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  • How old coal mines can help the climate

    March 30, 2023 |

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    Response Location: England, Gateshead

    In Gateshead, England, Lanchester Wines keeps its storage warehouse at a stable temperature year-round using geothermal heat from an abandoned coal mine nearby. The water that naturally floods the mine is geothermally heated below ground, then a heat pump system pulls that water to the surface to transfer that heat to the warehouse.

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  • The promise of kelp-powered flight

    March 23, 2023 |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    Researchers are developing sustainable aviation fuel made out of seaweed. The seaweed is pulled into the ocean by drone submarines, lowered at night to obtain more nutrients from the water, raised again during the day for optimal sunlight, and eventually harvested and turned into fuel.

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  • People Fixing The World - The healing power of forests

    January 24, 2023 |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom, London

    Forest bathing encourages mindfulness in nature by focusing on sights and sounds in the forest, to calm the mind and relieve feelings of depression and anxiety. Several institutions use forest therapy as treatment options for various conditions, such as the Costa Rica Treatment Center, which helps people healing from addiction participate in forest bathing as part of their recovery. Forest bathing helps participants form a closer relationship with nature and themselves and learn how to regulate their emotions.

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  • The healing power of forests

    January 24, 2023 |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom

    Forest bathing is the practice of going into the woods and tapping into your senses to calm your mind. It is helping people recover from depression and addiction alongside traditional therapy practices.

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  • The plan to save Italy's dying olive trees with dogs

    January 17, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Italy, Parabita, Puglia

    The Xylella Detection Dogs team is a group of dogs trained to detect the Xylella fastidiosa bacterium killing olive trees in Italy. Similar to sniffer dogs that detect drugs or weapons for the police, these dogs use their noses to find out if a tree has the bacteria.

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  • At this Texas school, every student is a teen mother

    December 29, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, Brownsville, Texas

    Lincoln Park High School is one of the only schools in the U.S. that provides education and services exclusively for teenage mothers. The school has served teen mothers aged between 14 and 19 since 2005. There are currently about 70 students enrolled in the school but the number often fluctuates. Along with providing teen mothers with education and needed resources for their children, the school also helps to encourage the teens to go to college, something that often isn’t a reality for teen moms.

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  • The vegan leather made from India's waste flowers

    December 19, 2022 |

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    Response Location: India, Kanpur

    Phool, a startup in India, makes a plant-based leather alternative using flower petals discarded from Hindu temples after rituals to feed microbes that grow the material. The product, named Fleather, keeps flower waste from contaminating rivers and is a sustainable, biodegradable alternative to animal leather.

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  • Midterms turnout: Could Australia-style voting help in US?

    November 04, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Australia

    In Australia, all eligible adults are required to vote unless they qualify for an approved exception, with a failure to show up on election day resulting in a fine of A$20. The country has one of the highest turnout rates in the world, with 76 percent of eligible voters casting ballots in 2022.

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  • Beyond the US midterms: The Swiss answer to congressional gridlock

    October 26, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Switzerland

    Switzerland has a long tradition of national referendums to decide issues ranging from retirement structures to vacation requirements to voting rights. Citizens can gather signatures — 50,000 or 100,000, depending on whether they want to reconsider an already-passed law or propose new legislation — to put their issue on the ballot.

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  • In Croatia, a hotel trying to heal war wounds

    October 22, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Croatia

    A hotel in a small Croatian village near the Bosnia-Herzegovina border has invested in regenerating and bringing together the community that is still scarred from the Balkans war in the 1990s. Hotel owners have refurbished 10 buildings in town, provide guests with firsthand accounts from village residents to learn about the region’s history, and follow staffing policies aimed at bringing together the ethnically diverse community by hiring equal numbers of individuals from the region's ethnic groups.

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