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Virtual Power Plants Offer A Climate-Forward Response To Increasingly Hot Summers

Cristian Salazar

August 04, 2023 |

Next City |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States

Virtual power plants are emerging in the United States and partnering with utility companies to manage energy demand during extreme weather and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. These plants are actually a portfolio of energy resources, anything from smart appliances in homes to solar panels and electric vehicle infrastructure outside of homes, that are tracked and managed digitally. This enables virtual power plants to encourage minimal peak energy use, increase the amount of renewable energy sent back to the grid, and decrease the use of peaker power plants that rely on fossil fuels.

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How Resilience Hubs Can Help Communities Face The Heat And The Climate Emergency

Erin Stone

July 31, 2023 |

LAist |

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Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

Trusted and popular community buildings across Los Angeles are being retrofitted with solar panels and batteries, so they can also function as resilience hubs during extreme heatwaves or other disasters. This way, they provide helpful resources outside of disaster protection and people are more likely to use them.

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An Ancient Desert-Dwelling Culture Embraces Hydroponics

Vandana K

July 28, 2023 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: India, Ghantiyali, Rajasthan

A nonprofit in India focused on supporting farmers, Urmul Seemant Samiti, is helping pastoralists transition to using hydroponics to grow fodder for their livestock amid increasing droughts. Alongside hydroponic fodder startup Hydrogreens, the organization trains pastoralists to use sprinkler systems to create fog that waters their indoor crops.

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Are Cooling Materials A Solution To Fight Urban Heat?

Erin Stone

July 27, 2023 |

LAist |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

A neighborhood group and a roofing company in Los Angeles, California, painted streets, parking lots, and a schoolyard with a “cool pavement” coating that reflects the heat from the sun. The coating keeping the surface cooler and providing relief from the urban heat island effect.

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How Farmers Used California's Floods to Revive Underground Aquifers

Elizabeth Hewitt

July 27, 2023 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, California

Tulare Irrigation District in California encourages farmers to flood their fields with water during the wet season, so it can slowly seep underground and recharge the groundwater aquifers. Those who do so earn credit that can be redeemed during the dry season to extract more water than they would otherwise be allowed.

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These thermal images show how Phoenix uses technology to keep cool

Allyson Chiu Erin Patrick O'Connor John Farrell

July 26, 2023 |

The Washington Post |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Phoenix, Arizona

The Office of Heat Response and Mitigation works to address the urban heat effect caused by intense summer temperatures. The Office has worked on several practices like coating streets and surfaces in light-colored, water-based asphalt treatments that reflect sunlight and absorb less heat than standard pavement. So far, 100 miles of residential roads have been covered in the treatment and roads with the treatment have an average surface temperature that is 10.5 to 12 degrees Fahrenheit lower than traditional asphalt.

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Bengal banana farmers bask in sunshine

Diwash Gahatraj

July 24, 2023 |

Village Square |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: India, Birbhum, West Bengal

Farmers in West Bengal, India, are swapping rice for bananas to save on expenses and labor and adapt to increasingly erratic monsoons and rainfall impacting yields. The farmers use solar panels and drip irrigation setups funded by the state government to reduce emissions and minimize water loss, as bananas require a lot of water.

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A crowdfunded community initiative evacuated over 6,000 South Sudanese citizens out of Khartoum

Richard Sultan

July 20, 2023 |

Aidóni |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: South Sudan, Juba

The Citizen's Call for the Emergency Evacuation of the South Sudanese collective arose after a lack of government action to help evacuate people pushed locals to start a crowdfunding campaign to facilitate the evacuations themselves. Through the use of social media, community meetings and press conferences the collective called upon locals and organizations to donate to the cause. The money was then used to pay truck drivers to help transport evacuated people. So far, these efforts have helped 6,600 individuals.

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Amid Severe Drought, Arizona Turns to Sustainable Farming

Roe Medovoi-Klotz

July 16, 2023 |

The Sweaty Penguin |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Tohono O'odham Nation Reservation, United States, Tucson, Arizona

Tucson-based Mission Garden’s crops are thriving in a drought-stricken region because of the use of techniques and knowledge from the Tohono O’odham Nation to plant traditional local crops and native plants that can handle the lack of water.

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The River Walk transformed San Antonio. Could Panther Island do the same for Fort Worth?

Haley Samsel

July 09, 2023 |

Fort Worth Report |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, San Antonio, Texas

A grassroots campaign to build out a river walk with walkable commercial and residential districts boosted economic development while improving flood control in San Antonio, Texas.

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