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  • Low-cost resilient houses could help Mozambique survive future storms

    March 22, 2019 |

    FastCompany |

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    Response Location: Mozambique, Beira

    Climate change is causing storms to intensify across the world, resulting in mass destruction that ruins peoples homes. Mozambique has recently experienced this reality when a tropical storm resulted in a massive flood that overtook parts of the country. To help prevent future destruction, cities are focusing efforts on building more resilient homes that stand a better chance of surviving similar events.

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  • The Great American Cardboard Comeback

    March 22, 2019 |

    The New York Times |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Combined Locks, Wisconsin

    Rather than close their doors for good, Wisconsin paper mills have adapted to the booming internet business and begun making something even Amazon needs: cardboard. Though traditional glossy paper sales have plummeted since the early 2000s, the demand for cardboard in the online shopping industry has skyrocketed, leaving an open market for American paper mill factories.

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  • Waste to Wealth: How Kenyan farmers are bringing life back to degraded Lake Victoria swamps

    March 22, 2019 |

    InfoNILE |

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    Response Location: Kenya, Kisumu, Kisumu County

    Families living in the wetlands of Lake Victoria in Kisumu, Kenya are working together with a nonprofit called Ecofinder Kenya to protect and conserve the wetlands they live on. The crux of the incentive centers around the Eocfinder toilet, which converts human and animal waste to biogas, but they also work with solar lamps, water pumps, and a "farmer-to-farmer" program in which farmers share environmentally-friendly expertise. The program has been going on for 3 years now, and the wetlands have since seen a return of wildlife and growth, particularly with fish and birds.

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  • Forget plastic bans: Colorado mountain towns try volunteerism, bootcamps as solutions to single-use

    March 22, 2019 |

    The Colorado Sun |

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    Response Location: United States, Telluride, Colorado

    In the mountain towns of Telluride and Mountain Village, locals are going beyond banning plastic bags and are thinking bigger about how to reduce single-use plastic. The Telluride Venture Accelerator focuses on bringing “startups in the plastics-alternative market” to Colorado. A local committee is also finding ways to encourage businesses to change their plastic habits, and together the local government initiatives and environmental startups will change consumption habits regionally.

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  • A women's squad in Odisha defends its forest for 20 years

    March 21, 2019 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: India, Gundalba, Odisha

    Biodiversity and forest cover in Gundalba rebounded after a women-led group started using whistles and rotational patrols to scare away timber smugglers and woodcutters. The group also helped neighboring villages coordinate fuelwood gathering and avoid conflicts.

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  • ‘Coal just isn't the future': Meet the Kentucky miners picking up a new trade

    March 21, 2019 |

    Grist |

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    Response Location: United States, Harlan, Kentucky

    As jobs in America's coal mines dwindle, local Appalachian communities put resources and opportunity into the sustainable energy business. A nonprofit in Kentucky called the Mountain Association for Community Economic Development bridges the gap between the two industries by providing sustainable energy training and internships for former employees of the coal mining industry.

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  • Santa Cruz Ranchers Reforest the Banks of the Nandamojo River with the Help of an Organization

    March 21, 2019 |

    La Voz de Guanacaste |

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    Response Location: Costa Rica, Paraíso, Santa Cruz

    An environmental organization called Restoring Our Watershed, led by a team of ecologists from around the globe, has helped ranchers reforest riverbanks to better preserve their land over the past four years. Ranchers are also supported by the Green Center, their greenhouse, which helps with replanting. Donations, volunteers, and community support all help the local rivers remain sustainable.

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  • Pittsburgh's ‘living building' focuses on eco-friendly construction

    March 20, 2019 |

    Quartz |

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    Response Location: United States, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

    Creating sustainable buildings requires rethinking many of the norms in construction and city planning. The Center for Sustainable Landscapes, part of the Phipps Conservatory in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, received the first Living Building Challenge (LBC) certification. To achieve this, CSL advocated for changes to Pittsburgh’s laws on the use of public water utilities. CSL also had to seek out construction materials that avoided the use of harmful chemicals-a task easier said than done.

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  • Where Kids Fought Plastic Pollution—and Won

    March 20, 2019 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: Bahamas

    Earlier this year, a youth-led initiative called Bahamas Plastic Movement successfully convinced the government of the Bahamas to ban all single-use plastics across the country. The founder started a summer camp for Bahamian youth to focus on plastic pollution education and engaged youth in other smaller campaigns.

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  • Freshwater springs support amazing ecosystems and reflect the health of aquifers humans rely on. What can we do to protect them?

    March 19, 2019 |

    Ensia |

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    Response Location: United States, Chaves County, New Mexico

    Freshwater springs are an indicator of the health and quality of our groundwater (drinking water), but their conservation is often overlooked in government funding. This article offers a few examples of ongoing efforts to protect them. One of those is the Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico that has brought back several endangered species of snails and crustaceans in addition to native grasses as a result of their conservation.

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