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  • Cars Are Vanishing from Paris

    September 23, 2022 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: France, Paris

    Cars are Europe’s second-largest source of greenhouse gas emissions and the leading killer of children. In recent years, Paris has implemented an array of measures to prioritize pedestrians, cyclists, and transit while reducing car use. As a result, car use has dropped about 45% since 1990, the use of public transit has risen by 30% and the share of cyclists has increased tenfold.

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  • How A Loan-To-Own Program In San Diego Is Boosting E-Bike Access

    September 23, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, San Diego, California

    Pedal Ahead provides low-income locals access to e-bikes at no initial cost, while agreeing to ride an average of five miles a day, track and share rides for a study, and secure their own bike insurance. If the participants successfully complete the program after two years, they own the bike. Since its launch, the organization distributed over 400 bicycles across the county.

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  • Making a Desk with 10,000 Recycled Chopsticks

    September 22, 2022 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Canada, Vancouver, British Columbia

    ChopValue is a B Corp. that sells furniture and other household items made of used, bamboo chopsticks collected from local restaurants. This process keeps chopsticks out of landfills while offering a sustainable alternative to harvesting virgin materials.

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  • Colorado ranchers moove into the future with virtual fences that help sustain public grasslands

    September 21, 2022 |

    The Colorado Sun |

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    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    Ranchers in the Upper Colorado River District use collars and virtual fences broadcast through antennas and cell towers to keep cows grazing in specific areas. The practice is used to promote native grass growth and sustain public grassland.

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  • Europe's Green-Building Retrofit Leader Is One of Its Smallest Countries

    September 21, 2022 |

    Bloomberg |

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    Response Location: Lithuania

    In Lithuania, building owners looking to retrofit to improve energy use, reduce heating costs, and lower carbon emissions, can make use of a lending approach that pairs grants and loans. The grants are intended to offset the expense of the loan and can act as a first-loss guarantee for investors.

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  • ‘This is what a river should look like': Dutch rewilding project turns back the clock 500 years

    September 20, 2022 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: Netherlands, Grevenbicht

    Rewilding Europe is a river-restoration project working to preserve rivers as biodiversity hotspots and prevent damage from human activity. Since Rewilding Europe was founded, its projects have stretched across the continent, including to countries like Spain Italy, Bulgaria, and Sweden and was recently awarded a grant of £4.1m to scale up its work.

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  • Lebanese research preserves heat-adapted seeds to feed a warming world

    September 20, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Lebanon, Terbol

    The International Center for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas (ICARDA) preserves genetic diversity and breeds climate-resilient varieties of staple crops to improve livelihoods and strengthen food security — specifically in dry, climate-change-affected areas — by creating seed vaults. Through breeding programs over the past four decades, ICARDA has released more than 30 improved varieties of wheat, barley, chickpeas, lentils, and fava beans.

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  • Money Growing on Trees

    September 20, 2022 |

    Native Science Report |

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    Response Location: Keweenaw Bay Bands of Lake Superior Chippewa, United States, Michigan

    The National Indian Carbon Coalition is helping tribes across the United States use the voluntary carbon market to earn revenue from their sustainable forest management and the carbon dioxide it traps. The coalition helps tribes with the preparation and contract work to set up carbon sales and gets paid back once the revenue comes in.

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  • B.C. whales have their own police — but is it enough to fend off humans?

    September 19, 2022 |

    North Shore News |

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    Response Location: Canada, British Columbia

    A Whale Protection Unit in British Columbia, Canada, patrols the sea to protect whales from boats and ensure boaters are following federal regulations by staying out of whale sanctuary zones.

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  • Get paid to get rid of turf and switch to water-saving tech

    September 19, 2022 |

    KSTU-TV |

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    Response Location: United States, St. George, Utah

    Residents of St. George, Utah, replaced the turf in their yard with native plants and rocks to conserve water. Now they’re using 14,000 fewer gallons of water per month than the year before.

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