Thousands rally in Spain's Canary Islands against mass tourism, BBC News (Apr 20, 2024) - Public Lands Rule will help conserve wildlife habitat, restore places impacted by wildfire and drought, expand outdoor recreation, and guide thoughtful development, blm.gov (Apr 18, 2024)
- ‘We need more shade’: US’s hottest city turns to trees to cool those most in need, theguardian.com (Apr 17, 2024)
- ‘A roof over our people’s heads’: the Indigenous US tribe building hempcrete homes, theguardian.com (Apr 16, 2024)
- Resist The Devil We Know, Alternative Editorial (Apr 14, 2024)
- Swapping red meat for herring, sardines and anchovies could save 750,000 lives, study suggests, theguardian.com (Apr 09, 2024)
- Policy experts hail Supreme Court ruling on climate change but stress that India's transition to clean energy to fight climate change must not lead to environmental injustices., energy.economictimes.indiatimes.com (Apr 09, 2024)
- Human rights violated by Swiss inaction on climate, ECHR rules in landmark case, theguardian.com (Apr 09, 2024)
- At ‘Garbage Cafes,’ You Can Trade Plastic Bottles for Free Food, reasonstobecheerful.world (Apr 05, 2024)
- Women fight back as Milei’s government tries to starve their soup kitchens, opendemocracy.net (Apr 03, 2024)
- As the First Nations know, forests are ‘music to the soul’, positive.news (Apr 03, 2024)
- From ashes to action: how global mapping illuminates forest conservation's path, north-arrow.org (Apr 02, 2024)
- The Towns Outsmarting Airbnb, reasonstobecheerful.world (Apr 02, 2024)
- It takes a village: the Indian farmers who built a wall against drought, theguardian.com (Mar 29, 2024)
- International Court Issues First-Ever Decision Enforcing the Right to a Healthy Environment, insideclimatenews.org (Mar 29, 2024)
- Women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are pushing for land rights, and curbing gender-based violence in the process, positive.news (Mar 29, 2024)
- ‘Net-negative’ emissions update, carbonbrief.org (Mar 27, 2024) — includes listing of countries already at net-negative emissions and countries aiming for net-negative emissions
- Free lunches, brain breaks and happy teachers: why Estonia has the best schools in Europe, theguardian.com (Mar 27, 2024)
- Calls for international criminal court to end ‘impunity’ for environmental crimes, theguardian.com (Mar 26, 2024)
- ‘Climate-smart’ acres to expand via new U.S. agroforestry project, news.mongabay.com (Mar 25, 2024) — Agroforestry practices are effective at capturing carbon while providing additional commodities and land benefits to farmers
- The best solutions to make life possible in the Caatinga semiarid region are those born from popular wisdom. “Those that sprout like a seed you put in the ground.” Tião Alves, news.mongabay.com (Mar 25, 2024)
- The powerful municipalism operating in Naples and Barcelona has concrete lessons for community power in the UK, Daily Alternative (Mar 19, 2024)
- Record heat index of 62.3C scorches Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro, aljazeera.com/ (Mar 18, 2024)
- The city where ‘the future has already arrived’, positive.news (Mar 18, 2024)
- “Housing that is dignified, durable, beautiful and adaptable, and made available for all.” Dan Hill and Mariana Mazzucato dream big, Daily Alternative (Mar 16, 2024)
- Dwindling water sources straining water supply in parts of Bengaluru, india.mongabay.com (Mar 14, 2024)
- Seven times size of Manhattan: the African tree-planting project making a difference, theguardian.com (Mar 13, 2024)
- Lima’s neurodiverse picnic movement is liberating Peruvians from stigma and abuse, positive.news (Mar 13, 2024)
- The climate cafe helping eco-anxious Africans find hope amid the heat, positive.news (Mar 11, 2024)
- Teen activist Anjali Sharma wages war on government climate inaction from dorm room, abc.net.au (Mar 11, 2024)
- Youth activists need protection against smear campaigns and arrests, says UN expert, theguardian.com (Mar 11, 2024)
