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An overlooked climate solution unfolds in Memphis' energy challenges

Ashli Blow

January 23, 2024 |

Tennessee Lookout |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis Gas Light and Water’s weatherization program is helping city residents prepare their homes for increasingly intense storms in ways that also reduce their energy use from fossil-fuel-derived sources and their utility bills. Contractors may install a new air conditioner or repair walls, but the resident is never charged for the services because ratepayers round up their bills to cover the cost.

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Money clubs help displaced Nigerians create their own safety nets

Zubaida Baba Ibrahim

January 23, 2024 |

The New Humanitarian (formerly IRIN) |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Nigeria, Abuja

Women at displacement camps in Nigeria are using a traditional method of saving and loaning money called Adashe to provide each other with financial support. The women in the Adashe group pool their extra money into a collective fund and split it between group members on a monthly rotation.

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St. Paul school district halts enrollment slide. The secret: listening to immigrant communities.

Becky Z. Dernbach

January 23, 2024 |

Sahan Journal |

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Response Location: United States, St. Paul, Minnesota

To address enrollment decline in St. Paul Public Schools, the district invested in language and cultural programs that cater to local immigrant communities. After four years of implementing Hmong, Spanish, Mandarin, and East African language and cultural programs, student enrollment is now rising.

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Plastic bag bans have already prevented billions of bags from being used, report finds

Joseph Winters

January 23, 2024 |

Grist |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, New Jersey

A plastic bag ban in New Jersey helped eliminate more than 5.5 billion plastic bags annually, keeping the single-use plastic out of the environment where it can harm wildlife and contribute to pollution. However, some researchers question whether plastic bags are truly worse for the environment than single-use paper bags or reusable cotton bags, and some states have passed laws preventing local governments from adopting their own bans on plastic bags.

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Could a Ride-Sharing Network Help Get Chicago Students to School?

Jewél Jackson

January 23, 2024 |

Illinois Answers Project |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Colorado

To help fill transportation gaps left by bus driver shortages, school districts are partnering with HopSkipDrive, a network that leverages vetted rideshare drivers to take students to and from classes and activities. The company is working with 600 school districts, nonprofits, and agencies across the country.

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Can Prescription Meal Kits Help Fight Diabetes?

Grey Moran

January 22, 2024 |

Civil Eats |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Stockton, California

Healthy Food Rx is a prescription meal kit delivery program that delivers twice-monthly meal kits to adults with diabetes, providing them with produce and other healthy foods. The program addresses food insecurity, while also making a case for the power of using food as medicine to manage chronic conditions.

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At Sahara's edge, old habits protect crops from new climate

Jack Thompson

January 19, 2024 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Senegal, Ndiob

Farmers in Ndiob, Senegal, have returned to an ancient technique called zaï to combat drought, use less fertilizer, and increase their yields. Zaï involves drilling holes in the soil so rainwater can fill them and soak into the land instead of running off.

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Mobile crisis unit looks to the future after debut year

Justin Garcia

January 19, 2024 |

Southern New Mexico Journalism Collaborative |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Las Cruces, New Mexico

Project LIGHT (Lessen the Incidence of Grief, Harm and Trauma) is a co-responder team that combines paramedics and licensed social workers to respond to mental health crises. The project responded to 940 in its first year, most of which ended with the patient being transported to a mental health care provider or receiving treatment on-scene rather than being arrested.

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A drying sea half a world away carries a message for those worried about the Great Salt Lake

Leia Larson Levi Bridges

January 18, 2024 |

Great Salt Lake Collaborative |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Utah

At the steadily shrinking Aral Sea and the Great Salt Lake, officials have stemmed some of the water, salinity, and biodiversity losses by sectioning off healthier sections of the bodies of water with a dam and a causeway.

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Power of Mama: the women firefighters of West Borneo

Rita Utari

January 18, 2024 |

BBC |

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3-5 Minutes

Response Location: Indonesia, Ketapang

An all-women firefighting team in Ketapang, Indonesia, is stopping people from setting fires to clear land, a practice called slash and burn, and putting out the fires they can’t prevent. Arsonists often set fire to peatlands, which pollutes the air and releases stored carbon dioxide.

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