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Citizen Action: As Federal Climate-Fighting Tools Are Taken Away, Cities and States Step Up
Story details how state and local level actions involving citizen's initiatives and juries in different configurations are making headway in regional planning and initiatives for climate change and more.
"Across the country, local governments are accelerating their efforts to cut greenhouse gas...
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Ireland Signs Circular Economy Act Into Law
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A Minnesota Initiative Aims to Develop Regenerative Communities
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At Subcommittee Hearing, Farmers and Experts Highlight Need for Regenerative Agriculture Amid Worsening Climate Crisis
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Innovative organisations invited to apply for Circular Economy Living Lab
Businesses, start-ups, and community groups working on innovative projects to create a circular economy in the City of Casey are invited to apply for the Circular Economy Living Lab, with an opportunity to access funding up to $50,000 to trial their concept in collaboration with Council.
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Danish town embraces circular economy in bid to go green
"An industrial park in Skive is trying to solve two of the most urgent problems in Western societies: climate change and the effect of urbanization on rural areas. "
The project is notable for its government support (and allowed derogation from local energy production regulations in order to permit...
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New legal form recognizes companies with purpose
"The Congress of Deputies has witnessed today the announcement of a political agreement for the creation of the legal figure -Common Benefit and Interest Societies (SBIC)- that recognizes in Spain the companies that generate a social and environmental benefit, in addition to an economic return. The...
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University of Maine researchers: Circular economy concepts may be overlooking environmental justice
By Megan Quinn
WasteDive.Com
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Geneva is experimenting with the micro-farm method
Article explains a microfarming approach in Geneva, Switzerland and its ability to produce healthy organic food within the city on a plot of just 0.2 hectares. Privately financed for the moment, the articles notes that federal legislation supporting agriculture does not apply to such understakings...
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Terristories - Live theater, games and simulations towards collective rules and actions
Our primary goal is to achieve lasting and endogenous changes, in peculiar in the way land and resources have been collectively used, regulated and managed. In the heart of every territory, there are women and men living off their land, while jointly building upon their practical experience and who...