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  • The Farmers Abandoning Big Ag to Grow Mushrooms and Herbs

    September 17, 2024 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: United States, North Carolina

    The Transfarmation Project is helping farmers transition away from factory farming and into healthier, more sustainable options like growing mushrooms. It runs pilot projects to develop blueprints for farmers to follow and connects them with consultants and resources.

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  • All Aboard the Electric School Bus!

    September 16, 2024 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: United States

    The United States Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean School Bus Program is funding zero-emission, electric school buses and low-emission buses for schools looking to make the switch from diesel.

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  • This city is hailed as a vaccination success. Can it be sustained?

    September 15, 2024 |

    Associated Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Louisville, Kentucky

    The Louisville school system is working to fill the vaccination gap among youth by establishing vaccine clinics at nearly all 160 schools, particularly those where immigrant students who are behind on their vaccinations are starting school. Since implementing these clinics, the vaccination rate during the last school year increased by 4%.

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  • Sweet watermelon turns sour amid climate change

    September 14, 2024 |

    Bangladesh First |

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    Response Location: Bangladesh

    Farmers in Bangladesh are switching from shrimp aquaculture to growing rice and watermelon during different seasons to increase their incomes and have more consistent harvests as they deal with the impacts of climate change.

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  • Why electric restaurants could be the key ingredient for cities trying to ditch fossil fuels

    September 13, 2024 |

    Colorado Public Radio |

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    Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

    Whether encouraged by government incentives and regulations, environmental impacts, or business benefits, restaurants are switching to electric cooking appliances like induction cooktops instead of gas-powered options.

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  • “Hayvanlara insanlık dışı muameleye izin veren bir yasa toplumda şiddete izin verir”

    September 13, 2024 |

    Muzir Neşriyat |

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    Response Location: Thailand

    Soi Köpek Vakfı’nın uyguladığı CNVR (Yakala–Kısırlaştır–Aşıla–Yerine Bırak) modeli, öldürme ve kapatma gibi etkisiz ve acımasız yöntemler yerine bilimsel, insancıl ve kanıtlanmış bir stratejiyle sokak köpeği nüfusunu azaltarak kuduz riskini düşürüyor ve toplum–hayvan ilişkisini iyileştiriyor. Bu yaklaşım, geniş ölçekli kısırlaştırma ve aşılama kampanyalarını düzenli veri toplama, toplumsal katılım, insancıl eğitim programları ve uzun vadeli saha ekipleriyle birleştirerek çalışıyor.

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  • Tilling the Floodplain: How Farmers Embrace the Power of Floods

    September 13, 2024 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: India, Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh

    Farmers in Uttar Pradesh, India, are using an age-old farming practice known as flood recession farming, which involves planting crops in floodplains when water recedes, to grow crops with less water during droughts.

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  • How Rhode Island's charter schools succeeded where Minnesota's failed

    September 13, 2024 |

    Minnesota Star Tribune |

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    Response Location: United States, Rhode Island

    Rhode Island has stringent requirements for charter schools, with strong systems for oversight and accountability and provisions intended to limit harm to existing school districts and ensure the charters are representative of their communities. Charter school students in the state are making bigger standardized testing gains than their peers in traditional public schools.

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  • Writing within prison walls

    September 12, 2024 |

    John Hopkins Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    The American Prison Writing Archive hosts almost 4,000 pieces of writing by people who are incarcerated. It offers a glimpse into the system that is not usually available to the public, a critical outlet for writers, and a social connection to the rest of the world.

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  • The Urban Gardens Where Gender and Climate Justice Grow

    September 11, 2024 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: Ecuador, Quito

    The city of Quito’s Participatory Urban Agriculture Program creates sustainable access to food by providing land and agricultural training, and it prioritizes empowering vulnerable populations, particularly women.

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