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At Water's Edge: Searching for solutions at the Great Salt Lake's sister lakes across the Great Basin

Leia Larson

October 14, 2022 |

Deseret News |

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Response Location: United States, California

As the communities around the Great Salt Lake face overconsumption of its water and climate change effects, they can look to California’s Owens Lake and Mono Lake to see how they manage dust pollution and water levels from the same issues.

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Georgia's largest school district seeing success in recruiting, keeping bus drivers

Jorge Estevez

October 14, 2022 |

WSB-TV |

Broadcast TV News |

3-5 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Georgia

Gwinnett County Schools in Georgia is using active recruitment to keep an appropriate number of bus drivers on staff. Their team dedicated to transportation holds weekly job fairs, sends flyers home with students’ meals, and trains potential drivers on site.

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These women are defying tradition—by flying

Jordan Salama

October 14, 2022 |

National Geographic |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Mexico, Cuetzalán

Women in Cuetzalan, Mexico, taking part in the danza de los voladores, an Indigenous ritual performed to ask for good harvests and rain, are called voladoras. By partaking in a tradition initially performed by only men, they are laying a path for other women to follow and showing it is unnecessary to exclude them.

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Here's how one metro district is working to combat school bus driver shortages

Jorge Estevez

October 14, 2022 |

WSB-TV |

Broadcast TV News |

3-5 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Atlanta, Georgia

Community members are volunteering to help combat school bus driver shortages by training and receiving their CDL to fill the positions and help out the local school district.

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Gluten-free and insect-friendly: buckwheat returns to Dutch farms

Anne Pinto-Rodrigues

October 14, 2022 |

The Guardian |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Netherlands

Farmers in the Netherlands are re-establishing buckwheat farming to promote biodiversity and support pollinators.

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E-bikes gain momentum as a climate, traffic solution

Alex Brown

October 14, 2022 |

Stateline |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

Government officials in Denver, Colorado, are encouraging e-bike adoption with rebates for those purchasing one to reduce traffic and air pollution in the city. So far, over 4,000 e-bikes were bought with help from the rebates.

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High cost of prosthetics and child amputees' strive for a normal life

Kenneth Olajide Anne Pede Rose Owole

October 13, 2022 |

NewsWire NGR |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Nigeria

The Irede Foundation provides recycled prosthetics and other walking aids for children ages 18 and under with congenital limb deformities, as prosthetics can be extremely expensive. The Foundation also works to empower child amputees to live their lives to the fullest via mentoring and coaching sessions. The Foundation has provided 147 limbs to 103 children since its inception in 2012.

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A street lit by rotten onions? An Indian market embraces biogas.

Kavitha Yarlagadda

October 13, 2022 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: India, Hyderabad

At a vegetable market in Hyderabad, India, food waste is collected and converted into biogas to provide gas and electricity for buildings and streetlights. The process keeps the waste from emitting methane in a landfill and reduces reliance on fossil fuels and coal.

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How Angwan Gwuragwu, FCT women are earning while keeping community

Emiene Erameh

October 13, 2022 |

NewsWire NGR |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Nigeria, Angwan Gwuragwu, Abuja

In an effort to address issues of waste disposal, the Women Recyclers Empowerment Initiative empowers women in local communities by paying them to recycle plastics. Not only does the initiative address waste issues, but it also allows women to become financially independent. So far, 40 women have participated in the initiative.

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Denver's E-Bike Rebates Are So Hot They're Gone Within Minutes

Whitney Bauck

October 13, 2022 |

Bloomberg |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

Denver offers rebates up to $1,700 for residents purchasing electric bikes to encourage their adoption, increase accessibility for low-income residents, and help reduce air pollution.

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