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  • Pre-Pesticides, Pro-Farmer: The Rise of Agroecology

    Farmers around the world are implementing agroecology practices to make their farms more resilient to climate change while promoting climate justice to strengthen farming communities. Agroecology follows 13 principles that include ecological practices, like using organic fertilizers, and political and social values, like embracing land rights.

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  • An overlooked climate solution unfolds in Memphis' energy challenges

    Memphis Gas Light and Water’s weatherization program is helping city residents prepare their homes for increasingly intense storms in ways that also reduce their energy use from fossil-fuel-derived sources and their utility bills. Contractors may install a new air conditioner or repair walls, but the resident is never charged for the services because ratepayers round up their bills to cover the cost.

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  • Power of Mama: the women firefighters of West Borneo

    An all-women firefighting team in Ketapang, Indonesia, is stopping people from setting fires to clear land, a practice called slash and burn, and putting out the fires they can’t prevent. Arsonists often set fire to peatlands, which pollutes the air and releases stored carbon dioxide.

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  • Houses that breathe: Vietnamese architects turning the tide to tackle climate change 

    Architects in Vietnam are creating climate-resilient buildings with nature-based designs and materials that adapt to the local weather to reduce the building’s emissions throughout its lifespan by naturally regulating the temperature.

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  • Tidal power: What's holding it back?

    Researchers in South Korea and Ireland are harnessing the power from the up, down, and side-to-side motions of ocean tides as a source of renewable energy.

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  • Virginia districts roll on with electric school buses despite lack of state funding

    Schools in Virginia are switching from diesel to electric buses to reduce their emissions and impact on local air quality. With no access to state funding, the schools are buying buses outright, renting them, and partnering with nonprofit organizations that assist them in finding funding.

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  • Washington's cap on carbon is raising billions for climate action. Can it survive the backlash?

    Washington State’s Climate Commitment Act set a limit on greenhouse gas emissions and created an emissions market to incentivize emission reductions while generating money for climate change mitigation. Carbon emission allowances are auctioned off to businesses, and set percentages of the income are designated for projects like electrifying public transit.

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  • Do carbon credits really help communities that keep forests standing?

    Despite some support for the forest conservation strategy REDD+, which uses carbon credits to incentivize reducing emissions, many Indigenous organizations and communities say the strategy and general carbon market need improvement. They say the programs don’t lead to the purported benefits and must be more inclusive of those proactively protecting forests and local communities, among other things.

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  • St. Paul, Minnesota sees city buildings as opportunity for quick wins on climate plan goals

    St. Paul, Minnesota, is retrofitting city-owned buildings, improving their efficiency, and swapping to renewable sources of heating and cooling to decarbonize their operations.

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  • Solar Pumps Are Empowering Women Farmers in India

    In the Indian state of Bihar, women-led self-help groups are challenging traditional gender norms and saving money to buy and install solar irrigation pumps. The pumps increase the local agricultural capacity by providing a cleaner, more affordable alternative to the diesel pumps typically used to combat water scarcity in the region.

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