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  • Heat dome hit these Vancouver neighbourhoods hardest — could planting more trees save lives?

    September 28, 2021 |

    North Shore News |

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    Response Location: Canada, Vancouver, British Columbia

    The “Greenest City Action Plan” aimed to reduce the effects of extreme heat by planting 100,000 trees. Shade from trees acts as a thermal buffer during extreme heat and cold and a lack of trees disproportionately impacts low-income communities. The program surpassed its goal by planting trees in parks and along streets, as well as by buying small plots of land to create “pocket parks” with trees providing shade. The city subsidized trees for homeowners, who were banned from cutting down mature, healthy trees on their properties, and ran education programs to increase resident buy-in.

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  • Costa Rica's answer to range anxiety

    September 28, 2021 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: Costa Rica, Monteverde

    Even though Costa Rica is leading the fight against climate change, the country lags behind in one area: electric vehicles. In one town, Monteverde, activists, and business owners got together to create a charging network, they called it Ruta Eléctrica. The goal is to stave off recharge anxiety, or the fear that an electric car won't make it to its destination without re-charging. To address the issue organizers got businesses to offer free-charging stations, have clear signage and maintain plug points.

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  • How Zurich Blazed a Trail for Recycled Concrete

    September 26, 2021 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: Switzerland, Zurich

    Zurich, Switzerland's largest city, is paving the way for sustainable building. Concrete is a major contributor of climate change due to the process it requires to make it. Zurich is making steps to reduce its use. A school building was constructed in 2002 with 80 percent recycled concrete. Three years later city officials passed a requirement that required all publicly-owned buildings to be made with recycled concrete and in 2013 ordered the use of CO2 reduced cement. According to a study the effort has saved 17,000 cubic meters of virgin materials.

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  • How the Ski Industry Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Climate Activism

    September 24, 2021 |

    Eos |

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    Response Location: United States

    Athletes are mobilizing young voters and raising awareness about the perils of climate change. The athletes have been able to use their large social media platforms and following to educate people, urge them to act, and reach out to elected officials through a concerted effort by nonprofit Protect Our Winters (POW).

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  • How decades of stopping forest fires made them worse

    September 22, 2021 |

    Vox |

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    Response Location: United States

    Prescribed burning or controlled burning is an ancestral indigenous practice in which specific sections of a forest are burned. Controlled burning also happens naturally like when lightning strikes a forest. Controlled burning is good for a forest, it gets rid of dead areas, leads to healthier soil by clearing the ground, and minimizes the strength of large fires. However, due to U.S. laws that criminalized controlled burns the practice was discouraged in the U.S. Now, due to climate change and larger fires, prescribed burning is making a come back.

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  • Switching a golden retriever to an insect-based diet saves 4.4 million gallons of water per year.

    September 21, 2021 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: United States

    Although some people are refusing to eat meat because of its environmental impact, their pets might not. Dogs and cats account for 30 percent of the environmental impact of meat consumption in the U.S. Yet, pets don't have to eat meat. They can eat insect-based diet that give them the same amount of protein as meat. Switching one golden retriever alone, saves up to 4.4 million gallons of water per year. This story chronicles companies that are making the switch to making insect-based food forpets, and some of the challenges they face.

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  • RGGI, behind the rhetoric: What we know about the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative

    September 14, 2021 |

    StateImpact Pennsylvania |

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    Response Location: United States

    A regional cap-and-trade program in the northeast United States has reduced carbon dioxide emissions from power plants and led to overall job gains in the economy. Up to 50 percent of the region’s CO2 reductions are attributable to the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative program and nine of the states participating report training more than 8,000 workers.

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  • Reducing Recidivism and Building Green Industry Skills in Detroit

    September 10, 2021 |

    Belt Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Michigan

    Between 2012 and 2017, the rate of recidivism, the number of people who return to prison after being released, was (71%) across 34 states. An industrial recycling program called Greenworks is aimed at job training, access to resources() and (providing) jobs to formerly incarcerated people. Part of the green economy, these programs offer jobs to people most impacted by climate change, and Greenworks could be a model for other similar programs. The recidivism rate of Greenworks hovers around four and (10%) each year.

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  • The lost generation of ancient trees

    September 08, 2021 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom

    Ancient trees like the Big Belly Oak, which grows to be hundreds of years old, provide substance to thousands of invertebrate species, and hundreds of species of lichen and fungi. However, due to changes in forest management and agriculture, many of the ancient trees are not surviving long enough to age. It's crucial for them to age because that's when many species of fungi and insects begin to move into their core. In order to speed up the aging process scientists are trying two methods, veteranisation and inserting fungi into trees.

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  • France's 'Peevolution' Is Irrigating Farms With Liquid Gold

    August 31, 2021 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: France, Bordeaux

    Getting rid of urine is very wasteful, in the European Union alone almost 6,000 billion liters of water are used to flush urine. TOOPI Organics is using urine as a resource. Founded in 2019, the biotech company collects urine and using a fermentation process transforms it so it can be used as a fertilizer. Its urine fertilizer helped plants grow 60 to 110 percent more than a traditional mineral fertilizer. Its factory in the city of Bordeaux is able to produce 2,500 liters of organic fertilizer per day.

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