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How Pakistan pulled off one of the fastest solar revolutions in the world

Laura Paddison

May 01, 2025 |

CNN |

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Response Location: Pakistan

Faced with severe heat waves, escalating electricity costs and frequent blackouts, Pakistan took a grassroots approach to transitioning to solar power, making electricity more accessible and affordable. They’ve become a major market for solar, importing 17 gigawatts of solar panels from China in 2024 alone, doubling their 2023 numbers, making Pakistan the world’s third-biggest importer of solar panels.

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Amid Ongoing Threats to Local Food Systems, Alaska Native and Rural Alaskan Leaders Imagine Alternatives

Peter Heckendorn

April 23, 2025 |

The Daily Yonder |

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Response Location: Metlakatla Indian Community, United States, Alaska

Gatgyeda Haayk's community garden tackles food access challenges in Metlakatla by patiently building rich soil over many years, enabling diverse crops to flourish despite Alaska's difficult growing conditions. This effort not only provides fresh food but also revitalizes cultural heritage by cultivating traditional plants like "Indian potatoes" and fostering community sharing.

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Jakarta's Urban Farms Come To The Rescue Of Food-Insecure Residents

Arpan Rachman, Andi Aisyah Lamboge

April 23, 2025 |

The Xylom |

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Response Location: Thailand, Jakarta

Community-led urban farms in Jakarta empower residents to transform underused city spaces like alleyways and campus grounds into productive local food sources. These initiatives often blend traditional gardening with community organizing, educational outreach, and sometimes smart technology or agricultural research to improve food access, enhance green space, and foster local resilience.

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Watanda; The Local Club Helping Low-income Earners Celebrate Sallah

Abdulaziz Bagwai

April 23, 2025 |

The Solutions Paper |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Kano

To ensure everyone can participate in traditional holidays, community members in Kano practice Watanda, where groups buy a cow directly from a local farmer and divide it among themselves, combating rising meat costs.

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The Scramble to Save Rural Health Care From DOGE

Stephanie McCrummen

April 21, 2025 |

The Atlantic |

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Response Location: United States, Perry, Alabama

The Cahaba Medical Care Clinic is a community health center providing care to rural residents in need. Rural areas are often designated as “medically underserved” regions, but Cahaba has helped increase access to affordable care, reduce the county’s infant mortality rate and even created a revolving door for new medical professionals as they established themselves as a teaching hospital. However, the current administration and DOGE threaten to dismantle the funding and necessary systems that make rural healthcare of this scale possible.

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Community Libraries Are Spreading Across Rural India

Geetanjali Krishna

April 21, 2025 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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Response Location: India

In rural areas of India that often have limited access to reading material, communities are banding together to form small libraries where residents can read, study, take classes, or just use the wi-fi. One library has grown to about 2,100 registered members and has helped about 50 students pass their competitive exams.

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Hawai‘i Wants to Help Community Groups Keep Foreclosed Homes in Local Hands

Noelle Fujii-Oride

April 09, 2025 |

Overstory |

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Response Location: United States, Hawaii

Hawai‘i lawmakers are considering SB 332, a "community opportunity to purchase" policy that would give tenants, community land trusts, housing nonprofits and local governments up to 45 days to match or beat bids on foreclosed homes. This legislation is aimed at preserving affordable housing and preventing displacement and is modeled after similar successful policies in Washington, D.C. and San Francisco.

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Can giving cash, no strings attached, help end poverty? In Malawi, they're finding out.

Erika Page

April 08, 2025 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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Response Location: Malawi, Chigowo

GiveDirectly is a nonprofit that works to improve conditions in impoverished areas by distributing direct cash transfers to residents. In one of the organization’s projects in Malawi, participants received a lump sum of $550 to be used however they saw fit, and many chose to start businesses or make investments for the future.

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How a young beekeeper's initiative brought hope and profit to Sierra Leone communities

Sonam Lama Hyolmo

March 31, 2025 |

Mongabay |

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Response Location: Sierra Leone

Bangs Circular practices sustainable beekeeping across eight communities, launching the Tiwai Honey Project, which builds hand-made beehives to support the native bee population. This practice allows beekeepers to closely monitor the bees’ well-being, thus leading to more honey production and reforestation efforts. So far, the group has trained more than 400 local beekeepers.

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This San Francisco Food Pantry Is a Labor of Love

Tilde Herrera

March 24, 2025 |

Civil Eats |

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Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

Four years after Priscilla Lee started using the Buy Nothing platform to organize food pickups from her home garage, she has grown a community food pantry, run by volunteers, that serves between 40 and 50 families per week.

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