- How a Nigerian ecofeminist grew a climate movement, chinadialogue.net (Mar 08, 2024) — After witnessing the violent impacts of warming, Oladosu Adenike started a national movement empowering young people to take action
- The Māori climate activist breaking legal barriers to bring corporate giants to court, theguardian.com (Mar 06, 2024)
- Why Europe is dismantling its dams, BBC Future (Mar 05, 2024)
- Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr - the tree-planting mayor of Sierra Leone's capital Freetown, BBC News (Mar 04, 2024)
- We need to talk about water – and the fact that the world is running out of it, George Monbiot, theguardian.com (Mar 04, 2024)
- She moved me’: the UK dancers inspired by India’s 112-year-old environmentalist, theguardian.com (Mar 03, 2024)
- This is how Latin America tries to turn its youth into young homeowners, globalvoices.org (Mar 01, 2024)
- Launch of a new political project from the Alternative Global— SPRING, Alternative Editorial (Mar 01, 2024)
- Afro-Brazilian quilombo community wins historic land claim, setting new precedent, news.mongabay.com (Feb 29, 2024)
- ‘We don’t need air con’: how Burkina Faso builds schools that stay cool in 40C heat, theguardian.com (Feb 29, 2024)
- Food forests grown by Nile Basin farmers restore wetlands and bring back a turtle, news.mongabay.com (Feb 28, 2024)
- When governments fund fossil fuels, it’s time to take them to court, climatechangenews.com (Feb 28, 2024)
- European nations must end repression of peaceful climate protest, says UN expert, theguardian.com (Feb 28, 2024)
- Climate change is fanning the flames of NZ’s wildfire future. Port Hills is only the beginning, theconversation.com (Feb 22, 2024)
- A laughter cafe, a healing cafe, a soup cafe, a mending cafe... Anything but yet another coffee cafe, pleads Bridget McKenzie, Daily Alternative (Feb 21, 2024)
- University of Florida student senate passes ‘green new deal’, theguardian.com (Feb 21, 2024)
- How Greenland’s tourism industry lobbied for a green tax, and won, positive.news (Feb 20, 2024)
- California proposes fracking phaseout, making good on Newsom’s pledge, thehill.com (Feb 19, 2024)
- Hector Bellerin at Real Betis: Championing sustainability and tackling social issues, BBC News (Feb 16, 2024)
- Recognition from UN for Nepal’s tiger range restoration opens doors for technical and financial support, news.mongabay.com (Feb 15, 2024)
- Community seed banks offer hope for the Amazon across Brazil’s soy belt, news.mongabay.com (Feb 15, 2024)
- ‘It’s almost carbon-negative’: how hemp became a surprise building material, theguardian.com (Feb 15, 2024)
- What will Spain look like when it runs out of water? Barcelona is giving us a glimpse, María Ramírez, theguardian.com (Feb 15, 2024)
- France halts €100-a-month electric car leasing scheme after huge demand, theguardian.com (Feb 14, 2024)
- ‘We are in an era of megafires’: new tactics demanded as wildfires intensify across South America, theguardian.com (Feb 13, 2024)
- One of NZ’s most contentious climate cases is moving forward. And the world is watching, theconversation.com (Feb 12, 2024)
- A Socio-Politics For Our Times, Alternative Editorial (Feb 11, 2024)
- How do you make a global citizens movement? Like bees to flowers, connect across profoundly different realities, says Jose Ramos, Daily Alternative (Feb 11, 2024)
- ‘Forest pharmacy’ kept standing by traditional healers in Philippines, news.mongabay.com (Feb 09, 2024)
- To save its coastal rail line, California will need to move it away from the ocean, Editorial, latimes.com (Feb 09, 2024)
- In Chile, huge wildfires have killed at least 131 people – but one village was almost untouched, theconversation.com (Feb 08, 2024)
- Hopes for end to land conflicts raised by new agrarian courts in Colombia, news.mongabay.com (Feb 07, 2024)
