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  • Flip Your Strip gaining traction, leading to removal of water-guzzling turf

    July 16, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington Terrace, Utah

    In order to use less water in drought-ridden Utah, many residents are replacing their grassy park strips with vegetation and rocks that don’t need as much irrigation. As part of the “Flip Your Strip” initiative, the Weber Basin Water Conservancy District provides participants with money per square foot of grass removed. While the program is new, this idea has been tried and tested in California, where studies have shown that it is making an impact.

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  • When healers need help: Recovery programs for health care workers offer specialized care

    July 16, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, New Hampshire

    Centers like Brattleboro Retreat are emerging to provide specialized recovery programs for healthcare workers battling addiction. Programs offered are similar to those at standard recovery centers, except here healthcare workers are surrounded by their professional peers, allowing them to find community and express vulnerability.

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  • The Address of the Future

    July 15, 2022 |

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    Response Location: India, Pune

    Unique codes created by Google are providing address to millions of Indians who lack home addresses. Known as Plus Codes, they have enabled homes to be easily found via Google Maps, opening up a number of services previously denied to the unaddressed.

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  • How can Ashland preserve its past as it forges into the future?

    July 15, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, Ashland, Ohio

    Preservation Ohio focuses on advocating for the preservation of the state’s historic buildings. The organization works to connect cities across the state with state and local tax credits as incentives to refrain from demolishing historical buildings. Since the first round of funding in 2007, tax credits have been approved for 562 projects to rehabilitate over 795 historic buildings in 77 different communities.

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  • Manure-Eating Worms Could Be the Dairy Industry's Climate Solution

    July 15, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington

    The Royal Diary farm in Washington uses a vermifiltration system to filter wastewater to cut down on nitrate pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. The system runs the water through a bed of earthworms that feast on the waste removing the harmful chemicals and nutrients.

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  • Mega Whatt!? What a Rhode Island wind farm can teach us about New Orleans' energy future

    July 15, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, Narragansett, Rhode Island

    The Block Island Wind Farm is an offshore wind farm that works to mitigate climate change and improve the state’s economy. The wind farm has created more than 300 jobs and provides an alternative to power sources that produce carbon emissions amidst increased demands for electricity.

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  • Marshall Park helps Ontario address economic vacuum created by GM departure

    July 14, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, Ontario, Ohio

    A restoration of Marshall Park has drawn sports tournaments to Ontario, spurring economic activity. The park was built as a community park but community leaders also saw the potential it could provide in driving the economy, especially after the departure of a major local employer.

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  • How Appalachia Is Growing Its Outdoor Economy Through Collaborations and Capacity Building

    July 14, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, West Virginia

    As a demand for outdoor recreation grows, due in part to the pandemic, Appalachia is delivering on the need with a number of new projects. Community leaders are collaborating on “conservation solutions that make economic and environmental sense.”

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  • SPECIAL REPORT: Facing high wheat prices, Nigerian bakers turn to potato puree

    July 14, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    Bakers in Nigeria make bread with orange-fleshed sweet potatoes to help offset the growing cost of producing bread with just wheat flour.

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  • How tuition-free school transforms 100 children, stirs crisis at IDP camp

    July 14, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Abuja

    A collaboration between the Nigerian government and Maple Leaf Early Years Foundation allows roughly 100 children in a camp for people who have been displaced to attend school for free. Though the school can't enroll all the local children who wish to attend, it provides free meals, language instruction, and classes on hygiene that have helped students improve their health and English speaking abilities.

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