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  • Denver's E-Bike Rebates Are So Hot They're Gone Within Minutes

    October 13, 2022 |

    Bloomberg |

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    Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

    Denver offers rebates up to $1,700 for residents purchasing electric bikes to encourage their adoption, increase accessibility for low-income residents, and help reduce air pollution.

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  • Waste workers on the frontlines to protect Apo Island from plastic threat

    October 11, 2022 |

    Rappler |

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    Response Location: Philippines, Apo Island

    In the Philippines the War on Waste - Negros Oriental started a zero waste project on Apo Island to reduce landfill use and improve waste management. Waste workers train residents how to sort their trash into categories and collect the sorted trash twice a week.

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  • What Does Sustainable Living Look Like? Maybe Like Uruguay

    October 05, 2022 |

    The New York Times Magazine |

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    Response Location: Uruguay

    Uruguay has turned to biomass, solar, and wind energy to transition to a 98% renewable energy grid that decreased over half a billion dollars from their annual budget along with their carbon footprint.

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  • Tiny Oregon town hosts 1st wind-solar-battery 'hybrid' plant

    September 28, 2022 |

    Associated Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Oregon

    The Wheatridge Renewable Energy Facility in Oregon is the first in the United States to use wind energy, solar energy, and battery storage on a large scale to provide consistent energy without using fossil fuels to fill gaps.

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  • How ecotourism in Konkan promotes climate-friendly tourism

    September 28, 2022 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: India

    In India, experience-based tourism promotes sustainability and conservation awareness while supporting local economies. For this style of tourism, tourists experience life like local indigenous communities in everything from eating to helping in agricultural fields.

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  • Cars Are Vanishing from Paris

    September 23, 2022 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: France, Paris

    Cars are Europe’s second-largest source of greenhouse gas emissions and the leading killer of children. In recent years, Paris has implemented an array of measures to prioritize pedestrians, cyclists, and transit while reducing car use. As a result, car use has dropped about 45% since 1990, the use of public transit has risen by 30% and the share of cyclists has increased tenfold.

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  • Great Salt Lake managers raise causeway berm in effort to stave off rising salinity

    September 23, 2022 |

    The Salt Lake Tribune |

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    Response Location: United States, Salt Lake City, Utah

    Engineers with the Division of Water Resources created a new berm in the Great Salt Lake to help protect the lake’s ecosystem and slow the water exchange and reduce rising salinity between the north and south arms of the lake. Initial findings after the berm’s construction have shown a significant decrease in high-salinity waters, as well as improvements in the lake’s brine shrimp population.

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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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