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  • Can this popular outdoors attraction provide a solution for the Enchantments?

    To protect natural landscapes and use its resources as efficiently as possible, Pitkin County in Colorado closely manages daily use of popular outdoor destination Maroon Bells, with required reservations for people driving to the trailhead and scheduled shuttle rides for all other visitors. The system is possible through public-private partnerships between the local transit authority and a private company that oversees the Maroon Bells reservation system.

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  • The Country Making Orphanages Obsolete

    In 2007, Moldova launched a National Strategy to reduce the number of children living in orphanages by providing more support to disadvantaged families, creating more inclusive education programs, and expanding the country’s foster care capacity. As of now, only about 700 children remain in orphanages.

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  • How One Country's Russian Gas Crisis Became a Green Energy Boom

    Moldova used government regulations and local installations of solar panels and biomass systems to respond to the Russia energy crisis, empowering local communities to create their own renewable energy cooperatives. These have helped increase the nation's renewable energy from 3% to 25% and reduce heating electricity costs in participating towns.

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  • A Wall of Trees is Reversing Desertification and Empowering Communities in Nigeria

    The Wall of Trees initiative in Nigeria's Makoda village created a four-tiered barrier of windbreak, orchard, woodlot, and economic trees that tripled crop yields and provided income opportunities for 200 women, successfully reversing desertification on 15 hectares over two decades.

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  • Making the Invisible Visible

    Citizen science initiatives across Europe are using accessible technology to expose toxic emissions that official monitoring misses, triggering institutional responses ranging from increased enforcement to new pollution-control infrastructure.

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  • The Forest That Proves It: How Sudbury Reclaimed a Moonscape

    The Regreening Sudbury Project transformed a lunar-like wasteland into thriving forest through decades of systematic tree planting (10+ million trees), soil amendments, and transparent open-data tracking. This resulted in a 98% reduction in air pollution and 50% recovery of fish populations while creating a replicable model for ecological restoration.

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  • India's Heat Insurance Plans: Look Promising, But Resilience Needs More Than Payouts

    A parametric heat insurance program covering 276,800 women workers across India provides automatic cash payouts (₹300-1,250) when temperatures exceed city-specific thresholds for consecutive days, successfully delivering financial relief during extreme heat events but facing sustainability challenges due to heavy subsidies, trust issues when thresholds aren't met, and the need for behavioral change among beneficiaries.

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  • From Risk to Rescue: Keeping Girls Safe In The Climate-Hit Sundarbans

    BIRD's community-based anti-trafficking network has used vigilance hubs, local partnerships, and survivor-focused rehabilitation to rescue over 500 girls. Building community trust has made families turn to them first when children go missing, reducing trafficking rates in climate-vulnerable regions.

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  • The Nigerian Women Who Went from Labourers for Hire to Landowners

    Twenty women in Kaduna, Nigeria formed a cooperative in 2015 that pooled their farm labor earnings to collectively purchase land, transforming them from hired laborers earning ₦2,000-₦10,000 per day into independent landowners who now harvest enough to support their families' education and healthcare while contributing food to their community.

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  • Small farmers are more squeezed than ever. A California grant program offers a lifeline.

    California's farm-to-school grant program, launched in 2021, has successfully directed 100% of its funding to small and disadvantaged farmers. This has helped them expand their businesses through investments like refrigerated vans and partnerships with food hubs, enabling fresh local produce delivery to schools across the state.

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