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  • The Country Making Orphanages Obsolete

    October 31, 2025 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Republic of Moldova

    In 2007, Moldova launched a National Strategy to reduce the number of children living in orphanages by providing more support to disadvantaged families, creating more inclusive education programs, and expanding the country’s foster care capacity. As of now, only about 700 children remain in orphanages.

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

    October 16, 2025 |

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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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  • This Nigerian Lab is Farming Without Soil to Rethink Food Security

    October 14, 2025 |

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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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  • The Forest That Proves It: How Sudbury Reclaimed a Moonscape

    October 08, 2025 |

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    Response Location: Canada, Sudbury, Ontario

    The Regreening Sudbury Project transformed a lunar-like wasteland into thriving forest through decades of systematic tree planting (10+ million trees), soil amendments, and transparent open-data tracking. This resulted in a 98% reduction in air pollution and 50% recovery of fish populations while creating a replicable model for ecological restoration.

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  • Shelter helps decrease feral cat population

    October 08, 2025 |

    The Oglethorpe Echo |

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    Response Location: United States, Danielsville, Georgia

    The Madison Oglethorpe Animal Shelter uses a Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) program to address the county's feral cat overpopulation problem, providing free or discounted spay/neuter services with the help of grant funding, along with humane trap rentals and surgical appointments for residents who capture feral cats. With the program, TNR procedures have increased from 190 in 2024 to 250 this year.

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  • How to build a food sovereignty lab

    September 15, 2025 |

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    Response Location: United States, Humboldt County, California

    Cal Poly Humboldt's Native American Studies Department created an Indigenous food sovereignty research lab through a student-led, community-driven process that now supports Indigenous students' cultural connections, advances traditional ecological knowledge research, and demonstrates how Indigenous knowledge can be valued in higher education.

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  • Organic Growth: How Turkey's Eco-Markets Took Root

    September 05, 2025 |

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    Response Location: Turkey

    Turkey's Bugday Association created a network of certified organic farmers' markets that directly connects small-scale producers with urban consumers, growing from 24 vendor stands to over 300 while reducing certification costs through group programs and municipal partnerships, though high prices still limit accessibility for lower-income consumers.

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  • Lessons From New Orleans' Experience as a Charter School Laboratory

    September 04, 2025 |

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    Response Location: United States, New Orleans, Louisiana

    In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans gave control of its schools to a Recovery School District that replaced the majority of the city’s existing schools with public charter schools. Following the reforms, research showed improvements in student achievement, graduation rates, and college matriculation, though the gains have slowed in recent years.

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  • The invisible 'giant nets' that catch the smallest songbirds

    August 27, 2025 |

    High Country News |

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    Response Location: Canada

    The Motus network—a collaborative system of 2,200 radio towers across 34 countries that track tiny migratory animals using lightweight tags—has successfully mapped previously unknown migration routes for over 55,000 animals across 450+ species, revolutionizing conservation research for small songbirds and other creatures too tiny for traditional GPS tracking.

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  • 'It is not too late': How some middle schools are improving English ILEARN scores

    July 28, 2025 |

    Chalkbeat Indiana |

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    Response Location: United States, Indiana

    To help shore up learning gaps in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, two Indiana middle schools doubled students’ instructional time in English and math, dedicating two class periods to each subject each day. The state also made it easier for schools to test students throughout the year instead of just once at the end of the year, providing checkpoints for educators to measure their progress and tailor instruction accordingly.

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