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  • The urine revolution: how recycling pee could help to save the world

    February 09, 2022 |

    Nature |

    Photojournalism |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Sweden, Gotland

    Companies and research initiatives around the world are developing and testing new toilets that can collect human urine and turn it into fertilizer. These urine diversion toilets have been implemented in places like South Africa with mixed results. However, researchers in Sweden are using portable toilets to gather the urine, dry it into fertilizer pellets that are then used to grow barley for beer. This work could show how to implement these kinds of toilets on a large scale.

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  • ResQZone

    February 08, 2022 |

    KWCM-PBS |

    Broadcast TV Programs |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Marshall, Minnesota

    An e-waste recycling program in Minnesota aims to take old computers that normally end up in a landfill and give them to community members with income-based needs. Since the ResQZone initiative started as a partnership between a nonprofit and the county government, they’ve been able to get 420 computer systems back into public use. They also hire and train people with disabilities to do the refurbishing.

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  • Off the coast of Italy, a radical approach to battling illegal fishing: a seafloor sculpture museum

    February 07, 2022 |

    National Geographic |

    Multi-Media |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Italy

    An unlikely sculpture museum is helping to battle illegal fishing off the coast of Italy, but this one museum you'll have to dive to see. Over 39 sculptures make up this underwater exhibit and serve as a physical barrier to seafloor trawling.

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  • Cómo los drones pueden ayudar a disminuir la contaminación por plásticos en el mundo

    February 06, 2022 |

    Infobae |

    Text |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United Kingdom

    Cada año, 13 millones de toneladas de plástico terminan en el océano. Aunque hay mucha evidencia acerca de la contaminación plástica en todo el mundo, aún faltan datos de calidad para obtener soluciones efectivas. Mediante un sisema de drones desarrollado por una empresa británica, es posible encontrar y mapear residuos plásticos en diferentes terrenos y clasificarlos por tipo, tamaño, origen o marca, de manera de obtener información certera y comparable para impulsar la toma de decisiones.

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  • To save South Island forests, community support is critical, and not enough

    February 02, 2022 |

    The Discourse |

    Multi-Media |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Canada, Victoria, British Columbia

    After millions of dollars, community campaigns and intense grassroots efforts, conservationists were able to save a beloved forest, Mountain Road Forest, one of few forested parcels left. The parcel, which is 50 acres, is on Vancouver Island, where land is "heavily privatised" and it takes an intense amount of effort from community members to save these properties from being bought up by developers.

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  • Cleveland's reforesting efforts take root in once-redlined neighborhoods

    February 02, 2022 |

    Planet Detroit |

    Multi-Media |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

    Activists in Cleveland, Ohio are reforesting the city's vacant lots one community garden at a time. Gwen Garth, a local activist in the city, partnered up with churches, in order to create a long-term plan to plant gardens to also increase tree canopy in the city in a more equitable approach by focusing on historically redlined neighborhoods. The plan includes reaching 30% tree canopy by 2040, which means planting 361,000 new trees.

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  • Camden, Newark, & Baltimore lead in building equitable access to urban tree canopy

    February 02, 2022 |

    Planet Detroit |

    Multi-Media |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States

    The push for an increase in urban tree canopies is growing in cities like Camden, Detroit, and Baltimore. A collaboration between community members in those cities and local nonprofits yielded a plan and quick execution. More and more trees are being planted in urban areas to offset the heat-island effect, increase air quality, and decrease the tree equity gap between historically redlined areas and surrounding areas.

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  • How Cleveland is salvaging old buildings to create a new circular economy

    February 01, 2022 |

    The Land |

    Text |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

    Developers in Cleveland are salvaging building parts that can be reused in other construction projects. The sustainable initiative known as deconstructing helps reduce carbon footprints and helps avoid the “high social and environmental costs of dumping demolition material in landfills.”

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  • Q&A: Jessica Davis of Rebuilders Xchange, a hub for salvaged building materials

    February 01, 2022 |

    The Land |

    Text |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

    Salvaged building materials are staying out of the landfill as a result of this circular economy initiative. Rebuilders Xchange is taking tubs, sinks, hardwood floors, and any other constructions materials to reuse and resell. They also offer services to repair and refit materials into new spaces.

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  • Geier-Restaurants in Nepal

    February 01, 2022 |

    Deutsche Welle (DW) |

    Text |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Nepal

    Nepals Geier waren gefürchtet und standen kurz vor der Ausrottung. Dann fanden Naturschützer mit "Geier-Restaurants" einen Weg, den Vögeln zu helfen und gleichzeitig Tourismus und Wirtschaft einer ganzen Region anzukurbeln.

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