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  • How a Rural County in Texas Solved Its Broadband Problem

    May 02, 2024 |

    Governing |

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    Response Location: United States, Wise County, Texas

    A rural county in Texas brought broadband access to locals with the help of internet service provider Nextlink, the Citizens Broadband Radio Service and Tarana Wireless. Following a $2.6 million investment, over seven months, the partners built infrastructure that offers download speeds of 100 megabits per second and upload speeds of 20 megabits per second.

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  • Crowdfunding and suitcases full of cash: How Gazans are paying to escape war

    May 02, 2024 |

    NBC News |

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    Response Location: Palestine, Rafah

    Palestinians trying to cross the border into Egypt to escape the war are starting crowdfunding campaigns with the help of strangers from other countries on social media to afford the rising cost of doing so.

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  • Citec como agente de soluciones climáticas

    April 27, 2024 |

    La Estrella de Panamá |

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    Response Location: Panama

    El Centro de Innovación, Investigación y Tecnología Hidroambiental (Citec) realiza proyectos e investigaciones de forma independiente, utilizando tecnologías de punta y disruptivas, que buscan respuestas a los cambios ambientales. Incorpora investigadores panameños y colabora con universidades locales y internacionales para destacar varias iniciativas.

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  • Taking the classroom outside: How nature is teaching valuable lessons in Uganda

    April 18, 2024 |

    Farm Radio International |

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    Response Location: Uganda, Kikandwa

    The residents of Kikandwa, Uganda, came together to create the Kikandwa Environmental Association to implement nature-based solutions in their community. The solutions are combatting climate change and generating more income than options with a negative environmental impact. For example, many people traded cutting trees to make charcoal for selling seedlings at the local tree nursery.

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  • A South African Soup Kitchen Is Bringing Relief to Caregivers

    April 18, 2024 |

    Global Health Now |

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    Response Location: South Africa, Alexandria

    A community kitchen in Alexandra, South Africa, uses donations from local businesses, individuals, and a food bank to make meals for children who are not getting enough nutrition from government assistance. Local women volunteer to cook the meals and are able to eat and take home leftovers after all the children are fed.

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  • Krakow Can Breathe Again

    April 15, 2024 |

    Transitions Online |

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    Response Location: Poland, Krakow

    An activist organization in Poland, Krakow Smog Alarm, teaches people about poor air quality in their city and helps them organize together to lobby their local governments for effective clean air measures.

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  • 'Valuable and largely overlooked': Interest in virtual power plants grows

    April 07, 2024 |

    Utah News Dispatch |

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    Response Location: United States

    Utility companies across the United States are using virtual power plants to meet electricity demand, access backup power, and lower the electric bills of participants. To make these power plants work, the utilities use energy from the battery storage systems of customers who have home solar arrays.

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

    April 03, 2024 |

    Noticias Telemundo |

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    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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  • India: Back to the future

    March 19, 2024 |

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    Response Location: India, Bangalore

    The city of Bangalore is combining traditional well-building practices with modern wastewater treatment technology to address the local water crisis. By getting the community involved, they’ve bolstered forgotten wells, integrated advanced filtration systems and made significant progress towards a more sustainable future. One community alone has revitalized 200,000 manholes over the course of eight years.

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  • Rewilding Japan With Clearings in the Forest and Crowdfunding Campaigns

    March 17, 2024 |

    Inside Climate News |

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    Response Location: Japan

    Conservationists in Japan are rewilding the country’s vast monoculture plantation forests to restore biodiversity and allow the ecosystem to return to its natural state, deciduous forest. They are doing so by turning the tree plantations into meadows and buying plots of land with private donations to plant native trees on.

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