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  • These Cities are Trading in Cigarette Butts for Cash

    December 10, 2014 |

    NationSwell |

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    Response Location: United States, New Orleans, Louisiana

    Most cities may have enacted smoking laws to curb people from lighting up in public, but cigarette butts continue to blanket streets, parks and beaches. Salem, Mass., and New Orleans are two such communities that have partnered with TerraCycle, a New Jersey-based company that pays by the pound for cigarette waste.

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  • How the Fastest-Warming City in the Country Is Cooling Off

    December 09, 2014 |

    Politico |

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    Response Location: United States, Louisville, Kentucky

    Although residents turn up their air conditioners, Louisville heat is increasing the city’s death rate by 39 people every year. The city mayor launched a tree commission for planting more trees and since 2011 has planted over 12,000 trees. The canopies from the tree offer cooling shade and bring down the temperature of the city as a whole. The response also includes the installation of green roofs and in-depth research on urban heat islands.

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  • Los Angeles, City of Water

    December 06, 2014 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    LOS ANGELES is the nation’s water archvillain, according to public perception, notorious for its usurpation of water hundreds of miles away to slake the thirst of its ever-expanding population. Recently, however, Los Angeles has reduced its reliance on outside sources of water - it has become, of all things, a leader in sustainable water management, a pioneer in big-city use of cost-effective, environmentally beneficial water conservation, collection and reuse technologies.

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  • Drinking More Vodka: A Green Solution to Melting Icy Roads?

    December 05, 2014 |

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    Response Location: United States, Pullman, Washington

    Salt has become a costly and environmental problem in the twenty first century, with consumers overusing it in cooking and melting city roads during the winter. Salt has risen in price and has infiltrated the waterways, affecting the life in the water and contaminating drinking water. As a greener alternative to salt, Washington State University scientists have learned that the biproducts of vodka can help melt ice and snow.

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  • Can biomimicry tackle our toughest water problems?

    November 24, 2014 |

    High Country News |

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    Response Location: United States, Shepherd, Montana

    Clean water and healthy ecosystems are becoming increasingly difficult to come by. With floating islands and other inventions, eco-entrepreneur Bruce Kania thinks that biomimicry - such as reconstructing wetlands and growing biofilms - can tackle the toughest of water problems.

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  • Greener Pastures for Cattle Ranching

    November 18, 2014 |

    Future Food |

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    Response Location: Colombia, Cali, Valle del Cauca

    In Colombia, traditional cattle pastures have caused soil degradation, deforestation, and desertification. To reconcile this, several thousand acres of land in Latin America have been transformed into a silvo-pastoral system of grazing and raising cattle with agro-forestry. The Colombia-based Center for Research in Sustainable Systems of Agriculture seeks to reduce pasture land by 26 million acres while increasing cattle numbers by 2019.

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  • The Floating Gardens of Bangladesh

    November 18, 2014 |

    The New York Times |

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    Each year the brown waters of the Gumani river swell during the summer monsoon, creeping over the surrounding fields to flood Charbhangura, a village of 2,500 people in the Pabna district of northwest Bangladesh - when the fields flood, the farmers have no work. Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha trains locals to create floating farms and provide work, money, and food in all seasons.

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  • 'Big Dry' Lessons: Southwest can learn from Australia's drought

    November 17, 2014 |

    El Paso Times |

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    Response Location: Australia, Kilmore, Victoria

    In Australia, the Murray-Darling Basin Ministerial Council was formed after a severe drought to bring together federal, state and regional governments and bridge parochial concerns. It was meant to manage the basin as a whole and end overuse and salinization of farm land, leveraging new technologies to adapt to new realities.

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  • Australia's city dwellers become water conscious

    November 16, 2014 |

    El Paso Times |

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    Response Location: Australia, Melbourne, Victoria

    After the drought hit Australia in the early 2000s, city officials had to start thinking seriously about ways to conserve and creatively store their water. External tanks became the solution, storing rain runoff to create an available source of water for Melbourne residents. This solution may not fit every location, but there are other teachable lessons such as taking radically shorter showers.

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  • Protecting the Rio Grande Basin's dwindling water

    November 16, 2014 |

    El Paso Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Elephant Butte, New Mexico

    The El Paso Times reports from the heart of the Rio Grande Basin - where drought has led to dramatic decreases in water supply, and serious changes in management of river resources are called for - on how the region plans to tackle the effects of climate change. Citizens work to increase water regulations and frugality in order to find a solution to the dwindling water problem.

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