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  • Local Social Impact Investors Are Pulling Chicago Out Of Junk Bond Status

    Oscar Perry Abello

    May 02, 2023 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    The city of Chicago is offering municipal bond investors — specifically those interested in ESG investing — opportunities to fund social projects like planting 15,000 trees in historically disinvested neighborhoods over the next three years, converting motels and single-room buildings into housing for people transitioning out of homelessness and replacing the city’s gas-powered vehicles with electric.

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  • The Push To Reimagine LA's Streets And Alleyways To Fight Both Drought And Floods

    Erin Stone

    April 21, 2023 |

    LAist |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    Los Angeles organizations and neighborhoods are teaming up to create Green Alleys that mitigate flooding. These alleys consist of permeable pavement and native plants and trees that all help direct water underground, as well as streetlights and murals that make them welcoming community spaces.

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  • Amsterdam's 'Smart' Blue-Green Roofs Reduce Urban Flooding

    Katherine Latham

    April 07, 2023 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Netherlands, Amsterdam

    The city of Amsterdam funded a blue-green roofs program to reduce both flooding and the urban heat island effect. The water collection system stores and releases rainwater, the variety of indigenous plants increase biodiversity, and the connected digital network allows them all to be controlled remotely.

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  • How Planting Grasslands Fights Climate Change

    Michelle Lotker

    April 03, 2023 |

    PBS North Carolina |

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    Response Location: United States, North Carolina

    In North Carolina, planting native grassland plants instead of typical turf for lawns, landscaping, and roadside areas can create a carbon sink as the plants trap carbon underground in their long root systems.

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  • Las venas verdes de las ciudades de concreto

    Jhostyn Diaz Tenorio

    February 20, 2023 |

    El Colectivo 506 |

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    Response Location: Costa Rica, Hatillo 2, San José

    Costa Rica’s Interurban Biological Corridors Program is rescuing neglected green spaces around and between protected biological spaces with the help of many organizations and volunteers. After lobbying for political support, volunteers are participating in the organization and cleanup processes.

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  • Greenspace starts with grassroots

    Jake Christie

    February 15, 2023 |

    Great Lakes Echo |

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    Response Location: United States, Grand Rapids, Michigan

    In Michigan, the organization Friends of Grand Rapids Parks is working to increase shade in the city by planting trees. With permission from landowners, they will plant and care for trees on the property.

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  • Can the 'Slow Flowers' Movement Make Valentine's Day Sustainable?

    Michaela Haas

    February 10, 2023 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: United States

    The Slow Flowers Movement is educating flower farmers, florists, and consumers about the benefits of local, sustainably grown flowers. The founders are changing perceptions of the floral industry through workshops, a growing membership program, word of mouth, and an online directory of local farmers and florists.

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  • Help Wanted: Young urban farmers for $1,800 per month, no experience necessary

    Rosemary Misdary

    February 09, 2023 |

    Gothamist |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    The Green City Force run by the New York City Housing Authority turns open urban spaces into gardens tended by young adults in the program. The force is meant to prepare members for careers in sustainable industries afterward. The members also educate locals, trade vegetables grown in the gardens for compost, and train in ecoliteracy.

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  • Volunteers plant mini-forests in Paris to slow climate change, tackle heatwaves

    Charlotte Wilkins

    January 22, 2023 |

    France 24 |

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    Response Location: France, Paris

    Volunteers of a nonprofit tree-planting initiative in Paris are planting pocket forests, based on Japanese botanist Akira Miyawaki’s method, to increase biodiversity and combat extreme heat. These mini-forests are made of native species planted close together at random to mimic a natural forest.

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  • Detroit Zoo leads coalition to connect habitat restoration efforts across the city

    Tom Perkins

    January 18, 2023 |

    Planet Detroit |

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    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    Organizations like the Detroit Audubon’s Bird City habitat restoration initiative are planting native flowers, grasses, and trees in vacant, underused lots and parks to restore the habitat for wildlife in the city.

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