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  • Saving Food Waste From The Landfill, One WhatsApp Message At A Time

    January 27, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Germany

    The volunteer initiative Foodsharing is helping reduce food waste in Germany by collecting donated goods from restaurants, grocery stores, and other food businesses and distributing them to anyone interested. The food is given away through communication channels like WhatsApp groups or publicly accessible places like community fridges, and you do not need to meet any qualifications to get it.

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  • This Washington experiment could rebuild eroding coastlines

    January 27, 2023 |

    High Country News |

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    Response Location: United States, North Cove, Washington

    Residents of North Cove, Washington, are rebuilding their eroded coastal beaches with a form of dynamic revetments in which long cobble berms are deposited along the beach. The rocks cause waves to slow and drop sand instead of crashing into the coastline and eroding it.

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  • Costa Rican trail opens a path to cash for nature and people

    January 23, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Costa Rica

    The Mar a Mar association is slowly improving the 174-mile hiking trail, Camino de Costa Rica, with new infrastructure to attract more tourists. The path was built to bring tourism profits inland to the local communities that need it. The association is also helping members of those communities develop small businesses around the trail.

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  • Cómo el Centro de Trabajadores Southside de Tucson ha ayudado durante décadas a los obreros indocumentados a ganar sueldos justos

    January 20, 2023 |

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    Response Location: United States, Tucson, Arizona

    Desde 2006, el Centro de Trabajadores Southside de Tucson ha ayudado a cientos de obreros migrantes a enfrentar condiciones de trabajo peligrosos con un espacio seguro para coordinar trabajo y un equipo legal que lucha por los derechos y la protección de los inmigrantes. Con colaboraciones en la comunidad, el Centro tambien proviene una variedad de servicios cuando son necesarios, como talleres de idioma en inglés, entrenamientos sobre el liderazgo, y conectar a la gente con trabajadores sociales o de salud.

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  • Left out of government plan, Cross River village fights to end open defecation

    January 18, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Agbara, Cross River

    To combat health and sanitary issues arising from high rates of open defecation and a lack of government support, community members worked together to fund and build 14 easily accessible toilets that are cleaned daily and open for anyone to use.

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  • Voluntary initiatives give hope to refugees on the Greek island of Samos

    January 13, 2023 |

    Equal Times |

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    Response Location: Greece

    The Skills Factory provides refugees and migrants a place to develop valuable skills, like phone repair, and express their creativity through activities like painting, photography, and furniture making. Not only does the Skills Factory provide a place for refugees to improve upon their skillsets, but it also offers a sense of community.

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  • As 'good meat', Bayelsa community ate sea turtles until it realised killing them hurts the environment

    January 12, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Akassa, Bayelsa

    The Akassa Development Foundation’s sea turtle club educates coastal communities in Bayelsa about the importance of sea turtles to prevent locals from killing them for meat or poaching their eggs. The club members also rescue turtles from their captors and accept turtles surrendered by fishers to release them back into the ocean.

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  • For decades, Chinatown has created a blueprint for fighting big development. Here's how they do it.

    December 29, 2022 |

    The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia Media Network) |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia’s Chinatown remains authentic and keeps its position downtown by organizing together to preserve the community through activism.

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  • Abandoned homes: how village in Sumy region helps IDPs find new housing

    December 20, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Ukraine, Kapustyntsi

    The village of Kapustyntsi, Ukraine, welcomed people displaced by the war into abandoned houses through Facebook posts. The community worked to clean up the houses, contact owners and heirs for permission to use them, or take legal action to claim them when necessary.

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  • Cities Take on a New Front in the Climate Battle: Meat Eating

    December 13, 2022 |

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    Response Location: England, Hayward Heath

    A grassroots campaign to encourage more environmentally sustainable diets called the Plant Based Treaty is picking up support across the globe. Pledgers make their own decisions on how to best take action.

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