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  • As hundreds of golf courses close, nature gets a chance to make a comeback

    November 08, 2017 |

    Ensia |

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    Response Location: United States, Michigan

    More golf courses are closing than are opening, allowing the rare opportunity to have open space in an urban environment. Restorations are becoming popular to allow wildlife and humans to make use of the natural space through the encouragement of different animals and plants to inhabit the same area as well as the development of parks and bike paths to foster human use.

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  • Jordan is solving its water crisis by training women as plumbers

    November 03, 2017 |

    Apolitical |

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    Response Location: Jordan, Amman

    A program in Jordan works to aid in the country's water crisis by training women to become professional plumbers. While, traditionally, men take on the role of plumbing in Jordan, they're not allowed to enter a house if another man isn't present; training women to fix leaky pipes allows these jobs to happen quicker.

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  • Public Shaming and Even Prison for Plastic Bag Use in Rwanda

    October 28, 2017 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Rwanda, Gisenyi

    Plastic bag litter is a serious problem across Africa and around the world, choking waterways, killing livestock and wildlife when ingested, and causing environmental damage. Rwanda is one of the few nations in the world to completely ban single-use plastic bags, but they take enforcement of the ban to a sometimes controversial extreme, with punishments that can even include jail time. The measures do appear to be working, however, where the clean streets and countrysides of Rwanda stand in stark contrast to the heavily-littered land of neighboring countries.

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  • First Nations Fight to Protect the Rare Spirit Bear from Hunters

    October 26, 2017 |

    National Geographic |

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    Response Location: Canada, British Columbia

    In British Columbia’s Great Bear Rainforest, the Kitasoo/Xai’Xais First Nations have been striving for decades to save the spirit bear, also known as Kemode bears, from trophy hunters. Since 1999, the indigenous community has started an ecotourism industry that benefits the tribe and wildlife, have worked with Canadian government to preserve 85% of the rainforest, and have most recently been advocating to ban trophy hunting across the rainforest.

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  • Smoke and Mirrors: Inside Malawi's untold health crisis

    October 26, 2017 |

    New Internationalist |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Malawi, Pitala, Nkhata Bay District

    'Unclean' cooking - rudimentary, open-fire cooking practiced by millions of people around the world - is one of the leading causes of respiratory disease and death, especially for women, in developing countries; it is also a serious contributor to deforestation, air pollution, and continued poverty (due to the cost of fuel). But a solution has been gaining momentum in Malawi with help from the UN, in the form of clean, more efficient cookstoves that not only emit less smoke, but use less fuel and reduce the risk of burns to family members.

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  • Can these 'stovers' finally crack the clean cooking problem?

    October 26, 2017 |

    Devex |

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    Response Location: India, New Delhi, Delhi

    It's been proven within the cookstove industry that providing free cleaner-energy stoves to those cooking with traditional stoves or over open flame does not work as planned. Inyenyeri, a Rwandan cookstove company however, is adding a twist to that method by giving away their cookstoves that reduce emissions by 98 to 99 percent compared to wood or charcoal stoves for free, as long as the consumer agrees to buying their wood fuel pellets.

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  • With storms intensifying and oceans on the rise, Boston weighs strategies for staying dry

    October 24, 2017 |

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    Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

    Boston and other flood-vulnerable areas are having to build for the future to prevent water damage from hurricanes and other natural disasters, especially as climate change makes storms stronger and bigger. Boston is researching the feasibility of a seawall as well as building other barriers at critical points, attention is being paid to preventive efforts in order to minimize future damages.

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  • Where the Dogs Lead

    October 24, 2017 |

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    Response Location: Tanzania

    Dogs have been known to be used for hunting for many years and often still are today, but not in Tanzania where dogs are now being used to stop hunting. If an effort to combat poaching and other unlawful acts, tracker dog units are quickly becoming an essential and widespread tool in Africa’s conservation efforts.

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  • Why This Cardiologist Is Betting That His Lab-Grown Meat Startup Can Solve the Global Food Crisis

    October 24, 2017 |

    Inc. Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    "If I continued as a cardiologist, maybe I would save 2,000 or 3,000 lives over the next 30 years, But if I focus on this, I have the potential to save billions of human lives and trillions of animal lives," explains Uma Valeti a cardiologist turned clean meat founder and engineer. Valeti, along with a team of similarly minded colleagues are looking to market the first ever meat that doesn't come from killing animals.

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  • Here's what Cleveland can learn from Toledo's new Lead Paint Ordinance

    October 17, 2017 |

    WEWS-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

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    Response Location: United States, Toledo, Ohio

    Houses, schools, and childcare centers built before 1978 may pose a lead poisoning health risk. Cities, such as Toledo, are requiring the completion of lead inspections to combat the problem and encourage better home maintenance.

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