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

    October 17, 2017 |

    WEWS-TV |

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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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  • Inventing a Vocabulary to Help Inuit People Talk About Climate Change

    October 17, 2017 |

    Smithsonian |

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    Response Location: Canada, Inuvik

    A graduate student from British Columbia, the Arctic Energy Alliance, and the elders of the Inuvialuit people may seem a strange team, but together they are tackling the dual concerns of climate change and the loss of indigenous language in Canada. By inventing new terms and words in the Inuvialuit language to describe renewable energy technologies, they are increasing awareness about sustainable development while helping preserve the culture and heritage of this unique population.

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  • South Australia goes all out on renewables despite federal focus on coal

    October 13, 2017 |

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    Response Location: Australia

    There is a push towards clean energy that battles with Australia's federal love for coal, but South Australia has made great strides to renewable energy. Thermal energy and the lithium ion battery are just two recent developments in clean energy innovation.

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  • These dogs live to work — and threatened animals live because they do

    October 11, 2017 |

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    Response Location: Namibia, Otjiwarongo

    The challenges of wildlife conservation are numerous, including illegal hunting and habitat loss. Numerous organizations, including the Cheetah Conservation Fund in Namibia, are training people, from farmers to scientists, to use an ancient tool to help: domesticated dogs. Better than any existing technology, working canines are helping conservationists on numerous fronts, from sniffing out poachers to tracking elusive species, as well as protecting livestock, removing the rancher's perceived need to kill predators like cheetahs.

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