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How a Country Embraced the River It Feared

Elizabeth Hewitt

January 02, 2023 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Netherlands

To combat flooding risk, the Netherlands reconfigured riverside locations to make more room for water instead of using dikes. These projects also improved citizens’ relationships with the rivers by creating parks and recreation opportunities.

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Detroit's Black-Led Organizations Are Cultivating Access To Nature

Rukiya Colvin

September 12, 2022 |

Next City |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

Amplify Outside is one of several initiatives emerging from Detroit to help eliminate obstacles people of color face when accessing nature. Following a survey of people of color in the area, Amplify Outside plans to raise money to create a mutual aid fund to support those who want to engage in outdoor activities but don’t have the means and is partnering with like-minded organizations to host events and create a sense of community.

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Coombs camps show kids where to go

Evan Robinson-Johnson

August 17, 2022 |

Jackson Hole News & Guide |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: United States, Jackson Hole, Wyoming

The nonprofit Coombs Outdoors runs summer and winter camps for youth to experience and learn about the outdoors. The camps are in high demand because of the affordable price made possible by donor subsidies.

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Program guides Tohono O'odham toward national park careers

Caitlin Schmidt

August 10, 2022 |

Arizona Daily Star |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Tohono O'odham Nation Reservation, United States, Arizona

As a part of the Arizona Conservation Corps’ Indigenous Communities Program, young adults from the Tohono O'odham Nation are working at national parks across Southern Arizona to build experience for careers in the National Park Service. The crews do restoration work, inventory resources, and educate the public and park visitors on the sites’ significance.

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Why Scotland Is Opening a Dementia Center in a National Park

Elizabeth Hewitt

August 09, 2022 |

Sierra Club |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Scotland

The nonprofit Alzheimer Scotland hosts outdoor events in Cairngorms National Park for people with dementia and their families to give them the opportunity to enjoy the outdoors safely.

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How one small road is teaching Norfolk big lessons on flood mitigation

Adrienne Mayfield

March 02, 2022 |

WAVY-TV |

Broadcast TV News |

3-5 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Norfolk, Virginia

In Norfolk, Virginia, city planners are mitigating seasonal floods by planning for the future. City planners raised intersections on two key streets of an intersection and built a park to restore wetlands.

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Cleveland's reforesting efforts take root in once-redlined neighborhoods

Jen Jones Donatelli

February 02, 2022 |

Planet Detroit |

Multi-Media |

800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

Activists in Cleveland, Ohio are reforesting the city's vacant lots one community garden at a time. Gwen Garth, a local activist in the city, partnered up with churches, in order to create a long-term plan to plant gardens to also increase tree canopy in the city in a more equitable approach by focusing on historically redlined neighborhoods. The plan includes reaching 30% tree canopy by 2040, which means planting 361,000 new trees.

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Heat dome made British Columbians more anxious. Could prescribing nature help?

Stefan Labbé

January 26, 2022 |

Times Colonist |

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Response Location: Canada, British Columbia

A Canadian doctor partnered with the British Columbia Parks Foundation to launch PaRx, A Prescription for Nature. The program helps health care providers prescribe time in nature for patients experiencing depression and anxiety related to climate change.

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Can green spaces help curb Philly's gun violence problem?

Tamala Edwards

December 06, 2021 |

WPVI-TV |

Broadcast TV Talk Show |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Philadelphia's LandCare program has cleaned and greened 12,000 vacant lots, removing trash and other signs of blight. A study showed that the program led to a large drop in violent crime in the cleaned-up areas. A U Penn researcher who led that study and a community leader whose Philly Peace Parks in west and north Philadelphia have developed a more welcoming, healthy environment talk about the emotional impact such programs have on residents when they see that their neighbors care about the neighborhood. Says organizer Pili X, "It does something to the heart and soul of people."

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Could Greater Investment in Greening Help Reduce Gun Violence?

Emily Previti Stephanie Marudas

December 02, 2021 |

Kouvenda Media |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The city lot where Sanctuary Farm now grows vegetables that it distributes free to the community once was strewn with trash and drug paraphernalia, hardly a hospitable place for the neighborhood kids who played in it. Now it's a lush garden and safe hangout for kids who help with the gardening, do art projects, or just play. It's similar to a broader Philadelphia program that "cleaned and greened" thousands of lots and made a measurable decline in violence. Sanctuary's impact on crime isn't known for sure, but some neighbors say the farm is a positive influence.

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