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  • Lessons from a 74-year-old farmer who switched to organic sugarcane farming

    After realizing that his soil was becoming more saline after repeated uses of chemical fertilizer, a farmer in India made the switch to organic farming with the hopes of saving his crops. By switching to organic farming he has a lower crop yield than he would by using chemicals, but he is hopeful others will see the benefits of this method.

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  • Lab-Grown Meat: Future Climate Solution or Icky Science Experiment?

    Lab-grown meat is poised to become a safer alternative to conventional meat. There are 99 companies around the world that are developing lab-cultured meat products and that number is growing. The production process is still expensive and not completely scalable yet, but scientists are working to overcome these barriers to make it cheaper and more ethically produced.

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  • Envejecer en una vivienda colaborativa, una opción saludable con algún reto pendiente

    Proyectos de co-housing para personas adultas mayores en España muestran ser una solución para que la población adulta mayor pueda vivir en compañía pero con independencia y autonomía.

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  • From Fish Waste to Community Wealth

    A government agency in India is turning fishing waste into useful commodities, which help both the environment and the community. Discarded fish parts often littered the beaches near fish markets, leaving a stench and a mess that stigmatized the neighborhood. Now the parts are being processed and sold as fertilizers leading to a cleaner community, less waste, and a much-needed alternative source of income in the fishing community.

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  • Las mujeres de Cacaotica: “Yo soñaba un día con tener un proyecto de cacao”

    Un grupo de mujeres rurales, campesinas y migrantes, producen cacao en una finca muy cercana a la frontera Costa Rica-Nicaragua, y producen alimentos y productos de higiene que venden en mercados y puestos de la zona. Este emprendimiento llamado Asociación de Mujeres de las Comunidades de Upala (AMECUP) provee de ingresos a sus familias pero además ha generado empoderamiento e independencia para las mujeres.

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  • On Kashmir's border, health workers fight Covid vaccine battles

    In an effort to fight misinformation and vaccine hesitancy, teams of healthcare professionals travel door-to-door in rural communities where vaccination rates are low and COVID cases are high.

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  • Want to rebuild soil? Build relationships

    Regenerative agriculture is one of the top ways the Biden administration aims to reduce atmospheric carbon. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service and individual farmers’ work on regenerative agriculture have implications for the future of food production in regards to global supply chain disruptions and combatting climate change.

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  • Oregon Is Turning Sewage into an Endless Supply of Green Energy

    A wastewater treatment plant in Oregon not only cleans water that is released into the local river, but it also creates fertilizer that is sent to farmers to use on non-food crops and it produces renewable power from methane. The green energy created at the plant heats five buildings on the site and produces half of the energy the facility uses. This kind of co-generation system is growing in other places in the United States, China, Brazil, and Norway.

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  • Seedballs Aiding Kenya's Reforestation Efforts

    In Kenya, like other countries in the world, deforestation is the major driver of tree cover loss. To solve this, a local startup called Seedball Kenya has developed the seedball technology whereby seeds of indigenous tree and grass species are coated with charcoal waste mixed with nutritious binders then thrown like balls into the planting grounds.

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  • A school created a homeless shelter in the gym and it paid off in the classroom

    The Stay Over Program allows families experiencing homelessness with children enrolled in the San Francisco Unified School District to use a high school gym as a shelter.

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