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  • Return to Nature

    August 15, 2019 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Rhinebeck, New York

    A movement for "green burials" - burials that allow bodies to decompose naturally and without chemical preservatives - addresses climate change contributors in the funeral and burial realm. Green burials are a cost-effective and finite resource-saving way for families to lay loved ones to rest in a natural environment.

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  • Push for Ethnic Studies in Schools Faces a Dilemma: Whose Stories to Tell

    August 15, 2019 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States

    California is one of three states developing ethnic studies curricula for K-12 students. In the process, the state is grappling with which questions about groups and histories should be represented and whether teachers, many of whom are white, are prepared to teach these topics.

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  • Can We Change Our Behavior or are We Stuck?

    August 14, 2019 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Australia, Melbourne

    When Melbourne, Australia came close to running out of water in 2008, the water utility conducted a behavioral study to launch an effective communications campaign aimed at reducing water usage among city residents. Along with the effective advertising campaign, the city distributed water-efficient shower heads, offered rebates to people who bought water-efficient machines, and used other "nudge" techniques like telling people how much water they used in relation to neighbors.

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  • ‘It's Like an Automatic Deportation if You Don't Have a Lawyer'

    August 13, 2019 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, New York

    With the help of legal counsel, immigrants facing deportation are more likely to win their cases and keep their families together. The New York Immigrant Family Unity Project is one of several organizations in New York that provides lawyers free of charge to detained immigrants. The program is also a part of the broader Safety and Fairness for Everyone (SAFE) network, which includes 18 cities that have set up legal defense funds for immigrants.

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  • Citizens of the Week Gaye Harley and Jamie Powell

    August 12, 2019 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Wilmington, Delaware

    In Wilmington, Delaware, Gaye Harley repurposes her hospital's operating room wraps, the oversize sheets of synthetic material used to package instruments, into portable maps for the homeless. Instead of disposing of the materials, she has urged the hospital to recycle them into nearly 100 mats and counting. They have also used the mats to make tote bags, which they distribute with donated socks, also to the homeless.

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  • Chevron starts its unique project that buries carbon dioxide underground

    August 10, 2019 |

    Quartz |

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    Response Location: Australia, Barrow Island, Western Australia

    In the wake of a massive natural gas extraction project by Chevron, the Australian government asked the oil behemoth to bury as much as 4 million metric tons of carbon dioxide, which would otherwise be released into the atmosphere. The technology fueling the burying initiative, called carbon capture and storage (CCS), has had success in similar projects around the world in reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the oil creation process.

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  • The Viking Guide to Oil Wealth Management

    August 10, 2019 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Norway

    Norway has been able to have a productive relationship with oil companies, while, at the same time, retain control over resource development and grow its resource revenue. Through the country’s culture of local control and indigenous governance, its resource revenue is over $1 trillion and helps pay for some of the country’s social programs; a model that could be potentially work in other places around the world.

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  • Oregon Rethinks Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Life After the Chinese Import Ban

    August 09, 2019 |

    Bitterroot |

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    Response Location: United States, Portland, Oregon

    After China stopped buying recycling near the end of 2017, Oregon faced mounting piles of mixed recycling that seemed bound for the landfill--a move that might have been illegal under Oregon law. Instead, the state's recycling industry made adjustments, including limiting the types of items to be recycled and using local processing plants instead of Chinese ones.

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  • As law enforcement nationwide faces scrutiny, cameras protect both public and officers

    August 09, 2019 |

    WRAL-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

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    Response Location: United States, Raleigh, North Carolina

    Across the United States, 95 percent of law enforcement agencies have started using body cameras. In North Carolina, the majority of departments have started using such technology in the hopes of increasing transparency, trust, and accountability. While the use of body cams is wanted by both police and the community, finding the funding to purchase and maintain them has been a challenge for some departments.

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  • You can now pay to turn your carbon emissions to stone

    August 08, 2019 |

    Quartz |

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    Response Location: Switzerland, Zurich

    A company based in Zurich pulls carbon dioxide from the air and turns it in to stone -- and you can subscribe to their services. The subscription program through Climeworks allows customers to sign up for different price levels in order to purchase the trapping of a certain amount of carbon dioxide per year.

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