Medium
10 December 2014
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Simeulue, Indonesia
Ten years after the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, researchers are looking at how one community used traditional cultural knowledge to avoid major casualties.
http://www.edweek.org/ew/projects/2013/native-american-education/running-in-place.html
Lesli A. Maxwell
Megan Garner
Swikar Patel
Education Week
4 December 2013
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Native American student graduation rates are much lower than that of any other demographic. The Red Cloud school teaches students on a reservation in South Dakota about the Lakota history to empower the kids and encourage resilience.
https://ensia.com/articles/traditional-rice-resilience
Shreya Dasgupta
Ensia
9 February 2015
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After a devastating cyclone changed the nature of local soil, NGOs preserved Indian rice crops by reintroducing traditional rice varieties that can be cultivated even in salt-ridden earth. Although some first met this idea with skepticism, many farmers have now adopted the practice after witnessing the success of the crops.
http://e360.yale.edu/feature/for_us_tribes_a_movement_to_revive_native_foods_and_lands/2915
Cheryl Katz
Yale Environment 360
28 September 2015
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Property rights, circumscribed jurisdictions, and conflicts with neighbors exacerbate Native American efforts to restore tribal land and resources. Some tribes have found success by tapping into a trend of support from the government and conservationists.
http://www.yesmagazine.org/planet/four-ways-mexico-indigenous-farmers-agriculture-of-the-future-20150810
Leah Penniman
Yes! Magazine
10 August 2015
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With a global food crisis, farmers look for how to get long-term high yields out of difficult farmland. In Oaxaca, Mexico, farmers farm like a forest, eat low on the food chain, restore damaged land, and have reverence for the planet.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/12/preparing-for-disaster-by-betting-against-it
Georgia Levenson Keohane
The New York Times
12 February 2014
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In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, necessity has bred an interesting kind of financial invention for the New York MTA: the world’s first “catastrophe” bond - a reinsurance for the insurer - designed to protect public transportation infrastructure, specifically against storm surge. These bonds privatize risk for public gain, creating a kind of tool that may protect economic development against all kinds of natural and man-made disasters around the world.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/07/saving-lives-in-a-time-of-cholera
Tina Rosenberg
The New York Times
7 April 2012
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A cholera epidemic can kill many people or few people—it all depends on the expertise of the doctors and their access to the right equipment. A program in Dhaka rushes both to countries when an epidemic is just breaking out.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/24/in-bangladesh-more-shelter-from-the-storms
Amy Yee
The New York Times
24 July 2013
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In a country of limited resources — and perhaps for that very reason — preparing for natural disasters is top of the agenda in Bangladesh. Various grassroots, collaborative programs have been put in place over the years to help address many facets of the calamities caused by cyclones, from improved emergency shelters to long-term support for those who lose their livelihoods in the storms.
http://www.seychellesnewsagency.com/articles/517/The+Lady+of+the+Mangroves+-+concerned+teacher+who+found+solutions+in+Seychelles+nature
Wanjohi Kabukuru
Seychelles News Agency
18 May 2014
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The 2004 tsunami that hit Asia caused significant damage in the islands of the Seychelles, destroying roads, homes, and shoreline. A teacher determined to restore her home through tangible action took a lead role in helping her students take conservation into their own hands by working to restore the mangroves that can protect their island from future storms.
http://www.elpasotimes.com/story/archives/2014/11/16/australias-city-dwellers-become-water-conscious/73898366
Marty Schladen
El Paso Times
16 November 2014
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After the drought hit Australia in the early 2000s, city officials had to start thinking seriously about ways to conserve and creatively store their water. External tanks became the solution, storing rain runoff to create an available source of water for Melbourne residents. This solution may not fit every location, but there are other teachable lessons such as taking radically shorter showers.
https://www.invw.org/2015/04/27/after-the-wars-common-ground-in-oregons-forests
Ben DeJarnette
Investigate West
27 April 2015
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Summer in the Northwest presents a great risk of wildfires. A pile burning operation, just one facet of the strategy that Oregon has enacted to conserve its forests, clears undergrowth to lessen the risk of mega-fire. The work stimulates the local economy and provides employment, but it's also a very small part of what needs to be done.
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