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  • Are Agricultural Co-ops Seeing a Revival in Hawai‘i?

    September 10, 2025 |

    Overstory |

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    Response Location: United States, Hawaii

    Agricultural cooperatives in Hawai'i pool small farmers' resources to collectively process, market, and sell their crops, with successful examples like the Hawai'i 'Ulu Cooperative enabling nearly 200 members to reach broader markets and the Hawaii Cattle Producers Cooperative shipping 8,000-9,000 cattle annually while returning surplus profits to rancher-members, though some co-ops have failed due to declining membership and market pressures.

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  • The Anarchic Playgrounds Where Putting Kids At Risk Is The Point

    September 04, 2025 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Germany, Berlin

    Adventure playgrounds such as Berlin’s Kolle 37 put kids in charge of play, giving them the space, tools, and freedom to solve conflicts, learn new skills, and even build their own play structures as adults monitor for hazards from a distance. Research shows that this type of “risky play” can help children mature and learn to navigate complex psychosocial situations.

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  • Climate change tests the resilience of people and desert-adapted wildlife in Namibia

    August 21, 2025 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Namibia

    Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) in Namibia gives rural communities the rights to manage and profit from wildlife through organized conservancies, which has dramatically recovered wildlife populations (like elephants growing from 7,000 to 26,000) while providing economic incentives that motivate communities to protect rather than poach animals, even during severe droughts.

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  • City food forests offer a chance to experience nature — and eat it

    August 19, 2025 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: United States

    In some cities, empty urban lots transformed into multilayered "food forests" that mimic natural ecosystems are providing free, accessible fresh produce to city residents through strategically designed edible plantings that feature native and adapted fruit trees, nut trees, and berry bushes.

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  • How Baltimore became a rising star in America's worker cooperative movement

    August 08, 2025 |

    Baltimore Beat |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    Worker cooperatives like the bookstore/cafe Red Emma's partnered with other organizations to create Seed Commons, a national financing network that provides loans without requiring individual collateral. Seed Commons has distributed over $100 million in loans supporting 15,000 workers nationwide. In the Baltimore region specifically, the network has invested $25 million, created 250 ownership-track jobs, and supported 23 cooperatives.

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  • Building Empathy Through the Sounds of 'a World in Motion'

    July 18, 2025 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Crossing Borders Music is a group of classically-trained Western musicians who perform music from Haitian, Palestinian, Rohingya, Native American and other marginalized communities via free concerts held in libraries, cultural centers and university spaces. The goal is to not only showcase diverse cultures and musical traditions, but to build a deeper understanding of immigrants and other communities that are often overlooked. The group reaches about 10,000 people in-person and online each year, and hosted 27 free concerts in 2024.

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  • Even in uncertain times, local farmers are focused on making produce affordable

    July 16, 2025 |

    GBH |

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    Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

    Around Boston, local farms and community markets are using creative financing and marketing tactics to reach and incentivize lower-income communities to benefit from access to fresh, local Massachusefts foods.

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  • Baltimore residents are mobilizing to protect their immigrant neighbors from ICE

    July 01, 2025 |

    Baltimore Beat |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    In one Baltimore neighborhood, residents have organized a grassroots network geared toward protecting the community from ICE raids. Through a Signal group, they communicate about ICE sightings, organize check-ins with neighbors, and help get each other connected with trainings from local organizations focused on protecting immigrant communities.

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  • Beneath the blazing sun, Black Phoenix sows community

    July 01, 2025 |

    High Country News |

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    Response Location: United States, Phoenix, Arizona

    In Phoenix's historically Black neighborhoods, community organizations have transformed vacant, heat-trapping lots into thriving urban farms. One initiative, Spaces of Opportunity, converted a 19-acre abandoned site into a community farm with 250 garden plots available. Spaces of Opportunity serves over 1,000 residents each month, and other community farming initiatives also help in providing food and jobs for participants, many of whom are formerly incarcerated or unhoused.

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  • Meet the 'Bicycle Mayors' Making Cities Around the World More Bike-Friendly

    June 27, 2025 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Ethiopia, Addis Ababa

    The Bicycle Mayor Network selects local cycling activists to act as key liaisons in their communities, giving them support and resources to advocate for cycling-friendly policies, organize educational opportunities and events, and provide a link between residents and government decision-makers. There are more than 150 bicycle mayors in 34 countries who have had a hand in everything from improving cycling infrastructure to offering free community classes.

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