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  • Kenya's community-first climate approach lets locals pick projects

    April 04, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Kenya, Isiolo

    The Kenyan government provides direct funding to local governments and communities to address climate change adaptation. This ensures locals have a say in the solutions and projects do not inadvertently cause harm.

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  • People Fixing The World: Kangaroo care for premature babies

    April 04, 2023 |

    BBC |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: Colombia, Bogotá

    Kangaroo mother care is a more affordable, accessible way to care for premature babies. It involves having mothers have 24-hour skin-to-skin contact, much like baby kangaroos in their mother’s pouch. This lifesaving practice is used in more than 50 countries worldwide. Studies show that babies who experienced kangaroo care grew up to be less hyperactive, better able to express their emotions and had stronger family relationships.

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  • Why Minnesota's push to electrify government vehicles is going slower than expected

    April 04, 2023 |

    Energy News Network |

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    Response Location: United States, Minnesota

    To reduce fossil fuel consumption, Minnesota is transitioning its fleet of state-owned vehicles to electric models.

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  • Trans shelter residents are upcycling discarded flowers to fund their healthcare

    April 04, 2023 |

    LGBTQ Nation |

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    Response Location: India, New Delhi

    Residents of Garima Greh, an organization that provides transgender people with housing and necessities in New Delhi, started a small business making potpourri from the flowers discarded by local temples. They use the funding to pay for necessary medical expenses and gender-affirming care.

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  • A high school grocery store helps feed students in Denton County. A Fort Worth school is next

    April 04, 2023 |

    Fort Worth Report |

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    Response Location: United States, Sanger, Texas

    At Linda Tutt High School, a student-run grocery store provides needed food aid for local families while also helping students learn workplace skills. The store is part of the school’s resiliency program, which also includes a social emotional learning curriculum and trauma-informed counseling.

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  • During Lent, some UK dioceses give up fossil fuel investments for good

    April 04, 2023 |

    National Catholic Reporter |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom

    The 40 Days, 40 Dioceses campaign leaders spent Lent working to convince dioceses in the United Kingdom to give up financial holdings in fossil fuels permanently and publicly. The campaign, led by the Christian climate group Operation Noah, highlighted a different diocese every day.

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  • McDonald's vs the Plastic Wave

    April 04, 2023 |

    The Food Fix |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States

    The nonprofit As You So uses shareholder advocacy to bring important issues, like plastic packaging reduction, to the attention of large companies’ boards to encourage them to develop a report on or address it.

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  • How Planting Grasslands Fights Climate Change

    April 03, 2023 |

    PBS North Carolina |

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    Response Location: United States, North Carolina

    In North Carolina, planting native grassland plants instead of typical turf for lawns, landscaping, and roadside areas can create a carbon sink as the plants trap carbon underground in their long root systems.

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  • The Case for Free Jewish Day School

    April 03, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Canada, Toronto, Ontario

    In recent years, Jewish day schools such as TanenbaumCHAT in Toronto have worked to make their programs more affordable by leveraging philanthropy to reduce tuition and providing tools to help families calculate the financial aid available to them. In the six years since the program was launched, enrollment in TanenbaumCHAT's ninth-grade class has doubled.

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  • Student-led water testing spurs action at Detroit's School at Marygrove

    April 03, 2023 |

    Chalkbeat Detroit |

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    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    Concerns and advocacy from earth science students in Detroit who conducted their own tests of water hydration stations across their school building led to an immediate administrative response. The students lobbied school, district, and city officials, advocating for increased testing and routine inspections of water fountain filters and the building’s pipe infrastructure.

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