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  • Cars Are Vanishing from Paris

    Peter Yeung

    September 23, 2022 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: France, Paris

    Cars are Europe’s second-largest source of greenhouse gas emissions and the leading killer of children. In recent years, Paris has implemented an array of measures to prioritize pedestrians, cyclists, and transit while reducing car use. As a result, car use has dropped about 45% since 1990, the use of public transit has risen by 30% and the share of cyclists has increased tenfold.

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  • The Flight of the Angel in Basilicata: an inspiring model of how to develop tourism

    Isa Grassano

    September 23, 2022 |

    News48 |

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    Response Location: Italy, Basilicata

    The Flight of the Angel attraction has helped the area to create more jobs and improve the economy through tourism. In 2007, when the attraction opened, there were only two restaurants and two hotels in the city. But now, there are about 50 bed and breakfasts, eight restaurants and over 130,000 visitors annually.

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  • Colorado ranchers moove into the future with virtual fences that help sustain public grasslands

    Jason Blevins

    September 21, 2022 |

    The Colorado Sun |

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    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    Ranchers in the Upper Colorado River District use collars and virtual fences broadcast through antennas and cell towers to keep cows grazing in specific areas. The practice is used to promote native grass growth and sustain public grassland.

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  • Lebanese research preserves heat-adapted seeds to feed a warming world

    Marta Vidal

    September 20, 2022 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Lebanon, Terbol

    The International Center for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas (ICARDA) preserves genetic diversity and breeds climate-resilient varieties of staple crops to improve livelihoods and strengthen food security — specifically in dry, climate-change-affected areas — by creating seed vaults. Through breeding programs over the past four decades, ICARDA has released more than 30 improved varieties of wheat, barley, chickpeas, lentils, and fava beans.

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  • Police hire more civilian investigators to shore up ranks

    Salma Reyes Nathan Collins

    September 20, 2022 |

    News21 |

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    Response Location: United States, Phoenix, Arizona

    In an effort to combat staffing shortages, several police departments are hiring civilian investigators. Hiring civilian investigators helps ensure crimes get hands-on attention and, hopefully, are solved in a timely manner, while also helping to civilianize standard law enforcement operations.

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  • ‘This is what a river should look like': Dutch rewilding project turns back the clock 500 years

    Phoebe Weston

    September 20, 2022 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: Netherlands, Grevenbicht

    Rewilding Europe is a river-restoration project working to preserve rivers as biodiversity hotspots and prevent damage from human activity. Since Rewilding Europe was founded, its projects have stretched across the continent, including to countries like Spain Italy, Bulgaria, and Sweden and was recently awarded a grant of £4.1m to scale up its work.

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  • The Other Abortion Pill

    Patrick Adams

    September 19, 2022 |

    The Atlantic |

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    Response Location: United States

    Following the overturn of Roe v. Wade, access to safe, legal abortion in the U.S. is scarce. While several states have banned mifepristone and misoprostol — the two drugs that makeup abortion pills — misoprostol, which has been found to be the more effective of the two, can still be accessed at some pharmacies and through nonprofits in the U.S. and overseas like Plan C and Aid Access.

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  • Taos Ski Valley, Already B Corp Certified, Is Now Carbon Neutral

    Anneka Williams

    September 13, 2022 |

    Outside |

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    Response Location: United States, New Mexico

    Taos Ski Valley, a ski resort in New Mexico, is now CarbonNeutral certified due to practices like reduction of emissions and on-mountain energy use, and investment in carbon offsets.

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  • In Pa., climate change can increase flooding risk in places that rarely worried about it. This community is seeking solutions

    Rachel McDevitt

    September 13, 2022 |

    StateImpact Pennsylvania |

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    Response Location: United States, Dubuque, Iowa

    Increased flooding from storms labeled federal disasters led Dubuque, Iowa, to daylight, or uncover, a creek that was buried and turned into a sewer. This project combined with rain gardens and detention ponds to trap storm water prevents flooding.

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  • Trash to art: How an enterprise is turning waste into treasure in Gombe

    Muhammad Auwal Ibrahim

    September 12, 2022 |

    Social Voices |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Gombe

    AMAZ Xcellent Enterprises addresses waste management issues by transforming trash like tissue paper rolls, used envelopes, and outdated wall calendars into decorative pieces, and useful items like pen stands. For every pen stand made, the organization uses about four tissue paper rolls and has already created more than 100 stands.

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