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  • New cannabis dispensaries bring Sacramento closer to reaching social equity goals

    Ken Magri

    January 29, 2024 |

    The Observer |

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    Response Location: United States, Sacramento, California

    Sacramento’s Cannabis Opportunity and Racial Equity program is helping people who were adversely affected by discrimination during America’s war on drugs to start businesses in the regulated cannabis industry. Qualifying entrepreneurs receive wraparound support including funding and small-business education. So far, 10 dispensary licenses have been awarded to participants.

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  • Hot? Hungry? Step inside these food forests.

    Max Graham

    January 29, 2024 |

    Grist |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Organizations in cities across the United States, including Philadelphia and Tucson, are simultaneously combatting urban heat and hunger by planting fruit trees and edible plants that provide shade and food that community members can harvest.

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  • Breaking barriers, building businesses: Inside the Kano program empowering marginalized youth

    Yahuza Bawage

    January 29, 2024 |

    Prime Progress |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Kano

    The GIRL-H program provides skill training and business assistance to youth from marginalized communities. Participants receive education and training in an area of their choosing and once they complete the training, they receive start-up capital to help them start their own businesses. The program has helped over 6,000 youth learn a new skill and start an entrepreneurial venture.

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  • The race to build climate-resilient coral reefs

    Chris Lovenko

    January 29, 2024 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: Australia

    Researchers and conservationists around the world are finding ways to help coral reefs grow quicker and survive the warming ocean temperatures caused by climate change. The Australian company Coral Maker is using artificial intelligence and robots to mass produce concrete skeletons for coral to grow on, and the Coral Restoration Foundation is growing coral on floating "trees."

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  • Minneapolis solar nonprofit is proving patience can bring results to lower-income residents

    Frank Jossi

    January 29, 2024 |

    Energy News Network |

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    Response Location: United States, Minneapolis, Minnesota

    The nonprofit Solstar provides free solar panels to lower-income homeowners in Minneapolis by encouraging wealthy individuals to invest in its solar panel installations and cover the costs. The investors earn a modest return on their investment from Solstar and can take advantage of tax credits, while the homeowners see a drop in their electricity bills.

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  • Un Béninois fabrique une table pour réchauffer les bébés à la naissance

    Virgile Ahissou

    January 29, 2024 |

    SciDev.Net |

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    Response Location: Benin

    Pour aider les cliniques du Bénin à éviter le coût de l'importation d'equipement médical, un technicien a conçu sa propre version d'une table chauffante, qui aide à réguler la température des bébés prématurés. Les tables chauffantes sont désormais utilisées dans une vingtaine de cliniques et autres centres de santé.

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  • NM endowment offers perpetual funding source for rural libraries

    Diana Alba Soular

    January 26, 2024 |

    Southern New Mexico Journalism Collaborative |

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    Response Location: United States, New Mexico

    The New Mexico Rural Library Initiative advocated for an endowment fund to create a perpetual funding source for a group of community libraries in small, low-income towns. The money in the fund is invested, and the interest earned is distributed to the libraries each year.

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  • Ciudad Bolívar en Bogotá, la nueva imagen de color de una antigua zona llena de tristeza

    Jair Díaz

    January 26, 2024 |

    Voice of America (VOA) |

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    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: Colombia, Bogotá

    En Bogotá, una iniciativa llevada a cabo por jóvenes recupera, poco a poco, una zona catalogada como problemática y peligrosa. Se llama Ciudad Bolívar y, ahora, con sus grafitis reflejan el arte callejero.

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  • Campesinos nicaragüenses impulsan modelo de producción autosustentable en Costa Rica

    Donaldo Hernández

    January 26, 2024 |

    Voice of America (VOA) |

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    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: Costa Rica

    En una zona rural de Costa Rica, un grupo de campesinos nicaragüenses forzados a salir de su país logró levantar una comunidad productiva. Rentaron varias manzanas de tierra para trabajar en la agricultura y la ganadería, como lo hacían en su natal Nicaragua. Informa Donaldo Hernández.

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  • Student loans: How a new White House forgiveness plan works

    Ira Porter

    January 26, 2024 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States

    The Biden-Harris administration’s Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) plan is helping more student loan borrowers achieve forgiveness. The program reduces monthly payments based on the person’s income and family size and covers interest costs to stop the overall amount from ballooning.

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