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How Bangladesh is supporting climate refugees

Sadiqur Rahman

December 07, 2023 |

BBC |

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Response Location: Bangladesh

Young Power in Social Action helps families displaced by extreme weather, like hurricanes, by building weather-proof homes and helping those who lost their jobs find new work by providing them with goats or sewing machines to help them create a new livelihood. The group has already helped rehome eight families and plans to rehouse eight more families by April 2024.

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The case for collective disaster preparedness

Colleen Hagerty

November 16, 2023 |

Hothouse 2.0 |

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Response Location: United States

Neighbors around the country are forming grassroots community groups to prepare for, and respond to, extreme weather and disasters. These groups organize aid and supplies, participate in reconstruction, and help others find shelter amidst the storms.

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The Grassroots Movement That Built Puerto Rico's First Community-Owned Microgrid

Katherine Rapin

June 10, 2023 |

Next City |

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Response Location: Puerto Rico, Adjuntas

The environmental nonprofit Casa Pueblo is installing solar panels and retrofitting buildings’ electrical systems to be off-grid in Adjuntas, Puerto Rico. Its work is helping to combat the blackouts and skyrocketing electricity prices that Puerto Ricans have faced since Hurricane Maria first damaged the grid in 2017.

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From Farmworkers to Land Healers

Brooke Anderson

April 25, 2023 |

Yes! Magazine |

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Response Location: United States, Sonoma County, California

North Bay Jobs With Justice teaches immigrant and Indigenous farmworkers how to restore the land’s ecological health and mitigate impacts of climate change and disasters like wildfires through training efforts and ancestral knowledge. The group has also helped workers organize for respect, safer conditions and fair pay.

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Mutually Assured Survival: New Orleans groups are rethinking disaster aid from the grassroots up

Jake Clapp

March 12, 2023 |

Gambit |

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Response Location: United States, New Orleans, Louisiana

Groups like the Mutual Aid – New Orleans Facebook group take a community-focused approach to disaster response and gather volunteers to deliver supplies to those in need in the aftermath of disasters like hurricanes and flooding. Frustrated by slow and oftentimes nonexistent government aid, these communities are taking matters into their own hands to effectively provide relief to fellow residents when disaster strikes.

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How to build homes that can fight climate change — and survive its effects

Claire Elise Thompson Gabriela Aoun Angueira

March 07, 2023 |

Grist |

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Response Location: Puerto Rico

After Hurricane Maria, shipping container houses gained popularity in Puerto Rico because of their affordability and faster build times.

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Lessons from Christchurch earthquake recovery for flooded upper North

Kathryn Ryan

February 10, 2023 |

RNZ |

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Response Location: New Zealand, Christchurch

The successful earthquake rebuild model in Christchurch, New Zealand, was a 60-40 cost-sharing agreement between the central government and local governments designed to be centralized and collaborative with contractors doing the rebuilding. This design could be a model for future disaster reconstruction across the country.

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Hurricane-damaged roofs in Puerto Rico remain a problem. One group is offering a fix

Adrian Florido

January 03, 2023 |

NPR |

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Response Location: United States Minor Outlying Islands, San Juan, Puerto Rico

The nonprofit PRoTechnos helps homeowners in Puerto Rico repair roofs damaged by hurricanes when they do not get government assistance to do so. The organization employs locals interested in learning about construction, so they can learn the skills necessary to get a job in the industry afterward.

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Restoring Watersheds, and Hope, After New Mexico's Record-Breaking Wildfires

Sara Van Note

December 15, 2022 |

Inside Climate News |

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Response Location: Santa Clara Native Reservation, United States, Gallinas, New Mexico

After fires and floods, the tribe of the Santa Clara Pueblo is restoring Santa Clara Canyon using traditional ecological knowledge to design mitigation and replanting methods using burned trees and strategic seeding. Now, they are sharing that knowledge at other locations needing restoration.

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Community Land Trusts Build Climate-Resilient Affordable Housing

Alexandra Applegate

December 01, 2022 |

Yes! Magazine |

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Response Location: United States, Big Pine Key, Florida

Community land trusts are nonprofits that buy land, build homes, and ensure the long-term affordability of the homes they build. A trust in Florida is not only ensuring homes stay affordable after natural disasters it is also focused on building units that can withstand storms so families do not need to rebuild.

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