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  • Microfinance helps Indian women borrow – with dignity

    December 12, 2022 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: India

    Microfinance institutions in India are providing low-cost loans to women in remote areas that typically only have access to loan sharks. The women are using the money to break poverty cycles and start their own businesses.

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  • What Happens When Jobs Are Guaranteed?

    December 10, 2022 |

    The New Yorker |

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    Response Location: Austria, Gramatneusiedl

    The government-run Job Guarantee program in Gramatneusiedl, Austria, provides employment for residents who have experienced unemployment for at least a year. After a training course and discussion of their wants and needs, the person can choose to accept the offered job in which they will earn at least as much as they would receive from unemployment benefits.

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  • How agroforestry can restore degraded lands and provide income in the Amazon

    December 09, 2022 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Brazil, Nova Califórnia, Rondônia

    Agroforestry is a farming method in which a variety of crops, plants, and trees are planted mimicking the makeup of a forest. The practice is becoming more popular in Rondônia, Brazil, as a sustainable farming option to restore land degraded from livestock ranching while providing an income for small farmers.

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  • Twin Cities electric vehicle car-share program finds success

    December 09, 2022 |

    Energy News Network |

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    Response Location: United States, Minneapolis, Minnesota

    Evie Community Carshare is an electric-vehicle service in areas of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, with high poverty and pollution rates. Users can pick up a car and leave it anywhere within the service area.

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  • Is This Biochar's Big, Carbon-Rich Moment?

    December 06, 2022 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Response Location: United States, Montana

    Biochar, charcoal made by heating organic biomass like forest debris, can be used as an amendment to improve soil health and sequester carbon. The charcoal is incredibly porous, so it holds nutrients, water, and carbon.

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  • An Indigenous reservation has a novel way to grow food – below the earth's surface

    December 03, 2022 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: South Dakota Pine Ridge Reservation, United States, South Dakota

    The Oglala Sioux Tribe uses underground greenhouses to keep harvests safe from intensifying weather due to climate change and fight food insecurity in the community.

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  • How Black Twitter steered the spotlight to Shanquella Robinson

    December 02, 2022 |

    The 19th |

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    Response Location: United States

    Black people use social media to gather and amplify information about missing and murdered black women when the mainstream media is not covering their stories.

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  • A reservation school graduates 100% of students. How? They're learning tribal culture.

    December 02, 2022 |

    Flatwater Free Press |

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    Response Location: Santee Dakota Reservation, United States, Niobrara, Nebraska

    The iSanti Community School in Nebraska has had a 100% graduation rate two years in a row. That success is in part due to the new cultural program that teaches students about the iSanti Dacotach tribe’s language, customs, and history each day.

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  • Program trains teachers, officials to stop bad bleeds

    December 01, 2022 |

    The Oglethorpe Echo |

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    Response Location: United States, Georgia

    Stop the Bleed distributes equipment kits to agencies and departments trained in handling severe bleeds and tasks them to educate school officials on the task.

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  • Indian farmers turn to solar-powered fridges to fight food waste

    December 01, 2022 |

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    Response Location: India

    Solar-powered cold storage units help farmers in India to store their harvests during extreme heat instead of discarding their produce or trying to sell it quickly for cheap to avoid waste. The solar-powered option is significantly cheaper than typical electric cold storage, making it more accessible to small-scale farmers.

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