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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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  • Helsinki Built a Library That Brings a Whole City Together

    December 01, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Finland, Helsinki

    Helsinki’s Oodi Library received 3.1 million visits during the first year of operation. This success is contributed to the extensive planning process that included consultations with the residents and including what they wanted in the design of the public space.

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  • 'The Green Steel of the 21st Century'

    November 14, 2022 |

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    Response Location: China, Hong Kong

    Bamboo is growing in popularity as a cheap, sustainable building option that can replace hardwoods and other common construction materials.

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  • A Building Material That Consumes CO2 Has Finally Come to the US

    November 10, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Belgium

    A building material made of hemp fibers, water, and clay or lime is a sustainable alternative to other options like concrete. Dubbed hempcrete, the product has many benefits including a very low carbon footprint, active sequestration of carbon dioxide, and using a sustainable, fast-growing crop as its base.

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  • Cars Are Vanishing from Paris

    September 23, 2022 |

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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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  • Japan's 'Zero Waste' Village Is a Model for Small-Town Sustainability

    September 16, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Japan, Kamikatsu

    Residents of Kamikatsu, Japan, deposit, and sort 45 different categories of waste into designated bins to be recycled at the Zero Waste Center. The center is a part of the town’s effort to meet its Zero Waste declaration and reuse or recycle everything produced there.

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  • Incarcerated People Are Saving a Disappearing Plant

    September 08, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, Boise, Idaho

    Sagebrush in Prisons Project allows incarcerated people to restore sagebrush, a threatened plant that plays a crucial role in U.S. ecosystems. The program provides opportunities for incarcerated adults to cultivate team building and horticulture skills, hone an interest in ecology, and improve employability outside of the prison system.

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  • How Liberia's frontline health workers are protecting us all

    September 06, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Liberia

    Liberia's community health worker program taps residents of rural areas to receive training in disease surveillance and basic health care, creating a network of on-the-ground professionals to report potential outbreaks before they begin to spread. The program has contributed to more rapid treatment of malaria cases, with 71 percent of cases treated within 24 hours in 2021, and has significantly increased the number of rural residents with access to care.

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  • ‘It's a beautiful thing': how one Paris district rediscovered conviviality

    July 14, 2022 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: France, Paris

    The République des Hyper Voisins, or the Republic of Super Neighbors, is an experiment organized by residents of Paris's 14th arrondissement to encourage community engagement, combat social isolation, and improve how the neighborhood functions. The group has organized mutual aid efforts, installed compost collection points, facilitated the launch of a new health clinic, and given residents opportunities to weigh in on local development projects.

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  • Europe's Noise Capital Tries to Turn Down the Volume

    April 27, 2022 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: France, Paris

    In February, municipal authorities in Paris began installing sound radar devices in the city as part of a slew of measures taken since 2015 to address noise pollution, an issue which is being considered more seriously as a public health risk. Holistic measures like installing sound-barriers, low-noise asphalt, vehicle-restrictions, and housing regulations have already reduced the average noise level by two decibels and brought down the number of people living in noisy environments.

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