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The Fifth Vital Sign: Atlanta Doctors Are Talking Climate Change With Patients

Alex Music

March 25, 2025 |

The Xylom |

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Response Location: United States, Atlanta, Georgia

Doctors are leveraging trust built over time with patients to combat misinformation around climate change. The Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health and its affiliates, including Georgia Clinicians for Climate Action, train healthcare providers on climate communication through fellowships, advocacy work, and educational materials to better equip them for these conversations.

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North Carolina program helps low-income utility customers pay their bills

Elizabeth Ouzts

March 25, 2025 |

Canary Media |

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Response Location: United States, North Carolina

The Customer Assistance Program—a collaboration designed by Duke, North Carolina’s Department of Health and Human Services, and a host of advocates—offers a monthly energy bill credit of up to $42 for households under a certain income threshold. In the first of three pilot years, about 55,000 households accessed this financial aid.

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After Lahaina fire, Hawaii residents address their risk by becoming 'Firewise'

Gabriela Aoun Angueira

March 25, 2025 |

Associated Press |

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Response Location: United States, Hawaii

Hawaii Wildfire Management Organization (HWMO), a 25-year-old nonprofit, helps assess, evaluate, and deter a community's ignition vulnerabilities. Volunteers remove trees, haul waste, and help facilitate economic support for migration, retrofits, and more.

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This muggy city keeps cool with minimal AC. Here's how.

Allyson Chiu

March 25, 2025 |

The Washington Post |

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Response Location: India, Palava City

Local real estate developer Lodha Group created Palava City, a 5,000-acre experimental community using creative green building techniques and layout initiatives, supporting its mission of creating a net-zero community. The city is being developed in phases on a community level, without the restrictions of local government, and plans to house about two million residents. Those already living in the community praise its energy efficiency and walkability compared to nearby cities.

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Bridges and Tunnels in Colorado Are Helping Animals Commute

Catrin Einhorn

March 25, 2025 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, Colorado

Colorado built wildlife crossings, like highway overpasses and underpasses, to safely funnel wildlife across dangerous roads, successfully reducing animal-vehicle collisions by over 80%.

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This school is empowering Almajiris in Katsina with skills to stop them from begging

Abdulaziz Bagwai

March 24, 2025 |

The Solutions Paper |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Katsina

Save Humanity is a mobile vocational school that serves Almijiris, or those on a pilgrimage for Islamic knowledge, as well as other students without adequate access to education. The organization provides tutors that visit area schools twice a week to lead training in mobile phone repairs, leather working, and satellite dish installation so that Almijiris can earn a living, with 134 participants trained in 2024.

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In Massachusetts and elsewhere, youngsters find healing through art

Tolu Talabi

March 24, 2025 |

Capital News Service Maryland |

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Response Location: United States, Lynn, Massachusetts

Raw Art Works is a nonprofit youth development organization that provides art therapy services to 290 youth each week. Studies show art therapy can reduce psychiatric readmission rates for patients, and those who participated in the program say it has been life-changing, teaching them coping skills that supported them into adulthood.

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This San Francisco Food Pantry Is a Labor of Love

Tilde Herrera

March 24, 2025 |

Civil Eats |

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Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

Four years after Priscilla Lee started using the Buy Nothing platform to organize food pickups from her home garage, she has grown a community food pantry, run by volunteers, that serves between 40 and 50 families per week.

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'Gen Silent' and the bumpy road to improve LGBTQ elder care in Massachusetts

Kay Lazar

March 23, 2025 |

The Boston Globe |

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Response Location: United States, Massachusetts

A Massachusetts law requires state-licensed elder services providers to train their staff on caring for LGBTQ+ people. However, because discrimination complaints are not systematically tracked and facilities are not penalized for noncompliance, it’s unclear whether the legislation has had an impact on the culture within facilities or care for LGBTQ+ elders.

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How the Klamath Dams Came Down

Anita Hofschneider, Jake Bittle

March 19, 2025 |

Grist |

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Response Location: United States, Oregon

The coordinated response involved decades of persistent advocacy, strategic coalition-building among Indigenous nations, environmentalists, and government officials, sustained direct activism, and innovative legal and corporate negotiations, ultimately leading to the historic removal of four dams along the Klamath River. This effort successfully restored salmon habitat and ecosystem health, setting a groundbreaking precedent for addressing environmental justice, tribal sovereignty, and dam removal conflicts nationwide.

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