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  • Plastic-choked rivers in Ecuador are being cleared with conveyor belts

    Kimberley Brown

    April 22, 2024 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: Ecuador, Quito

    The startup Ichthion created a system that skims plastic off of rivers in Ecuador to prevent it from reaching the ocean. A floating barrier stretches across the river to catch the plastic without disrupting fish, and a person manually guides the pollution onto the shore where it’s sorted for recycling.

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  • This self-taught innovator in Nigeria upcycles e-waste into power banks

    Johnstone Kpilaakaa Joey Shekwonuzhibo

    April 19, 2024 |

    Benjamindada.com |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    Zang Technologies creates portable chargers out of recycled materials, having sold 21,000 power banks since 2018. The chargers are compatible with a variety of devices, including smartphones, and offer sustainable power that also helps reduce waste by recycling electronics and turning them into alternative power sources.

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  • Caribbean startups are turning excess seaweed into an agroecology solution

    Marlowe Starling

    April 16, 2024 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Barbados

    Entrepreneurs in the Caribbean are collecting harmful sargassum seaweed that washes up on the beaches and turning it into agricultural products that reduce the need for synthetic fertilizers. Red Diamond Compost, for example, uses growth-stimulating hormones from the seaweed to create a soil additive that improves plants’ ability to absorb nutrients.

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  • South Africa's SAB Foundation: Why 90% of its investees are still in business five years later

    Anna Patton

    April 04, 2024 |

    Pioneers Post |

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    Response Location: South Africa, Johannesburg

    The SAB Foundation is an independent trust set up by South African Breweries (SAB) as part of the government’s Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment scheme. It helps businesses — particularly underserved entrepreneurs like women and people with disabilities — grow and thrive. Since 2010, the Foundation has backed more than 6,400 social impact businesses in their early stages.

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  • How to Revive a Burned Forest? Rebuild the Tree Supply Chain

    Lydia DePillis

    April 04, 2024 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    Mast Reforestation sells carbon credits to fund its work replanting trees where forests were decimated by wildfires. The company collects seeds from local, native trees, uses x-ray machines to ensure they are likely to sprout, and plants them.

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  • Canoes Become a Lifeline for Farming Communities Cut Off by River Flooding in Nigeria's Sokoto

    Muritala Abdullahi

    March 14, 2024 |

    The Solutions Paper |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Shinaka, Sokoto

    Some farmers in Sokoto, Nigeria, are cut off from their crops when the Rima River floods during the wet season. So, they use canoes, known as Jirgi, to ferry people and their harvests across the water.

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  • Emprendimientos migrantes claves para el desarrollo local

    Florencia Luján

    February 26, 2024 |

    +Comunidad |

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    Response Location: Argentina, Gualeguaychú

    En Gualeguaychú existen varios emprendimientos gastronómicos que están ayudando a solucionar el desempleo y aportando al desarrollo sostenible local.

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  • Mt. Everest is plagued by garbage. These Nepali women are transforming it into crafts

    Tanka Dhakal

    February 25, 2024 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: Tharu community, Nepal, Kathmandu

    A coalition of local businesses in Kathmandu, Nepal, is sorting non-recyclable waste collected from mountaineering activities in the Himalayan mountains. Once it is sorted, skilled Indigenous craftswomen make it into new products, like placemats and jewelry boxes, to earn a living.

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  • The Black Immigrant Women Who Bought a Minneapolis Mall

    Oscar Perry Abello

    February 20, 2024 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Minneapolis, Minnesota

    Ignite Business Women Investment Group and the nonprofit African Career, Education & Resources Inc. (ACER) are working together to raise funds to collectively acquire commercial real estate for members of the group and other small businesses — particularly those owned by African immigrants — in the community. Joint efforts allowed members to acquire and revitalize an old strip mall, providing retail space for local small business owners.

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  • This unexpected material might be in your next sweater

    Nicolás Rivero

    February 12, 2024 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: Netherlands, Amsterdam

    The Amsterdam-based startup Human Material Loop, collects human hair from salons and spins it into yarn to make clothing and furniture. It aims to keep hair out of landfills and incinerators while reducing the demand for synthetic fibers and wool, all of which produce greenhouse gases.

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