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Yaku Raymi: The Quechua Ritual to Save a Glacier

Geraldine Santos, Elizabeth Salazar Vega

March 06, 2025 |

Mongabay |

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Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: Peru, Santa Fe

In Santa Fe, Peru, an ancestral system of water storage is helping communities cope with water scarcity: qochas are artificial lagoons built to store rainwater during the wet season, which is later used during droughts. The use of qochas has allowed Santa Fe to have 41 reservoirs that store 2.9 million cubic meters (102.4 million cubic feet) of water, three times more than before.

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Deposit before Treatment: The Initiative Standing in the Gap for Cashless Patients

Chidera Eze

March 06, 2025 |

The Solutions Paper |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Nigeria, Lagos

The Health Emergency Initiative (HEI) responds to health emergencies and pays for medical bills for those who can’t afford them, helping ensure they’re not turned away from the hospital. HEI currently supports 78 hospitals across 12 states, and has intervened in 3,750 emergency road and home accident cases, paying medical bills for 33,500 patients.

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Coaching Is the New 'Asking Your Friends for Help'

Olga Khazan

March 05, 2025 |

The Atlantic |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States

Instead of their friends, family members, or therapists, some people are turning to life coaches—many of whom specialize in various niches from big decision-making to health and wellness—to give them advice and guidance. Despite many of these coaches not having any formal training, they offer some people relief and reassurance to navigate life’s challenges and choices.

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Community connections: How Indianapolis partnered up when the Haitians came

J.O. Haselhoef

March 04, 2025 |

Haitian Times |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Indianapolis, Indiana

In response to an influx of Haitian immigrants in the area, several Indianapolis community groups joined forces to support them. These groups connect them to English language services, job opportunities, advocacy support, and assistance in registering their children for school or getting a driver’s license, all while fostering a sense of community and connection.

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Jail Voting Soars in Colorado After State Mandates Polling Places in County Lockups

Alex Burness

March 04, 2025 |

Bolts |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Colorado

After Colorado passed a state law requiring all jails to create in-person polling places for incarcerated voters, the number of ballots cast from county jails rose from 231 in 2022 to more than 2,300 in 2024.

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How Stockholm Is Sprouting Healthy Trees From Concrete

Peter Yeung

March 04, 2025 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Sweden, Stockholm

The "Stockholm tree pit” model involves digging a pit and constructing a frame underground around an urban tree’s roots, then filling this pit with a mixture of soil and stone to both aerate and fertilize the soil while also allowing rain water to be collected. The circumference of select planted trees increased from 30 to 35 centimeters to 100 and 136 centimeters between 2004 and 2024, even surpassing that of trees without the tree pits that have been there for more than 80 years.

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A sanctuary law aimed to 'Trump-proof' California on immigration. What has it accomplished?

Andrea Castillo

March 03, 2025 |

Los Angeles Times |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, California

A California law enacted in 2018 limits local law enforcement’s cooperation with federal immigration officials, preventing local police from arresting someone solely for having a deportation order or keeping them in custody longer than necessary to allow time for immigration officers to arrive. The state’s share of national ICE arrests has fallen, as has the number of people transferred from state prison to ICE custody, but challenges to California’s law and “sanctuary” policies like it are mounting.

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As warming climate hammers coffee crops, this rare bean may someday be your brew

Sam Mednick

March 03, 2025 |

The Boston Globe |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: South Sudan

Cultivating excelsa—a rare, climate-resistant coffee bean species—is helping farmers in South Sudan not only adapt to climate change, but also bolster economic opportunities.

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Ideas We Should Steal: Divest Fossil Fuels From City Pensions

Courtney DuChene

March 03, 2025 |

The Philadelphia Citizen |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, New York, New York

Following the success of New York City's divestment of pension funds from fossil fuels, a process that started in 2015, other cities around the US are exploring ways to achieve net-zero portfolio emissions. In most cases, the divested pension funds have performed at least as well financially as a city’s non-divested funds.

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How Upzoning in Cambridge Broke the YIMBY Mold

Kriston Capps

March 03, 2025 |

Bloomberg CityLab |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge’s new zoning reform lessens housing restrictions by allowing property owners and developers to build six-story apartments — through a process called upzoning — to accommodate more residents on a single lot in areas that were previously restricted to single-family homes. The city previously aimed to build 350 new units by 2040, but with the new zoning reform, that estimate has grown to 4,880.

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