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  • In Juneau, Alaska, a carbon offset project that's actually working

    January 04, 2024 |

    Grist |

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    Response Location: United States, Juneau, Alaska

    To mitigate the carbon dioxide emissions generated by tourism, the community in Juneau, Alaska, created the Alaska Carbon Reduction Fund as a type of carbon offset program. Tourists pay an emissions fee to the fund when doing certain excursions, and that money is used to install heat pumps for residents who earn less than 80 percent of the median income.

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  • How mobile home co-ops provide housing security — and climate resilience

    January 02, 2024 |

    Grist |

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    Response Location: United States

    Mobile homeowners are buying the land their homes are on to form resident-owned cooperatives so they can upgrade infrastructure faster. This allows them to combat and adapt to climate change by installing things like solar panels and drainage systems.

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  • The New Mexico co-op breaking up with fossil fuels

    January 01, 2024 |

    High Country News |

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    Response Location: United States, New Mexico

    After years of community outreach and searching for alternate energy suppliers that didn’t rely on fossil fuels, the Kit Carson Electric Cooperative now distributes electricity from renewable energy to households and businesses in rural New Mexico.

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  • Peace-building lessons from the heart of Nigeria

    December 30, 2023 |

    FairPlanet |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Jebbu Miango, Plateau

    The community-founded Claire Aid Foundation raised money on social media to rebuild houses that were destroyed in Jebbu Miango after a violent attack on the town left families displaced and unable to afford to return.

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  • How Amazon Workers Got a Raise Before a Union

    December 22, 2023 |

    Capital & Main |

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    Response Location: United States, San Bernardino, California

    In the absence of an official union, workers at an Amazon air hub formed an organizing committee to advocate for better conditions, circulating petitions and staging walk-outs to protest low pay and unsafe heat levels. The workers succeeded in persuading the company to change its policy around unpaid holiday closures and have also won incremental wage increases and improved heat protections.

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  • Philly residents patrolled Kensington for 36 nights this fall. Now they want the city to back the model.

    December 22, 2023 |

    Kensington Voice |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Residents of Philadelphia created a neighborhood watch and patrolled streets where violent crime is common between 10 p.m. and 4 a.m. The initiative, Operation Hug the Block, aims to reduce gun violence and other crimes by keeping people with strong community ties present on the streets.

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  • A US pine species thrives when burnt. Southerners are rekindling a 'fire culture' to boost its range

    December 15, 2023 |

    Associated Press |

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    Response Location: United States, West End, North Carolina

    Community-led volunteer groups in the American Southeast are clearing undergrowth by lighting prescribed burns to prevent future forest fires and make space for longleaf pine trees to grow. Much of their work is done on private property, where state governments are cautious to send the burners they employ because of liability concerns.

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  • In One Community, Faith-based Services Fill the Gaps When Government Can't – or Won't

    December 13, 2023 |

    100 Days in Appalachia |

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    Response Location: United States, Charleston, West Virginia

    The Bream Memorial Presbyterian Church works with other area organizations to help locals facing a range of challenges, from food insecurity to addiction. The efforts particularly focus on Black residents to fill the void left by local, state and federal government agencies. The church provides support and necessary supplies through its Showers, Health Care and Outreach Program (SHOP), as well as domestic violence counseling, housing assistance and addiction treatment.

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  • Tucson groups work to keep pets with their people during financial hardship

    December 11, 2023 |

    Arizona Daily Star |

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    Response Location: United States, Tucson, Arizona

    Local groups like Pima Animal Care Center (PACC) have employed several methods to help families struggling to keep their pets stay together. PACC does regular outreach events to collect pet food donations and also gives out supplies like beds, leashes and collars to those in need. PACC also has a nonprofit arm, Friends of PACC, that helps owners struggling with veterinary expenses and a safety net program that connects pets with foster families.

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  • A community-led strategy to save Brazil's dry forests from desertification

    December 11, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Brazil, Uauá, Bahia

    Thirty-five communities in Bahia, Brazil, are working together to restore the Caatinga dry forest by managing goat and sheep herds and fencing areas off to let nature heal itself over time.

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