot program will grow, as current research shows how the programming reduces recidivism and saves tax dollars.

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  • 2 Years Ago, Kenya Set The World's Strictest Plastic Bag Ban. Did It Work?

    January 23, 2020 |

    The Huffington Post |

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    Response Location: Kenya, Kikuyu

    In 2017, Kenya implemented a plastic bag ban and to ensure it was followed, set hefty fines and even jail time for those who broke the law. The law has had an impact – streets are cleaner and the use of single-use plastic bags has reduced, but there is still work to be done. The replacement bags, reusable ones made from polypropylene, have come under scrutiny for their lack of quality, and Kenyan residents cite confusion and fear as a result of not knowing which bags are allowed and which are not.

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  • The Philippines Is Making Roads and Cement With Plastic Garbage

    January 23, 2020 |

    Bloomberg |

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    Response Location: Philippines

    Discarded plastic can serve as construction material for major infrastructure and public works projects. In the Philippines, private companies like San Miguel are stepping in to participate in the government’s infrastructure projects. Companies are increasingly looking at closed-loop systems as a way to address plastic waste and drive construction projects. Nestlé and Unilver are among the other companies working to recover discarded plastics. Some of the programs offer incentives like cash for returned plastic waste.

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  • The Nazis and the Trawniki Men

    January 23, 2020 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: United States

    For 28 years, the U.S. Justice Department’s Office of Special Investigations, stripped more than 100 people of U.S. citizenship and deported them for their direct participation in Nazi war crimes. The most successful Nazi-hunting operation in the world, OSI’s painstaking investigations – historical research combined with criminal sleuthing and international diplomacy – pried needed records from other nations’ files in order to prove that post-war refugees who ended up in America had immigrated under false pretenses, hiding their true role in the Holocaust’s extermination camps.

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