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  • How to Save a Sinking Coast? Katrina Created a Laboratory

    John Schwartz

    August 07, 2015 |

    The New York Times |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, New Orleans, Louisiana

    In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, in 2005, Louisiana and federal officials launched an audacious $50 billion master plan to rebuild the receding coast in an effort to mitigate the effects future storms. These are expensive and massive in scale, and although success is not guaranteed, they're attracting interest from cities around the U.S., and low-lying countries like Bangladesh and the Netherlands. Moving beyond engineered “solutions” of the past, many of these efforts focus on rebuilding land through methods that mimic natural processes for building land mass and vegetation.

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  • A College in Maine That Tackles Climate Change, One Class at a Time

    Diane Cardwell

    June 30, 2015 |

    The New York Times |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Bar Harbor, Maine

    As institutions look for ways to fight climate change, the College of the Atlantic has made the search for solutions a central part of its curriculum.

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  • Tiny Blue Bubbles Designed to Help Save the Planet

    Alan Jeffries Amy Marino

    March 16, 2015 |

    Bloomberg |

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    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Livermore, California

    The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has designed a new technology that captures carbon dioxide at power plants before it goes into the air. This new method, which is much more efficient and affordable than other carbon dioxide capturing methods, uses microcapsules filled with a fluid that absorbs carbon dioxide. While it’s not going to solve climate change entirely, this new technology has shown promising results for at least slowing it down.

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  • The Battle to Keep Ho Chi Minh City Above Water

    Jesse Hardman

    January 22, 2015 |

    New Orleans Public Radio (WWNO) |

    Radio |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City

    Geography and climate change challenge the viability of sea-level cities in Vietnam, but architects, researchers, and urban planners work together to find creative solutions. One architect in Ho Chi Minh City designed green roofs to absorb the rainwater that causes floods.

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  • Bringing Back the Night: A Fight Against Light Pollution

    Paul Bogard

    August 19, 2013 |

    Yale Environment 360 |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: France, Paris

    More people are beginning to acknowledge the adverse effects of light pollution on wildlife and human health alike, as countries like France are enacting light ordinances to restrict the use of lights at night. Along with an added benefit of cutting carbon emissions, these ordinances require businesses to turn off lights at night after employees leave, and for billboards to cut light as well.

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