Title
& Description
News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
& LENGTH
17 October 2021
San Diego, California, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
While much of the state is still facing a severe drought, San Diego has access to plenty of water. Restrictions - like not allowing restaurants to serve water unless it’s asked for and barring residents from watering ...
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Zdenka Kovarikova
3 August 2021
Czech Republic
Text
1500-3000 Words
Cervene Pecky and Dolany, two small towns in Prague, were able to fix their flooding problems through a process known as land consolidation. Prior to the land consolidation, the towns would get flooded by rainwater. ...
27 July 2021
Kansas, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Civic engagement academies throughout Kansas provide participants with behind-the-scenes views of how their local government operates. Participants meet with emergency responders, learn how city officials put together...
26 July 2021
Lagos, Nigeria
Text
800-1500 Words
Teams of recyclers in Nigeria gather plastic bottles from the streets and landfills and brings them to recycling plants where they can exchange the waste for money. HISL Recyclers collects this waste — which usually c...
28 May 2021
Somerset, Colorado, United States
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
A ski company and oil and gas executive were able to work out a deal to turn the Elk Creek Mine into a power plant that puts out 24 million kilowatt hours a year and prevents hundreds of billions of methane each year ...
27 May 2021
Rochester, New York, United States
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
One of the first cities to undo the damage that mid-20th-century urban highways did to neighborhoods has filled in a sunken highway and opened streets to new shops, pedestrians, and bikes. After more than two decades ...
10 May 2021
Lilongwe, Malawi
Text
Over 3000 Words
From collecting plastic to transforming it into infrastructure, communities all over the world are implementing solutions to tackle the growing amount of plastic waste. In Malawi, women are separating garbage from pla...
22 April 2021
River Falls, Wisconsin, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
The city of River Falls in Wisconsin built the state’s first city-owned solar garden, taking steps to reduce their use of fossil fuels and encourage community members to go green. Now, all city buildings are 100 perce...
17 April 2021
San Diego, California, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
As the U.S. Southwest continues to navigate ongoing water crises, several places — including Las Vegas; Orange County, California;, and San Diego — are turning wastewater into drinking water. Their various systems are...
BBC
Daniel Gordon
6 April 2021
Java, Indonesia
Podcast
Over 15 Minutes
As human infrastructure continues to threaten animal habitats, researchers are coming up with ways to use artificial structures as bridges for these creatures to get where they need to go. In Indonesia, irrigation pip...
12 March 2021
Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
In a science class in a local New Jersey school, students came up with a green solution to a storm water management and flooding problem in their parking lot when it rained. With help from the Cooperative Extension Wa...
11 March 2021
Lake George, New York, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
An experiment in upstate New York showed how town officials could maintain clean and safe roads during the winter season and protect the environment. By using a salt brine before winter storms, they were able to plow ...
8 February 2021
Gothenburg, Sweden
Text
800-1500 Words
A pop-up public space was installed in Gothenburg, the latest in a Swedish experiment that’s looking at how to transform parking spaces on city streets into community areas. Previous installations of the experiment, k...
5 February 2021
Malmö, Sweden
Text
1500-3000 Words
As London starts to implement its plan for boroughs to implement sustainable urban greening strategies, officials look to Malmö as a guide after the Swedish city used a green space factor (GSF) as a way of calculating...
25 January 2021
Nagarparkar, Sindh, Pakistan
Text
800-1500 Words
A government scheme in Pakistan involves the construction of water-harvesting dams in areas that experience droughts, which allows farmers in the region to use the irrigation water from the dams for their crops. One f...
14 January 2021
Flint, Michigan, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
BlueConduit, an analytics startup, applies statistical models to identify neighborhoods and households that might have lead pipes. The models include dozens of factors, such as the age of the home and proximity of oth...
6 January 2021
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
When city planners rushed early in the pandemic to close streets to automobile traffic in order to give residents a safe space to roam outdoors, they ended up learning lessons entirely apart from their original goals ...
5 January 2021
Stockholm, Sweden
Text
1500-3000 Words
The Street Moves initiative in Sweden is pushing local communities to become the designers of their own streets’ layouts and look at urban planning through the lens of the “one-minute city.” Through a public-private p...
22 December 2020
New York, New York, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
As a way to soften the impacts of a future storm, an artificial oyster reef was installed in New York City. This green infrastructure can absorb the shock of waves and decrease the amount of flooding, as well as build...
11 November 2020
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
A series of government programs designed to rebuild a neighborhood badly damaged by the 1968 Chicago uprising not only failed to achieve their goal, but actually made it worse. Hundreds of businesses in the Madison St...
21 October 2020
Rogers Pass, British Columbia, Canada
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
Terrain closures, avalanche education, and parking management are some of the topics that Canada’s ski permit system tackles. This government-regulated permit system has resulted in zero skier-triggered slides on Roge...
14 October 2020
Rogers Pass, British Columbia, Canada
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
Snowsheds are just one tool in Canada’s arsenal to combat the impacts avalanches can have on their complex road systems. Snowsheds are aboveground tunnels where snow can travel over it and into the river, thereby redu...
7 October 2020
Snoqualmie Pass, Washington, United States
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
A failed bridge construction project in the 1960s in Wyoming to mitigate the impacts of avalanches inspired Washington state to complete a similar project fifty years later. The project included an elevated bridge tha...
5 October 2020
Canada
Text
1500-3000 Words
The First Nation–Municipal Community Economic Development Initiative is a nationwide initiative to foster positive relationships, empowering First Nation and municipal leaders to talk as equals. There have been hundre...
16 September 2020
Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Since the Jersey City composting program, over 50,000 pounds of disposable waste has been used to fertilize home gardens, parks, and community gardens, instead of going into landfills. While scaling the program is a c...
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