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  • Carbon removal: What's the local government's role?

    Ysabelle Kempe

    May 15, 2024 |

    Smart Cities Dive |

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    Response Location: United States

    Local governments in the United States are taking the lead on carbon removal projects to meet net-zero goals, which could help bring down the cost of the technology to make it more widely accessible. A coalition of governments in Colorado, Arizona, Utah, and New Mexico, for example, awarded grants to projects that store carbon dioxide in concrete.

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  • This Utah County Will Buy Your Lawn to Save Water

    Morgan Sjogren

    May 14, 2024 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: United States, Utah

    A turf buyback program run by the Washington County Water Conservancy District in Utah pays residents to swap their lawns for native plants. It's reducing the amount of water used for landscaping amid a drought.

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  • Beavers Are Back in London — and They're Thriving

    Peter Yeung

    May 13, 2024 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: England, London

    A volunteer-run community organization is reintroducing beavers to London as part of a larger rewilding effort. The beavers are alleviating flooding and helping biodiversity thrive in the eight-hectare public park they live in by building dams and canals.

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  • Moroccan Farmers Are Banking Traditional Seeds for a Hotter, Drier Future

    Soukaina Almouhtadi

    May 10, 2024 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Morocco, Sidi Ifni, Guelmim

    A seed bank was established in Sidi Ifni, a farming community in Morocco, to revive drought-ridden land by enabling the cultivation of traditional, drought-resistant crops. An accompanying training program is helping farmers market these crops to improve their livelihoods.

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  • Giant Batteries Are Transforming the Way the U.S. Uses Electricity

    Brad Plumer Nadja Popovich

    May 07, 2024 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    California and Texas are among the states in the U.S. installing giant lithium-ion batteries to store renewable energy to use when the sun isn’t shining and the wind isn’t blowing. These batteries are reducing the use of fossil fuels as a backup energy source when demand is high.

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  • Could better asthma inhalers help patients, and the planet too?

    Martha Bebinger

    May 06, 2024 |

    WBUR |

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    Response Location: United States

    Healthcare professionals are educating their patients on the environmental impacts of metered-dose inhalers, which release a powerful greenhouse gas into the air with each puff. To reduce that impact, they’re offering an option with powdered medicine that patients manually suck into their lungs for those that are able to make the switch.

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  • A Peruvian river with rights: the defenders of the Marañón

    Silvia Viñas Eliezer Budasoff

    May 04, 2024 |

    El Hilo |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: Peru

    A group of Kukama women, a native community of the Peruvian Amazon, worked with lawyers from the Legal Defense Institute to sue the Peruvian State. The lawsuit was intended prevent and clean up oil spills and pollution in the Marañón River that they’d been fighting against for years. In a historic ruling, the judge recognized that the river has rights and must be protected.

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  • Can't install your own solar panels? Some areas let you join a community project.

    Alex Brown

    May 03, 2024 |

    Stateline |

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    Response Location: United States, Virginia

    States across the United States are passing legislation that supports the development of community solar programs. These projects allow community members who can’t install their own solar panels to subscribe to other solar projects nearby, often on farms, schools, or stores. Alongside the property owner, subscribers help fund the project and save money on future electricity bills based on the power generated.

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  • Could a Landfill Power Your Home?

    Miranda Lipton

    May 02, 2024 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: United States

    Landfills in the United States are capturing a potent greenhouse gas, methane, that would otherwise be released into the air and converting it to electricity or natural gas.

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  • What will it take to get companies to embrace reusable packaging?

    Joseph Winters

    May 01, 2024 |

    Grist |

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    Response Location: United States

    The nonprofit PR3 is working to standardize reusable packaging systems for businesses like coffee shops and grocery stores to make them easier to scale and adopt as a replacement to single-use materials.

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