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

    September 10, 2025 |

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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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  • An Old Timber Town's "Freedom Church of the Poor"

    August 29, 2025 |

    The Daily Yonder |

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    Response Location: United States, Grays Harbor County, Washington

    Chaplains on the Harbor, also known as the Freedom Church of the Poor, supports area residents experiencing poverty and homelessness through a resource center, a farm, outreach in prisons and encampments, and support with pursuing political advocacy. The organization helped community members to file a lawsuit against the city alleging a local ordinance made it difficult for outreach workers to access encampments, which ended with the city allocating funding for a sanctioned camping area.

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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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  • Roca's 'relentlessness' is changing the lives of Baltimore's young men

    August 15, 2025 |

    The Baltimore Banner |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    Roca Baltimore uses outreach and cognitive behavioral therapy to disrupt gun violence among the city's highest-risk young men. Since partnering with Baltimore's Group Violence Reduction Strategy in 2022, 93% of Roca participants have not been revictimized, and 98% have not been rearrested for violent offenses. The organization's comprehensive 18-24 month intervention model combines persistent street outreach, evidence-based cognitive behavioral therapy, paid transitional employment, and connections to trade programs in an effort to reduce violence in the city.

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  • This Farmer-Led Co-op is Growing a Sustainable ‘Ulu Industry for Hawai‘i's Small Farmers

    August 13, 2025 |

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    Response Location: United States, Hawaii

    The Hawai'i 'Ulu Cooperative, a farmer-owned collective founded in 2016, has grown to nearly 200 members across four islands by providing guaranteed markets, stable pricing, and collective processing. Through this, farmers have revitalized traditional Hawaiian agriculture and created year-round supply chains.

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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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    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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