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  • Equity, Health, Resilience, and Jobs: Lessons from the Just Growth Circle

    Nathanial Smith Tina Anderson Smith Elizabeth Sawin

    August 22, 2019 |

    Nonprofit Quarterly |

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    Response Location: United States, Atlanta, Georgia

    A collaboration between an Atlanta-based nonprofit and an international climate organization sparked the Just Growth Circle, an initiative that brings topics like racial equity, economic justice, and climate change to the forefront of urban planning in Atlanta. The organization puts responsibility into the hands of residents and has updated city plans to center around building community trust and long-lasting relationships between locals and city officials.

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  • Battling climate change, female farmers in Bangladesh find new ways to farm

    Banani Mallick

    August 19, 2019 |

    Earth Journalism Network |

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    Response Location: Bangladesh

    Facing sea-level rise and other climate threats, a group of women working in agriculture in Bangladesh are adapting their practices and focus and sharing their tips for success with other women.

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  • How teen Greta Thunberg shifted world's gaze to climate change

    Linda Givetash

    August 17, 2019 |

    NBC News |

    Multi-Media |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Sweden

    All over the world, more than 2 million children and teens are participating in classroom walkouts in an effort to bring attention to the severity of climate change. Called, Fridays for the Future, leaders of the movement are gaining traction, and have developed a declaration that emphasizes their demand that world leaders do something to stop the rising global temperature. This movement was sparked by Sweden’s Greta Thunberg, who, at 16-years old, has started this movement, spoken to global leaders, and continues to do what’s needed to demand action in the face of climate change.

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  • Inside the innovation lab solving climate financing

    Amelia Axelsen

    August 16, 2019 |

    Apolitical |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Turning climate solutions into opportunities for investment can help mobilize capital to address climate change. The Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance (The Lab), part of the Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) based in San Francisco, California, promotes public-private partnerships to reduce the risk of investment in large-scale projects. Nature Based Solutions, such as the Lab’s initiative to restore mangroves in the Philippines, contributes tremendous economic value in areas like flood mitigation.

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  • South Mountain HS cross-country team pushing for electric school buses

    Kristine Harrington

    August 16, 2019 |

    KPHO-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Phoenix, Arizona

    Because of a collaborative effort between a high school cross country team and Chispa, an environmental advocacy group, Arizona’s Phoenix Union High School District has bought its first electric school bus. While nearly three times more expensive than a regular school bus, the school district considered the long-term sustainability, not just in terms of fuel and maintenance costs, but in regards to larger, environmental efforts as well.

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  • Return to Nature

    Lynn Freehill-Maye Phillip Pantuso

    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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  • New Texas nonprofit offers novel approach for preserving coastal lands, combating global warming

    Perla Trevizo

    August 14, 2019 |

    Houston Chronicle |

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    Response Location: United States, Sargent, Texas

    To protect the natural lands of the Texas coast and battle climate change, a new nonprofit is working to create a carbon dioxide storage program in partnership with private landowners. The innovative models give landowners money in exchange for not developing or selling their land for the next decade, paid for by businesses or individuals who donate the equivalent of their "carbon footprint." Texas Coastal Exchange creates a carbon dioxide storage program with the goal of protecting the coast's natural lands and fighting climate change.

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  • A tiny garden in Boulder is showing signs of stress from smog. The scientist behind it is thrilled.

    Amanda K. Clark

    August 12, 2019 |

    The Colorado Sun |

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    Response Location: United States, Boulder, Colorado

    A garden at Boulder, Colorado’s Museum of Natural History is being used to track the effects of smog and educate visitors as well. Called an “ozone garden,” this plot – and other like it around the world – shows researchers and visitors how plants are damaged by ground-level ozone levels. Beyond education, the researchers behind the ozone garden are using it to show how crops and food availability will diminish as climate change continues.

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  • Chevron starts its unique project that buries carbon dioxide underground

    Akshat Rathi

    August 10, 2019 |

    Quartz |

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    Under 800 Words

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

    Akshat Rathi

    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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