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  • Crowdfunding and suitcases full of cash: How Gazans are paying to escape war

    Yasmine Salam Tavleen Tarrant

    May 02, 2024 |

    NBC News |

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    Response Location: Palestine, Rafah

    Palestinians trying to cross the border into Egypt to escape the war are starting crowdfunding campaigns with the help of strangers from other countries on social media to afford the rising cost of doing so.

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  • Krakow Can Breathe Again

    Jan Zabka

    April 15, 2024 |

    Transitions Online |

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    Response Location: Poland, Krakow

    An activist organization in Poland, Krakow Smog Alarm, teaches people about poor air quality in their city and helps them organize together to lobby their local governments for effective clean air measures.

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  • 'Valuable and largely overlooked': Interest in virtual power plants grows

    Robert Zullo

    April 07, 2024 |

    Utah News Dispatch |

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    Response Location: United States

    Utility companies across the United States are using virtual power plants to meet electricity demand, access backup power, and lower the electric bills of participants. To make these power plants work, the utilities use energy from the battery storage systems of customers who have home solar arrays.

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  • Rewilding Japan With Clearings in the Forest and Crowdfunding Campaigns

    James Whitlow Delano

    March 17, 2024 |

    Inside Climate News |

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    Response Location: Japan

    Conservationists in Japan are rewilding the country’s vast monoculture plantation forests to restore biodiversity and allow the ecosystem to return to its natural state, deciduous forest. They are doing so by turning the tree plantations into meadows and buying plots of land with private donations to plant native trees on.

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  • Lima's neurodivergent picnic movement is liberating Peruvians from stigma and abuse

    Stefanie Pareja

    March 13, 2024 |

    Positive.News |

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    Response Location: Peru, Lima

    The Peruvian Neurodivergent Coalition organizes picnics for neurodivergent people to gather in a safe, comfortable space. The group also campaigns for the rights of neurodivergent people, working to help them become more understood and accepted in society. The group has even influenced local government, pushing to pass bills that protect autistic people’s rights and prevent stigma and abuse.

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  • Getting off fossil fuels is hard, but this city is doing it — building by building

    Jeff Brady

    March 04, 2024 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: United States, Ithaca, New York

    The town of Ithaca is working with its local gas utility and area homeowners to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by removing gas pipes from homes and businesses by switching them over to electricity, primarily from renewable sources. While the transition is a long process, the town expects to achieve about a 30% reduction in emissions in the next year.

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  • The Black Immigrant Women Who Bought a Minneapolis Mall

    Oscar Perry Abello

    February 20, 2024 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Minneapolis, Minnesota

    Ignite Business Women Investment Group and the nonprofit African Career, Education & Resources Inc. (ACER) are working together to raise funds to collectively acquire commercial real estate for members of the group and other small businesses — particularly those owned by African immigrants — in the community. Joint efforts allowed members to acquire and revitalize an old strip mall, providing retail space for local small business owners.

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  • Bad roads: Community bridges gap amid government neglect

    Yahuza Bawage

    February 19, 2024 |

    Prime Progress |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Karim-Lamido, Taraba State

    After a badly needed road construction project was abandoned by officials and contractors, community members banded together to pool their resources and build wooden bridges that made the road passable again.

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  • Can soccer help El Salvador turn from terror to trust?

    Whitney Eulich Nelson Rauda

    February 14, 2024 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: El Salvador, San Salvador

    In an effort to foster community amidst divisive gang violence, locals formed the group Unifying Las Cañas to host soccer tournaments with teams from the upper and lower sides of the city. The soccer tournaments connect residents from both sides and build a sense of community over sports.

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  • Michigan program recycles pacemakers to save lives overseas

    Alan Fisk

    February 08, 2024 |

    New York & Michigan Solutions Journalism Collaborative |

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    Response Location: United States, Ann Arbor, Michigan

    Project My Heart Your Heart recycles pacemakers from deceased cardiovascular patients to give them to people overseas living in poor countries where pacemakers are historically hard to access and afford. The My Heart Your Heart lab has received around 50,000 pacemakers and has reconditioned and implanted about 500 in heart patients in several countries.

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