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Carbon removal: What's the local government's role?

Ysabelle Kempe

May 15, 2024 |

Smart Cities Dive |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States

Local governments in the United States are taking the lead on carbon removal projects to meet net-zero goals, which could help bring down the cost of the technology to make it more widely accessible. A coalition of governments in Colorado, Arizona, Utah, and New Mexico, for example, awarded grants to projects that store carbon dioxide in concrete.

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Chatham Flooding Mitigation Program Flounders, But Oak Park Sees Success

Sidnee King

May 09, 2024 |

Illinois Answers Project |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Illinois

The RainReady program helped some residents of flood-prone towns in Illinois keep their homes dry by assessing which measures they can take to direct rainwater away from their homes. Then, the homeowners receive grants to install the flood-control devices, such as rain gardens and backflow valves.

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Giant Batteries Are Transforming the Way the U.S. Uses Electricity

Brad Plumer Nadja Popovich

May 07, 2024 |

The New York Times |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, California

California and Texas are among the states in the U.S. installing giant lithium-ion batteries to store renewable energy to use when the sun isn’t shining and the wind isn’t blowing. These batteries are reducing the use of fossil fuels as a backup energy source when demand is high.

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What will it take to get companies to embrace reusable packaging?

Joseph Winters

May 01, 2024 |

Grist |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States

The nonprofit PR3 is working to standardize reusable packaging systems for businesses like coffee shops and grocery stores to make them easier to scale and adopt as a replacement to single-use materials.

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Inside the Icelandic plant turning CO2 into rocks

Adrienne Murray

April 28, 2024 |

BBC |

Video |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: Iceland

A direct carbon capture plant in Iceland sucks carbon dioxide out of the air, mixes it with water, and pumps it underground to help combat climate change. When the mixture reaches the basalt bedrock, it causes a chemical reaction that turns the carbon into a solid so it can be stored underground in the porous rock.

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Adopting the Aquaculture of the Future in Thailand

Tommy Walker

April 22, 2024 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Thailand

A form of polyculture called Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture is taking off in Thailand and China as a way to make fish farms more sustainable and increase profits. The practice involves farming multiple different organisms together, like fish and shrimp, so that they complement each other, reduce waste, and grow quicker.

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Taking the classroom outside: How nature is teaching valuable lessons in Uganda

Martine Moguem Alex Dines

April 18, 2024 |

Farm Radio International |

Podcast |

Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: Uganda, Kikandwa

The residents of Kikandwa, Uganda, came together to create the Kikandwa Environmental Association to implement nature-based solutions in their community. The solutions are combatting climate change and generating more income than options with a negative environmental impact. For example, many people traded cutting trees to make charcoal for selling seedlings at the local tree nursery.

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AC Has a Big Climate Impact. This New Tech Could be a Game Changer

Sarah Sax Andrew D. Johnson

April 16, 2024 |

Time Magazine |

Multi-Media |

800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Beverly Hills, California

Thermal storage technologies are lowering businesses’ energy costs and carbon emissions while reducing strain on the grid during peak times. Two hotels in California implemented a system that makes ice when energy demand is low and uses the ice during peak demand times to cool the building.

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8 years into America's e-scooter experiment, what have we learned?

Syris Valentine

April 15, 2024 |

Grist |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States

E-scooters have struggled to find their footing since spreading across the United States as an eco-friendly transportation option. Companies like Lime are looking for ways to increase rider safety and ensure the scooters are as sustainable as possible.

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How a Northwest tribe is escaping a rising ocean

John Ryan

February 19, 2024 |

NPR |

Radio |

3-5 Minutes

Response Location: Quinault Indian Nation, United States, Taholah, Washington

The Quinault Indian Nation is building new housing for its community about a mile from its current village on the coast of the Pacific Ocean. The goal is to relocate the whole village to a place further above sea level to avoid flooding and sea-level rise.

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