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  • Philly garden activists are shipping millions of seeds to a nation fretting over food access during coronavirus pandemic

    April 27, 2020 |

    The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia Media Network) |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Across Philadelphia, people are turning to seeds to source their food instead of grocery stores and supply chains, which have been disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Philadelphia is home to the Cooperative Gardens Commission, helping people across the United States practice safe gardening, providing mentoring for novices, and packaging and sending seedlings. It’s just one of many localized garden initiatives working to make sure their communities and neighbors have fresh, sustainable food.

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  • Meet the Women Who Detonate Land Mines in Colombia's Former War Zones

    April 24, 2020 |

    Teen Vogue |

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    Response Location: Colombia, Caquetá

    In Colombia, the organization Humanity & Inclusion has hired women in local areas like Caquetá to help demine formerly war-torn lands. In areas with violent histories, trust is crucial, thus the hiring of local residents who can gain community trust and access more information about where landmines might be. But with the risk of instability, the future of this work has yet to be determined.

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  • How the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle forged relationships with communities of color

    April 23, 2020 |

    Better News |

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    Response Location: United States, Rochester, New York

    After learning that communities of color were virtually “invisible” in local media coverage, the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle formed working groups and reached out to community partners to better understand their community. They also employed a social listening platform called Hearken. This helped them answer the central question, "How do we write FOR audiences of color instead of merely about them?"

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  • Snorkel Kits Help Doctors Get Through PPE Shortage

    April 23, 2020 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

    In Boston, two anesthesiology residents teamed up with engineers at Google to turn a snorkel into a face mask to be used as a back-up form of personal protection equipment during the coronavirus pandemic. Although the design is still undergoing assessments for durability and reuse, more than 2,500 of these masks are already in circulation across the country.

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  • These coal communities are protecting sick miners from COVID-19 and pushing Congress for more support

    April 23, 2020 |

    Southerly |

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    Response Location: United States, Tennessee

    In Tennessee and Kentucky, rural coal communities are drawing on their decades-old networks of mutual aid to protect coal miners from COVID-19. At the legislative level, the National Black Lung Association and other Appalachian groups are coming together to push for more coal miner protections in coronavirus stimulus bills. At the local level, communities are organizing phone trees to share necessary information, helping with grocery and prescription delivery, and providing greater access to broadband for those without reliable internet.

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  • The farmers bringing their fields indoors

    April 23, 2020 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: France, Paris

    To "ease the strain" on the food supply chain, some restaurants in large cities, such as Berlin and Paris, are turning to their own crop production using in-house vertical farm systems. Although these farms have not yet yielded a profit, consumers have expressed that the produce grow in-house tastes better and investors have given billions in funding betting, "urbanites wanting this kind of food."

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  • City Nature Challenge Can Help Us Find Resilience and Mindfulness at Home

    April 22, 2020 |

    Texas Observer |

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    Response Location: United States, Houston, Texas

    Throughout the United States, an annual community science competition known as the City Nature Challenge (CNC), has brought residents together to document research-grade observations as a means of locating and identifying species with conservation needs. Although it's yet to be seen how this competition will fare during the coronavirus pandemic, in past years, thousands of observations have been made representing hundreds of species.

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  • How Chelsea, Mass., Is Tackling Coronavirus

    April 22, 2020 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Chelsea, Massachusetts

    The city of Chelsea's history of community organizing, intense coordination, and ongoing planning for climate resilience prepared it to quickly pivot and better address the coronavirus crisis than other under-resourced, predominantly immigrant communities. Still, local leaders are clear: state and federal resources are desperately needed in one of the Boston area's definitive hot spots.

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  • Chef Erik Bruner-Yang's Industrious Restaurant Relief Program Launches on the West Coast

    April 21, 2020 |

    Washingtonian |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

    A restaurant relief effort called the Power of 10 Initiative aims to support a devastated hospitality industry. The project raises $10,000 a week to support 10 full-time jobs at small restaurants, who then provide 1,000 meals to essential workers and people in need. After a successful launch in Washington, DC, the initiative is now moving to Los Angeles, California.

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  • In a Philippine indigenous stronghold, traditions keep COVID-19 at bay

    April 21, 2020 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Indonesia, Cordillera Administrative Region

    To combat the spread of the novel coronavirus, provinces in the northern Philippines have implemented a tengao, an indigenous version of a lockdown. Since community elders invoked the lockdown, the region has recorded few cases of infection. Government officials said these practices, including other indigenous rituals, have complemented quarantine orders enforced by the national government.

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