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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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1500-3000 Words

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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Fertiliser: Women embrace sustainable alternative for food security, soil preservation

Bushrah Yusuf-Badmus

December 05, 2024 |

News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: Nigeria

In 2020, Nigeria's Centre for Community Empowerment and Poverty Eradication (CCEPE) and Small Scale Women Farmers Organisation of Nigeria (SWOFON) began to train women farmers on the use of dung and plant wastes as organic fertiliser and pesticides; to date, CCEPE has trained 40 women farmers in Asa and 20 women farmers in Kaima, resulting in more bountiful harvests and economic savings.

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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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Over 3000 Words

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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Is giving old papers new life a sustainable solution for the environment?

Olima Rosemary

November 22, 2024 |

Prime Progress |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Nigeria, Abuja, Federal Capital Territory

Joebliss Enterprise purchases and collects paper waste from homes, businesses, and collection agents in Abuja, Nigeria, and processes it for recycling, reducing the amount that produces methane emissions in landfills.

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Millions in rural America lack reliable internet. How Massachusetts towns got online.

Cameron Pugh

November 19, 2024 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Otis, Massachusetts

The town of Otis, Massachusetts leveraged state and federal grant funding alongside a municipal bond to build out its own fiber-optic network, increasing access to high-speed broadband in a rural area that has historically had little. Since it’s a municipal network, the town has more control over how it’s run, and prices are typically lower than those offered by private internet providers.

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El náhuat florece: instrucciones para salvarlo de la extinción

Diana Anzora

November 18, 2024 |

Elementos |

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Over 3000 Words

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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Ideas We Should Steal: More Worker-Owned Businesses

Roxanne Patel Shepelavy

November 12, 2024 |

The Philadelphia Citizen |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

Democracy Brewing is a worker cooperative, which means worker-owners split the profits and have an equal say in business decisions that affect working conditions. Studies show that this type of business structure results in higher wages and household wealth for workers of color, and these workers also tend to stay in their positions longer.

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Using regenerative agriculture to heal the land and help communities

Louise Hunt

November 12, 2024 |

Mongabay |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Indonesia, Central Kalimantan

Kaleka's regenerative agriculture trials with 220+ smallholders in Indonesia replaced chemical inputs with organic fertilizers and introduced agroforestry methods, resulting in measurable soil health improvements (increased earthworms, reduced acidity, better water quality) and cost reductions for farmers, while demonstrating a potential pathway for sustainable palm oil production that could help resolve conflicts between Indigenous land rights and no-deforestation certification requirements.

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Can the tire industry be sustainable? Guayule farmers say yes.

Hannah Ziegler

October 22, 2024 |

The Washington Post |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Arizona

Tire manufacturers, farmers, university researchers, and government agencies in the United States are investing in growing and processing guayule. The drought-resistant, hardy shrub can be used to make rubber products, reducing the country's reliance on synthetic rubber and natural rubber, both of which come with significant environmental impacts.

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Shareholder Activists Push Fast Food Chains to Commit to Climate Targets

Grace Hussain

October 10, 2024 |

Sentient |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States

The shareholder activism nonprofit The Accountability Board is holding fast food companies accountable to making progress toward their climate commitments by filing proposals asking for action, which all shareholders who own a certain percentage of companies are able to do.

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