Would you ditch your grass for less-thirsty plants? In a place where every drop of water counts, a little cash compels residents to say yes.
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Usually known for their work in more rural places, nature’s best engineers have brought their ecosystem management skills to the big city.
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Welcome back to #StatsSunday — your statistical fix, pulled from this week’s stories.⁠ Read this stat’s story here: reasonstobecheerful.world/cities-skatebo…

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A seed bank full of carefully stored, drought-resistant varieties is helping to revive parched land and improve farmers’ livelihoods.
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A unique collaboration pairs a recovery group and an EMS team to help those with alcohol and substance abuse disorders find long-term care.
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New skate plazas in cities from San Francisco to Paris are proving that making spaces skateable makes them safer and more dynamic, too.
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Chinampas — an ingenious adaptation to the Valley of Mexico’s lake-filled landscape — could hold lessons for cities around the world.
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Jose Paiz is not your typical modern farmer; he's a chinampero, tending to crops in Mexico City's suburbs using a farming method dating back 1,000 years. Chinampas, man-made island-farms, are one of the most productive agricultural systems in the world.
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Centuries ago, the Aztecs cultivated 'chinampas' - floating farms - to grow food in the marshy lands south of Mexico City. The highly-productive system, still used to this day, has lessons for cities globally.

My report from Xochimilco for Reasons to be Cheerful

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Through Backyard Habitat Certification, individuals strive to make even the smallest outdoor spaces more biodiverse. Those changes add up.
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#Thailand is looking for its thousands of fish farmers to practice a new way of sustainable #fishfarming and that’s called Integrated Multi-trophic Aquaculture or #IMTA . I recently made a special report for Reasons to be Cheerful and this is what we found 👇🏼

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A sustainable, integrated approach to fish farming has caught on in China and elsewhere. Thailand could be next.
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My report about Integrated multi trophic aquaculture in #Thailand for Reasons to be Cheerful. We visited fish farms near Bangkok, Nakhon Pathom and learned how aquaculture experts are pushing for Thailand to adopt more sustainable way to fish farm. #IMTa reasonstobecheerful.world/adopting-the-a…