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  • Pakam's Digital Revolution As Blueprint For Edo's Environmental Renaissance

    January 05, 2024 |

    News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Lagos

    The Pakam initiative is taking care of waste mismanagement in Lagos with a digital marketplace for waste and recyclable materials. The app pays households for their recyclables and connects those generating waste with those who collect it to ensure it’s properly disposed of.

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  • St. Paul, Minnesota sees city buildings as opportunity for quick wins on climate plan goals

    January 05, 2024 |

    Energy News Network |

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    Response Location: United States, St. Paul, Minnesota

    St. Paul, Minnesota, is retrofitting city-owned buildings, improving their efficiency, and swapping to renewable sources of heating and cooling to decarbonize their operations.

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  • Solar Pumps Are Empowering Women Farmers in India

    January 05, 2024 |

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    Response Location: India, Harpur, Bihar

    In the Indian state of Bihar, women-led self-help groups are challenging traditional gender norms and saving money to buy and install solar irrigation pumps. The pumps increase the local agricultural capacity by providing a cleaner, more affordable alternative to the diesel pumps typically used to combat water scarcity in the region.

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  • In Juneau, Alaska, a carbon offset project that's actually working

    January 04, 2024 |

    Grist |

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    Response Location: United States, Juneau, Alaska

    To mitigate the carbon dioxide emissions generated by tourism, the community in Juneau, Alaska, created the Alaska Carbon Reduction Fund as a type of carbon offset program. Tourists pay an emissions fee to the fund when doing certain excursions, and that money is used to install heat pumps for residents who earn less than 80 percent of the median income.

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  • The New Mexico co-op breaking up with fossil fuels

    January 01, 2024 |

    High Country News |

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    Response Location: United States, New Mexico

    After years of community outreach and searching for alternate energy suppliers that didn’t rely on fossil fuels, the Kit Carson Electric Cooperative now distributes electricity from renewable energy to households and businesses in rural New Mexico.

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  • Peace-building lessons from the heart of Nigeria

    December 30, 2023 |

    FairPlanet |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Jebbu Miango, Plateau

    The community-founded Claire Aid Foundation raised money on social media to rebuild houses that were destroyed in Jebbu Miango after a violent attack on the town left families displaced and unable to afford to return.

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  • 2024 Outlook: How tech, incentives could push measurement-based care in behavioral health

    December 21, 2023 |

    Fierce Healthcare |

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    Measurement-based care (MBC) collects and analyzes symptom data in behavioral healthcare settings to track patient progress over time and provide more effective care. Several companies are launching tech tools that make it easier to gather and measure patient data rather than relying on outdated pen-and-paper methods. Practitioners report that using MBC allows them to provide more accurate treatments and that seeing their progress is therapeutic for patients.

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  • Las energías renovables compartidas que dinamizan el entorno rural

    December 18, 2023 |

    Revista Haz |

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    Response Location: Spain, Castile and León

    En 2018 nació la primera comunidad energética rural de España. La iniciativa ahora se está expandiendo a otros municipios que no solo busca el ahorro de costes energéticos, sino también revitalizar los pueblos y luchar contra la despoblación.

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  • An Underground Lunch Delivery Train Comes to the Atlanta Suburbs

    December 14, 2023 |

    Bloomberg |

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    Response Location: United States, Peachtree Corners, Georgia

    The startup Pipedream Labs is running small, electric vehicles in tunnels under Peachtree Corners, Georgia, to make last-mile deliveries for local restaurants. The aim is to reduce emissions, traffic, and delivery costs for businesses.

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  • Solar panels illuminate path to improved care

    December 13, 2023 |

    Harvard Public Health |

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    Response Location: India, Mawtawar, Meghalaya

    The Indian government and the solar nonprofit Selco Foundation partnered to install solar panels at health facilities across the country to address blackouts that prevented them from providing adequate care.

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