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Recycling isn't easy. The Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana is doing it anyway.

Taylar Dawn Stagner

May 28, 2024 |

Grist |

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Response Location: Muscogee (Creek) Nation, United States, Oklahoma

The United States Envrionmental Protection Agency is distributing grant money to help tribes like the Muscogee (Creek) Nation in Oklahoma start and grow recycling programs, as funding is often a massive hurdle. The tribe was able to purchase equipment like a semi-truck and compactor with the funds.

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Guerrilla urbanists are 'doing it our damn selves'

Adina Solomon

May 23, 2024 |

Smart Cities Dive |

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Response Location: United States, Chattanooga, Tennessee

Guerrilla urbanism by groups like Chattanooga Urbanist Society develop low-cost, short-term interventions to community problems, like installing bike lanes and painting crosswalks, to fill gaps left by local government. Chattanooga Urbanist Society is focused on making the city more pedestrian-friendly and has installed more than 60 benches in the area. The group also accepts service requests from locals to handle issues the local government hasn’t touched.

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Want to See Community Solar Done Right? A Project in Michigan's Upper Peninsula Can Serve as a Model

Dan Gearino

May 23, 2024 |

Inside Climate News |

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Response Location: United States, L'Anse, Michigan

A community solar project in a rural Michigan town is making energy more affordable for low-to-moderate-income households. Fifty community members and organizations subscribed to receive energy from and support the construction of a solar array. As a result, their electricity bills are about $300 cheaper each year, and the local utility reported fewer late payments.

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From trailer parks to night clubs, this NC group is on a mission to get out the Latino vote

Sarah Gleason

May 23, 2024 |

Wilmington StarNews |

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Response Location: United States, North Carolina

Siempra NC canvasses places like grocery stores, community colleges, flea markets, and trailer parks to register Latino voters, who represent an increasing share of the state’s population but typically have low turnout at the polls. Since January, the organization has registered more than 1,000 people statewide.

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Releasing the Giants: Saving Guyana's endangered Arapaima

Alex Arjoon

May 20, 2024 |

News Room |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Guyana, Apoteri

Residents of Apoteri Village, an Indigenous community in the rainforests of Guyana, are finding Giant Arapaima in ponds they were trapped in as the river receded, corralling them, and moving them back to the river by hand to save their lives.

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How Women Are Helping Their Neighbors Heal From Depression

Elizabeth Hewitt

May 16, 2024 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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Response Location: Zambia

StrongMinds provides group therapy run by trained community members to help locals treat and manage their depression, as access to therapists in more rural areas is scarce. Since the organization launched in 2013, half a million people have gone through the treatment program and three-quarters of the participants have been screened as being free of depression symptoms two weeks after completing the program.

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By the students for the students: Campus organizations offer range of mental health initiatives

Kate Julianne L. Larroder

May 14, 2024 |

The Columbia Chronicle |

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Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

Columbia University’s Student Government Association is taking student mental health into its own hands by organizing programming for students, by students, such as therapy dogs and culturally relevant support groups to promote mental health and wellness for students.

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Kisumu leverages on drone technology to defeat dog-mediated rabies

Kevine Omollo , Winnie Ali

May 11, 2024 |

Lake Region Bulletin |

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Response Location: Kenya, Kisumu

In 2022, Kisumu County partnered with Zipline to deliver anti-rabies medications via drones, in an effort to combat rabies cases from dog bites. In addition to drone medication delivery, the County also works with over 2,800 Community Health Workers to visit residents at their homes and educate them on rabies and treatment. As a result, dog-related rabies deaths dropped to zero in 2023 and recorded cases have significantly decreased.

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Fighting sexism in society

Myra Anubi

May 07, 2024 |

BBC |

Podcast |

Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, New York, New York

Chalk Back is a youth-led street art initiative that encourages women to write sexist remarks said to them onto pavements in chalk to raise awareness about street harassment. The public art is then shared on Instagram to further its reach and prevent street harassment from being normalized. Since Chalk Back started in 2016, it has become a global initiative with more than 1,000 women participating and more than 150,000 followers on social media.

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Skills, not As, are what count at Tulalip, Everett alternative schools

Aina de Lapparent Alvarez

May 02, 2024 |

The Everett Daily Herald (HeraldNet) |

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Response Location: United States, Tulalip, Washington

Since instituting a skills-based education model, which allows students to direct their own learning and spend part of the school week learning trades or completing internships, Heritage High School has seen attendance improve and enrollment rise from 67 students to 110.

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