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

    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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  • From inspiration to action: young Nigerians take charge of their communities

    Turnup Jigawa is a leadership program that provides mentorship around advocacy and communication with the goal of training young people to engage with lawmakers and community stakeholders. Students go on to spearhead projects in their own communities, such as one participant’s awareness campaign around environmental hygiene and another’s initiative to provide college and career counseling to secondary students.

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  • This county launched an ambitious child care effort 7 years ago. Here's what happened.

    The Child Care 8000 initiative set out to increase the number of available child care slots in Mesa County, Colorado by encouraging coordination, streamlining the licensing process, and expanding training opportunities. Though the campaign did not reach its goal, it did help add roughly 800 child care slots and improve the quality of existing programs.

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  • Can City Government Change Itself?

    Philadelphia’s Innovation Fund and Innovation Management Team provide support for municipal departments to help them better serve residents. The initiative, which includes an Innovation Academy that trains city workers to apply design thinking and creative problem solving, has supported projects ranging from the development of multilingual voter guides to free pantries for menstrual products.

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  • Tackling climate change and alleviating hunger: States recycle and donate food headed to landfills

    To reduce landfill use and greenhouse gas emissions while feeding those in need, New York’s food donation program requires big businesses to donate edible food to places like food banks instead of throwing it out.

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  • Cree kids become recording artists talking about mental health, friendship and culture

    Cree youth in Calgary, Alberta, are expressing their views and experiences by writing, recording, and performing original music. The program, called Nikamo, is part of a collaboration between a local theater and a nonprofit focused on supporting youth mental health.

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  • Diocese of San Joaquin nears its renewable energy goal, with 95% reliance on solar power

    The Diocese of San Joaquin in California worked together with a developer and local utilities to install solar panels at 14 of its locations to make 95% of its energy use renewable.

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  • To keep track of salmon migrations in real time, First Nations turn to AI

    In partnership with Indigenous-led fisheries, researchers in British Columbia deployed an artificial intelligence system to automate the counting of Pacific salmon during their migration. The AI-based tool, which analyzes underwater video, can identify some species of fish with 90 percent accuracy, and Indigenous stewards who participated in the pilot project said not having to count salmon manually freed them up for other important projects.

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  • Matching programs help up-and-coming Thurston County farmers get their footing. Here's how

    In Washington, the Thurston Conservation District’s South Sound FarmLink program helps farmers connect with locals who are willing to lease their land for agricultural use. This is especially helpful for farmers who are just starting their careers and can’t afford to buy land.

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  • How the United Nations, kids and corporations saved the Red Sea from an oil disaster

    A coalition of governments, oil companies, and individual donors funded the effort to prevent a million-barrel oil spill in the Red Sea from the deteriorating shipping boat the FSO Safer. The funds allowed the United Nations to buy another container ship and transfer all the oil onto that instead.

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