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‘This place wanted to be a wetland': how a farmer turned his fields into a wildlife sanctuary

Gabrielle Canon

October 22, 2023 |

The Guardian |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Oregon

A barley farm in southern Oregon transformed 70 of its 400 acres into a wetland sanctuary after it had spent years leaking phosphorus pollution into the Upper Klamath Lake. A team of scientists and advocates collaborated with the farmer to finance and construct the new natural ecosystem, which began to yield the farmer both environmental and financial benefits after only one year.

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The Nigeria Fact-Checkers' Coalition showed how collaborative journalism can work in West Africa

Phillip Anjorin

October 18, 2023 |

Nieman Lab |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: Nigeria

Ahead of Nigeria’s general election, a group of 12 media platforms and civil society organizations worked together as the Nigeria Factcheckers Coalition to debunk false information targeting voters. The coalition, which provided training and tools to participating journalists, fact-checked 127 during the week of the elections.

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'We could start to move the needle': Iowa offers model for fixing Mass. child-care crisis

Samantha J. Gross

October 15, 2023 |

The Boston Globe |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Iowa

After the COVID-19 pandemic weakened an already fragile child-care industry, Iowa created an incentive program offering grants to help businesses build their own child-care centers or purchase slots in existing facilities. So far, the state has awarded more than $75 million, which has helped create nearly 11,000 new child-care slots.

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How a California Child Care Workers' Union Fought for Living Wages — and Won

Daisy Nguyen

October 13, 2023 |

KQED |

Radio |

3-5 Minutes

Response Location: United States, California

By organizing on nights and weekends through their union, Child Care Providers United, home-based child care providers in California were able to secure a landmark contract creating the country’s first retirement fund for unionized child care workers.

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Miyawaki: A little forest with a towering task

Jingnan Peng

September 22, 2023 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

Video |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Residents of Cambridge, Massachusetts, are planting Miyawaki forests to help regenerate the local ecosystem, sequester carbon, and cool the air. Originally created in Japan, these forests consist entirely of native plants made to mimic a natural forest in a small area of urban land.

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Students challenged their school board to act on sustainability — and it worked

Deepa Fernandes Ashley Locke

September 07, 2023 |

WBUR |

Radio |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Salt Lake City, Utah

Students in the Salt Lake City school district advocated for their school board to pass a clean energy resolution and make sustainability renovations. It worked. Now, the district is moving forward with a $29 million dollar project aligned with those goals.

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Paris Is Undergoing a Water Revolution

Peter Yeung

September 07, 2023 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: France, Paris

By focusing on preventing water pollution at the source, fixing leaks in the system, and public education, Paris cleaned up its water network and decreased water use by 10% over the last ten years.

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Landless Workers Fight for Fair Food

Nicole Froio

August 31, 2023 |

Yes! Magazine |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Brazil

The Landless Workers Movement in Brazil is fighting for land access for rural workers and is breaking up unequal land monopolies by squatting on privately-owned vacant land. This practice attracts the attention of the federal government, which assesses whether it can buy the land and provide it to the movement to live and farm on.

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How Houston Cut Its Homeless Population by Nearly Two-Thirds

Alan Greenblatt

August 30, 2023 |

Governing |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Houston, Texas

Houston’s The Way Home collective is made up of 100 nonprofits with different approaches to combatting homelessness. Case managers enter information about people experiencing homelessness in the city into a database that shows all of the programs each person is eligible for and which nonprofits have space available.

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Grassroots Housing Reparations

Roxanne Patel Shepelavy

August 29, 2023 |

The Philadelphia Citizen |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Portland, Oregon

The best way to grow generational wealth in the United States is by owning a home, so the Portland-based collective Taking Ownership is fighting the effects of gentrification in Black neighborhoods by helping homeowners do necessary home improvement work. Volunteers and licensed contractors do the work, and the projects are funded with donations from mostly White and wealthy donors.

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