Cincinnati gives out nearly $1 million to residents fighting climate change
Climate Connections

Cincinnati gives out nearly $1 million to residents fighting climate change

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 2, 20261 min

The city's Seeds of Change program is funding community gardens, composting efforts, solar installations, a bike repair program, and more. Learn more at https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/

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ideas about ways to reduce carbon pollution and improve the city's resilience to climate

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I'm Dr. Anthony Leiserwitz and this is Climate Connections. A few years ago, the city of Cincinnati held dozens of public meetings to gather residents' ideas about ways to reduce carbon pollution and improve the city's resilience to climate change.

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And we heard thousands of ideas. Oliver Croner, director of the city's Office of Environment and Sustainability, says some ideas were programs that the city should implement. But many of them were ideas that people wanted to implement themselves.

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And we thought, wouldn't it be cool if we provided a little bit of seed funding to set those visions in motion? So his team created the Seeds of Change program. In its first three years, the program has provided almost a million dollars in grants

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