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  • How carbon capture could become a rare bright spot on climate policy in the Trump era

    April 12, 2017 |

    Vox |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Houston, Texas

    Acknowledging that most coal plants world wide are likely to continue to operate for decades as the world's demand for energy only increases, solutions to climate change become ever more pressing. Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is one of the few approaches that can receive bipartisan support in shaping energy policy and - despite a few early experimental failures - the method making a comeback as a viable way to combat the release of C02 into the atmosphere. The Petra Nova plant in Texas may serve as a model for moving CCS forward.

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  • Guess Who's For a Carbon Tax Now

    April 11, 2017 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States

    In the face of the global climate crisis, conservative politicians and energy leaders in the US are an unlikely source for climate action. Through the promotion of a carbon tax, in which each ton of emissions gets taxed, these leaders are jumpstarting new forms of climate response. While some are hesitant towards both their support and the logistics of the tax, it may appear the best hope for climate action in the current political climate.

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  • Kenya learns to cook with solar power – even when the sun doesn't shine

    April 10, 2017 |

    Thomson Reuters Foundation |

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    Response Location: Kenya, Busia

    Farmers with a Vision is a community group helping install solar-powered stoves as a cleaner form of energy. The upsides include saving time, saving forests, and decreasing injuries. The biggest challenge is money, so Farmers with a Vision is connecting community members with microlenders. The increased use of solar cookstoves is an opportunity to improve health and the environment.

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  • Rwanda's 'solar smart kiosk' provides digital solutions to rural mobile phone users

    April 03, 2017 |

    Devex |

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    Response Location: Rwanda, Kigali

    Although an estimated 75% of the world's population uses cell phones, in places like rural Rwanda, the availability and costs of electricity to charge them can be patchwork at best. ARED's 'solar smart kiosk' provides a stand-alone cart that runs on renewable energy and serves not just as a charging station, but a digital and internet center for users at the base of the pyramid. The company also ensures training and monitoring support to keep kiosk operators current on the technology.

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  • Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition

    March 31, 2017 |

    Ms. Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, West Virginia

    Many times, in order for solutions to gain momentum and effect real change, there has to be buy in from a community level. To improve the perception of renewable energy in West Virginia, the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition (OVEC) has partnered with local nonprofits and implemented various campaigns to educate the community on the benefits of making the switch to renewable energy.

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  • Indigenous peoples in Colombia play crucial role in the fight against climate change

    March 30, 2017 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Colombia

    Protecting forests against deforestation is key to reducing CO2 emissions, which is what the UN mechanism- REDD+ aims to do by creating contracts with rural areas for them to protect their area's forest for 30 years in exchange for compensation. So far several problems have arisen that question the effectiveness of this mechanism which need attention going forward.

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  • Toilets in Haiti and Circular Runways

    March 28, 2017 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: Haiti, Cap-Haïtien, Department of Nord

    Haiti is currently battling the biggest cholera epidemic in recent history caused by lack of access to clean drinking water. Soil is an NGO which delivers dry, compost toilets to peoples’ homes - alternatives to water guzzling flushing toilets, which need infrastructure such as sewers - to help keep sewage from contaminating water sources and provide dignified, safe toilet facilities.

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  • How 3 Women Are Changing The World With Solar Energy

    March 27, 2017 |

    Worldwatch Institute |

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    Response Location: Mali, Bamako

    Three women have embraced the use of solar technology to become clean energy entrepreneurs. They are helping bring light, efficient cookstoves, and energy to their communities, while reducing carbon emissions and empowering other women along the way.

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  • School Lunch Share Tables Fight Food Waste and Hunger

    March 27, 2017 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Response Location: United States, Fayetteville, Arkansas

    Leftover food from publicly-funded school meals is not simply an issue of wasted tax dollars and environmental concern, it is a detrimental misallocation of much needed food for many students who still go hungry in schools across the country each day. The Share Tables program is helping to more equitably distribute food by providing a space where unopened items from one student's lunch may be deposited on a designated table (or tub, or shelf) for hungry peers to take - not only reducing food waste and child hunger, but helping students develop empathy and healthier eating habits.

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  • Making Energy with Waves and NASA

    March 24, 2017 |

    Paste Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States

    The United States is making its move to catch up with European countries that have found ways to convert the energy of the oceans' waves into a form or useable renewable energy.

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