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

    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

    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"

    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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  • Las periodistas en Sudán que informan en medio de la guerra: "Escribimos desde los escombros mientras nos sobrevuelan las balas"

    El Proyecto Sueño es una iniciativa comunitaria liderada por periodistas sudanesas que vende camisetas con mensajes de paz para generar fondos que permiten a mujeres reporteras continuar informando desde zonas de guerra, habiendo recaudado más de 670 euros para ayudar a más de 30 periodistas a cubrir gastos básicos como internet, electricidad y medicinas, mientras les proporciona apoyo psicológico crucial en medio del conflicto armado.

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

    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

    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'

    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

    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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  • Local Volunteers Lead the Way in Closing Taraba's Maternal Healthcare Gap

    Women volunteers with PHC Kara are going into the community to share important healthcare information with pregnant women, in an effort to improve maternal and infant mortality rates and health outcomes. The group has also received support and recognition from UNICEF’S Mama2Mama healthcare initiative and Rural Health Mission Nigeria, providing them with clean birth kits and other supplies to distribute to women.

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