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  • La plaza que se convirtió en un centro de cultura al aire libre

    Una comisión vecinal logra transforma una plaza abandonada en un espacio de recreo para los miembros de la comunida de todas las edades. La misma comisión y los demás miembros del barrio, asumen el mantenimiento y la organización de actividades, que va desde bibliotega para niños, festivales de arte, espacios para la recreación y el deporte. Sin embargo, las acciones aún esperan apoyo gubernamental.

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  • Puerto Rico enfrenta el reto de reducir el 60% los desechos que se depositan en vertederos para el 2030

    Aprender de los desaciertos del pasado será clave para alcanzar la nueva meta de la Ley 33 de Mitigación, Adaptación y Resiliencia al Cambio Climático en Puerto Rico. La Ley 70, la cual fue promulgada en 1992, había declarado cinco mandatos, los cuales han visto poco o ningún progreso o implementación. Bajo la Ley 33, se actualizarán estos mandatos, incluyendo el atacar los problemas a través de sus raíces.

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  • How Los Angeles Became the Leader of a Tree-Planting Revolution

    City Plants, an organization in Los Angeles, is partnering with other nonprofits, government agencies, scientists, and residents to create a more equitable urban forest throughout the city. By working together and using technology, they have planted more than 65,000 trees to combat climate change, systemic racism, and high temperatures that affect all Angelenos.

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  • Our Rivers' Keepers: How the Ohio River's trash collectors transformed the waterway

    A nonprofit with a barge and a 10-person crew picks up trash and plastics across seven rivers in the U.S. Midwest. In one year, Living Lands and Waters collected over half a million pounds of trash. Over the years, they’ve attracted hundreds of thousands of volunteers to help their operation. “No matter who you are, where you’re from, how old, young or what political party you belong to – it doesn’t matter, because no one likes seeing garbage in the river,” said the cofounder.

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  • Indigenous knowledge and science team up to triple a caribou herd

    A collaboration between two First Nations communities, scientists, private businesses, and the Canadian government are recovering caribou populations in British Columbia. Because of their work, they have been able to triple the number of caribou in their herd over the last decades. While their methods of protecting the animals are controversial, they’ve been able to protect more than 7,000 hectares of additional land for caribou habitat.

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  • Wheels of Hope Increases Access by Providing Rides

    Wheels of Hope provides car rides to people who can’t drive due to illness, age or disability for no more than $20. Drivers provide more than just a ride and also provide company to the passenger and help with tasks if they need it.

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  • What Is the Future of America's Greenest Town?

    After a tornado devastated Greensburg, Kansas, the town decided to use the disaster as an opportunity to become more environmentally sustainable. For example, they built a new school out of recycled wood and it was powered with geothermal heat. While the maintenance of these sustainable features can be tricky, this shift to a greener town can be a case study for others looking to make the transition.

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  • More and more St. Louisans are using Via, the microtransit service. Could its success become a problem?

    Via teams up with public transit agencies like Metro to offer low-cost rides on demand by using an app to catch a ride. Via aims to address transit deserts, where people don’t have ample access to public transportation stops.

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  • Raise or retreat? Home elevation aims to protect historic houses

    As waters continue to rise and flood homes at sea levels, some homeowners are spending thousands of dollars to raise their homes off the ground. This solution that has been tried in Charleston is expensive, but some people think it can also work in Virginia. One industry expert started the Home Raising Academy, a workforce development program, to train architects, engineers, realtors, and government officials on floodplain management, insurance, and financing for home elevations in the area.

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  • In this Mississippi city, public art points a way forward

    The Hattiesburg Alliance for Public Art has designated the city as a public art city, with as many as 46 public art installations across the city, including 35 murals. It intends to grow to 100 public art murals. The city hopes that the public art will attract tourists and economic development, but the primary goal is to develop and beautify communities for the people who live there. Public art raises morale and connects people to one another. It also creates a shared sense of pride in the city and rises the collective mood.

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