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  • Boulder now saving more than half of trash from landfill

    August 14, 2018 |

    The Denver Post |

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    Response Location: United States, Boulder, Colorado

    Boulder is often referred to as one of Colorado's most progressive cities, so when the city passed the Universal Zero Waste Ordinance, many local businesses decided to take the policy a step further by eliminating their use of plastics altogether. What started as an effort put forth by local store branches such as PrAna and Lululemon has quickly scaled to a citywide effort eliminate non-compostable or non-recyclable trash output.

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  • 'We Are Going To Survive': Douglas Students Use Music, Art To Heal At Camp Shine

    August 14, 2018 |

    WLRN |

    Multi-Media |

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    Response Location: United States, Parkland, Florida

    Camp Shine, is helping student survivors of the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, heal. Through art, dance, and music, they are processing their trauma. The camp, was founded by two upperclassmen from MSDHS who believe in the idea of healing through art. Data shows it’s working. Researchers from the University of Miami who surveyed the students before and after the camp saw a reduction in PTSD symptoms. "They're here to have fun, but they're also here to heal.”

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  • Mass treatment helps Uganda to eliminate trachoma

    August 14, 2018 |

    New Vision |

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    Response Location: Uganda

    Trachoma is the world's leading cause of preventable blindness, but mass antibiotic treatment helped rural Ugandans reduce trachoma cases. By instituting a treatment plan that met rural residents where they live, educating people about the importance of hygiene, and encouraging the use of latrines instead of open defecation, many Ugandan villages are mostly trachoma-free.

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  • African food businesses get nurturing from well-known giants

    August 13, 2018 |

    PBS NewsHour |

    Broadcast TV Programs |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Kenya, Nairobi

    Food companies like General Mills and Hershey are sharing their expertise with entrepreneurs in Africa to help strengthen their businesses and depend less on foreign imports. Employees of the company volunteer through an organization called Partners in Food Solutions, and they share advice about things like hygiene, business plans, vitamin enrichment, and more. So far over 250 African businesses have worked with more than 1,400 Partners in Food Solutions employees.

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  • How This Community Fought for $70 Million in Cleanup Funds — and Won

    August 13, 2018 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Fresno, California

    Fresno sits in right in the middle of the Central Valley of California. The region is known for its vast agriculture and farming communities, but to locals, it's also known for its horrid air quality. This is especially true in the southwest territory of Fresno, where some of the most economically disadvantaged also reside. After a series of failed attempts by local government, the community took matters into their own hands, joining forces and fighting for the right to design their own plan for better air quality.

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  • Paris residents peeved at very public eco-friendly urinals

    August 13, 2018 |

    Reuters |

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    Response Location: France, Paris

    Parisians want the city to remove recently-installed public urinals. Pitched as an “eco solution to public peeing,” the toilets are gross, ugly and discriminatory, say outraged residents.

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  • The Bay Area's Regional Funding Stream for Ecological Restoration

    August 13, 2018 |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    The San Francisco Bay area is home to a number of crucial wetlands and streams that are quickly being impacted by climate change. For nearly two decades, however, elementary teachers and their students have been playing a part in repairing the damage and revitalizing the areas through restoration and revegetation projects.

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  • Welcome To The World's First Vegan Soccer Club

    August 11, 2018 |

    The Huffington Post |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom, Nailsworth, England

    The consumption of meat and dairy has long been deemed a leading cause of climate change, yet production continues to rise. To contribute to environmental sustainability, Dale Vince – owner of the U.K.’s Forest Green Rovers soccer team – has achieved the status of having the world's first carbon neutral team. From vegan-only menus to a solar-powered grass-cutter, the organization is bringing light to this topic in front of a new audience.

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  • Paradise lost? What happened to Ireland's model eco-village

    August 10, 2018 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: Ireland, Cloughjordan

    Admittedly by no definition perfect, members of Ireland's model eco-village have learned many lessons since the community first came into existence and are vowing to use these lessons to improve. Over the last ten years, the Cloughjordan village has built 55 houses on the settlement as well as "a working farm, an array of well-tended polytunnels and a bakery" which offers those living there food year-round.

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  • Combining the power of sport, surf and volunteerism

    August 09, 2018 |

    WHYY |

    Radio |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, New Jersey

    Adaptive sports enrich the lives and well-being of people with disabilities. Life Rolls On is an adaptive sports organization that promotes events like “They Will Surf Again,” where volunteers help people with disabilities get out on the water.

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