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Internet saca del aislamiento y empodera a comunidades del Gran Chaco Americano

Florencia Tuchin

December 11, 2024 |

Revista Haz |

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Response Location: Argentina

Desde el 2013, el proyecto Nanum ha implementado un modelo que proporciona conectividad a través de 46 centros locales con acceso a Internet, empoderando a poblaciones indígenas, criollas y rurales. Marca un cambio significativo en la vida de más de 129 comunidades de Argentina, Paraguay y Bolivia, que hasta entonces permanecían aisladas.

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After Helene, relief network takes the chaos out of giving

Esmé Fox

December 10, 2024 |

The 9th Street Journal |

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Response Location: United States, North Carolina

A network of local organizations in North Carolina are supplying people impacted by Hurricane Helene with clothing that can keep them warm as winter arrives. They run clothing drives and then sort the donations to meet specific requests, which is more helpful than giving out boxes of random clothes.

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Nimble Electric Trucks Are Supercharging African Trade

Geetanjali Krishna, Sally Howard

December 05, 2024 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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Response Location: Rwanda

In Rwanda, a fleet of simple, efficient trucks is helping farmers get their harvest to market before the goods spoil. For one farmer renting space in one of the trucks, the improved market access enabled them to go from selling 400 to 4,000 kilograms of produce a week.

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A building wave: The corporate-Indigenous partnerships doing things differently

Anna Patton

December 03, 2024 |

Pioneers Post |

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Response Location: United States, California

New philanthropic funding models are distributing to Indigenous peoples and local communities in climate and biodiversity hotspots, enabling them to continue traditional practices that greatly benefit the environment. One core principle is the building of strong on-the-ground relationships, then providing “no-strings” grants with little follow-up reporting required.

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Una red de jardines nativos florece en Miami y rescata especies en peligro

Clavel Rangel Jiménez

November 27, 2024 |

El Tiempo Latino |

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Response Location: United States, Miami, Florida

Native Plant Network, una iniciativa de educación y conservación, ha creado un sistema de entrega de cinco plantas nativas gratuitas a cada persona en el red, ayudando la creación de un corredor de plantas nativas en Miami.

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How musicians are helping western North Carolinians replace instruments lost in Helene

Paul Albani-Burgio

November 19, 2024 |

Citizen-Times |

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Response Location: United States, Asheville, North Carolina

Restring Appalachia matches people who lost their instruments to Hurricane Helene with donors offering up instruments of similar quality. So far, roughly 175 people have signed up to donate about 400 instruments, with about 20 delivered to Asheville so far, though the need still outpaces the supply.

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El náhuat florece: instrucciones para salvarlo de la extinción

Diana Anzora

November 18, 2024 |

Elementos |

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Response Location: El Salvador

Timumachtikan Nawat involucra directamente a los abuelos y abuelas hablantes de náhuat en la enseñanza dentro de su plataforma, organizando talleres virtuales sobre diversos aspectos de la cultura náhuat salvadoreña, como la vestimenta tradicional, sabores artesanales, mitología náhuat, música en náhuat y la cultura del maíz, entre otros—esfuerzos que no solo preservan el idioma, sino que también mantienen vivas las prácticas y conocimientos ancestrales.

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The Californians Rescuing Surplus Produce to Fight Hunger

Michaela Haas

October 01, 2024 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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Response Location: United States, Bell, California

At a 10,000-square-foot warehouse in Bell, California, Food Forward employees race to take in and redistribute 265,000 pounds of fresh produce every day. The organization receives excess fresh fruits and vegetables from wholesale businesses for free and delivers them to 300 nonprofits working to address food insecurity.

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Can ‘Biden's Billions' Deliver True Environmental Justice?

Adam Mahoney

September 05, 2024 |

Capital B (National) |

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Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

Justice40, created through a sweeping executive order during President Joe Biden’s first term, is designed to ensure communities deemed disadvantaged receive at least 40% of the benefits of federal climate change and environmental investments. While no single tally of Justice40 spending or its benefits is available thus far, the White House Environmental Justice Scorecard says more than 500 projects have been funded through its efforts.

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Across California, jurisdictions work collaboratively to comply with regulations put in place by the state's food recovery legislation

Shelley Mann

August 27, 2024 |

Waste Today |

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Response Location: United States, California

In 2016, California adopted a law to reduce the amount of organic waste in state landfills by 75 percent, which led cities and counties to develop their own organic waste diversion programs, such as organic waste collection and edible food recovery. In 2022, 11.2 million tons of organic waste were diverted, while 201,000 tons of edible food were recovered that year.

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