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  • How A Loan-To-Own Program In San Diego Is Boosting E-Bike Access

    September 23, 2022 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, San Diego, California

    Pedal Ahead provides low-income locals access to e-bikes at no initial cost, while agreeing to ride an average of five miles a day, track and share rides for a study, and secure their own bike insurance. If the participants successfully complete the program after two years, they own the bike. Since its launch, the organization distributed over 400 bicycles across the county.

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  • Europe's Green-Building Retrofit Leader Is One of Its Smallest Countries

    September 21, 2022 |

    Bloomberg |

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    Response Location: Lithuania

    In Lithuania, building owners looking to retrofit to improve energy use, reduce heating costs, and lower carbon emissions, can make use of a lending approach that pairs grants and loans. The grants are intended to offset the expense of the loan and can act as a first-loss guarantee for investors.

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  • ‘This is what a river should look like': Dutch rewilding project turns back the clock 500 years

    September 20, 2022 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: Netherlands, Grevenbicht

    Rewilding Europe is a river-restoration project working to preserve rivers as biodiversity hotspots and prevent damage from human activity. Since Rewilding Europe was founded, its projects have stretched across the continent, including to countries like Spain Italy, Bulgaria, and Sweden and was recently awarded a grant of £4.1m to scale up its work.

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  • Money Growing on Trees

    September 20, 2022 |

    Native Science Report |

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    Response Location: Keweenaw Bay Bands of Lake Superior Chippewa, United States, Michigan

    The National Indian Carbon Coalition is helping tribes across the United States use the voluntary carbon market to earn revenue from their sustainable forest management and the carbon dioxide it traps. The coalition helps tribes with the preparation and contract work to set up carbon sales and gets paid back once the revenue comes in.

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  • To build for a warming planet, architects look to nature – and the past

    September 14, 2022 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: Mexico, Mexico City

    A global movement to localize the construction process, and design buildings for the climate they reside in, is bringing back practices like green roofs and using natural materials like mud and salt to keep people cool as the planet warms.

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  • Mitigating Environmental Degradation through Collecting Plastics

    September 14, 2022 |

    Royal FM |

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    Response Location: Rwanda, Kigali

    An initiative in Kigali, Rwanda, pays locals to collect plastic and glass waste to be sold for recycling. The initiative provides income for unemployed youth and women while helping clean up the city and reduce waste.

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  • Can an Urban Farm Run by Police Create Jobs, Feed People, and Build Trust?

    September 14, 2022 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Response Location: United States, Alameda County, California

    Dig Deep Farms provides sustainable jobs for people coming out of jail, who have a difficult time finding work. The farm employs about 15 people who grow food for county health initiatives, runs a job-training program for formerly incarcerated people, and operates a food hub to distribute fresh produce to people in need and recently increased its acreage to provide even more opportunities and resources.

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  • Taos Ski Valley, Already B Corp Certified, Is Now Carbon Neutral

    September 13, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, New Mexico

    Taos Ski Valley, a ski resort in New Mexico, is now CarbonNeutral certified due to practices like reduction of emissions and on-mountain energy use, and investment in carbon offsets.

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  • Floating Solar Farms Are a Game Changer

    September 12, 2022 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Portugal

    Solar panels that float on water are used to generate electricity instead of taking up space for solar farms on land.

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  • Great Salt Lake a sovereign entity 'worthy of legal rights,' group says

    September 12, 2022 |

    KSTU-TV |

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    Response Location: United States, Salt Lake City, Utah

    Save Our Great Salt Lake is a group rallying local environmental activists to push legislators to care for the Great Salt Lake and take legislative action before the ecosystem collapses. Though it will be a long, uphill battle the group’s efforts have already led to some progress from local government, such as the newly built wastewater treatment plant that aims to get more water to the Great Salt Lake.

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