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  • Community Land Trusts Are Building Disaster-Resilient Neighborhoods

    April 25, 2023 |

    Fort Wayne Media Collaborative |

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    Response Location: United States, Monroe County, Florida

    Community land trusts, like the Florida Keys Community Land Trust (FKCLT) help people access affordable housing and aid in disaster recovery by stopping land from entering the real estate market and increasing in price. FKCLT rents land trust units to families earning 80% or less of the local median income at about $1,000 per month.

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  • Gombe State says it has planted 2.7 million trees to combat climate change

    April 24, 2023 |

    Social Voices |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Gombe

    In Nigeria, the state-led Gombe Goes Green project raises tree seedlings in nurseries, plants them across the state, and ensures the trees’ survival through regular care. The trees help combat the effects of rampant deforestation like flooding and land degradation.

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  • A Caribbean island's quest to become the world's first climate-resilient nation

    April 24, 2023 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: Dominica

    On its journey to become the first climate-resilient nation, Dominica created an early warning system for extreme weather. Once the warning reaches the national level, the information is distributed to communities where a network of local authorities spread the word. From there, neighbors and friends check in with each other, and traditional conch shells are blown as a warning, too.

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  • Counterintuitive conservation: Fire boosts aquatic crustaceans in U.S. savannas

    April 21, 2023 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: United States

    Prescribed burns remove shrubs and invasive plants from habitats that vernal pool fairy shrimp and different species of crayfish live in — making it easier for them to thrive and populations to increase.

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  • The Indian Farmers Battling Climate Change With 10,000-year-old Emmer Wheat

    April 21, 2023 |

    Food Unfolded |

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    Response Location: India

    Farmers in India are turning back to growing traditional, ancient grains like emmer wheat for reliable harvests because it can withstand extreme climate-related weather conditions.

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  • The Push To Reimagine LA's Streets And Alleyways To Fight Both Drought And Floods

    April 21, 2023 |

    LAist |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    Los Angeles organizations and neighborhoods are teaming up to create Green Alleys that mitigate flooding. These alleys consist of permeable pavement and native plants and trees that all help direct water underground, as well as streetlights and murals that make them welcoming community spaces.

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  • What could $1 billion do for Puerto Rico's energy resilience? Residents have ideas.

    April 21, 2023 |

    Grist |

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    Response Location: Puerto Rico, Castañer

    Community-led energy projects are improving access to electricity for Puerto Ricans. One such project, led by a cooperative in Castañer, established two microgrids with backup batteries to keep the power running after an outage.

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  • Are 'sponge cities' enough to curb climate-fuelled floods?

    April 18, 2023 |

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    Response Location: United States

    The design firm Arup calculates cities' ability to retain water through nature and helps them implement other solutions to flooding, like building rain gardens or public messaging strategies, depending on individual needs.

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  • The quest to build wildfire-resistant homes

    April 18, 2023 |

    MIT Technology Review |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    The shelter-in-place approach is slowly becoming a more common way to survive wildfires that are too violent and fast to evacuate. People using this method congregate in “defensible” buildings created with wildfire resilience in mind that sit in an area clear of flammable vegetation and fuel.

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  • These Farmers Recharged their Groundwater by Catching California's Atmospheric Rivers

    April 17, 2023 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    Farmers in California are taking advantage of recent heavy rainfall by intentionally flooding their fields to restore the underground aquifers after years of drought.

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