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His family fished for generations. Now he's hauling plastic out of the sea.

Michael Birnbaum

August 31, 2022 |

The Washington Post |

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Response Location: Greece

Enaleia pays fishing crews a small monthly fee, between $30-$90 depending on how much plastic they can bring in along with their catch. The funding comes from local foundations as well as large international donors including the Ocean Conservancy, Nestlé and Pfizer. Some of the waste, including recovered fishing nets, is sold to sustainable clothing manufacturers, and the money is invested back into the fishing crews. More than half of Greece’s large-scale fishing fleet, which includes hundreds of ships, has signed up for the program.

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Waste Data Center Heat Is Warming Up Dublin Homes. Is It Working?

Aishwarya Jagani

August 31, 2022 |

Next City |

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Response Location: Ireland, Dublin

Ireland’s energy efficiency agency, Codema, and Amazon partnered to use waste heat from data centers used for computing needs to heat council buildings and a university campus.

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In Philadelphia, residents and artists work together to tackle extreme urban heat through art and education

Jesenia De Moya Correa

August 31, 2022 |

The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia Media Network) |

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Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Philadelphia-based artists and community members came together to create the Heat Response PHL initiative to use art to engage with and educate locals about climate change and drive conversations about solutions to urban heat.

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The 9-euro ticket was a success for Germany, research shows. What's next?

Denis Balgaranov

August 30, 2022 |

The Mayor.eu |

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Response Location: Germany

The popular “German 9-euro ticket” was a transportation experiment that allowed people to buy a month-long ticket for local and cross-state public transport on trains, trams and buses for just 9 euros. With about half of the country using the ticket in any given month, it replaced about 10% of car trips and reduced around 1.8 million tons of CO2.

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Germany's Ultra-Cheap Train Ticket Saved 1.8 Million Tons of CO2

Stefan Nicola Josefine Fokuhl

August 30, 2022 |

Bloomberg |

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Response Location: Germany

A low-cost monthly public transportation ticket experiment in Germany encouraged commuters to use their cars less preventing 1.8 million tons of carbon emissions.

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A Conservation Project in Jamaica Puts Community First

Gladstone Taylor

August 30, 2022 |

Yes! Magazine |

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Response Location: Jamaica

The Oracabessa Fish Sanctuary, created with input and buy-in from local fishers, manages and maintains coastal fisheries by employing fishers, captains, coral gardeners, supervisors, managers, and board members. The crew runs educational programs, has planted 18,000 corals and released over 20,000 sea turtles every year, established a sea urchin nursery, and patrols sanctuary borders waters to ensure compliance with the sanctuary policies. The Sanctuary generates enough money to employ 18 people, creating a loop where nature helps support those who nurture it.

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Germany's €9 train tickets scheme ‘saved 1.8m tons of CO2 emissions'

Kate Connolly

August 30, 2022 |

The Guardian |

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Response Location: Germany, Berlin

Germany’s three-month experiment with €9 tickets for a month of unlimited travel on public transportation saved about 1.8 metric tons of CO2 emissions. The experiment was launched in an effort to cut fuel consumption and relieve a cost of living crisis and sold about 52 million tickets.

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Healthy mangroves build a resilient community in the Philippines' Palawan

Keith Anthony S. Fabro

August 29, 2022 |

Mongabay |

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Response Location: Philippines, Palawan

The Philippines’ National Greening Program combined with ongoing outreach initiatives, partnerships with local communities, and Indigenous cultural practices that emphasized the importance of preserving mangroves helped the area’s coastal forests and fisheries start to recover after decades of deforestation.

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Inside the 'Energy Villages' Powering Germany's Green Transition

Michaela Haas

August 29, 2022 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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Response Location: Germany, Schonau

The Virtual Citizen Power Plant joins residents to share energy to power their homes and offices to achieve energy sovereignty. Studies show that villages that participate in these renewable energy programs see a 60% reduction in CO2 emissions, better price stability, and more energy independence for farmers and homeowners, on top of improving residents’ sense of community.

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Pace of Harris County home buyouts slower than hoped for after Hurricane Harvey

Sara Willa Ernst

August 24, 2022 |

Texas Standard |

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Response Location: United States, Harris County, Texas

Harris County Flood Control District voluntary buyout program, funded by FEMA, allowed the local government to purchase entire clusters of homes in floodplains that they will repurpose for public projects that will also mitigate flood damage in the future. The district has completed almost 750 buyouts, far below buyouts in previous years, but 5,000 properties are still on the buyout list. Residents receive payments for their homes and coverage of fees like closing costs, moving costs and a variety of bonuses. Some homeowners can also receive down payment assistance and closing costs on a new home.

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