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  • The Push To Reimagine LA's Streets And Alleyways To Fight Both Drought And Floods

    Erin Stone

    April 21, 2023 |

    LAist |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    Los Angeles organizations and neighborhoods are teaming up to create Green Alleys that mitigate flooding. These alleys consist of permeable pavement and native plants and trees that all help direct water underground, as well as streetlights and murals that make them welcoming community spaces.

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  • One store's trash, one foodsaver's dinner

    Misch Pautsch

    April 20, 2023 |

    Lëtzebuerger Journal |

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    Response Location: Luxembourg, Luxembourg

    A group of volunteers in Luxembourg City collects edible food that shops and restaurants would dispose of at the end of the day to keep it from ending up in the garbage. Members of the organization, called Foodsharing Luxembourg, are informed through an app when food is available for pickup. Once they claim an order, they pick up everything the store offers and decide how it gets redistributed.

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  • Phool – the Indian venture upcycling floral waste

    Aslesha Mehta

    April 20, 2023 |

    Pioneers Post |

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    Response Location: India

    The India-based company Phool collects floral waste from religious temples to keep it from being discarded in rivers. The flowers are used to make incense sticks, and the company provides employment for over 200 women from marginalized communities.

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  • The world sees invasive seaweed. This gardener sees housing bricks.

    Whitney Eulich

    April 19, 2023 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: Mexico, Puerto Morelos

    A small business in Puerto Morelos uses invasive seaweed that washes up on Mexico’s beaches to create construction blocks. The company, Sargassum, mixes the seaweed with organic materials, presses the mixture into block shapes, and lets them bake in the sun to harden. The owner sells some of the blocks and uses some to build affordable housing in his community.

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  • How New Yorkers' Food Scraps Get 'Digested' to Provide Gas for Homes

    Robin Shulman Agüeros

    April 19, 2023 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    New York City’s new curbside composting program collects food waste from residents in Queens to divert it from landfills. Microorganisms break down the food scraps in a process called anaerobic digestion that creates biogas used to heat 2,500 homes.

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  • The quest to build wildfire-resistant homes

    Susie Cagle

    April 18, 2023 |

    MIT Technology Review |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    The shelter-in-place approach is slowly becoming a more common way to survive wildfires that are too violent and fast to evacuate. People using this method congregate in “defensible” buildings created with wildfire resilience in mind that sit in an area clear of flammable vegetation and fuel.

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  • Are 'sponge cities' enough to curb climate-fuelled floods?

    Kim Harrisberg

    April 18, 2023 |

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    Response Location: United States

    The design firm Arup calculates cities' ability to retain water through nature and helps them implement other solutions to flooding, like building rain gardens or public messaging strategies, depending on individual needs.

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  • Philippine tribe boosts livelihoods and conservation with civet poop coffee

    Bong S. Sarmiento

    April 18, 2023 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Philippines, Mindanao

    Members of the B’laan ethnic group in a community in the Philippines are improving their livelihoods by foraging for coffee beans excreted by wild palm civets. They can sell the beans at a premium price because they are used to make a luxury coffee brew. And the practice encourages the locals to protect the wild animals, which benefits the ecosystem, too.

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  • These Farmers Recharged their Groundwater by Catching California's Atmospheric Rivers

    Grey Moran

    April 17, 2023 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    Farmers in California are taking advantage of recent heavy rainfall by intentionally flooding their fields to restore the underground aquifers after years of drought.

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  • ‘It's about Healing the Earth:' How Nebraskans are Building Sustainable Farms Through Biodynamics

    Ellie Kuckelman

    April 17, 2023 |

    The Reader |

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    Response Location: United States, Nebraska

    Biodynamic farming is slowly spreading across the United States as a practice that improves the health of a farm’s ecosystem by creating a sustainable system that uses its waste to generate its energy. This way of farming also involves practices like crop rotation, cover cropping, and eliminating the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides.

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