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  • How One Country's Russian Gas Crisis Became a Green Energy Boom

    October 16, 2025 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Republic of Moldova

    Moldova used government regulations and local installations of solar panels and biomass systems to respond to the Russia energy crisis, empowering local communities to create their own renewable energy cooperatives. These have helped increase the nation's renewable energy from 3% to 25% and reduce heating electricity costs in participating towns.

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  • A Wall of Trees is Reversing Desertification and Empowering Communities in Nigeria

    October 12, 2025 |

    Triple Pundit |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Makoda, Kano

    The Wall of Trees initiative in Nigeria's Makoda village created a four-tiered barrier of windbreak, orchard, woodlot, and economic trees that tripled crop yields and provided income opportunities for 200 women, successfully reversing desertification on 15 hectares over two decades.

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  • The Forest That Proves It: How Sudbury Reclaimed a Moonscape

    October 08, 2025 |

    The GroundTruth Project |

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    Response Location: Canada, Sudbury, Ontario

    The Regreening Sudbury Project transformed a lunar-like wasteland into thriving forest through decades of systematic tree planting (10+ million trees), soil amendments, and transparent open-data tracking. This resulted in a 98% reduction in air pollution and 50% recovery of fish populations while creating a replicable model for ecological restoration.

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  • India's Heat Insurance Plans: Look Promising, But Resilience Needs More Than Payouts

    October 06, 2025 |

    upBeat |

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    Response Location: India

    A parametric heat insurance program covering 276,800 women workers across India provides automatic cash payouts (₹300-1,250) when temperatures exceed city-specific thresholds for consecutive days, successfully delivering financial relief during extreme heat events but facing sustainability challenges due to heavy subsidies, trust issues when thresholds aren't met, and the need for behavioral change among beneficiaries.

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  • From Risk to Rescue: Keeping Girls Safe In The Climate-Hit Sundarbans

    October 05, 2025 |

    upBeat |

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    Response Location: India, West Bengal

    BIRD's community-based anti-trafficking network has used vigilance hubs, local partnerships, and survivor-focused rehabilitation to rescue over 500 girls. Building community trust has made families turn to them first when children go missing, reducing trafficking rates in climate-vulnerable regions.

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  • Small farmers are more squeezed than ever. A California grant program offers a lifeline.

    October 03, 2025 |

    Grist |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    California's farm-to-school grant program, launched in 2021, has successfully directed 100% of its funding to small and disadvantaged farmers. This has helped them expand their businesses through investments like refrigerated vans and partnerships with food hubs, enabling fresh local produce delivery to schools across the state.

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  • The Nigerian Women Who Went from Labourers for Hire to Landowners

    October 03, 2025 |

    Social Voices |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Kaduna

    Twenty women in Kaduna, Nigeria formed a cooperative in 2015 that pooled their farm labor earnings to collectively purchase land, transforming them from hired laborers earning ₦2,000-₦10,000 per day into independent landowners who now harvest enough to support their families' education and healthcare while contributing food to their community.

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  • From rain-drenched mountains to Arctic permafrost, Alaska landslides pose hazards

    September 12, 2025 |

    Alaska Beacon |

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    Response Location: United States, Alaska

    Alaska agencies are coordinating landslide monitoring through multi-agency programs, tribal partnerships, and citizen science apps, which has successfully prevented infrastructure damage (like the $25 million Dalton Highway rerouting that avoided landslide destruction) but faces limitations from funding uncertainty and the vast geographic scale requiring public education as the primary protective measure.

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  • Are Agricultural Co-ops Seeing a Revival in Hawai‘i?

    September 10, 2025 |

    Overstory |

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    Response Location: United States, Hawaii

    Agricultural cooperatives in Hawai'i pool small farmers' resources to collectively process, market, and sell their crops, with successful examples like the Hawai'i 'Ulu Cooperative enabling nearly 200 members to reach broader markets and the Hawaii Cattle Producers Cooperative shipping 8,000-9,000 cattle annually while returning surplus profits to rancher-members, though some co-ops have failed due to declining membership and market pressures.

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  • The Anti-Trump Strategy That's Actually Working

    September 02, 2025 |

    The Atlantic |

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    Response Location: United States

    During President Donald Trump’s second term in office, organizations such as Democracy Forward and Democracy Defenders Fund have pulled together attorneys, public-interest groups, unions, and political operatives to file legal challenges to the administration’s sweeping executive orders. As of the end of August, 130 of the 384 cases filed have led to Trump policies being at least partially blocked, including cuts to various government agencies.

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