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'Valuable and largely overlooked': Interest in virtual power plants grows

Robert Zullo

April 07, 2024 |

Utah News Dispatch |

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Response Location: United States

Utility companies across the United States are using virtual power plants to meet electricity demand, access backup power, and lower the electric bills of participants. To make these power plants work, the utilities use energy from the battery storage systems of customers who have home solar arrays.

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Over 3,000 Navajo Homes Receive Accurate Addresses

Emily Arntsen

April 04, 2024 |

The Daily Yonder |

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Response Location: Navajo Nation, United States, Utah

To improve voting access for residents of the Navajo Nation, who often don’t have official addresses, the Rural Utah Project partnered with Google to assign and distribute Plus Codes, more accurate address coordinates that use longitude and latitude. The organization has since registered nearly 2,000 new voters using the Plus Codes, and the new addresses have resulted in other unexpected benefits, such as improved response time for emergency responders and better access to delivery services.

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South Africa's SAB Foundation: Why 90% of its investees are still in business five years later

Anna Patton

April 04, 2024 |

Pioneers Post |

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Response Location: South Africa, Johannesburg

The SAB Foundation is an independent trust set up by South African Breweries (SAB) as part of the government’s Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment scheme. It helps businesses — particularly underserved entrepreneurs like women and people with disabilities — grow and thrive. Since 2010, the Foundation has backed more than 6,400 social impact businesses in their early stages.

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The climate watchdog holding the UK government to account

Akshat Rathi

April 04, 2024 |

Zero |

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Response Location: United Kingdom

Following the passage of the Climate Change Act, the United Kingdom created a Climate Change Committee to oversee the country’s efforts to reach net-zero emissions. The committee acts as a watchdog by analyzing ways to decarbonize the economy and publishing information that can be leveraged by policymakers, non-governmental organizations, and private sector industries. Its model has since been replicated around the world.

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Manufacturers Paying for Recyclable Waste

Courtney Duchene

April 04, 2024 |

The Philadelphia Citizen |

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Response Location: United States

State governments in the United States are implementing Extended Producer Responsibility laws to fund recycling programs. The laws impose a fee on the manufacturers of products that become recyclable waste. The money earned is designated for projects that increase recycling rates.

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How to Revive a Burned Forest? Rebuild the Tree Supply Chain

Lydia DePillis

April 04, 2024 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

Mast Reforestation sells carbon credits to fund its work replanting trees where forests were decimated by wildfires. The company collects seeds from local, native trees, uses x-ray machines to ensure they are likely to sprout, and plants them.

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Friends Don't Let Friends Buy Guns

Katie Worth

April 04, 2024 |

The Trace |

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Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

Inspired by successful public health messaging campaigns of the past, the U.S.-based nonprofit Project Unloaded is using a bottom-up approach to promote gun violence prevention among young people. The nonprofit is working with highschoolers to develop social media messaging campaigns debunking the common misconception that owning a gun makes you safer.

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Glasses Improve Income, Not Just Eyesight

Andrew Jacobs

April 04, 2024 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: Bangladesh

VisionSpring provides more than two million pairs of glasses each year to those in need. Studies show that, when provided with free reading glasses, workers experience a 33% increase in income as they’re able to see and aren’t forced to leave the working world early as they age.

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Grupo liberal busca atraer a votantes latinos con $57 millones en ocho estados

Suzanne Gamboa

April 03, 2024 |

Noticias Telemundo |

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Response Location: United States

Ahora aprovechando su éxito en elecciones pasados, Somos Votantes y su comité de acción política trabajan para ampliar la educación y la participación de los votantes hispanos principalmente a través de visitas puerta a puerta, información bilingüe pagada, y una “sólida” organización comunitaria.

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North Carolina tried to rebuild affordable housing after a hurricane. It took half a decade.

Jake Bittle

April 03, 2024 |

Grist |

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Response Location: United States, North Carolina

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s disaster recovery program provides federal funding to build affordable apartments in areas that have lost significant housing stock to disasters such as hurricanes. But due to the required congressional approval process and complex regulations, projects funded by the program often take so long to complete that people affected by the disaster are not able to benefit from the housing. In North Carolina, one such development opened to tenants more than five years after Hurricane Florence struck the area.

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