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  • Coastal Louisiana tribes team up with biologist to protect sacred sites from rising seas

    Ty Baniewicz

    September 02, 2020 |

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    Response Location: United States, Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana

    Indigenous communities in Louisiana are working with scientists to restore wetland ecosystems and protect tribal mounds along the Gulf Coast through backfilling projects. Depleted oil wells and canals in the area are often abandoned, creating reservoirs of stagnant water that affects freshwater plants and animals. The group has started to identify priority canal sites to fill in and seek funding to kick off the project, which can be challenging to get.

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  • How Montana Is Cleaning Up Abandoned Oil Wells

    Ray Levy Uyeda

    August 13, 2020 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Montana

    Abandoned oil wells in Montana leak thousands of metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions every year, so the Well Done Foundation is working to plug up those wells. In about a year, the foundation plugged its first three wells and expanded their program to other states. The data on the state of abandoned wells and its emissions isn’t complete, which makes it difficult to know the full extent of the problem. But, “what’s exciting about this is that we can make an impact one well at a time,” says Curtis Shuck, founder of the foundation.

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  • Can direct air capture make a real impact on climate change?

    Anna Kusmer

    July 03, 2020 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

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    Response Location: Switzerland, Zurich

    Climeworks is focusing on pulling carbon dioxide directly out of the air to store or reuse in some capacity as a way to lower global greenhouse gas emissions. The Swiss company has 16 plants around Europe, with their biggest one in Switzerland that removes 900 tons of carbon dioxide a year that is then sold to Coca-Cola Co. to put in soft drinks or to local industrial greenhouses for plant growth. Scaling the operations to capture more carbon is costly, but the startup recently raised $76 million from investors.

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  • The young people fighting the worst smog in Europe

    Jessica Bateman

    July 01, 2020 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: North Macedonia, Skopje

    To measure the level of air quality in Skopje – one of the most polluted cities in Europe – an engineering student developed an app that alerts residents of the pollution levels. The app has raised the awareness of the severity of the city's pollution problem and has helped to kickstart initiatives aimed to address it.

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  • How COVID-19 and the fight against Big Oil is reviving one Alaskan people's spiritual traditions

    Daysha Eaton

    May 30, 2020 |

    Religion News Service |

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    Response Location: United States, Alaska

    To the Gwich’in Athabascan people living inside the Arctic Circle in Alaska, the decades-long fight against oil drilling in the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) represents more than an environmental struggle: It has sparked a spiritual and cultural renaissance among indigenous people whose customs had been discouraged since colonial days. Young Gwich’in have worked to revive their language, self-sufficiency, and traditional arts and crafts. The COVID-19 pandemic has only deepened their commit to respond to threats to their way of life.

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  • Can We All Be Like Texas?

    David Byrne

    April 27, 2020 |

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    Response Location: United States, Georgetown, Texas

    West Texas, traditionally known for its oil business, has become a thriving home for wind energy. Beyond political ideology, wind power as a form of renewable energy is thriving for economic reasons, as it can be more profitable in the long run. In Texas, tax incentives and legislation helped develop the industry, and the proliferation of wind power is being replicated in places like Wyoming and Oregon.

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  • How Norway Convinced Drivers to Switch to Electric Cars

    Maddy Savage

    April 21, 2020 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: Norway

    Norway provides financial incentives for its citizens to transition to electric vehicles. The strategy is working—electric vehicles are responsible for 40 percent of new car sales, compared to 2 percent in the United States.

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  • Here comes the sun canoe, as Amazonians take on Big Oil

    Francesc Badia i Dalmases

    March 13, 2020 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: Ecuador, Kapawi

    The Kara Solar Foundation is looking to connect indigenous communities in Achuar territory in Ecuador to learn about solar power as an alternative to oil. By building solar-powered canoes, they can replace vessels that burn fossil fuels into the atmosphere. While the two boats in operation have run into technical problems, the intercultural training programs are instructing Achuar people on how to fix the technology. “Sustained and truly intercultural collaborations can create technological solutions that serve indigenous communities, rather than destroying them,” says Oliver Utne, the foundation's founder.

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  • Can rationing carbon help fight climate change?

    Frank Swain

    February 17, 2020 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: Australia, Norfolk Island

    As countries wrestle with how to reduce their carbon emissions, grassroots carbon rationing experiments are taking shape around the word. On an Australian Island of 800 people, a quarter of them participated in a test that calculated their carbon footprints with a goal of reducing their fossil fuel use by 10 percent. The average household reduced their usage by 18 percent and almost two-thirds of participants wanted to continue. Other experiments in Finland and the United Kingdom have taken place, yet some question if carbon rationing is equitable.

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  • Mountain athletes push progress over perfection in climate fight

    Jason Blevins

    January 31, 2020 |

    The Colorado Sun |

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    Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

    Since 2007, Protect Our Winters (POW) has engaged outdoor athletes to advocate for climate change. They believe in “imperfect advocacy,” in which they focus on corporate polluters whose habits can create larger-scale change, rather than putting the impetus for change solely on individuals. In doing so, they have been able to successfully engage athletes in their mission, build a partnership with the Climate Action Corps, a coalition of outdoor outfitters working for change at a corporate-level, and host rallies to sway public officials.

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