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'We need more shade': US's hottest city turns to trees to cool those most in need

Weston Morrow Nina Lakhani

April 17, 2024 |

The Guardian |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Phoenix, Arizona

In Phoenix, Arizona, a citywide tree-planting initiative is slowly increasing canopy cover to reduce the urban heat island effect in neighborhoods that need it the most. Residents pick between several varieties of desert-adapted trees, which are planted on their property by professional arborists, and take care of them with a provided kit.

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Un millón de monedas

Natalia Sánchez Loayza

April 16, 2024 |

Radio Ambulante |

Podcast |

Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: Venezuela

Para sobrellevar una crisis económica, millones de venezolanos reccurieron a un mundo de fantasía—Runescape—y convertió el videojuego en un trabajo a tiempo completo. Mensualmente, personas han podido ganar hasta cuatro veces más de lo que hubieran podido ganar en otros trabajos en Venezuela.

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The invisible safety net for immigrants

Annelise Jolley

April 16, 2024 |

The Christian Century |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, McAllen, Texas

Latino churches like Iglesia Misionera Cristo Vive are acting as social service hubs for parishioners and members of the community, providing food, shelter, English language classes, trauma recovery and immigration advocacy.

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Saving Mothers and Giving Life through Quality Accreditation of Private Health Facilities

Adanna Opara

April 16, 2024 |

Nigeria Health Watch |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Nigeria, Kaduna

The Saving Mothers, Giving Life project aims to improve access to and the quality of maternal and infant healthcare to reduce maternal and newborn deaths. The project established a Maternal and Perinatal Death Surveillance and Response team and launched an interactive digital chat solution on WhatsApp to get important health information to pregnant women. Through these efforts, maternal and perinatal deaths in 25 private health facilities decreased by 60% and 16%, respectively.

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Caribbean startups are turning excess seaweed into an agroecology solution

Marlowe Starling

April 16, 2024 |

Mongabay |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Barbados

Entrepreneurs in the Caribbean are collecting harmful sargassum seaweed that washes up on the beaches and turning it into agricultural products that reduce the need for synthetic fertilizers. Red Diamond Compost, for example, uses growth-stimulating hormones from the seaweed to create a soil additive that improves plants’ ability to absorb nutrients.

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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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Watanda: This local scheme helped struggling Nigerian Muslims end Ramadan fasting with feasts

Yahuza Bawage

April 16, 2024 |

Prime Progress |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Nigeria

Watanda is a bulk-shopping system that helps ensure low-income families have access to meat during the Eid-al-Fitr celebration following Ramadan. In Watanda groups, members contribute money to a collective fund to purchase cattle that is then split between all the contributors. Amidst the rising cost of cattle, Watanda groups help ensure families have food on the table and can still participate in celebrations.

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Krakow Can Breathe Again

Jan Zabka

April 15, 2024 |

Transitions Online |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Poland, Krakow

An activist organization in Poland, Krakow Smog Alarm, teaches people about poor air quality in their city and helps them organize together to lobby their local governments for effective clean air measures.

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The therapy school for children raised in Delhi's red light district

Geetanjali Krishna

April 15, 2024 |

Positive.News |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: India, Delhi

Project Phoenix offers a one-year preventative mental health initiative for teens in underserved communities. It provides trauma-informed therapy and social-emotional learning through art, theater, writing and music, as well as education on human and sexual rights. The program aims to equip vulnerable youth with skills to combat mental health challenges and has impacted over 76,500 individuals so far

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In Rural Western Uganda, A Tree-Planting Initiative Shows Signs of Life

Kang-Chun Cheng

April 15, 2024 |

The Xylom |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Uganda

Ecosia, a nonprofit search engine that uses its profits to support tree-planting initiatives, is working with the Jane Goodall Institute Austria to grow 200,000 trees in Uganda. The organizations work with communities to design the projects around their needs and then support locals through the process of growing trees.

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