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A cutting-edge new community center in Tanzania will be 3D-printed using locally sourced soil
The Hope Village in Tanzania is soon to be home to a brand new, cutting-edge 3D-printed community center. What makes this center unique, though — is it will be created using locally sourced soil rather than layered concrete.
The soil will all be sourced within 25 kilometers (or 15.5 miles) of the build site, reducing the need to transport materials for construction. To account for the climate of the region and flexibility of use, the interior will feature an interior floor plan.
The center is part of a larger plan to provide housing, a school, childcare, and training to young girls in the community.
Florida is building a freshwater reservoir that will supply clean drinking water to millions of people
At the heart of Everglades National Park in South Florida, a new, 10,100-acre freshwater reservoir is being built. Once completed, it will be larger than Manhattan and Staten Island combined.
The "largest restoration project in the world," the Everglades Agricultural Area reservoir will help to reduce harmful discharges to the St Lucie River, the Caloosahatchee River, and Lake Worth Lagoon.
Those discharges harm coastal communities, and cleaning them up will provide fresh, clean water to millions of people who depend on getting clean water from the Biscayne Aquifer, which is supplied by freshwater from the Everglades.
What's the nuance? Longtime challenges like agricultural runoff, climate change, and pollutants like phosphorus that lead to devastating algae blooms all pose a problem for the reservoir. Still, the environmentalists and experts working on this project are familiar with the challenges and are working overtime to ensure that the restoration project is successful on multiple fronts.
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Take up to 30% off sustainable summer footwear from Nisolo
Nisolo's customer appreciation event is here! Today through August 28, shoppers — that's you! — can take 30% off site-wide. That means you can save on all shoes and accessories!
Whether you're looking for slides, heels, clogs, mules, or boots, every Nisolo product comes with a Sustainability Facts label, explaining what materials, labor, and distribution practices are behind your new favorite pair of shoes.
Nisolo is a Climate Neutral certified B corp, backed by the Leather Working Group, and even shares its "Lowest Wages" as a way to maintain transparency and ethical labor practices. Plus, the brand is actively pursuing 0% Net Carbon through the reduction and offsetting of carbon emissions.
A new trail network is the first in Vermont, and possibly the entire U.S., to be fully accessible to adaptive mountain bikes
Situated on 256 acres, a new mountain biking trail network called the Driving Range just opened in Vermont, and it's the first in the state — and potentially the country — to be fully accessible to adaptive mountain bikes.
The Driving Range is a collaborative effort from nonprofits, a donor who supplied the land, hundreds of volunteers — and it was spearheaded by two mountain bikers, including Greg Durso, who rides an adaptive mountain bike.
The "most critical volunteer" to the project, Durso personally test-rode each of the trails, which are open to all mountain bikers — and are by no means easy.
A collaborative initiative between two Oregon counties successfully housed over 5,500 formerly homeless individuals
Two counties in Oregon, Portland and Multnomah, just proved how effective a collaborative effort to address homelessness can be. In the last fiscal year alone, they moved nearly 5,500 individuals out of homelessness and into housing — a 28% increase over the previous year.
Additionally, the Joint Office of Homeless Services said 7,900 people accessed its shelter services, an increase of approximately 35% over the prior year.
The Joint Office was able to serve thousands more individuals thanks to supportive policy programs, which directly helped around half of those it served.
When you shop at the Apple Store, in the App Store, or on apple.com using Apple Pay, a portion of your purchase will go towards stewardship and programming for the country's national parks.
The initiative comes alongside the rollout of a number of new national park tech features, including a "Nature Awaits" playlist on Apple Music, as well as its annual National Parks Apple Watch Activity Challenge.
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