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  • E-bikes gain momentum as a climate, traffic solution

    October 14, 2022 |

    Stateline |

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    Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

    Government officials in Denver, Colorado, are encouraging e-bike adoption with rebates for those purchasing one to reduce traffic and air pollution in the city. So far, over 4,000 e-bikes were bought with help from the rebates.

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  • Gluten-free and insect-friendly: buckwheat returns to Dutch farms

    October 14, 2022 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: Netherlands

    Farmers in the Netherlands are re-establishing buckwheat farming to promote biodiversity and support pollinators.

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  • These women are defying tradition—by flying

    October 14, 2022 |

    National Geographic |

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    Response Location: Mexico, Cuetzalán

    Women in Cuetzalan, Mexico, taking part in the danza de los voladores, an Indigenous ritual performed to ask for good harvests and rain, are called voladoras. By partaking in a tradition initially performed by only men, they are laying a path for other women to follow and showing it is unnecessary to exclude them.

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  • High cost of prosthetics and child amputees' strive for a normal life

    October 13, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    The Irede Foundation provides recycled prosthetics and other walking aids for children ages 18 and under with congenital limb deformities, as prosthetics can be extremely expensive. The Foundation also works to empower child amputees to live their lives to the fullest via mentoring and coaching sessions. The Foundation has provided 147 limbs to 103 children since its inception in 2012.

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  • Code Plateau is enhancing digital skills of youths but brain drain poses a threat to sustainability

    October 13, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Plateau State

    Code Plateau is a fellowship designed to teach young adults digital skills like digital marketing, software engineering, and data science to help them secure good jobs and help the country into a leading digital economy. Since the fellowship began in 2019, it has trained over 1,000 people.

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  • How Angwan Gwuragwu, FCT women are earning while keeping community

    October 13, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Angwan Gwuragwu, Abuja

    In an effort to address issues of waste disposal, the Women Recyclers Empowerment Initiative empowers women in local communities by paying them to recycle plastics. Not only does the initiative address waste issues, but it also allows women to become financially independent. So far, 40 women have participated in the initiative.

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  • Denver's E-Bike Rebates Are So Hot They're Gone Within Minutes

    October 13, 2022 |

    Bloomberg |

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    Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

    Denver offers rebates up to $1,700 for residents purchasing electric bikes to encourage their adoption, increase accessibility for low-income residents, and help reduce air pollution.

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  • A street lit by rotten onions? An Indian market embraces biogas.

    October 13, 2022 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: India, Hyderabad

    At a vegetable market in Hyderabad, India, food waste is collected and converted into biogas to provide gas and electricity for buildings and streetlights. The process keeps the waste from emitting methane in a landfill and reduces reliance on fossil fuels and coal.

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  • Hunting for elk solutions in Devil's Kitchen

    October 13, 2022 |

    Montana Free Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Montana

    In Montana, landowners, hunters, outfitters, and biologists created the Devil’s Kitchen Working Group to facilitate conversations about elk management which led to a successful management framework that has been relatively unchanged for years.

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  • Could an ADU revolution be underway in the Capital Region?

    October 13, 2022 |

    Sacramento News & Review |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    Accessory dwelling units are small homes in homeowners driveways and yards that can be rented out and might help address California’s housing crisis.

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