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  • Costa Rica's answer to range anxiety

    September 28, 2021 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: Costa Rica, Monteverde

    Even though Costa Rica is leading the fight against climate change, the country lags behind in one area: electric vehicles. In one town, Monteverde, activists, and business owners got together to create a charging network, they called it Ruta Eléctrica. The goal is to stave off recharge anxiety, or the fear that an electric car won't make it to its destination without re-charging. To address the issue organizers got businesses to offer free-charging stations, have clear signage and maintain plug points.

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  • How Zurich Blazed a Trail for Recycled Concrete

    September 26, 2021 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: Switzerland, Zurich

    Zurich, Switzerland's largest city, is paving the way for sustainable building. Concrete is a major contributor of climate change due to the process it requires to make it. Zurich is making steps to reduce its use. A school building was constructed in 2002 with 80 percent recycled concrete. Three years later city officials passed a requirement that required all publicly-owned buildings to be made with recycled concrete and in 2013 ordered the use of CO2 reduced cement. According to a study the effort has saved 17,000 cubic meters of virgin materials.

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  • Nigeria is struggling to end open defecation, but a grassroots campaign is trying to change that

    September 24, 2021 |

    Pulse Nigeria |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    Open Defecation Free Nigeria works to stop people from disposing of human waste in public areas by building public toilets. The organization has built 66 so far and manages a group of volunteers who educate residents about the dangers of public defecation. Encouraging behavioral change is key to ending the practice of open defecation. Fundraising and the sale of private household toilets funds the public toilets, which are tailored to the needs of a community. Most contain a biodigester system that turns waste to liquid or compost manure, which can last for decades and is easy for communities to maintain.

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  • How the Ski Industry Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Climate Activism

    September 24, 2021 |

    Eos |

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    Response Location: United States

    Athletes are mobilizing young voters and raising awareness about the perils of climate change. The athletes have been able to use their large social media platforms and following to educate people, urge them to act, and reach out to elected officials through a concerted effort by nonprofit Protect Our Winters (POW).

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  • How decades of stopping forest fires made them worse

    September 22, 2021 |

    Vox |

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    Response Location: United States

    Prescribed burning or controlled burning is an ancestral indigenous practice in which specific sections of a forest are burned. Controlled burning also happens naturally like when lightning strikes a forest. Controlled burning is good for a forest, it gets rid of dead areas, leads to healthier soil by clearing the ground, and minimizes the strength of large fires. However, due to U.S. laws that criminalized controlled burns the practice was discouraged in the U.S. Now, due to climate change and larger fires, prescribed burning is making a come back.

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  • Switching a golden retriever to an insect-based diet saves 4.4 million gallons of water per year.

    September 21, 2021 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: United States

    Although some people are refusing to eat meat because of its environmental impact, their pets might not. Dogs and cats account for 30 percent of the environmental impact of meat consumption in the U.S. Yet, pets don't have to eat meat. They can eat insect-based diet that give them the same amount of protein as meat. Switching one golden retriever alone, saves up to 4.4 million gallons of water per year. This story chronicles companies that are making the switch to making insect-based food forpets, and some of the challenges they face.

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  • Switching to Good Health: Nigeria's Mama Put Turns to LPGAs Use

    September 19, 2021 |

    News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Abuja

    Gas To Health Initiative (GTHI) raises awareness about the dangers of certain cooking methods like kerosene and firewood, due to the air pollution it causes indoors. The organization advocates the use of Liquefied Petroleum Gas for cooking and works with food vendors that produce food to make the switch. GTHI works with over 600 vendors, providing a required handling safety workshop and teaching the health and financial benefits of making the switch. Then, it provides the vendors with gas cylinders, industrial single/double burners, and all other equipment needed for safe use.

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  • Tribal Solar Projects Provide More Than Climate Solutions

    September 16, 2021 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, Alabama

    Indigenous groups are establishing energy sovereignty on tribal lands while simultaneously providing economic development. The transition to solar power has environmental, political, and financial benefits for indigenous communities.

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  • RGGI, behind the rhetoric: What we know about the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative

    September 14, 2021 |

    StateImpact Pennsylvania |

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    Response Location: United States

    A regional cap-and-trade program in the northeast United States has reduced carbon dioxide emissions from power plants and led to overall job gains in the economy. Up to 50 percent of the region’s CO2 reductions are attributable to the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative program and nine of the states participating report training more than 8,000 workers.

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  • Ein Ort der Hoffnung

    September 14, 2021 |

    3Sat |

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    Response Location: Brazil

    Das Instituto Terra um den Fotografen Sebastiao Salgado betreibt im Osten Brasiliens ein beispielloses Aufforstungsprojekt. Dabei analysieren und verwenden sie auch die Samen hunderter verschiedener Baumarten aus der Region. Nach Jahren der Abholzung kehrt nun das Leben zurück.

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