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A Peoria repair cafe with no building of its own just finished its first year, and it is not slowing down

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Jennifer Brady and Nikki Merz Andrews started the Peoria Repair Cafe with one October event and no storefront to their name, and a year of borrowed library and makerspace floors later they have got at…

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A hackerspace repair day, run by and for disabled makers

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The Lemonaut draws a hackerspace running its own prosthesis maintenance day, disabled makers trading fixes and tricks for a world that was never built with them in mind, right alongside the activists …

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Gateshead is heating homes with warm water pulled from its own flooded coal mines

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Gateshead spent centuries being mined for coal, right up until Margaret Thatcher shut the pits in the 1980s. Now the flooded, abandoned workings under the town are heating it instead: the council-owne…

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In the Basque Country, 70,000 workers own the fifth-largest private employer in Spain

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Ninety-two cooperatives, more than 70,000 workers, and together they are the fifth-largest private employer in Spain: that is Mondragon, out of the Basque Country, pulling 11.3 billion euros in revenu…

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The Grid That Doesn't Need a Data Center's Permission

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This one from Commando Jugendstil has been sitting in the queue waiting for the right week, and the data center backlash just handed it one. The Washington Post is reporting voters in more than a doze…

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Tokyo's Disaster Plan Runs on Bicycles, Not Bailouts

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Spotted this one from the Cycling Embassy of Japan and had to queue it straight away. Instead of the usual disaster-response fantasy of trucks, contractors and a FEMA-style price tag, this infographic…

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The Parking Lot Gets a Better Zoning Plan

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Joan de Art (Becca Bowlin) redraws a dead strip-mall parking lot as a pond, a garden, and a bench full of neighbors, which is a better use of that asphalt than literally anything currently zoned for i…

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Post-Scarcity Looks a Lot Like a Dance Floor

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Sean Bodley's "Solarpunk Anarchy" skips the gag entirely and just draws the argument: a crowd dancing, eating, and playing music together, with nothing scarce enough to force anyone into competing for…

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The Retraining Center That Beat the Layoff Notice

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Found something worth queuing today from the artist the-lemonaut, whose piece "The Community Center" pictures a coal miner walking out of the pit and straight into a wind-turbine engineer's welcome in…

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On a tiny Indonesian island, 44 women learned to dive and rebuilt 850 square meters of reef

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On Gili Air, a speck of an island in Indonesia's Gili chain, a Dutch conservationist named Rose Huizenga built a nine-week program to teach local women to dive, and then to rebuild reef. Coral Catch h…

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A Montana fairgrounds pavilion now makes over a third of its own power, paid for with donated labor and community funds

Sixty-six panels went up on the roof of the Fergus County Fairgrounds pavilion in Lewistown, Montana, paid for with 44,000 dollars of donated labor and materials from Bozeman Green Build, county budge…

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A Queensland park got a battery, and the neighbors with no solar panels get the sunshine anyway

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MacGregor Park in Noosaville now has a battery bolted into the grid, soaking up the neighborhood's daytime rooftop solar and handing it back at dinnertime. Nobody signs up and nobody needs a roof of t…

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A South African school cooks lunch for 1,054 kids on gas made from cattle dung

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Four volunteers in Limpopo haul cattle dung by ox-cart to a digester the size of a small building, and the methane it makes now cooks breakfast and lunch for all 1,054 kids at Tiyani Secondary School.…

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Georgia mapped where its marshes will need to run to, and found 56,000 acres of it still up for development

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Georgia's marshes are the biggest connected stretch of salt marsh left on the Southeastern coast, and they're about to need somewhere to go. With one to two meters of sea level rise projected along th…

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Seattle just told landlords that pet rent is not a thing anymore

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Seattle just banned pet rent and mail fees on every rental in the city, armed its inspectors with subpoena power to catch landlords faking deposits, and did it nearly unanimously - the lone objection …

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Virginia's first crop-growing solar farm makes more power than it needs

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For years the argument against solar farms was that they would starve out farmland, panels or produce, pick one. Roundabout Meadows in Loudoun County picked both: 8 acres of community farm running 42 …

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A cartoon tree charges bikes, and a Cambridge lab grew the real thing out of algae

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Jared Koh drew two cyclists charging their e-bikes off a solar-farm tree, and out in Cambridge a bio-designer actually grew the real thing: a living algae battery that runs on nothing but light. See t…

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Arizona's first health-center microgrid keeps the vaccines cold when the power goes out

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Four clinics in Douglas, Arizona now ride out blackouts on solar and battery power instead of hoping the grid holds, the state's first health-center microgrid, built with Inflation Reduction Act money…

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Three more African countries just told the deep-sea miners to wait

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Mauritius, Mozambique, and the Republic of the Congo just told the deep-sea mining companies to wait, joining Malawi, Kenya, and Madagascar in backing a precautionary pause on seabed mining at the Int…

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A volunteer crew in Minnesota planted a forest you are allowed to eat

Seven volunteers on the Vadnais Heights Green Team spent a Minnesota fall prepping ground and a Minnesota spring planting it, and this morning the town gets to walk through the result: a corner of Com…

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Illinois is turning self-storage roofs into neighborhood power plants

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There are 5 million square feet of Public Storage rooftop sitting in Illinois doing absolutely nothing, and Solar Landscape is putting community solar on 60 of them. Ten are already running, including…

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France collected 13,760 tonnes of worn-out solar panels last year and kept 90 percent of it out of the ground

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Soren, the state-approved French take-back scheme that 600 producers fund with 12 million euros in eco-contributions, collected 13,760 tonnes of worn-out solar panels last year with collection up 40 p…