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Giant Batteries Are Transforming the Way the U.S. Uses Electricity

Brad Plumer Nadja Popovich

May 07, 2024 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, California

California and Texas are among the states in the U.S. installing giant lithium-ion batteries to store renewable energy to use when the sun isn’t shining and the wind isn’t blowing. These batteries are reducing the use of fossil fuels as a backup energy source when demand is high.

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A Network Of Traditional Leaders Is Helping Kaduna Communities Find Missing Children

Aisha Gambo

May 06, 2024 |

News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Rigasa, Kaduna

A rural village has instituted several WhatsApp groups to communicate and help find children when they go missing. Each ward has a WhatsApp group and a system in place to care for children until they are reunited with their families, all for free. From January 2024 to May, over 20 missing children have been found and reunited with their families.

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North Carolina shelter for at-risk single moms charts pro-life path in a post-Roe world

Maggie Phillips

May 06, 2024 |

America Magazine |

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Response Location: United States, Greensboro, North Carolina

The Room at the Inn is one of only six licensed maternity homes in the entire state and is the only one that also serves as a homeless shelter for single mothers. Room at the Inn provides a variety of services to support new mothers, including child care, vocational training and employment assistance. Following the overturn of Dobbs, the Room at the Inn has seen an increase in demand to the point that it’s expanding to support more mothers and provide more services.

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Denver busca contratar y mantener a más maestros internacionales al ayudarlos con vivienda, capacitación y más

Yesenia Robles

May 06, 2024 |

Chalkbeat Colorado |

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Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

Las Escuelas Públicas de Denver lanzaron el Instituto de Educadores Internacionales para proporcionar no solo apoyo profesional sino también apoyo personal a maestros internacionales nuevos. El Instituto ayuda los nuevos maestros encontrar un lugar donde vivir, entender asuntos financieros y de crédito, proporcionar otros apoyo sociales o emocionales, obtener más certificados y entender cómo funciona el sistema escolar de Denver. Eso ha causado que los maestros internacionales con visas de trabajo en DPS sumen un total de 234.

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Trash For School & Health: Ugandan Innovator Uses Technology to Incentivize Plastic Waste Collection

Leticia Mmeeme

May 06, 2024 |

Solutions Now Africa |

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Response Location: Uganda, Kajjansi

Recycle Pay encourages residents of Uganda to collect plastic waste by awarding them points that can be redeemed for cash, healthcare credits, or school fees. The whole process is organized on an app.

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Could better asthma inhalers help patients, and the planet too?

Martha Bebinger

May 06, 2024 |

WBUR |

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Response Location: United States

Healthcare professionals are educating their patients on the environmental impacts of metered-dose inhalers, which release a powerful greenhouse gas into the air with each puff. To reduce that impact, they’re offering an option with powdered medicine that patients manually suck into their lungs for those that are able to make the switch.

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How Mexico's Abortion Activists Care for Each Other—and Themselves

Chantal Flores

May 06, 2024 |

Yes! Magazine |

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Response Location: Mexico, Monterrey

Necesito Abortar is a group of 20 “acompañantes” (companions) who provide support and education throughout the abortion process. The group provides counseling, in-person and virtual accompaniment and follow-up care for people seeking at-home abortions. The group also works to take care of its volunteers by hosting annual meetings for volunteers to connect, and encouraging them to make time for self care.

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Inspired by Laudato Si', Catholics in Bangladesh work to protect environment

Stephan Uttom Rozario

May 06, 2024 |

National Catholic Reporter |

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Response Location: Bangladesh, Dhaka

Catholics in Bangladesh are working to increase environmental conservation efforts in the country through grassroots initiatives that encourage practices like tree planting and reducing litter.

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A Peruvian river with rights: the defenders of the Marañón

Silvia Viñas Eliezer Budasoff

May 04, 2024 |

El Hilo |

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Response Location: Peru

A group of Kukama women, a native community of the Peruvian Amazon, worked with lawyers from the Legal Defense Institute to sue the Peruvian State. The lawsuit was intended prevent and clean up oil spills and pollution in the Marañón River that they’d been fighting against for years. In a historic ruling, the judge recognized that the river has rights and must be protected.

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At Monroe prison, dog training reshapes lives of humans, canines alike

Sophia Gates

May 04, 2024 |

The Everett Daily Herald (HeraldNet) |

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Response Location: United States, Monroe, Washington

A nonprofit that provides service animals to people with disabilities for free works with people who are incarcerated in Washington to train the dogs, giving them a positive way to spend their time and gain useful skills. Trainers help them teach the dogs new tasks every week.

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