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How one Minneapolis neighborhood reduced its carbon emissions by 1,600 metric tons

Kristoffer Tigue

October 16, 2025 |

Minnesota Star Tribune |

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Response Location: United States, Minneapolis, Minnesota

One Minneapolis resident launched a grassroots education campaign to help her neighborhood reduce carbon emissions from home heating by upgrading her home insulation and using electric appliances. She then shared information about the energy-efficiency improvements and available rebates to fund them. Between 2019 and 2024, area residents using these strategies reduced natural gas use by 29%, and is now being replicated in other neighborhoods throughout the city.

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How One Country's Russian Gas Crisis Became a Green Energy Boom

Peter Yeung, Georgeta Carasiucenco

October 16, 2025 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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Response Location: Republic of Moldova

Moldova used government regulations and local installations of solar panels and biomass systems to respond to the Russia energy crisis, empowering local communities to create their own renewable energy cooperatives. These have helped increase the nation's renewable energy from 3% to 25% and reduce heating electricity costs in participating towns.

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Maryland needs teachers. It's filling classrooms with laid-off federal workers.

Ira Porter

October 15, 2025 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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Response Location: United States, Maryland

Feds to Eds recruits laid-off federal workers to help fill teaching shortages, leveraging these candidates’ specialized experience and helping them convert their skills for the classroom. Participants can complete an alternative certification program at one of five area campuses, and 16 of the 18 students who’ve finished the program so far are now teaching in classrooms.

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This Nigerian Lab is Farming Without Soil to Rethink Food Security

Abdullahi Jimoh

October 14, 2025 |

Triple Pundit |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Osun

Soilless Farm Lab, a Nigerian agricultural technology hub, has trained over 10,000 youth in hydroponic farming since 2019, leading to employment opportunities and demonstrating a climate-resilient approach that uses 90% less water while producing food year-round in a country facing severe food insecurity and land degradation.

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Inside the Colorado factory where AtmosZero is electrifying steam

Alison F. Takemura

October 14, 2025 |

Canary Media |

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Response Location: United States, Fort Collins, Colorado

AtmosZero's modular electric heat pump technology replaces gas-fired industrial boilers to produce steam at up to 165°C, demonstrated at New Belgium brewery where it provides 30-40% of steam needs with 200% efficiency, though at higher installation costs and lower efficiency than waste-heat systems.

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A Wall of Trees is Reversing Desertification and Empowering Communities in Nigeria

Chinonso Kenneth

October 12, 2025 |

Triple Pundit |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Makoda, Kano

The Wall of Trees initiative in Nigeria's Makoda village created a four-tiered barrier of windbreak, orchard, woodlot, and economic trees that tripled crop yields and provided income opportunities for 200 women, successfully reversing desertification on 15 hectares over two decades.

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Are Low-Emission Zones Freeing European Cities from Smog?

Elyse Hauser

October 10, 2025 |

Triple Pundit |

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Response Location: Belgium, Brussels

European cities have implemented low-emission zones that gradually restrict older, polluting vehicles from entering designated urban areas, in an effort to reduce air pollution. While effectiveness varies by region, since implementing these zones, Brussels has seen a 36% reduction in nitrogen oxide levels over five years, and air quality improvements extending up to five kilometers beyond the zone boundaries.

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Tribal governments fend off the worst of the impacts of the shutdown

Shaun Griswold

October 09, 2025 |

High Country News |

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Response Location: United States

Ahead of the U.S. federal government shutdown in October, tribal nations banded together to advocate for their citizens, lobbying members of Congress and writing a joint letter highlighting the federal government’s tribal treaty obligations. Though a significant number of federal employees at the Bureau of Indian Affairs were furloughed, tribal governments have for the most part continued to operate as usual and agencies such as the Indian Health Service have been able to maintain their funding.

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Violence Against Women: Can India's All-Women Police Stations Deliver Justice?

Puja Bhattacharjee

October 08, 2025 |

upBeat |

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Response Location: India

India's All-Women Police Stations (AWPS)—specialized police stations staffed entirely by women and designed to handle gender-based violence cases—have increased reporting of crimes against women by 29% and improved arrest rates for certain offenses by 15%.

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Making the Invisible Visible

Natalie Sclippa, Paolo Valenti, Andrea Giambartolomei , Karolina Rista, Erida Shani, Esmeralda Keta, Tim de Jong , Esmee Koeleman

October 08, 2025 |

Transitions Online |

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Response Location: Netherlands

Citizen science initiatives across Europe are using accessible technology to expose toxic emissions that official monitoring misses, triggering institutional responses ranging from increased enforcement to new pollution-control infrastructure.

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