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How to Revive a Burned Forest? Rebuild the Tree Supply Chain

Lydia DePillis

April 04, 2024 |

The New York Times |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

Mast Reforestation sells carbon credits to fund its work replanting trees where forests were decimated by wildfires. The company collects seeds from local, native trees, uses x-ray machines to ensure they are likely to sprout, and plants them.

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Grupo liberal busca atraer a votantes latinos con $57 millones en ocho estados

Suzanne Gamboa

April 03, 2024 |

Noticias Telemundo |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States

Ahora aprovechando su éxito en elecciones pasados, Somos Votantes y su comité de acción política trabajan para ampliar la educación y la participación de los votantes hispanos principalmente a través de visitas puerta a puerta, información bilingüe pagada, y una “sólida” organización comunitaria.

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North Carolina tried to rebuild affordable housing after a hurricane. It took half a decade.

Jake Bittle

April 03, 2024 |

Grist |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, North Carolina

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s disaster recovery program provides federal funding to build affordable apartments in areas that have lost significant housing stock to disasters such as hurricanes. But due to the required congressional approval process and complex regulations, projects funded by the program often take so long to complete that people affected by the disaster are not able to benefit from the housing. In North Carolina, one such development opened to tenants more than five years after Hurricane Florence struck the area.

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'It Is Safe Here': Women Share The Delight Of Living At Uganda's First Safe Shelter For People With Albinism

Rhonet Atwiine

April 03, 2024 |

Solutions Now Africa |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Uganda

Women and Children with Albinism in Uganda is a supportive shelter for women and children with albinism to build a community and be safe from stigma and violence. At the shelter, women are trained in a variety of skills, like tailoring and farming, to be able to sustain themselves and their families. Over the past decade, about 40 women and children across four regions have been positively impacted by the group.

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New Indigenous-led shelter provides help to those in need

Amelia Schafer

April 02, 2024 |

ICT News |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: United States, Rapid City, South Dakota

Pejuta Waste O’Tipi is an indigenous-led resource that provides support to the local homeless community, including shelter, meals, cultural healing, peer support and leadership training to help them reenter the community. The shelter serves meals to over 100 people each day, and more than half of the participants have maintained sobriety since visiting the shelter.

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Colorado nonprofit recruits older adults to fill critical positions in early childhood education

Nicole Brady

April 02, 2024 |

KOAA-TV |

Broadcast TV News |

3-5 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Golden, Colorado

The Early Childhood Service Corps recruits retired adults to fill vacancies in preschools and daycares, allowing retirees to work part time while also helping to address staffing shortages in the industry. So far, the program has trained 110 older adults as part-time substitute teachers, and a few have gone on to take full-time positions.

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Carmakers give up on software that avoids kangaroos

Sophie Hartley

April 02, 2024 |

Ars Technica |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Australia, Eurobodalla Shire, New South Wales

Fence posts that flash blue and yellow lights while emitting a high-pitched noise when they detect oncoming car headlights are preventing car crashes involving kangaroos and wallabies in Australia. The practice is known as virtual fencing.

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The Towns Outsmarting Airbnb

Corey Buhay

April 02, 2024 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Colorado

Several cities have fully banned or passed ordinances regulating Airbnb and other short-term rentals to prevent the cities from being overrun by tourists and rental properties. These policies combat the “Airbnb effect” that has been seen in cities from Irvine, California all the way to Bed-Stuy in New York. Cities that have passed these ordinances see lower rent rates, more equitable housing markets and a more sustainable tourism economy.

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Bees vs. drones: How tech is tackling crop pollination

Nita Bhalla Rina Chandran

April 02, 2024 |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Australia, Two Wells

As bee populations decline, farmers who practice covered agriculture are flying drones over their crops — which vibrates the plants' flowers to disperse the pollen — to pollinate them instead.

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Managing predators from the sky

Kylie Mohr

April 01, 2024 |

High Country News |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Montana

Researchers and livestock farmers in Montana are using drones with speakers that play human voices to scare off predators and mitigate conflict between the animals.

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