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Smart Parks, the Dutch Technologists Tackling Poaching With Technology

A Netherlands-based organization deploying high tech is helping anti-poaching teams through access to real-time data such as animal locations, vehicle movements, and fence voltages, among other parameters.
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In Burundi, Former Combatants Who Razed Forests Now Raise Seedlings

The formerly warring factions are working together on the reforestation project that has been hailed as a fantastic initiative.
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From Invisible to Activists: How Spain's Migrants Self-Organized To Fight for Their Rights

Spain’s convoluted immigration and naturalization laws make it harder for undocumented migrants to find a path to citizenship outside regularization. These are the stories of several groups that are fighting to get their rights and get legal residence.
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Sea Turtles, Cool Corridors, & Dogs - Good News This Week: August 20th 2022

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Terraces used for farming in Pantelleria, Trapani district, Sicily, Italy.

Could This Ancient Farming Technique Be a Climate Solution?

Terracing has been used for centuries to help prevent fire, moderate temperatures, and make farming possible even when water is scarce.
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Meet the Acrobats Using Parkour to Fight Light Pollution

Light pollution impacts human health, animal behavior, and the environment as a whole. These parkour athletes are going leaps and bounds to decrease artificial light in Europe.
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Black Farming Projects Look To Recoup Historical U.S. Land Losses

White Americans own 98% of U.S. farmland, advocates say - now rural and urban growers of color are trying to get a fairer share
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Quote From Frederick Buechner: Your vocation in life is where your greatest joy meets the world’s greatest need.

24 Best Frederick Buechner Quotes To Honor His Life

Whether you are a person of faith, or not, may these words remind you of your power to make a meaningful difference with your life — through your vocation, in the lives of your neighbors, and in working for the joy and freedom of all.
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@Dexter345 on Twitter: My wife inherited an estimated $20,000 - $30,000 worth of guns. (This is only maybe a quarter of it.) We could have sold them but she decided to do something way more metal. She had them sawed into pieces so they can be melted down and fashioned into gardening tools.

Swords to Plows': This Nonprofit is Turning Guns into Garden Tools

While not a perfect solution on their own, gun buyback events can help reduce gun violence — especially when the guns are dismantled on the spot, and donated to be made into a tool for peace instead.
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As Temperatures Rise, Farms Are Sprouting in Alaska

Even as farms decline across the US, a longer growing season is bringing food security to a state that has long relied on sustenance from afar.
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Coral, EVs, & Cured Diseases - Good News This Week: August 13th 2022

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Can Arizona Citizens Use the Tools of Democracy To Preserve the State's Dwindling Water?

How a group of ‘scrappy’ locals are working to create Arizona’s first citizen-initiated groundwater management area.
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