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Your lawn could host an endangered ecosystem

Kylie Mohr

November 01, 2024 |

High Country News |

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Response Location: United States, Pullman, Washington

The Phoenix Conservancy is restoring the critically endangered Palouse Prarie across Washington and Idaho one small plot of land at a time. Using native species, the group plants and maintains micro-prairies in yards, school parking lots, roadcuts, and any piece of land they can access.

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To save affordable housing, states promote resident-owned mobile home parks

Kevin Hardy

October 30, 2024 |

Stateline |

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Response Location: United States

Residents of mobile home communities are coming together to collectively buy the land their houses are on and establish cooperatives. It ensures their rent stays affordable long term, and some state governments are making it easier to do so to help address housing affordability crises.

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Burke County elementary schools welcome two child care programs devastated by Helene

Liz Bell

October 17, 2024 |

EducationNC |

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Response Location: United States, Burke County, North Carolina

In the wake of Hurricane Helene, Burke County Public Schools offered up classroom space to two child care centers whose facilities were extensively damaged in the storm. The partnership helped ensure care for about 170 children, keeping teachers employed and allowing parents to go back to work.

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Radical Terraces Are Transforming the Hills of Rwanda

Geetanjali Krishna

October 10, 2024 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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Response Location: Rwanda

Farmers in Rwanda are adopting a terracing technique that’s helping to improve soil health and reduce erosion on the steep slopes they farm on. Called radical terraces, they slope back towards the hill to significantly slow water runoff and trap soil during intense rainfall.

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Poder latino

Natalia Mesa

October 01, 2024 |

High Country News |

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Response Location: United States, Washington

Varias organizaciones latinas progresistas formaron la Coalición Latinx del Valle de Yakima para motivar al voto. Juntos pudieron intensificar sus esfuerzos de participación y educación electoral en Sunnyside, tocando puertas y organizando fiestas de votación y sesiones de escucha comunitarias, a menudo en español.

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The Californians Rescuing Surplus Produce to Fight Hunger

Michaela Haas

October 01, 2024 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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Response Location: United States, Bell, California

At a 10,000-square-foot warehouse in Bell, California, Food Forward employees race to take in and redistribute 265,000 pounds of fresh produce every day. The organization receives excess fresh fruits and vegetables from wholesale businesses for free and delivers them to 300 nonprofits working to address food insecurity.

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How Community Members Shuttered a Backyard Slaughterhouse in a Small, Black Community

Grace Hussain

September 25, 2024 |

Sentient |

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Response Location: United States, Lithonia, Georgia

Animal rights group Apex Advocacy joined local activists to reenergize their fight to close a slaughterhouse that was violating zoning laws in a small, predominantly Black community. The group utilized its network to flood officials’ emails.

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In France, One Group Seeks to Do the Unthinkable: Unite the Climate Movement

Anna Pujol-Mazzini

September 03, 2024 |

The Revelator |

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Response Location: France

A French climate movement called Earth Uprisings is bringing together activists from a variety of social justice causes across many progressive groups to call for climate action, an unprecedented kind of collaboration for the country.

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El Paso solar cooperative helps homeowners save thousands on rooftop solar. It may be back next year.

Diego Mendoza-Moyers

August 25, 2024 |

El Paso Matters |

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Response Location: United States, El Paso, Texas

Several nonprofits are running a solar cooperative in El Paso, Texas, that helps homeowners come together to buy and install solar panels in bulk, which makes them more affordable.

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Researchers Turned to Churches To Study St. Louis Air Quality

Rebecca Randall

August 22, 2024 |

Sojourners |

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Response Location: United States, St. Louis, Missouri

A St. Louis faith and advocacy organization, Metropolitan Congregations United, helped scientists bring together a group of churches willing to install air quality monitors to gather data on pollution and call for solutions.

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