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Building a just energy business future in Detroit

Nina Ignaczak

October 27, 2021 |

Planet Detroit |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

WeSolar makes solar power accessible to low-income residents by building and investing in community-solar farms and signing residents up for credits from investor-owned utilities. The startup, the first community solar business led by a Black woman, saves customers as much as $250 on their utility bills by signing up for community solar. Convincing residents, many of whom have had bad experiences with predatory utility schemes, requires working with church and community groups to earn trust. Community solar also requires legislation that allows for shared renewable energy projects.

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Electric school bus helps Latina moms combat air pollution

Prince James Story

October 26, 2021 |

Cronkite News - Arizona PBS |

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Response Location: United States, Phoenix, Arizona

There are about 480,000 school buses in the country, less than one percent of them are electric. Replacing diesel school buses with electric ones would reduce greenhouse emissions by 5.3 million tons a year, it would also be better for students lungs. More than 4 in 10 people in the country live in neighborhoods with unhealthy air. In Arizona, a group of mom's organized and were able to convince the school board to purchase and electric bus. Then, they garnered votes to help pass a bond to purchase the bus.

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Blue forests are under threat. A quiet revolution could save them

Laura Joffre

October 22, 2021 |

Pioneers Post |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Madagascar

Mangroves can store up six times more carbon than an area equal to the Amazon rainforest. However, they are rapidly declining, over the past century their population has been reduced by 30 to 50 percent. One nonprofit, Blue Ventures, is working with local communities to regenerate fisheries, which helps the mangroves. They're also helping local communities to manage their mangroves.

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A River's Right to Flow

Sara Van Note

October 22, 2021 |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, New Mexico

In order to preserve and protect rivers a new movement that grants rivers personhood rights is growing. In places like New Zealand and Oregon, where some of these measures have passed rivers have the right to flow without having to be used as a resource for consumption. In New Mexico, the state engineer approved a water lease submitted by the National Audobon Society. The lease allows about 13 million gallons of water to flow annually solely for its own sake, similiar to personhood rights. The creative approach is one way conservationists are fighting for water preservation.

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Cycling city Kigali sprints to promote smart and green mobility

Aimable Twahirwa

October 21, 2021 |

Rwanda Dispatch |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Rwanda, Kigali

In an effort to go carbon-neutral, city officials in Kigali, Rwanda, are improving bicycling infrastructure and partnering with a green transportation company to implement a bicycle ride sharing program with docking stations across the city.

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How farmers in Abuja community use 'agroforestry models' to fight climate change

Abdulkareem Mojeed

October 21, 2021 |

Premium Times |

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Response Location: Nigeria

In Abuja, a Nigerian community, farmers are practicing agroforestry practices and shifting away from monocropping. Agroforestry is more sustainable, leads to biodiversity, and helps mitigate the harmful effects of climate change. With agroforestry, farmers plant several crops among trees, versus one crop. While not all farmers have made the shift, the ones that have are seeing positive results.

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Chauffage : des maisons sans aucun chauffage, comment est-ce possible ?

Marie-Candice Delouvrié T. Gardet F. Fort

October 20, 2021 |

Franceinfo |

Broadcast TV News |

3-5 Minutes

Response Location: France, Toulouse

Alors que les prix du gaz et de l'électricité augmentent, les maisons à énergies passives permettent à ses habitants de faire des économies d'énergie. Isolation renforcée et chaleur produite par certaines pièces permettent de maintenir des températures confortables. Si ces installations entraînent un surcoût de 10 à 15% à la construction et ne sont encore qu'au nombre de 3000 en France, les habitants font des économies substantielles. Ils n'ont plus de facture de chauffage et celle de l'électricité est réduite.

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Sanitation Solutions: How hidden cameras became Philly's fiercest weapon in the war on dumping

Meir Rinde

October 19, 2021 |

WHYY |

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Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Philadelphia has 300 surveillance cameras and, increasingly, sees them as central to its strategy of holding individuals accountable for illegal dumping. This has led to empty lots remaining garbage free, and setting examples of those who are caught and prosecuted.

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Sanitation Solutions: When the city let them down, Philly rose up — with orange trash cans

Meir Rinde

October 18, 2021 |

WHYY |

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Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

A Philadelphia-based program called I Love Thy Hood's stepped up to help attack the city's dirty streets problem. Fueled entirely by volunteer efforts, the program has placed more than 106 cans on blocks around the city and collected over 100,000 pounds of trash.

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In Southeast Alaska, a new type of conservation

Meghan Sullivan

October 18, 2021 |

Indian Country Today |

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Response Location: United States, Alaska

Collaboration amongst scientists, hunters, park rangers, former timber harvesters, and members of the Indigenous community is leading to new solutions for persistent problems. The Sustainable Southeast Partnership has been secured to “center indigenous-led stewardship” for sustainable solutions to conflicts that once pitted the unsustainable Alaskan logging industry with locals who were directly impacted.

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