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  • Community Rebuilds

    November 01, 2021 |

    KZMU Community Radio |

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    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Moab, Utah

    Community Rebuilds is a nonprofit that builds affordable and efficient housing – suitable for Moab’s very hot summers and very cold winters - while educating natural builders in the process. Anyone who is interested in construction, regardless of their previous experience, is welcome to intern at their sites to learn about natural building processes. The organization has built 52 strawbale homes since they started, a healthy and natural material that costs about half of what other new construction is per square foot. The program requires homeowners to volunteer about 20 hours a week building homes.

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  • Keeping Cattle on the Move and Carbon in the Soil

    October 31, 2021 |

    The New York Times |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States

    Grasslands are important players in carbon sequestration. In the U.S. and Kenya some farmers are switching to regenerative grazing. For some this entails concentrating herds of cows and resting paddocks for long periods of time, and for others it means reseeding native grasses. This all forms part of a larger global network to restore grasslands.

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  • Pueblos in New Mexico turn to goats for fire management

    October 29, 2021 |

    High Country News |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Sandia Pueblo, New Mexico

    Tribes in New Mexico have enlisted over 70 goats to help clear dry brush, branches, and invasive plants, which can otherwise become fuel for potential fires. The program, which has been running for almost a whole year has proven successful and it serves a dual purpose--the goats eat, and the chances of potential fires are greatly reduced. "Sandia Pueblo’s goat experiment has garnered interest from other tribes that see goats as a more natural way to tend the land than heavy machinery and chemicals."

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  • KVNF Regional Newscast: October 28, 2021

    October 28, 2021 |

    Mountain Grown Community Radio (KVNF) |

    Radio |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Basalt, Colorado

    Basalt Vista is the first net-zero affordable housing project in Colorado, based in Basalt. The homes are constructed in partnership with the county, the school district, and Habitat for Humanity. The homes are lined with solar panels and operate using only electricity. They produce, on average, all the energy that they consume and the utility costs to the residents are basically zero once the production begins to generate credits. Rather than prioritizing keeping building costs as cheap as possible, net-zero homes prioritize keeping the costs to maintain the home low.

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  • Building a just energy business future in Detroit

    October 27, 2021 |

    Planet Detroit |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    WeSolar makes solar power accessible to low-income residents by building and investing in community-solar farms and signing residents up for credits from investor-owned utilities. The startup, the first community solar business led by a Black woman, saves customers as much as $250 on their utility bills by signing up for community solar. Convincing residents, many of whom have had bad experiences with predatory utility schemes, requires working with church and community groups to earn trust. Community solar also requires legislation that allows for shared renewable energy projects.

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  • Electric school bus helps Latina moms combat air pollution

    October 26, 2021 |

    Cronkite News - Arizona PBS |

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    Response Location: United States, Phoenix, Arizona

    There are about 480,000 school buses in the country, less than one percent of them are electric. Replacing diesel school buses with electric ones would reduce greenhouse emissions by 5.3 million tons a year, it would also be better for students lungs. More than 4 in 10 people in the country live in neighborhoods with unhealthy air. In Arizona, a group of mom's organized and were able to convince the school board to purchase and electric bus. Then, they garnered votes to help pass a bond to purchase the bus.

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  • A River's Right to Flow

    October 22, 2021 |

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    Response Location: United States, New Mexico

    In order to preserve and protect rivers a new movement that grants rivers personhood rights is growing. In places like New Zealand and Oregon, where some of these measures have passed rivers have the right to flow without having to be used as a resource for consumption. In New Mexico, the state engineer approved a water lease submitted by the National Audobon Society. The lease allows about 13 million gallons of water to flow annually solely for its own sake, similiar to personhood rights. The creative approach is one way conservationists are fighting for water preservation.

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  • Blue forests are under threat. A quiet revolution could save them

    October 22, 2021 |

    Pioneers Post |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Madagascar

    Mangroves can store up six times more carbon than an area equal to the Amazon rainforest. However, they are rapidly declining, over the past century their population has been reduced by 30 to 50 percent. One nonprofit, Blue Ventures, is working with local communities to regenerate fisheries, which helps the mangroves. They're also helping local communities to manage their mangroves.

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  • Cycling city Kigali sprints to promote smart and green mobility

    October 21, 2021 |

    Rwanda Dispatch |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Rwanda, Kigali

    In an effort to go carbon-neutral, city officials in Kigali, Rwanda, are improving bicycling infrastructure and partnering with a green transportation company to implement a bicycle ride sharing program with docking stations across the city.

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  • How farmers in Abuja community use 'agroforestry models' to fight climate change

    October 21, 2021 |

    Premium Times |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    In Abuja, a Nigerian community, farmers are practicing agroforestry practices and shifting away from monocropping. Agroforestry is more sustainable, leads to biodiversity, and helps mitigate the harmful effects of climate change. With agroforestry, farmers plant several crops among trees, versus one crop. While not all farmers have made the shift, the ones that have are seeing positive results.

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