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  • How a Colombian City Cooled Dramatically in Just Three Years

    Peter Yeung

    March 04, 2024 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Colombia, Medellín

    Medellín, Colombia, is combating the urban heat island effect by creating green corridors across the city. Over 2.5 million plants and trees were carefully selected to maximize impact and planted on buildings and along roads and waterways.

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  • Paris Is Undergoing a Water Revolution

    Peter Yeung

    September 07, 2023 |

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    Response Location: France, Paris

    By focusing on preventing water pollution at the source, fixing leaks in the system, and public education, Paris cleaned up its water network and decreased water use by 10% over the last ten years.

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  • Delivering Addresses (and Access) to the Navajo Nation

    Peter Yeung

    August 25, 2023 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Navajo Mountain, Utah

    The Rural Utah Project is working to connect rural, off-the-grid residents in Navajo Mountain with fundamental services like mail, emergency medical care and voter access that they were often denied due to lacking a formally recognized address. Google’s Plus Code tool is allowing simple 10-digit codes to be generated anywhere in the world and instantly located on Google Maps. The codes can easily be looked up and doubles as a formal address in most cases.

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  • Can a City Feed Itself?

    Peter Yeung

    July 06, 2023 |

    Bloomberg |

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    Response Location: France, Paris

    In Paris, building-based agriculture, like rooftop gardens, allows for the production of nutritious food close to where they will be eaten. The practice helps eliminate carbon emissions, improve food security, and improve climate resilience.

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  • Cities Are Becoming More Like Sponges

    Peter Yeung

    May 30, 2023 |

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    Response Location: China, Haikou, Hainan

    One of China’s many “sponge cities,” Haikou, experiences virtually no flooding after transitioning to primarily green, nature-based infrastructure instead of gray infrastructure like concrete and flood barriers. Prioritizing things like parks, wetlands, mangroves, and permeable pavement allows the city’s ground to soak up more rain.

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  • With Green Prescriptions, Getting Healthier Is a Walk in the Park

    Peter Yeung

    May 29, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Canada

    Green prescriptions, like the practice of forest bathing, are becoming a formal part of the healthcare system. Organizations like PaRx work to connect people to green medicine in an effort to alleviate chronic conditions, increase health and happiness and foster a connection to the environment. Through the work of PaRx, 4,000 green prescriptions have been written by over 10,000 physicians in all 10 provinces.

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  • The Ancient 'Wonder Material' Sucking CO2 Out of the Atmosphere

    Peter Yeung

    May 22, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Cameroon

    When organic materials like wood chips and manure are heated in the absence of oxygen they create a black powdery substance called biochar. This material prevents the release of carbon into the atmosphere from the natural decaying process. And it has other beneficial uses like improving soil fertility, too.

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  • How India's First 'Green Village' Turned Hunters Into Conservationists

    Peter Yeung

    May 02, 2023 |

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    Response Location: India, Khonoma

    A community-led conservation project spurred by traditional knowledge allowed the residents of Khonoma, India, to become self-sustaining and earn additional income from ecotourism, as opposed to relying on hunting and logging.

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  • The world's best rainforest guardians already live there

    Peter Yeung

    May 01, 2023 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: Indonesia

    Empowering Indigenous peoples in Indonesia with land rights allows them to protect and manage rainforests and biodiversity. One tribe that’s doing so, the Kajang, relies on substance agriculture and does not allow practices like cutting down trees, hunting, or using technology on most of the land.

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  • How Floating Farms Are Helping Bangladesh Adapt to Climate Change

    Peter Yeung

    April 27, 2023 |

    Bloomberg |

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    Response Location: Bangladesh, Barisal

    Farmers in Barisal, Bangladesh, are returning to the traditional practice of growing crops on rafts to adapt to frequent floods and rising sea levels. The floating gardens made from woven water hyacinth have a layer of manure on top.

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