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A Bear's Necessities

Louisa Gilbert Jemma Titheridge

August 23, 2022 |

Hakai Magazine |

Video |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: Canada, Vancouver Island, British Columbia

A biologist studies bear dens in the forests of British Columbia, Canada, to create artificial alternatives as forestry practices make suitable dens rarer.

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Sowing dignity: Vertical Harvest grows produce – and community

Jodi Hausen

August 22, 2022 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

Text |

800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Jackson, Wyoming

Vertical Harvest is a farm that employs people with disabilities and uses customized employment plans for each person to tailor their work to their strengths and aspirations. The farm was created to address the difficulty people with disabilities can have finding meaningful employment.

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Surge Africa's nature-based solutions boosting Nigerian farmers' resilience to climate change

Adam Alqali Stephen Enoch

August 22, 2022 |

Pulse Nigeria |

Text |

800-1500 Words

Response Location: Nigeria, Kano

Surge Africa is a nonprofit helping Nigerian farmers learn about and implement agroforestry and agroecology practices to more sustainably manage their land and improve their yields despite the negative impacts of climate change.

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"I wanted to quit a million times, but how will they be without me?": how the Dnipro shelter saves animals from the front line

Natalia Kulidi

August 22, 2022 |

Рубрика (Rubryka) |

Text |

1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Ukraine, Dnipro

The We Are for the Right to Life animal shelter in Dnipro, Ukraine, cares for animal refugees by treating their injuries and health issues and giving them a place to stay until they can be rehomed.

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NYC's summer work program for youth called a success, with 100K jobs filled

Reema Amin

August 17, 2022 |

Chalkbeat |

Text |

800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, New York, New York

New York City’s Summer Youth Employment Program helps 14-to-24-year-olds find paid jobs through summer contracts with community organizations, and the city picks up the cost of their paychecks.

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With an Affinity to Care

Zinta Aistars

August 12, 2022 |

Watershed Voice |

Text |

1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Centreville, Michigan

In an effort to reduce incarceration, homelessness, and hospitalization, Affinity House provides people with mental illness a free place to form social connections and work their way towards employment one step at a time with the clubhouse staff.

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Greece's Islands Are Zero-Waste Laboratories

Sebastien Malo

August 11, 2022 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

Text |

800-1500 Words

Response Location: Greece, Tilos

Tilos, Greece, works with a network of companies to collect and sort the island residents' waste to be composted, recycled, or reused instead of using a landfill.

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How Teens Are Pushing Back On Book Bans

Ashira Morris

August 10, 2022 |

Next City |

Text |

800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, New York, New York

In response to a wave of book bans within school districts, the Brooklyn Public Library began offering digital library cards to increase book access. The initiative, Books Unbanned, allows13 to 21-year-olds to sign up for a digital library card that provides access to an entire library of books, including those that were banned.

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The Immigrant Women Workers Learning To Disrupt The Cleaning Industry

Emily Nonko

August 09, 2022 |

Next City |

Text |

800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, New York, New York

Liberty Cleaners co-created a curriculum to train immigrant women workers about tech education, green cleaning, and workers’ rights. As the first women-led workers’ hub in the country, the group is organizing and enabling its members with skills that can ensure they receive the fair wages, opportunities, and respect they deserve but are often denied.

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Why Scotland Is Opening a Dementia Center in a National Park

Elizabeth Hewitt

August 09, 2022 |

Sierra Club |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Scotland

The nonprofit Alzheimer Scotland hosts outdoor events in Cairngorms National Park for people with dementia and their families to give them the opportunity to enjoy the outdoors safely.

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