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  • Restoring Hawaiian fishponds revitalizes food systems and cultures

    October 03, 2022 |

    Prism |

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    Response Location: United States, Hawaii

    Hawaiians are restoring fishponds to working order with tasks like fixing rock walls and removing pollution to reimplement land practices of the past into daily life. These ponds consist of a rock wall, a gate for midsized fish to enter, and things the fish feed on like algae and coral.

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  • Dual-language immersion: 'Only a matter of time' for New Hampshire?

    October 01, 2022 |

    Sentinel Source (The Keene Sentinel) |

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    Response Location: United States

    Teachers are practicing dual-language immersion by teaching content in English and the student's native tongue to help prevent loss of fluency in their first language while learning the new one.

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  • Community ed centers help English learners break the ice(olation)

    October 01, 2022 |

    Sentinel Source (The Keene Sentinel) |

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    Response Location: United States, Keene, New Hampshire

    The Keen Community Education Center offers free English courses for locals whose first language is not English. Along with improving their writing, reading, and pronunciation, students say they find a sense of community among their peers.

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  • How this Texas university helps farmworkers' kids through college

    September 28, 2022 |

    Dallas Morning News |

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    Response Location: United States, Austin, Texas

    The College Assistance Migrant Program (CAMP) is a federal program that was developed as a result of Lyndon B. Johnson’s Higher Education Act of 1965, which was aimed at helping students living in poverty navigate the education process. More than 2,890 students — mostly from low-income, Hispanic families who do seasonal farm work — have gone through the program over the past five decades.

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  • How ecotourism in Konkan promotes climate-friendly tourism

    September 28, 2022 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: India

    In India, experience-based tourism promotes sustainability and conservation awareness while supporting local economies. For this style of tourism, tourists experience life like local indigenous communities in everything from eating to helping in agricultural fields.

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  • How forensic science can aid the human rights movement

    September 27, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Spain

    The forensics-based human rights movement uses forensic science to identify victims of genocide and political violence buried in mass graves, allowing their families to arrange proper burial and bolstering collective history around these events. The strategy has been particularly effective in countries with state-imposed silence around past atrocities, such as Spain, where more than 9,000 bodies have been exhumed since 2000.

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  • How Youth Are Stepping up Against the Mountain Valley Pipeline

    September 26, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, West Virginia

    Indigenous youth activists are using social media, online organizing, and art to mobilize intergenerational protests against the Mountain Valley Pipeline in Appalachia. After the Inflation Reduction Act undermined court successes that had stopped the project, the movement is putting pressure on legislators to stop it, with some key senators saying they won't vote for the side deal negotiated to keep the pipeline moving forward.

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  • These Colorado programs are helping beginning farmers overcome huge challenges

    September 26, 2022 |

    The Colorado Sun |

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    Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

    The National Young Farmers Coalition works to remove barriers for the next generation of farmers by providing training and educational opportunities and increased access to necessary resources like land and water. The organization also strives to provide more farm training programs to underrepresented groups like indigenous people, women, immigrants, and people of color.

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  • Decolonizing Regenerative Cattle Ranching

    September 26, 2022 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: Cheyenne River Reservation, United States, South Dakota

    Regenerative agriculture — a technique originally developed by Native peoples — is a farming practice that can not only improve the quality of farms and their products but also serves as a response to growing climate change concerns. While regenerative agriculture currently only accounts for 10% of farms and ranches today, the numbers are slowly increasing.

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  • You can ban a book, but can you stop teens from finding it online?

    September 22, 2022 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    To combat the banned books war and issues with book access, the Books Unbanned program offers free online access to the library’s entire collection for 13-to-21-year-olds. The program has already issued more than 5,100 cards and checked out 20,000 materials. And because the program is funded independently, it can offer books to people out of state.

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