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As part of the Resilient Coastal Communities Project, she's been working with the New York City Environmental Justice Alliance and Columbia Climate School's Center for Sustainable Urban Development on a project to address flood risk in the New York-New Jersey metropolitan area, and she's written about her experience on Medium.
"All areas within New Zealand have a high proportion of coastline to land area, and for my home in the subtropical Far North'a long, narrow peninsula' this is especially true,'" she writes.
"Nature-based solutions, rather than gray infrastructure, are gaining increasing recognition for their potential to provide more sustainable and more affordable long-term adaptation for floods and climate change, while delivering better water quality outcomes."
One of those nature-based solutions she's been impressed with: living reefs.
She writes that she's been able to visit many M'ori communities along New Zealand's coast, "where many indigenous M'ori communities are on the front line of the climate crisis," and see first-hand how they've... Read the Entire ArticleSelected Grant News Headlines
"We are so used to being almost permanently online that we don't really appreciate what we have and do not really know what to do when we're not," Joni Mitchell wrote in her 1970s song "Big Yellow...more
"No one country and no one organization can achieve this alone," says GEAPP Chief Communications Officer Kate Wills.
"This is why we are committed to forming an ever widening and diverse alliance...more
The University of Utah's Wilkes Center for Climate Science and Policy has narrowed its list of finalists for its $500,000 Climate Launch Prize to seven.
The goal of the prize, which is one of the...more
"Having a purposeful job actually does transform someone's life," says Edwin Walsh, who runs a social enterprise in Australia called Assembled Threads.
"You actually are moving someone from...more
Foundation: Citi Foundation 
"To the youth, I urge you to be proactive, resilient, and persistent on your entrepreneurial journey," says the UN's resident representative in the Philippines.
"Make your voices heard, take up...more
Canada is putting its money where its mouth is, with a $2.5 million investment in five projects in India meant to help the country's poor, the Toronto Star reports.
"Many of these novel projects...more
Foundation: Hawaii Community Foundation 
If you're in your 60s or older and looking for adult day care in Maui, you're in luck.
The nonprofit Maui Adult Day Care Centers lost its West Maui Center in the Lahaina fire last August, but...more
"Africa faces significant healthcare challenges," says Mopelola Ajegbile, founder of Pishon Health.
"However, the continent is also brimming with talented innovators developing solutions...more
A 16-year-old from Rhode Island is headed to Washington, DC, in April to compete in the Poetry Out Loud national finals.
Jennifer Shon, a junior at Portsmouth Abbey School, won the state...more
A Louisiana community college is adding a new concentration to its culinary arts degreeand it's all about health.
Sowela Technical Community College's new Culinary Medicine Concentration blends...more
Social Entrepreneurship
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Building a Million Dollar Company Where Everyone Counts
Ganesh Natarajan is the Founder and Chairman of 5FWorld, a new platform for funding and developing start-ups, social enterprises and the skills eco-system in India. In the past two decades, he has built two of India’s high-growth software services companies – Aptech and Zensar – almost from scratch to global success.
