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  • The New Wave of Ethical and Sustainable Fashion

    April 08, 2019 |

    Inkline |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom

    Making fashion sustainable requires a shift in the culture of the industry. Several brands and organizations are already working to change the unethical and unsustainable practices in fashion. From mobilizing hashtags to pressure brands into increasing transparency, to inventing new fibers that are less water intensive, these ethical approaches to fashion promote alternatives to the wasteful norms of the prevailing consumer culture.

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  • Yankees Suck Slightly Less After Joining the Paris Climate Agreement

    April 05, 2019 |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    The New York Yankees are the first and only baseball team to sign onto the United Nation’s Sports for Climate Action Framework. In doing so they hope to lead their fanbase into committing to five principles: making systemic changes to improve environmental responsibility; reducing overall climate impact; education; promoting sustainable consumption; and advocating. The team has recently hired their first environmental science advisor, but they still have a long way to go to achieve the goal of “net-zero emission economy of 2050”.

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  • When Your Stuff Breaks, Don't Throw It Away — Go to These Cafes

    April 05, 2019 |

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    Response Location: Netherlands, Amsterdam

    Encouraging people to repair their broken items is an important step toward reducing consumer-generated waste. The Repair Cafe Foundation, a nonprofit based in the Netherlands, helps volunteers open their own repair cafes worldwide. So far, thirty-five countries have opened such cafes, with more expected as consumer-rights advocates push for “Right to Repair” legislation.

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  • Energy Equity: Bringing Solar Power to Low-Income Communities

    April 04, 2019 |

    Yale Environment 360 |

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    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    Dozens of states across the US are adopting programs that offer solar power for low-income communities in order to cut down on their utility costs and provide renewable energy that they previously would not have had access to. Some of these programs also incorporate other social goals into their programs, such as offering job training or developing sites of backup energy should there an outage. Solar development is currently one of the fastest growing industries in the US, and analysts predict that the nation will be able to hold over 2,000 megawatts of solar capacity this year alone.

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  • Trout lovers trek down to Río Grande for native cutthroat

    April 04, 2019 |

    The Taos News |

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    Response Location: United States, Cerro, New Mexico

    On New Mexico's public lands, volunteer effort can go a long way for wildlife restoration. Each year, nearly 200 volunteers hike around 10,000 cutthroat trout to the edge of the Río Grande del Norte National Monument Wild Rivers Recreation Area. For a fish occupying less than 10 percent of its historic range, sparking interest in conservation is an added benefit in helping the species.

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  • Tech accelerators help nonprofits fast-track technology aimed at solving environmental challenges

    April 04, 2019 |

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    Response Location: United States, Honolulu, Hawaii

    A solar panel that turns water in the air into clean drinking water is just one of many environmental solutions coming out of new partnerships between technology accelerator programs and environmental non-profit organizations. Groups like Conservation International and World Wildlife Fund are working alongside programs like Elemental Excelerator - all aimed at scaling environmental solutions. The goal isn’t to avoid policy change or other work, but rather to make creative innovation more widely accessible in the meantime.

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  • School district turns unused cafeteria food into frozen, take-home meals for kids

    April 03, 2019 |

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    Response Location: United States, Elkhart, Indiana

    Elkhart Community Schools in Indiana has teamed up with a nonprofit called Cultivate to provide meals for students who may go without food over the weekend. In this pilot program, 20 students will receive a backpack full of eight frozen meals made up of "rescued" food from the cafeteria that was made but never served. This initiative helps reduce food waste and ensure that students will not go hungry.

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  • The Living Machine: Collier's 24-year water filtration experiment is a success

    April 03, 2019 |

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    Response Location: United States, Florida

    An experimental water treatment plant in Florida has been performing as efficiently as other conventional treatment plants for the last 24 years. Known as the Living Machine of the Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary, it filters 6,000 gallons of wastewater per day and is inspired by how natural wetlands and marshlands filter water. While government officials were skeptical at first, the Living Machine continues to pass monthly inspections, is less costly, and is not as noisy so visitors can enjoy the wildlife in the sanctuary.

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  • En Suède, le succès de la taxe CO2 presque trentenaire

    April 01, 2019 |

    Le Monde |

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    Response Location: Sweden

    La Suède a été un des premiers pays du monde à adopter la taxe carbone, après la Finlande, en 1991. Elle atteint aujourd’hui un niveau record de 114 euros par tonne de CO2, sans pour autant provoquer de contestation. Une des raisons de cette acceptation : la hausse des écotaxes pour les ménages et les entreprises est accompagnée d’un allégement fiscal dans d’autres domaines, la progressivité de la mesure pour les entreprises.

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  • How Tribes Are Harnessing Cutting-Edge Data to Plan for Climate Change

    March 29, 2019 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Puget Sound

    For many tribal and indigenous communities in the Pacific Northwest, the impact of climate changes has already become terrifyingly clear. As communities attempt to plan and adapt to new environmental conditions, the Climate Impacts Group at University of Washington is working to provide hyper-localized data that can help predict changes and allow communities to change accordingly, and in line with cultural traditions.

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