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  • Native Americans foster healing from domestic violence through community, tradition

    December 23, 2019 |

    Cronkite News - Arizona PBS |

    Multi-Media |

    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, Las Vegas, Nevada

    To help address domestic violence and intervene in crises such as suicide and addiction within Native American communities, a decades-old culture-based program offers workshops that "foster healing through embracing community and tradition." These Gathering of Native Americans programs, which are designed specifically with the audience in mind, focus on community members helping community members as a form of counseling.

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  • Tenants Organize to Keep Building Affordable Through Nonprofit Purchase

    December 20, 2019 |

    San Francisco Public Press |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Affordable housing in San Francisco is becoming more and more unattainable. When the landlord tried to change its status to not be rent-controlled to not, a group of residents at said building banded together with a nonprofit to preserve the building. A nonprofit, the Mission Economic Development Agency, bought the property from the landlord so that its residents could maintain their rent in a very expensive city. Organizations like MEDA are key to helping the city and its residents transition over time to ownership.

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  • Are 'ableist' economies depriving themselves of the purple pound?

    December 20, 2019 |

    Pioneers Post |

    Multi-Media |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Indonesia, Gunungkidul, Yogyakarta

    Although Indonesia is making efforts to improve disability rights, progress is slow. In the meantime, a group called Economic Empowerment for Entrepreneurs with Disability (EEED) was formed in partnership with the British Council’s DICE (Developing Inclusive Creative Economies) program. Participants in the program learn entrepreneurial skills by creating their own social enterprise, supplemented by lessons in things like marketing and management. This helps those in Indonesia with disabilities become socioeconomically independent and able to envision a develop a meaningful vision of the future.

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  • The Ohio River community of Newport bands together to slow runoff and add greenspace

    December 19, 2019 |

    Eye On Ohio |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Newport, Kentucky

    To promote the implementation of greenspaces while also decreasing the likelihood of runoff after heavy rain storms, community groups in Newport, Kentucky worked together to implement strategic depaving. This practice of removing pavement has now led to the creation of a park which will soon have rain and pollinator gardens.

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  • Explaining 'Citizens Assemblies', a Real Kind of Democracy

    December 18, 2019 |

    Vice |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United Kingdom, Leeds

    In the city of Leeds, England, a group of randomly selected demographically representative citizens came together to solve the climate crisis. This group of twenty-one strangers formed the Leeds Climate Citizens' Jury, which is a smaller version of the better-known Citizen's Assembly. Over the course of several weeks, the members of the assembly or jury learn about and discuss how to tackle a certain political problem, like climate change. Similar assemblies have formed in Ireland, Australia, and Poland to tackle political problems like abortion and nuclear storage.

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  • How Local Trash Disposal Affects Climate Change

    December 18, 2019 |

    Grady Newsource |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Athens, Georgia

    With Georgia’s Athens-Clarke county landfill nearing its fill limit, residents, organizations, and the city are taking a multi-pronged approach to reducing waste. A key part of this has been the fact that nearly half of what goes into the landfill can be recycled, and Georgia-based industries like aluminum and carpet manufacturing are willing to buy recyclables. In addition, composting supported by the state has grown in popularity, and universities have taken on recycling education and collection programs.

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  • How water is helping to end 'the first climate change war'

    December 18, 2019 |

    The Guardian |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Sudan, El Fasher

    Cooperation and collective action work not only to mitigate the effects of climate change, they can also build bridges to peace. In El Fasher, Sudan, farmers and pastoralists along the Wadi El Ku River have come together to prevent water shortages by building weirs. The community built weirs enable the land to retain more water, and have led to increased cooperation among groups that had former resorted to conflict over scarce water resources in the region.

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  • The Lady of Rabindra Sarovar lake

    December 17, 2019 |

    Mongabay |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: India, Kolkata, West Bengal

    For decades, Sumita Banerjee has mobilized her community to save the Rabindra Sarovar lake. The lake preserves floral species, generates oxygen, and offers green space for locals to enjoy, but it’s threatened by government inaction and festivals the lead to pollution. Her work with petitions, cleanups, and legal action has made slow but steady change to preserve the lake.

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  • How a Stock Photography Project Is Confronting Fat Bias

    December 17, 2019 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Portland, Oregon

    AllGo, a Portland-based organization is an app that aims to combat fat bias in the media by creating a collection of stock photos of exclusively plus-sized models. The app is a completely free resource that aims to offer another perspective in stock photography, which tends to err cis-gendered, able-bodied, and thin. Their photos now have more than 76,000 downloads and over 24 million views, and the creators and models look forward to shooting many more scenes as "an act of resistance."

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  • Shouldering the Burden

    December 17, 2019 |

    Comstock's Magazine |

    Multi-Media |

    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Guinda, California

    Drastic solutions to climate change tend not to pan out (like trying to get everyone to stop eating meat), but careful adaptation is making real progress. In California, many smaller-scale farms are trying out new methods of adapting to the new realities of climate change, including not tilling the land so that nutrients build up and the soil strengthens. This article covers a range of approaches that farmers take to protect their livelihood and conserve their resources.

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