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  • Community colleges are providing new opportunities for learning on the job in logging and oystering

    March 19, 2025 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States, Shingletown, California

    Shasta College partners with timber companies to help train apprentices for the industry, providing pre-apprenticeship coursework and helping to facilitate state and federal funding that offsets the cost of on-the-job training. So far, about 50 people have completed the pre-apprenticeship program, while 15 have completed the full apprenticeship.

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  • Florida is now a solar superpower. Here's how it happened.

    March 11, 2025 |

    Canary Media |

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    Response Location: United States, Florida

    With the help of federal tax credits and localized policies for building, last year, Florida surpassed California as the state with the most new solar panels plugged into its grid, building three gigawatts of large-scale solar in 2024.

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  • Beyond the Chip: How an Oregon university gives students a 'quick start' in chip manufacturing

    March 05, 2025 |

    Knox Pages |

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    Response Location: United States, Portland, Oregon

    In partnership with universities and community colleges, Intel’s Quick Start program gives students condensed training over 10 days that prepares them for careers in the semiconductor industry. In one iteration of the program at Portland Community College, 391 students have graduated so far, and everyone who graduates is guaranteed an interview at Intel.

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  • Ideas We Should Steal: Divest Fossil Fuels From City Pensions

    March 03, 2025 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Following the success of New York City's divestment of pension funds from fossil fuels, a process that started in 2015, other cities around the US are exploring ways to achieve net-zero portfolio emissions. In most cases, the divested pension funds have performed at least as well financially as a city’s non-divested funds.

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  • Inside Africa's Trailblazing Solar Repair Movement

    January 27, 2025 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Zambia

    Nonprofit SolarAid trains repair technicians who can fix solar energy kits. In the 2023-24 financial year, SolarAid’s teams across Zambia and Malawi repaired 2,422 solar products, reducing electronic waste, increasing the lifespan of products, and improving access to solar lights, as well as creating job opportunities

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  • In Türkiye, Girl Villages Have Become a Lifeline for Education

    January 08, 2025 |

    The Solutions Paper |

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    Response Location: Turkey, Istanbul

    To help relieve the burden of ancillary education costs such as transportation, supplies, and meals, with the ultimate goal of preventing girls from dropping out early, the Korunuck Foundation operates two housing campuses for Turkish girls where they receive comprehensive support for their studies. The programs currently serve 125 students, and 36 girls have been accepted into universities.

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  • Sani Isla: A Kichwa community that found alternatives to oil in conservation and tourism

    December 24, 2024 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Sani Isla, Ecuador

    The indigenous community of Sani Isla in Ecuador receives financial incentives for conserving thousands of hectares through the state-run Socio Bosque program. This economic support helps them sustain their ways of life, safeguard more of the environment, and showcase the area’s biodiversity to tourists.

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  • Are high efficiency stoves the solution to Keene's wood smoke pollution?

    November 29, 2024 |

    Sentinel Source (The Keene Sentinel) |

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    Response Location: United States, Keene, New Hampshire

    In New England, government incentives and education are supporting and encouraging residents to swap their wood-burning stoves for high-efficiency models that burn less wood and emit less smoke. The aim is to reduce air pollution and its public health and climate impacts.

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  • Wisconsin advocates push home energy efficiency program funded with Inflation Reduction Act dollars

    November 19, 2024 |

    WUWM |

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    Response Location: United States, Wisconsin

    By combining rebates from the Inflation Reduction Act and funding from the state’s Focus on Energy program, Wisconsin homeowners can make energy efficient upgrades at a fraction of the typical cost, with some low-income residents paying as little as $1. Though the future of the funding is uncertain with a new presidential administration, one Wisconsin contractor specializing in green projects currently has 10 projects in progress with another 50 on tap.

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  • Crops, cows, and solar panels? Why farmers are harvesting sunlight.

    November 06, 2024 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Massachusetts

    Spurred by federal and state incentives, farmers in Massachusetts are adopting agrivoltaics, the practice of installing a solar array on the same land they use for crops and livestock.

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