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  • After A Run Of Tainted Food Scandals, Women In This Country Took Control Of The System

    January 08, 2019 |

    The Huffington Post |

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    Response Location: Japan, Koriyama City, Fukushima

    Following the nuclear disaster in Fukushima, a group of women took the initiative to ensure that the food they consume meets radiation standards twice as strict as the government's. The Seikatsu Club formed in 1965 and has since built itself up to 400,000 members (about 90% of whom are women) and works with 200 producers. The group is highly productive: they run their own milk factory, join with worker collectives to sell goods like jam or cookies, operate a fund for farmers whose products are tainted, offer child and elder care, and much more. Seikatsu is a success due to its local citizens' control.

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  • In India's Fast-Growing Cities, a Grassroots Effort to Save the Trees

    January 08, 2019 |

    Yale Environment 360 |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: India, Mumbai

    In booming cities across India, residents and nonprofits are fighting to save trees from rampant development. One protest in Delhi brought 1,500 citizens out, stalling a proposal to fell 14,000 trees in the city. And the Center for Environmental Research and Education in Mumbai plant's new trees with an unusually high survival rate of 90 percent. But to stem destruction, these groups must help city planners and politicians understand the many benefits that urban trees provide.

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  • How an emerging African megacity cut commutes by two hours a day

    January 08, 2019 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: Tanzania, Dar es Salaam

    Dar es Salaam, Tanzania's de facto capital and megacity-to-be, has cut transportation times by providing a bus system that avoids traffic congestion and chaotic intersections. Though the bus system still struggles to provide comfortable conditions and convenient ticketing processes, commuters who take the bus report significantly reduced transportation times.

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  • U.S. Faith Communities Are Tackling the Housing Crisis

    January 08, 2019 |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    In cities like Denver, Seattle, and Chicago, faith-based communities use their land to aid in the affordable housing crisis. Because many communities of faith sit on large expanses of valuable land within city limits, they've begun using their land to offer housing for low-income families and other underserved community members.

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  • Dutch eco initiative halves energy bills in first UK homes

    January 07, 2019 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom, Nottingham, England

    By piloting a Dutch initiative to make homes more energy efficient with new windows and solar panels in the United Kingdom, tenants are seeing their monthly energy bills decrease by almost half. More than 150 social housing homes in Nottingham are testing the “Energiesprong” approach, which has already seen success in the Netherlands.

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  • LA Foodways: Explore the History of Los Angeles Agriculture

    January 07, 2019 |

    KCET-TV |

    Documentary |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    The history of Los Angeles, a farm town-turned metropolis, leads to the present-day food situation, in which the quantity of food produced is insufficient to feed everyone - yet food insecurity persists. Food Forward distributes produce that might not sell and brings it to partners across the city. Their food justice work has been supported by groups such as the Watts Labor Community Action Committee.

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  • Interruption: A fix for Flint's gun violence

    January 05, 2019 |

    Flint Beat |

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    Response Location: United States, Flint, Michigan

    Across the country, mental health professionals, city officials, and community leaders have been developing grassroots responses to curb gun violence. From mediation to education, a driving factor behind these efforts has been prevention. As Flint, Michigan witnesses a striking increase in violent crime, they look to these responses as possible interventions for their own community.

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  • Bringing back historic wildlife migration corridors to the mountains

    January 04, 2019 |

    Citizen-Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Asheville, North Carolina

    In North Carolina, a group of planners and conservationists are working to install wildlife corridors along a stretch of I-40, allowing animals like elk and bears to cross safely. The plan has myriad benefits: stopping fatalities, reducing traffic accidents, and improving wildlife habitat. Climate change only makes such corridors more crucial, because wildlife will be increasingly on the move.

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  • This old coal plant is now a solar farm, thanks to pressure from local activists

    January 03, 2019 |

    FastCompany |

    Multi-Media |

    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, Holyoke, Massachusetts

    Turning a coal plant carbon neutral requires a community effort. In Holyoke, Massachusetts, community organizers from the Toxics Action Center and Neighbor to Neighbor, a local Latinx organization, succeeded in getting the coal plant in their city shut down and transformed into a commercial solar farm. Today, Holyoke’s electric utility uses the solar energy as part of a carbon-neutral plan.

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  • Why Co-op City Confounds Stereotypes About Big Housing Projects

    January 03, 2019 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    A racially integrated middle-income housing unit in the Bronx serves both as an inspiration and an enigma in the New York City housing market. Co-op City, which just celebrated its 50th birthday, accepts tenants of all income brackets and ethnicities, serving as a model in an otherwise quickly gentrifying neighborhood.

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