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  • The Shops Where Trash Becomes Crafters' Treasure

    May 27, 2025 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: United States, Nashville, Tennessee

    Creative reuse centers like Smart Art and Craft Supplies tackle waste reduction by redistributing donated art materials, simultaneously providing meaningful employment and inclusion opportunities for adults with disabilities.

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  • This snack company is trying to change the way you think about chocolate

    May 13, 2025 |

    Grist |

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    Response Location: Ecuador

    Blue Stripes addresses cacao-industry food waste and farmer poverty by turning overlooked cacao fruit pulp and husks into marketable snacks, creating additional revenue streams for farmers and potentially reducing environmental impacts.

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  • With ‘Green Islam,' climate action is a religious duty – and an act of community

    May 01, 2025 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: Indonesia, Jakarta

    Green Islam is an Indonesian grassroots movement combining Islamic teachings on environmental stewardship with community-driven actions such as eco-boarding schools, green-certified mosques, and interfaith dialogues to address climate change and ecological crises.

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  • How One Lawyer's Helping Farmers Navigate Trump's Policy Landscape

    April 04, 2025 |

    Sentient |

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    Response Location: United States

    Dãnia Davy, the one-woman team behind Land and Liberation LLC—a company that supports farmers with funder relations, PR, policy and risk mitigation, and public educational sessions—only charging institutions for services and provides them to farmers pro-bono.

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  • Mining is an environmental and human rights nightmare. Battery recycling can ease that.

    March 26, 2025 |

    Grist |

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    Response Location: United States

    Lithium-ion battery recycling, spearheaded by companies like Redwood Materials, collect and process batteries from electric vehicles and consumer electronics, recovering critical minerals and reducing reliance on damaging mining practices.

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  • After Lahaina fire, Hawaii residents address their risk by becoming 'Firewise'

    March 25, 2025 |

    Associated Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Hawaii

    Hawaii Wildfire Management Organization (HWMO), a 25-year-old nonprofit, helps assess, evaluate, and deter a community's ignition vulnerabilities. Volunteers remove trees, haul waste, and help facilitate economic support for migration, retrofits, and more.

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  • Feeding Cows Seaweed Could Cut Methane Emissions and Diversify Maine's Coastal Economy, but Can It Scale?

    March 09, 2025 |

    Inside Climate News |

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    Response Location: United States, Maine

    Seaweed is emerging as a solution to Maine's shifting climate and economy, providing alternative industries for ocean farmers and also supporting land farmers' climate initiatives. While still in piloting stages, studies have shown up to 50 percent reductions in methane on New England cow farms that incorporate seaweed into feed.

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  • As warming climate hammers coffee crops, this rare bean may someday be your brew

    March 03, 2025 |

    The Boston Globe |

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    Response Location: South Sudan

    Cultivating excelsa—a rare, climate-resistant coffee bean species—is helping farmers in South Sudan not only adapt to climate change, but also bolster economic opportunities.

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  • Ideas We Should Steal: Divest Fossil Fuels From City Pensions

    March 03, 2025 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Following the success of New York City's divestment of pension funds from fossil fuels, a process that started in 2015, other cities around the US are exploring ways to achieve net-zero portfolio emissions. In most cases, the divested pension funds have performed at least as well financially as a city’s non-divested funds.

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  • The Revival of Germany's Carbon-Sequestering Peatlands

    February 10, 2025 |

    Yale Environment 360 |

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    Response Location: Germany

    Various initiatives are restoring farmlands to peatlands, which is helping lower CO2 levels in agriculture and create markets for the native grasses, reeds and sedges that peatlands support.

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