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Tag: environment

StandardDecember 22, 2025Emma Kennedy

Investing from the roots: What Latin America told us about direct funding for community climate action

Recently, we brought together more than a hundred participants from across Latin America for an inspiring conversation on direct funding, climate resilience, and community-led innovation.  A powerful message emerged: sustainable Read more →

Changemaker Stories, ChangeX News, Social Impact
StandardDecember 20, 2019Julia Hildebrand

10 years after graduating, Dorian Torres Casillas went back to her high school … to plant trees

What comes to mind when you think of the benefits of tree planting? Maybe you think of CO2 emissions, the climate emergency or food production? If you’re in Arizona in Read more →

Changemaker Stories, Starter Profiles
StandardNovember 4, 2019Erin Boyd

The Community Fridge in El Mirage wants to make sure healthy nutrition is not a question of income

El Mirage opened a full-time Community Fridge this week at the Dysart Community Center, a place where surplus food is made easily and freely accessible to people in a community Read more →

Changemaker Stories, Starter Profiles
StandardOctober 21, 2019Julia Hildebrand

The City of Chicago built a community garden no one used, so Pearl Ramsey took over and brought it to life.

How many problems can a community garden solve? Pearl Ramsey’s garden in her neighborhood on Chicago’s Southside is a solution generator. Since she first stepped into the small patch in Read more →

Changemaker Stories, Starter Profiles
StandardSeptember 17, 2019Julia Hildebrand

Vera was tired of seeing plastic everywhere. Now she leads her own plastic-free movement in Chicago.

Vera Dorzhinova explains why she joined the Chicago Sustainability Challenge and “The Last Plastic Straw” movement in one simple sentence: “I want to be useful, and I’m worried about the Read more →

Changemaker Stories
StandardAugust 1, 2019Julia Hildebrand

Meet our sustainability champions in Arizona and Chicago

At the start of this summer we launched the Arizona and Chicago Sustainability Challenges in partnership with the Microsoft Datacenter Community Development Team, to inspire and support community members to Read more →

Changemaker Stories, Starter Profiles
StandardAugust 2, 2018Julia Hildebrand

No shops, no post office? How do you recreate community spaces in rural villages?

Johanna McDonald Steenkist is working with her community group in Camross on creating new spaces for people to meet and work together. Many rural villages in Ireland share the challenges of Camross, you Read more →

Changemaker Stories
StandardJuly 30, 2018Julia Hildebrand

Carrick on Shannon is getting ready to “Refill” and say no to single-use plastic bottles

In the “Meet our Starters” series we invite people who start new ideas in their communities to share their stories with the ChangeX community: What gets them excited about an Read more →

Starter Profiles
StandardMay 31, 2018Julia Hildebrand

We live in a plastic-dependent world – so how difficult is it to live without it?

Germany sometimes appears to be a role model in Europe when it comes to sustainable living and recycling. The 15-year old German Pfand system (a bottle and can return scheme) has been hailed as Read more →

Changemaker Stories
Tramore Beach, Waterford, Ireland
StandardMay 3, 2018Julia Hildebrand

People in Tramore are joining forces to stop the use of single-use plastic bottles

© Photo Copyright Irish Jaunt and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence. If you step on litter on your Sunday walk on an Irish beach, it’s most likely a Read more →

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