
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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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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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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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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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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