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  • Solar-Powered Fridges Can Help Stop Epidemics

    October 26, 2018 |

    New York Magazine |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Haiti

    SolarChill is a network of research, aid, and environmental organizations that works to install solar refrigerators for vaccine storage in areas without reliable electricity. In conjunction with a push to make vaccines available to rural areas, groups like this are hoping to save lives.

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  • A Baseball Bat Dies, and Chopsticks Are Born

    October 25, 2018 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Japan, Tokyo

    When baseball bats break, as they often do during games, they don't always find another purpose. As part of a recycling and conservation effort in Japan, though, these bats are repurposed into chopsticks that don't just serve a practical purpose, but also raise awareness about the kind of wood used to make the bats.

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  • Fossil Refusal: Local Models Not Global Markets

    October 24, 2018 |

    Making Contact |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Alameda, California

    Climate change will impact everyone, but not necessarily equally, so organizations across the US are advocating for smaller-scale and locally owned and produced energy resources in order to better distribute these resources. Two of these communitiy-controlled energy models include Community Choice Aggregation, which provide different levels of green energy, and hyperlocal approaches that promote micro-grids.

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  • Science Supports Supervised Injection Sites. Why Don't Politicians Agree?

    October 24, 2018 |

    Capital & Main |

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    Response Location: Canada, Vancouver

    Years of research across countries has now shown that safe injection facilities correlate with fewer overdose deaths, but the United States as been slow to adopt this solution. Often deemed as controversial on the argument that these sites could enable further drug use, results from a facility in Vancouver go against this narrative by showing an increase in detox enrollments, rather than an increase in consumption.

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  • Can Wild Foods Save the Amazon?

    October 23, 2018 |

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    Response Location: Peru, Lima

    At Expo Amazonica in Lima, chefs are working to build a taste for traditional Amazonian foods, in an effort to promote biodiversity conservation and slow deforestation. But against a huge global demand for palm oil, growing wild food crops can be difficult for communities struggling to make ends meet. One big question is whether small farmers can create demand for Amazonian cuisine beyond the Amazon?

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  • A sea change: how one small island showed us how to save our oceans

    October 23, 2018 |

    The Guardian |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Isle of Man

    Over the last ten years, the Isle of Man has worked to implement regulations around plastic pollution, climate change and overfishing. From a locally owned beach clean-up charity to creating marine nature reserves, the Isle of Man is now a model for neighboring countries on how to achieve this level of success.

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  • To prevent devastating wildfires, old adversaries are finding ways to work together

    October 21, 2018 |

    KLCC |

    Multi-Media |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Oregon

    The prospect of mass wild land devastation sparred by both wildfires and logging was enough motivation for people on each side of the debate to sit down and figure out a solution. What came of that conversation was the Blue Mountains Forest Partners that have worked together to propel the management of the forest.

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  • A Rural Colorado Coal County Was Struggling. Then A Tech Company Brought New Jobs

    October 19, 2018 |

    NPR |

    Radio |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Hotchkiss, Colorado

    After “the shock” that laid off many coal miners in Delta County, Colorado, the area is experiencing a resurgence. Population is growing, finally, and a fiber optic internet company has stimulated the economy with new jobs. The company, Lightworks Fiber, has been on hiring spree, with 40 positions they are still looking to fill. It’s still a big transition from the coal economy - but not necessarily a bad one.

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  • Unfinished business? Vancouver mayor departs with 'Greenest City' goal uncertain

    October 19, 2018 |

    Thomson Reuters Foundation |

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    Response Location: Canada, Vancouver, British Columbia

    In 2008, Vancouver’s mayoral candidate Gregor Robertson said he would transform the city to be the world’s greenest by 2020. One decade later, steps toward decreasing greenhouse gas emissions have been made, but the 2020 prospect seems much farther ahead. While the city has run into obstacles, the Canadian city is moving forward to achieve its next goal: for buildings to produce more energy than they use.

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  • 'Zero waste' town recycles most of its trash

    October 18, 2018 |

    WHYY |

    Radio |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Japan, Kamikatsu

    Kamikatsu, a small town in rural Japan, went from incinerating trash to recycling about 80 percent of it--all while reducing greenhouse gas emissions and saving money. The program is run by Zero Waste Academy, a nonprofit that helps train residents and businesses on best recycling practices. Now, Kamikatsu's success has drawn planners from around the world to learn.

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