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Lawn gone: ‘Localscaping' may save water, but can it rescue the Great Salt Lake?

Leia Larson

July 26, 2022 |

The Salt Lake Tribune |

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Response Location: United States, Utah

Utah’s Jordan Valley Water Conservancy District is encouraging “localscaping” to conserve water by reducing lawns. The concept uses efficient irrigation, native and low-water vegetation, less turf overall, and discourages unnecessary lawns.

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Flip Your Strip gaining traction, leading to removal of water-guzzling turf

Tim Vandenack

July 16, 2022 |

Standard-Examiner |

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Response Location: United States, Washington Terrace, Utah

In order to use less water in drought-ridden Utah, many residents are replacing their grassy park strips with vegetation and rocks that don’t need as much irrigation. As part of the “Flip Your Strip” initiative, the Weber Basin Water Conservancy District provides participants with money per square foot of grass removed. While the program is new, this idea has been tried and tested in California, where studies have shown that it is making an impact.

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How Appalachia Is Growing Its Outdoor Economy Through Collaborations and Capacity Building

Kim Kobersmith

July 14, 2022 |

100 Days in Appalachia |

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Response Location: United States, West Virginia

As a demand for outdoor recreation grows, due in part to the pandemic, Appalachia is delivering on the need with a number of new projects. Community leaders are collaborating on “conservation solutions that make economic and environmental sense.”

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How trees are helping this war-torn city heal after ISIS

Charlie Metcalfe

July 10, 2022 |

Mic |

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Response Location: Iraq, Mosul

After years of war left the city of Mosul without the greenery it had come to be known for, an initiative called Green Mosul organized a volunteer tree-planting campaign that aimed to bring together people of different backgrounds and religions and rebuild community bonds. Through the project, volunteers planted roughly 17,000 trees, and plans are in the works to replicate the effort in other post-conflict cities.

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Metering Utah's secondary water may help overuse in drought

Keira Farrimond Dan Spindle

July 07, 2022 |

KSL-TV |

Broadcast TV News |

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Response Location: United States, Utah

Cities in Utah are installing secondary water meters to track how much water residents are using on their lawns. This allows residents to see their usage, compare it to the recommended amount, and cut back when necessary.

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Are you watering your lawn wrong? USU's Water Checkers will help you figure it out

Nadia Pflaum

June 30, 2022 |

KUER Radio |

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Response Location: United States, Salt Lake City, Utah

Water Checkers visit homeowners in Salt Late City for free to help asses soil quality and determine if their sprinkler systems’ water distribution is working and efficient. By participating in this program, residents have reduced their irrigation by 7,900 gallons per month, which helps keep waters in tributaries of the Great Salt Lake.

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Public Libraries Are Making It Easy to Check Out Seeds—and Plant a Garden

Bridget Shirvell

April 25, 2022 |

Civil Eats |

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Response Location: United States, Jefferson, Georgia

More and more public libraries around the United States are creating seed libraries as a way to encourage gardening, combat hunger insecurity, and build community resilience. For example, the Jefferson Public Library in Georgia has seen the number of people using the seed library grow to more than 300 in 2021. It can be a lot of work to maintain the seed libraries, but some librarians see it as a way to engage the community.

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Our Rivers' Keepers: How the Ohio River's trash collectors transformed the waterway

Céilí Doyle

April 22, 2022 |

The GroundTruth Project |

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Response Location: United States, Cincinnati, Ohio

A nonprofit with a barge and a 10-person crew picks up trash and plastics across seven rivers in the U.S. Midwest. In one year, Living Lands and Waters collected over half a million pounds of trash. Over the years, they’ve attracted hundreds of thousands of volunteers to help their operation. “No matter who you are, where you’re from, how old, young or what political party you belong to – it doesn’t matter, because no one likes seeing garbage in the river,” said the cofounder.

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How Los Angeles Became the Leader of a Tree-Planting Revolution

Shawnté Salabert

April 22, 2022 |

Outside |

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Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

City Plants, an organization in Los Angeles, is partnering with other nonprofits, government agencies, scientists, and residents to create a more equitable urban forest throughout the city. By working together and using technology, they have planted more than 65,000 trees to combat climate change, systemic racism, and high temperatures that affect all Angelenos.

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In this Mississippi city, public art points a way forward

Xander Peters

April 12, 2022 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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Response Location: United States, Hattiesburg, Mississippi

The Hattiesburg Alliance for Public Art has designated the city as a public art city, with as many as 46 public art installations across the city, including 35 murals. It intends to grow to 100 public art murals. The city hopes that the public art will attract tourists and economic development, but the primary goal is to develop and beautify communities for the people who live there. Public art raises morale and connects people to one another. It also creates a shared sense of pride in the city and rises the collective mood.

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