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  • The Grassroots Movement That Built Puerto Rico's First Community-Owned Microgrid

    Katherine Rapin

    June 10, 2023 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: Puerto Rico, Adjuntas

    The environmental nonprofit Casa Pueblo is installing solar panels and retrofitting buildings’ electrical systems to be off-grid in Adjuntas, Puerto Rico. Its work is helping to combat the blackouts and skyrocketing electricity prices that Puerto Ricans have faced since Hurricane Maria first damaged the grid in 2017.

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  • Bangladesh tests climate finance for disaster-hit communities

    Tahmid Zami

    May 30, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Bangladesh

    Several organizations provide financial support like green bonds and insurance to farmers in Bangladesh to help protect them from crop loss caused by climate change disasters.

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  • Meals on Wheels Delivers Food and Climate Resilience for Seniors

    Daniella Renwick

    May 16, 2023 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States

    Local Meals on Wheels programs are known for delivering food to low-income seniors, but during climate disasters, they are in the position to check in on the most vulnerable. The programs’ volunteers and staff do just that, whether that means giving fans to clients during a heatwave, tarping roofs after a hurricane, or making check-up calls.

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  • A Perfect Storm: How the deadly 2022 Durban floods hold crucial lessons for the future of the city and others like it

    Leonie Joubert

    May 10, 2023 |

    Daily Maverick |

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    Response Location: South Africa, Durban

    A community-based, early-warning system for flooding in Durban, South Africa, gave community members an early enough evacuation order so that no lives were lost. The system uses information from Weather Service reports to know when and where to monitor real-time local conditions. When a community member or member of the disaster management unit sees the conditions are becoming dangerous, they use messaging apps to warn the community.

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  • A Caribbean island's quest to become the world's first climate-resilient nation

    Jose Alison Kentish

    April 24, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Dominica

    On its journey to become the first climate-resilient nation, Dominica created an early warning system for extreme weather. Once the warning reaches the national level, the information is distributed to communities where a network of local authorities spread the word. From there, neighbors and friends check in with each other, and traditional conch shells are blown as a warning, too.

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  • What could $1 billion do for Puerto Rico's energy resilience? Residents have ideas.

    Gabriela Aoun Angueira

    April 21, 2023 |

    Grist |

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    Response Location: Puerto Rico, Castañer

    Community-led energy projects are improving access to electricity for Puerto Ricans. One such project, led by a cooperative in Castañer, established two microgrids with backup batteries to keep the power running after an outage.

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  • The Indian Farmers Battling Climate Change With 10,000-year-old Emmer Wheat

    Sanket Jain

    April 21, 2023 |

    Food Unfolded |

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    Response Location: India

    Farmers in India are turning back to growing traditional, ancient grains like emmer wheat for reliable harvests because it can withstand extreme climate-related weather conditions.

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  • Are 'sponge cities' enough to curb climate-fuelled floods?

    Kim Harrisberg

    April 18, 2023 |

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    Response Location: United States

    The design firm Arup calculates cities' ability to retain water through nature and helps them implement other solutions to flooding, like building rain gardens or public messaging strategies, depending on individual needs.

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  • The quest to build wildfire-resistant homes

    Susie Cagle

    April 18, 2023 |

    MIT Technology Review |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    The shelter-in-place approach is slowly becoming a more common way to survive wildfires that are too violent and fast to evacuate. People using this method congregate in “defensible” buildings created with wildfire resilience in mind that sit in an area clear of flammable vegetation and fuel.

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  • Rice Insurance helping Rwandan Farmers Overcome Climate-Induced Losses

    Jeanne d’Arc Munezero

    April 15, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Rwanda

    Rwanda’s National Agriculture Insurance Scheme helps farmers access financial protection for their crops to provide income security in the face of climate change events that can ruin harvests.

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