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Vermont Bans Food From Landfills
Vermont becomes first state to ban food waste from landfills.
Institute for Local Self Reliance Composting Resources |
Kiss Your Gas GoodbyeMeet 3 people on a mission to electrify our homes. |
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Does Your Money Fuel Wildfires?
Activists put pressure on banks funding fossil fuel and move their money elsewhere.
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Games Help Us Imagine Climate SolutionsGames increase enthusiasm for climate solutions Play EarthGames Daybreak (sign up for 1 email when it launches) Solutions Game Kickstarter EverGreen: Humboldt County's Climate Action Plan Game print and play for free |
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You Don't Have to be Rich to Drive Electric Electric vehicle carshares for low income communities and a growing number of affordable used EVs are increasing access for all. Fuel savings calculator State rebates and tax credits Recurrent Auto (for EV owners and used EV shoppers) |
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Slow Streets Stall in Oakland
East Oakland's Black residents said Slow Streets are not what they need. The city revised the program to fix dangerous intersections instead.
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Saving COVID's Car Free Streets
Temporary slow and car free streets are filling in the gaps in cities' safe bike routes. Most are slated to end but activists are fighting to keep them.
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The Stone Soup Recipe for Climate Finance
Funding climate action will take more than public money. Communities add and multiply funds from the bottom up. |
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Land for new farmers
Farm land trusts, agricultural easements, and reparation land grants can help young farmers get access to land. |
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This is my home
Women mobilize their communities to stop petrochemical pollution. Louisiana Texas Action Toolkit |
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Stories from the Great New Jersey Plastic Ban
Girl Scouts in Teaneck and citizens in NJ beach towns set off a wave of municipal bag bans, that led to the nation's strongest state ban of single use plastic. Action Toolkit |
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Transforming Agriculture Part 2
Re-Localizing Food Regenerative farmers need local markets. That's where food hubs come in. And when COVID shut down corporate supply chains, food hubs delivered, for farmers and communities. Virginia Action Toolkit |
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Transforming Agriculture Part 1
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Vampires Shut Down Power Plants
Technology transforms home appliances into "vampires" and "werewolves" that shift energy use away from fossil fuel. Action Links CA: OhmConnect HI: Shifted Energy |
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Cool Election: Part 3
Campaign Giving for Climate Action Easy ways to make your contributions count Election Action Toolkit |
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Cool Election: Part 2
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Small Forests, Big Carbon
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Cool Election: Part 1
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Bringing Back the Tide
Communities race climate change to restore coastal marshes. Great Marsh of Massachusetts, San Francisco Bay Action Toolkit (and cute animal videos) |
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The Garbage Gourmets
Climate conscious chef teaches how to transform your discards into delicacies Action Toolkit |
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Cool Pavings
City experiments with paving to blunt effects of urban heat. Los Angeles, CA Co |
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School Bus Plus 1500 electric school buses will do double duty, storing energy for the grid. Virgina |
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Depaving Portland
Citizens take coolness into their own hands, removing asphalt and mapping urban heat. Portland, OR Action Toolkit |
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Cities Declare Climate Emergency
Activists get cities to declare emergency and plan for rapid transition to zero carbon Hoboken, NJ and Gainesville, FL Action Toolkit |
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Minnesota, the Solar Garden State Minnesota's community solar policy made it the solar garden capitol of the US. Action Toolkit |
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Sprouting from the Rooftops
Cooperatives help neighbors to go solar together Saint Augustine, FL and Washington DC Action Toolkit |
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Free Lyfts
Rural buses go fare free and thrive. Northeast Kingdom, VT and Sonoma County, CA Action toolkit |
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Waste Not, Warm Not
App helps communities turn food waste into meals, not methane Norwalk, CT and Columbia, SC Action toolkit |
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The Healing Power of Trees
Health researchers plant trees in Louisville to decrease deaths from heart disease. Louisville, KY Action Toolkit |
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So Good To Not Feel Alone
Unexpected alliance stops oil by rail in its tracks Vancouver, WA Action Toolkit |
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Street Lights Unplugged
Solar street lights bring safety and savings Highland Park, MI and Beaumont, CA |
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A Quiet Energy Revolution
Activists lead towns to consensus on 100% clean energy Norman, OK and Hanover, NH |
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People Over Parking Lots
Zoning change for walkable neighborhoods: Buffalo NY and Fayetteville, AR |
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Rising Green from the Ashes
Incentives help wildfire victims rebuild zero carbon homes Action toolkit |
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For more Cool Solutions episodes and Action toolkits,
see Solutions and DIY Toolboxes above
or listen to our podcast
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or listen to our podcast
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On your phone: Go to cool-solutions.org on your phone. Scroll down. Our buttons will be there waiting.
Click the button for your phone type : Google Play for Android and Apple Podcasts for iPhone
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Check out these links for other great climate podcasts:
Mothers of Invention Features women from around the world taking climate action
Stepping up Inspiring stories about climate activists from all walks of life
Climate Connections Weekly 2 minute briefs on climate news and solutions
Mothers of Invention Features women from around the world taking climate action
Stepping up Inspiring stories about climate activists from all walks of life
Climate Connections Weekly 2 minute briefs on climate news and solutions
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