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  • How Los Angeles Became the Leader of a Tree-Planting Revolution

    April 22, 2022 |

    Outside |

    Text |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    City Plants, an organization in Los Angeles, is partnering with other nonprofits, government agencies, scientists, and residents to create a more equitable urban forest throughout the city. By working together and using technology, they have planted more than 65,000 trees to combat climate change, systemic racism, and high temperatures that affect all Angelenos.

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  • Our Rivers' Keepers: How the Ohio River's trash collectors transformed the waterway

    April 22, 2022 |

    The GroundTruth Project |

    Multi-Media |

    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Cincinnati, Ohio

    A nonprofit with a barge and a 10-person crew picks up trash and plastics across seven rivers in the U.S. Midwest. In one year, Living Lands and Waters collected over half a million pounds of trash. Over the years, they’ve attracted hundreds of thousands of volunteers to help their operation. “No matter who you are, where you’re from, how old, young or what political party you belong to – it doesn’t matter, because no one likes seeing garbage in the river,” said the cofounder.

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  • 'Ten years to save the planet': Kansas City metro's small-town mayors take up the climate fight

    April 22, 2022 |

    KCUR Radio |

    Multi-Media |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Kansas City, Kansas

    A wide range of elected officials and community groups came together to form Climate Action KC to work together to combat climate change across Kansas and supply information for those not in the group to do the same.

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  • Inside Nebraska's Surprisingly Effective Covid Strategy

    April 22, 2022 |

    Politico |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Nebraska

    Although Nebraska’s governor never ordered a statewide shutdown, shuns mandates, and the state’s vaccination rate is not high, the state has had an efficient and effective response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Nebraska has fared among the best in the country when it comes to health, economic, social, and educational factors. The success is due to a combination of solid pre-existing medical infrastructure, particularly in infectious disease, and efficient state government that allowed the state to function logistically without relying on the federal government.

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  • La recolección y exportación de textiles logra desviar 9 millones de libras de ropa de los vertederos

    April 22, 2022 |

    El Nuevo Día |

    Multi-Media |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Puerto Rico

    La Asociación de Coordinadores de Reciclaje Municipal en Puerto Rico ha logrado desviar 9 millones de libras de ropa a través de dos métodos—poniendo contenedores de recolección en varias áreas de diferentes comunidades de la isla, y también a través de la exportación.

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  • How Michigan police agencies are training to respond to 911 calls with autistic people

    April 22, 2022 |

    Hometown Life |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Northville, Michigan

    The Northville Township Police Department and Michigan State Police (MSP) are adapting new autism awareness techniques by participating in the Action For Autism program. The program helps officers better understand people with autism to interact with them without making quick judgments that can result in violence. Officers who go through the training have begun gathering profiles of members of the area’s autistic community to be used in 911 calls and have begun carrying calming bags in their patrol cars. The MSP alone has trained about 1,500 MSP troopers and department personnel.

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  • Why a dry Chilean lagoon matters to the future of the Great Salt Lake

    April 22, 2022 |

    KUER Radio |

    Radio |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Chile

    Burdened by extreme drought, water diversions, and a lack of regulation, Lake Acuelo in Chile dried up. Now, researchers are learning from this slow-moving ecological disaster to help other lakes in trouble, like Utah’s Great Salt Lake.

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  • New Orlando clinic helping identify, support children with fetal alcohol syndrome

    April 21, 2022 |

    WFTV-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Orlando, Florida

    The Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children works in partnership with the Florida Center to identify children with fetal alcohol syndrome disorders and helps family members create care plans for the lifelong effects of the disorder.

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  • Giving a Voice to All Americans

    April 21, 2022 |

    Democracy Decoded |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

    Washington D.C.'s Fair Elections program provides a lump sum grant to candidates who reach a certain threshold of small-donor support, and those who qualify can then raise matching funds from the community that are matched with public funds at a rate of 5:1. The program has contributed to a more diverse candidate pool for local races and increased the number of small donors across the city, with the biggest increase in small donations coming from D.C.'s low-income zip codes.

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  • In Burundi, one-time combatants who razed forests now raise seedlings

    April 21, 2022 |

    Mongabay |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Burundi

    Communities that experienced decades of war worked together with the government, military, and police on a vast national reforestation program that planted at least 150 million trees over four years. The groups conducted a census and established nurseries where they grow saplings of the appropriate trees to plant.

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