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The Grassroots Movement That Built Puerto Rico's First Community-Owned Microgrid

Katherine Rapin

June 10, 2023 |

Next City |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Puerto Rico, Adjuntas

The environmental nonprofit Casa Pueblo is installing solar panels and retrofitting buildings’ electrical systems to be off-grid in Adjuntas, Puerto Rico. Its work is helping to combat the blackouts and skyrocketing electricity prices that Puerto Ricans have faced since Hurricane Maria first damaged the grid in 2017.

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How an $18.6 million dollar fund helps community organizations beat speculators and own their own spaces

Diane Bérard

June 06, 2023 |

Future of Good |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Canada, Quebec

More than twenty partners in Quebec (including public and private investors, philanthropic foundations, and labor funds) have joined forces to develop a suite of loan programs designed to help social-purpose organizations beat rent inflation and increase their ability to provide community services. The initiative helps qualifying organizations make real estate purchases quickly, rather than risk losing their existing spaces to other buyers while trying to arrange financing. To date, more than 30 social-purpose entities have already received financial assistance and the program is attempting to expand.

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What Happens to Locals' Jobs When an Abandoned Coal Mine Becomes a Tourist Spot?

Vivek Gupta

June 04, 2023 |

The Wire |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: India, Bishrampur, Chhattisgarh

An abandoned, flooded mine in Bishrampur, India, is now an eco-tourism site where visitors can take a boat ride to a floating restaurant and locals breed fish. The new facilities offer employment for some of the residents who were left out of work when the mine closed.

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Ambikapur's women-led waste management system also generates revenue for the city

Vivek Gupta

May 30, 2023 |

Mongabay |

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Response Location: India, Ambikapur, Chhattisgarh

Ambikapur, India, created a decentralized waste management system that allowed it to become a zero-landfill community while creating local jobs and earning revenue. Waste is collected from households, sorted into recyclable categories and compost, and then purchased by companies that will use it to create new goods.

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Cities Are Becoming More Like Sponges

Peter Yeung

May 30, 2023 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: China, Haikou, Hainan

One of China’s many “sponge cities,” Haikou, experiences virtually no flooding after transitioning to primarily green, nature-based infrastructure instead of gray infrastructure like concrete and flood barriers. Prioritizing things like parks, wetlands, mangroves, and permeable pavement allows the city’s ground to soak up more rain.

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Imagine a Renters' Utopia. It Might Look Like Vienna.

Francesca Mari

May 23, 2023 |

The New York Times Magazine |

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Response Location: Austria, Vienna

Vienna’s public housing is affordable, full of economically diverse residents, and extremely popular. The housing units are open to almost anyone, as 80 percent of residents qualify, and once you sign a rental contract it doesn’t expire even if your income increases. Plus, the rent can only go up based on inflation if it increases by 5 percent in a year.

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The Movement to Stop Dollar Stores From Suffocating Black Communities

Aallyah Wright

May 17, 2023 |

Capital B (National) |

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Response Location: United States, Tulsa, Oklahoma

Tulsa, Oklahoma, was the first city to pass an ordinance to permanently restrict new dollar stores from cropping up in underserved communities and exasperating food insecurity. The policy included incentives for businesses selling healthy food options and, with funding from a development corporation, a grocer opened in the North Tulsa community as a result.

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Stilt Houses: How an Ancient Architectural Design Could Become a Climate Solution

Ethan Brown

May 05, 2023 |

The Sweaty Penguin |

Podcast |

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Response Location: United States, Florida

When designed well, houses built on elevated platforms supported by stilts can help coastal communities adapt to climate change by reducing flood risk.

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Up-Close Ecotourism Is Nurturing Gray Whales in Mexico

Michaela Haas

May 01, 2023 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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Response Location: Mexico, Baja Sur

A fishing cooperative at the San Ignacio Lagoon protects gray whales that use the lagoon as a nursery by not fishing at that time of the year. Instead, their income comes from ecotourism which brings people close to the whales during that season.

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Philly's plastic bag ban is working, study finds

Sophia Schmidt

April 28, 2023 |

The Philadelphia Tribune |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Philadelphia’s ban on businesses’ use of single-use plastic bags reduced plastic bag use by 94%. The ban also extended to paper bags not made of recycled content.

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