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  • Community ed centers help English learners break the ice(olation)

    October 01, 2022 |

    Sentinel Source (The Keene Sentinel) |

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    Response Location: United States, Keene, New Hampshire

    The Keen Community Education Center offers free English courses for locals whose first language is not English. Along with improving their writing, reading, and pronunciation, students say they find a sense of community among their peers.

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  • ‘This is the place for him': A bilingual preschool's effect on one Memphis community

    September 30, 2022 |

    Chalkbeat |

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    Response Location: United States, Memphis, Tennessee

    At Su Casa Preschool in Memphis students are taught the usual curriculum plus second language development. The program focuses on helping Spanish-speaking immigrant children access quality education.

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  • How Kenya Became the World's Geothermal Powerhouse

    September 26, 2022 |

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    Kenya is leading the world in geothermal electricity generation and infrastructure. The electricity is cheap, reliable, low-carbon, and a part of the country’s plan to industrialize.

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  • ‘Other Places in the Country Didn't Do This': How One California Town Survived Covid Better Than the Rest

    September 25, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, Davis, California

    A citywide effort in Davis, California, that included information campaigns, opening testing sites, and free testing made getting a weekly COVID test a habitual part of life in the community. As a result, the city had lower positivity rates than the rest of the state.

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  • Europe's Green-Building Retrofit Leader Is One of Its Smallest Countries

    September 21, 2022 |

    Bloomberg |

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    Response Location: Lithuania

    In Lithuania, building owners looking to retrofit to improve energy use, reduce heating costs, and lower carbon emissions, can make use of a lending approach that pairs grants and loans. The grants are intended to offset the expense of the loan and can act as a first-loss guarantee for investors.

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  • Money Growing on Trees

    September 20, 2022 |

    Native Science Report |

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    Response Location: Keweenaw Bay Bands of Lake Superior Chippewa, United States, Michigan

    The National Indian Carbon Coalition is helping tribes across the United States use the voluntary carbon market to earn revenue from their sustainable forest management and the carbon dioxide it traps. The coalition helps tribes with the preparation and contract work to set up carbon sales and gets paid back once the revenue comes in.

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  • Lebanese research preserves heat-adapted seeds to feed a warming world

    September 20, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Lebanon, Terbol

    The International Center for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas (ICARDA) preserves genetic diversity and breeds climate-resilient varieties of staple crops to improve livelihoods and strengthen food security — specifically in dry, climate-change-affected areas — by creating seed vaults. Through breeding programs over the past four decades, ICARDA has released more than 30 improved varieties of wheat, barley, chickpeas, lentils, and fava beans.

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  • In Puerto Rico, Activists Transform Abandoned Land To Build Food Sovereignty

    September 19, 2022 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: Puerto Rico, Ponce

    The community in Ponce, Puerto Rico, reclaimed a neglected, abandoned area by turning it into a community garden and gathering spot they call El Huerto Urbano del Callejón Trujillo. The garden supplies food to the community and gives people a place to learn about agriculture.

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  • Here's how an NGO is offering hope to children with down syndrome, other disabilities in Sokoto

    September 17, 2022 |

    International Centre for Investigative Reporting |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Sokoto

    The Handicap Opportunity for Positive Engagement Society is a nonprofit in Nigeria that provides free, specialized education for children with disabilities. Since the teaching is specific to their needs, students tend to improve in areas they’ve had difficulty with at other schools while here.

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  • How The Twin Cities Is Making Transit Accessible To Immigrants And Refugees

    September 16, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, Minneapolis, Minnesota

    The International Institute of Minnesota’s Bus Buddies program pairs volunteers with new Americans who need help navigating the Metro Transit system because it is run primarily in English. Volunteers take those in need of assistance on a ride to the place they need to get to so they can learn the route.

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