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  • Lutte contre le réchauffement climatique : comment "décarboner" les usines ?

    December 11, 2020 |

    France Inter |

    Radio |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: France, Aisne

    Le secteur de l'industrie représente 20% des émissions de gaz à effet de serre de la France. Mais comment décarboner un outil industriel ? Une usine agroalimentaire de l'Aisne a déjà réussi à réduire sa consommation d'énergie fossile (du gaz) de 10 % et une économie d'énergie chiffrée à 250.000 euros par an, grâce au recyclage de la chaleur fatale des fumées. Une transition en partie soutenue par des aides publiques.

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  • Agroecologia é aposta para reverter cenários de degradação ambiental na Amazônia

    December 11, 2020 |

    InfoAmazonia |

    Text |

    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: Brazil, Acre

    A reportagem é sobre atividades agroecológicas que promovem segurança alimentar, renda financeira e proteção à floresta amazônica, no Acre. Desde 1989, 1 milhão de árvores frutíferas de mais de 150 espécies e de madeira de lei foram plantadas na aldeia Apiwtxa.

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  • Des hôtels vides accueillent des migrantes

    December 11, 2020 |

    ARTE |

    Video |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: France, Paris

    L’association Basiliade a eu l’idée de reconvertir des hôtels vides en centres d’hébergement social. Elle a nommé l'un d'entre eux la "Maison des Fées". 36 femmes exilées sont hébergées avec leurs bébés. Elles bénéficient d'une solution de garde pour leurs enfants, d'un soutien du personnel de l'hôtel et de travailleurs sociaux.

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  • How a refugee-run factory is helping the Netherlands meet its need for face masks

    December 11, 2020 |

    The Local |

    Text |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Netherlands, Arnhem

    Rather than import masks from elsewhere, an organization in the Netherlands set up a face-mask factory, and then hired "people with a refugee background to make surgical face masks." According to the project spokesperson, "The project not only responded to the deficit of masks in Dutch healthcare, but also provides people with a refugee background with work experience and knowledge about the labour market in the Netherlands."

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  • Reusing, recycling, rethinking

    December 10, 2020 |

    The Washington Post |

    Text |

    1500-3000 Words

    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 |

    Over 15 Minutes

    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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  • There is no Gen Z ‘enthusiasm' gap

    December 10, 2020 |

    Scalawag |

    Text |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Mississippi

    Civic engagement groups creatively encouraged young Black voters to vote. Mississippi Votes ran fellowships where local representatives educated young people on the political landscape of their state and used "geofencing," to share sample ballot links and precinct information on social media when users’ smartphones were within specific geographic locations. Engage Miami reached young people with "Get Out And Vote" TikTok videos, and partnering with social media influencers. In addition to registering thousands of new voters, both groups lent resources to youth voices in Black Lives Matters protests.

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  • Como o povo Karipuna expulsou criminosos de suas terras na Amazônia

    December 10, 2020 |

    Mongabay |

    Text |

    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: Brazil, Rondônia

    Indígenas Karipunas monitoraram o próprio território, em Rondônia, para identificar áreas de invasão e fazer denúncias na ONU. O trabalho teve apoio de ONGs, ajudou o desmatamento a diminuir 49% na Terra Indígena Karipuna e fez com que os criminosos fossem presos e tivessem os bens bloqueados.

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  • How a new approach to fighting domestic violence is changing lives in Burundi

    December 10, 2020 |

    Euronews |

    Text |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Burundi

    A grassroots movement in Burundi has resulted in more familial bliss for households who suffered from domestic abuse. Through CARE International, a group of Burundian men are taking on toxic masculinity, entrenched cultural misogyny, and "destructive gender roles" through community meetings. Previously abusive men speak to their communities about how and why they were able to break the cycle and how their families have benefitted from a better home environment, better relationships, and even the benefit of being able to make and save more money as a result of helping their wives, instead of abusing them.

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  • The Weight of the World

    December 10, 2020 |

    Terrain.org |

    Multi-Media |

    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: Kenya, Watamu

    Local Ocean Conservation is in Watamu, Kenya has made approximately 21,000 turtle rescues and "treated more than 650 turtles in its rehabilitation center and clinic" since it's inception in 1997. The group responds to fishermen who have accidentally caught turtles in their nets and then remunerates the fishermen for their "time, effort, and phone calls." This incentive-based relationship combined with a ban on the international tortoiseshell trade has helped decrease the poaching of turles, and the group has now expanded their efforts to include more initiatives to protect the endangered species.

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