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  • Volunteers plant mini-forests in Paris to slow climate change, tackle heatwaves

    January 22, 2023 |

    France 24 |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: France, Paris

    Volunteers of a nonprofit tree-planting initiative in Paris are planting pocket forests, based on Japanese botanist Akira Miyawaki’s method, to increase biodiversity and combat extreme heat. These mini-forests are made of native species planted close together at random to mimic a natural forest.

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  • How to build a better bike-share program

    January 20, 2023 |

    Grist |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, New Orleans, Louisiana

    A community-led nonprofit restarted New Orleans’ bike-sharing program Blue Bikes with a focus on affordability and equity after a for-profit company ended it during the pandemic. The founders used the bike stands and tools left behind from the original program, the city provided spaces for the bike racks, and the funders provided money for a fleet of bicycles.

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  • A year later, members of the Memphis Seven inspire a new generation of workers

    January 18, 2023 |

    MLK50 |

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    Response Location: United States, Memphis, Tennessee

    After enduring unfair working conditions, an organizing committee at a Starbucks in Tennessee, later dubbed the Memphis Seven, became the first of the state to attempt, and succeed, to unionize with help from Starbucks Workers United. Their work inspired a nationwide movement, and now over 250 Starbucks are unionized.

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  • Preventing Good Food From Going to Waste

    January 17, 2023 |

    The Story Exchange |

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    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States

    Food Rescue Hero collects surplus food and distributes it to those in need. Volunteers use the organization’s app to accept deliveries, pick them up from the donor, and deliver them to individuals and organizations that distribute the food.

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  • In Virginia, carbon emissions drop as data centers boom, thanks to RGGI pact

    January 16, 2023 |

    Energy News Network |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Virginia

    Virginia’s participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative helped reduce greenhouse gas emissions from power plants by 12% because of the agreement’s carbon cap on utilities’ fossil fuel use that lowers yearly.

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  • Conservationists Are Saving America's Prairies by Selling Them Off

    January 16, 2023 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: United States, Oregon

    The Nature Conservancy uses conservation easements to protect prairie land in Oregon. These legal agreements allow landowners to sell their land to the conservancy but continue to use it for activities like farming and ranching.

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  • How Tucson's Southside Worker Center has helped undocumented workers earn fair wages over decades

    January 13, 2023 |

    Arizona Luminaria |

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    Response Location: United States, Tucson, Arizona

    Tucson’s Southside Worker Center supports day laborers by offering a safe place for them to wait for employment and services like English-language workshops and connections to attorneys should they need help collecting past-due payments.

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  • Can This Beef Cooperative Become ‘the West's Largest Climate-Smart Ranching Program'?

    January 10, 2023 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Response Location: United States, Oregon

    The Country Beef Natural cooperative partners ranchers with scientists to help them learn about the best regenerative practices for the land their herds graze on and monitor whether new practices are improving the health of the land.

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  • University of Wisconsin partnership converts manure to jet fuel while easing climate change

    January 06, 2023 |

    Great Lakes Echo |

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    Response Location: United States, New Franken, Wisconsin

    A project between the University of Wisconsin and California-based Agra Energy created a commercial facility that turns biogases from food waste or manure into diesel and jet fuel.

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  • Restoring Hong Kong's oyster reefs, one abandoned oyster farm at a time

    December 30, 2022 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: China, Hong Kong

    Conservationists in Hong Kong are restoring oyster reefs by refurbishing abandoned oyster farms and creating habitat along the coasts. Their work is increasing the oyster population and providing habitat for numerous other forms of marine life. They hope the oysters will act as filters to help clean the water, too.

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