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  • How Peru's potato museum could stave off world food crisis

    November 29, 2019 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: Peru, Cusco

    Climate change is impacting many crops and farmlands, but potato farmers in the Peruvian Andes are experimenting with genetic strains to diversify potatoes to help safeguard the vegetable for further climate changes. Scientists so far have found some success with one particular varietal and are now working to make it more resistant to temperature changes.

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  • It takes a school, and a community, to save this rare Philippine hornbill

    November 28, 2019 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Philippines, Sebaste, Antique

    In order to protect the endangered rufous-headed hornbill, endemic to the islands of Antique and Negros in the Philippines, an organization has teamed up with local schools to extend its conservation efforts. Each school has used varying methods like morning announcements, mural-painting, and even putting on theater plays to raise awareness, all with the hope that students develop an appreciation for the species that aids in its survival.

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  • America trashes 40% of its food. A Colorado startup is connecting the discards to dinner tables.

    November 26, 2019 |

    The Colorado Sun |

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    Response Location: United States, Colorado Springs, Colorado

    Finding alternatives for uneaten or imperfect food reduces waste. In Denver, multiple initiatives, ranging from the city’s Certifiably Green Denver program to tech startups and nonprofits, are working to tackle the problem of excess and wasted food. The nonprofit organization, We Don’t Waste, redistributes unused food from large venues at food banks and farmers markets. The tech startup, FoodMaven, similarly aims to reroute food from the landfill to consumers.

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  • Philadelphia's new toy library lets families save money — and the environment — while forming a community

    November 24, 2019 |

    The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia Media Network) |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    The Rutabaga Toy Library in Philadelphia - which was born out of a borrowed idea from Austin, Texas - helps parents afford to checkout donated toys for their kids by offering low-price memberships to families in the surrounding area. The business addresses the common trend that enables parents to throw old toys away and create unnecessary waste; instead, Rutabaga accepts donations to the toy library for other families to use while offering a space for sharing and community gathering.

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  • How this North Salt Lake plant will turn table scraps into natural gas

    November 24, 2019 |

    Deseret News |

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    Response Location: United States, Salt Lake City, Utah

    Food waste often ends up in landfills, but the Wasatch Resource Recovery facility in Utah transforms the thrown-out food into renewable energy instead. Companies such as Kroger, Dannon, and Nestle send their food waste to the facility on a daily basis, where it is liquefied, broken down by microbes and eventually converted into natural gas.

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  • The recycling program helping migrants cut down contamination in Melbourne's outer west

    November 24, 2019 |

    ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) |

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    Response Location: Australia, Melbourne

    Cities in Australia were facing a recycling problem, but realized it was related to a large migrant population and a language barrier with the word "recycling." To help address this problem Melbourne implemented the 'Waste Watcher' program, which provides hands-on education through recycling bin audits.

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  • This Turkish chef is fighting climate change with the help of Syrian refugees

    November 22, 2019 |

    Ensia |

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    Response Location: Turkey, Mardin

    The Turkish organization, Living Soil, Local Seed, is working with Turkish women and Syrian refugees to help rebuild and diversify the local agricultural system that was once thriving. Using local knowledge and surveys, the organization has gathered different varieties of native crops which it then uses to work with local farmers and employ women in order to create more complex ecological systems. In 2019, the program yielded over 400 tons of wheat and has proven to be more financially beneficial to farmers.

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  • Bacterial allies make dengue fever cases dive

    November 22, 2019 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur

    To combat dengue fever, cities around the world are experimenting with injecting a bacterial ally into mosquito eggs that helps prevent the virus from growing inside the insects. Although the approach is still in early stages, the pilot cities are seeing a significant reduction in dengue cases so far.

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  • How Behavioral Science Solved Chicago's Plastic Bag Problem

    November 21, 2019 |

    Politico |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    In 2016, the city of Chicago “became a municipal laboratory” to test the different ways to disincentivize the use of plastic bags. The city initially attempted eliminating plastic bags, which led to more paper waste. Then it levied a plastic bag tax of 7 cents, an effective behavioral nudge that decreased plastic bag use and increased city revenue. The effort is now spreading across Illinois, as part of a growing trend of decreasing plastic usage across the country.

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  • San Francisco's Quest to Make Landfills Obsolete

    November 21, 2019 |

    Politico |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Reducing landfill waste takes a comprehensive approach. By implementing city-wide composting alongside trash collection and utilizing the sorting technology of Recology, the city’s municipal waste recovery company, San Francisco has significantly reduced the amount of waste residents send to landfills. Although it missed the ambitious target of achieving zero waste by 2020, the city aims to cut what it sends to landfills in half by 2030.

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