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  • Pre-Pesticides, Pro-Farmer: The Rise of Agroecology

    Meg Wilcox

    January 23, 2024 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Philippines

    Farmers around the world are implementing agroecology practices to make their farms more resilient to climate change while promoting climate justice to strengthen farming communities. Agroecology follows 13 principles that include ecological practices, like using organic fertilizers, and political and social values, like embracing land rights.

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  • To Cut Ocean Plastic Pollution, Aquaculture Turns to Renewable Gear

    Meg Wilcox

    June 27, 2022 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Response Location: United States, Freeport, Maine

    Ocean Farms Supply makes and sells oyster harvest bags out of biodegradable materials, rather than plastic, to help cut down pollution. The company sells the bags locally but has also distributed them to other regions like Mexico, California, and Florida, so far replacing the use of 14 linear miles of the previously used polypropylene mesh.

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  • Large food companies are looking to lock carbon in soil as a way to meet ambitious emissions goals

    Meg Wilcox

    February 09, 2021 |

    Ensia |

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    Response Location: United States, Fairfield, Maine

    Stonyfield, an organic dairy company, is working with six of its suppliers to pilot how farms can measure the amount of carbon it’s trapping in soil through regenerative farming practices as a way for the company to achieve its goals to cut carbon emissions. The OpenTEAM initiative is working to demonstrate how a dairy farm could improve its soil health to reach carbon net zero and, eventually, have food companies pay its farmers to adopt the new practices.

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  • How Chelsea, Mass., Is Tackling Coronavirus

    Meg Wilcox

    April 22, 2020 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Chelsea, Massachusetts

    The city of Chelsea's history of community organizing, intense coordination, and ongoing planning for climate resilience prepared it to quickly pivot and better address the coronavirus crisis than other under-resourced, predominantly immigrant communities. Still, local leaders are clear: state and federal resources are desperately needed in one of the Boston area's definitive hot spots.

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  • Tech accelerators help nonprofits fast-track technology aimed at solving environmental challenges

    Meg Wilcox

    April 04, 2019 |

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    Response Location: United States, Honolulu, Hawaii

    A solar panel that turns water in the air into clean drinking water is just one of many environmental solutions coming out of new partnerships between technology accelerator programs and environmental non-profit organizations. Groups like Conservation International and World Wildlife Fund are working alongside programs like Elemental Excelerator - all aimed at scaling environmental solutions. The goal isn’t to avoid policy change or other work, but rather to make creative innovation more widely accessible in the meantime.

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