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  • Where the Rainforest Meets the Road

    January 08, 2019 |

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    Response Location: Papua New Guinea

    In northeastern Papua New Guinea, community leaders and the government set aside 360,000 hectares of the Managalas Plateau as a protected conservation area in 2017. The project has strong local support. But facing destructive resource extraction and land use, conservation's longevity hangs on whether the community can create markets for sustainable agriculture, as well as workable infrastructure.

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  • How African scientists are improving cassava to help feed the world

    January 08, 2019 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Ikenne

    Cassava, a root plant that feeds and supports over 800 million people across the globe, is ready for an improvement. As part of the Next Generation Cassava Breeding project, scientists are exploring how to increase the plant’s yield and help it withstand climate conditions to feed more people. Through hydroponics and technological testing of seed varieties, cassava is finally getting the attention and funding it needs.

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  • After A Run Of Tainted Food Scandals, Women In This Country Took Control Of The System

    January 08, 2019 |

    The Huffington Post |

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    Response Location: Japan, Koriyama City, Fukushima

    Following the nuclear disaster in Fukushima, a group of women took the initiative to ensure that the food they consume meets radiation standards twice as strict as the government's. The Seikatsu Club formed in 1965 and has since built itself up to 400,000 members (about 90% of whom are women) and works with 200 producers. The group is highly productive: they run their own milk factory, join with worker collectives to sell goods like jam or cookies, operate a fund for farmers whose products are tainted, offer child and elder care, and much more. Seikatsu is a success due to its local citizens' control.

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  • In India's Fast-Growing Cities, a Grassroots Effort to Save the Trees

    January 08, 2019 |

    Yale Environment 360 |

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    Response Location: India, Mumbai

    In booming cities across India, residents and nonprofits are fighting to save trees from rampant development. One protest in Delhi brought 1,500 citizens out, stalling a proposal to fell 14,000 trees in the city. And the Center for Environmental Research and Education in Mumbai plant's new trees with an unusually high survival rate of 90 percent. But to stem destruction, these groups must help city planners and politicians understand the many benefits that urban trees provide.

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  • Precycle Is a New Bushwick Grocery Store With a Mission

    January 07, 2019 |

    New York Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    In Bushwick, the grocery store Precycle is on the front lines of the battle against plastic pollution. Selling food in bulk, while inviting customers to bring their own containers, reduces not only plastic waste but food prices. But will the inconvenience of bringing containers stand in the way of waste-free stores' success?

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  • Dutch eco initiative halves energy bills in first UK homes

    January 07, 2019 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom, Nottingham, England

    By piloting a Dutch initiative to make homes more energy efficient with new windows and solar panels in the United Kingdom, tenants are seeing their monthly energy bills decrease by almost half. More than 150 social housing homes in Nottingham are testing the “Energiesprong” approach, which has already seen success in the Netherlands.

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  • Bringing back historic wildlife migration corridors to the mountains

    January 04, 2019 |

    Citizen-Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Asheville, North Carolina

    In North Carolina, a group of planners and conservationists are working to install wildlife corridors along a stretch of I-40, allowing animals like elk and bears to cross safely. The plan has myriad benefits: stopping fatalities, reducing traffic accidents, and improving wildlife habitat. Climate change only makes such corridors more crucial, because wildlife will be increasingly on the move.

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  • Three promising new technologies could help send stormwater to taps in thirsty cities

    January 04, 2019 |

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    Response Location: South Africa, Cape Town

    With water scarcity becoming a reality for many cities, people are looking towards the premise of recycling stormwater into drinkable water collected from urban runoff. One major limitation of this is that the water often is too polluted for consumption, however researchers have piloted several new technologies that may hold the key to being able to scale the stormwater recycling solution.

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  • China gets tough on US recyclables. How one Maine town is fighting back.

    January 03, 2019 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Sanford, Maine

    When China, the country that processes much of the United State's recyclables, became much more stringent about how much contaminated recycling it would accept, municipalities had to figure out how to avoid the fines that could come with recycling done wrong. In Sanford, Maine, they manages to cut their contamination rate from 15-20% to 0-3% by investing in more serious inspections and helping residents learn what is recyclable and what isn't.

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  • This old coal plant is now a solar farm, thanks to pressure from local activists

    January 03, 2019 |

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    Response Location: United States, Holyoke, Massachusetts

    Turning a coal plant carbon neutral requires a community effort. In Holyoke, Massachusetts, community organizers from the Toxics Action Center and Neighbor to Neighbor, a local Latinx organization, succeeded in getting the coal plant in their city shut down and transformed into a commercial solar farm. Today, Holyoke’s electric utility uses the solar energy as part of a carbon-neutral plan.

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