- I was a kitchen snob who would only cook on gas. Now an induction hob is my new flame, theguardian.com (Feb 05, 2024)
- Parisians vote in favour of tripling parking costs for SUVs, theguardian.com (Feb 04, 2024)
- These Are the Climate Grannies. They’ll Do Whatever It Takes to Protect Their Grandchildren, insideclimatenews.org (Feb 03, 2024)
- Green Football Weekend: how to make a Premier League club truly ‘sustainable’, theconversation.com (Feb 01, 2024)
- Norway has made a vital climate leap. This is how Britain can do the same, Tessa Khan, theguardian.com (Jan 31, 2024)
- Environmentalists See Nevada Supreme Court Ruling Bringing State’s Water Management ‘Into the 21st Century’, insideclimatenews.org (Jan 31, 2024)
- Low-carbon milk to AI irrigation: tech startups powering Latin America’s green revolution, theguardian.com (Jan 30, 2024)
- The sinking Louisiana town of Isle de Jean Charles was forced to pack up and move to safer ground. Many more US towns may soon need to follow in their footsteps, bbc.com/future (Jan 30, 2024)
- California's first ever U.S. Indigenous Marine Stewardship Area declared, Liz Kimbrough, news.mongabay.com (Jan 29, 2024)
- Move to sustainable food systems could bring $10tn benefits a year, study finds, theguardian.com (Jan 29, 2024)
- ‘Our contribution to a cleaner world’: How Kenya found an extraordinary power source beneath its feet, theguardian.com (Jan 25, 2024)
- The township caravan tackling South Africa’s femicide problem – the African way, positive.news (Jan 24, 2024)
- Groundwater Levels Around the World Are Dropping Quickly, Often at Accelerating Rates, insideclimatenews.org (Jan 24, 2024)
- Limitarianism: why we need to put a cap on the super-rich, theguardian.com (Jan 21, 2024)
- How fig trees could revolutionise reforestation and tourism in Borneo, chinadialogue.net (Jan 19, 2024)
- Reverse in endangered fish’s slide to extinction helped by Indigenous effort in Bangladesh, news.mongabay.com (Jan 19, 2024)
- Migrants can be a transformative force for sustainable development, theconversation.com (Jan 18, 2024)
- ‘It gets your stomach churning’: the team wading through nappies to clean up Bali’s waterways, theguardian.com (Jan 17, 2024)
- Not the end of the world: nine data-driven reasons to look beyond doomsday headlines, positive.news (Jan 16, 2024)
- Inside the DIY Movement to Fight Coastal Erosion, wired.co.uk (Jan 16, 2024)
- Puerto Rico is using residents’ home batteries to back up its grid, grist.org (Jan 16, 2024)
- Assumptions and omissions challenged, response to: “Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet.” book by Hannah Ritchie, news.mongabay.com (Jan 16, 2024)
- ‘Ours could be the first generation that leaves the environment in a better state than we found it’, positive.news (Jan 16, 2024)
- Six ways inequality holds back climate action, theconversation.com (Jan 15, 2024)
- "Just Transformations" shows grassroots movements for alternative futures arising across the planet, Daily Alternative (Jan 14, 2024)
- Human ‘behavioural crisis’ at root of climate breakdown, say scientists, theguardian.com (Jan 13, 2024)
- As a psychologist I have witnessed a surge in climate grief. This is what I tell my clients, Carly Dober, theguardian.com (Jan 12, 2024)
- 2023 smashes record for world’s hottest year by huge margin, theguardian.com (Jan 09, 2024)
- A Surprising Way to Stop Bullying, reasonstobecheerful.world (Jan 08, 2024)
- Climate change could slash Colorado stream flows, with effects across the US West: report, thehill.com (Jan 08, 2024)
- Once Known for Its Pollution, Pittsburgh Becomes a Poster Child for Climate Consciousness, insideclimatenews.org (Jan 08, 2024)
- The Guardian view on fare-free public transport: good for people as well as the planet, theguardian.com (Jan 07, 2024)
- It’s 2024. Time to start acting like climate change actually matters, Sammy Roth, latimes.com (Jan 04, 2024)
- I thought most of us were going to die from the climate crisis. I was wrong, Hannah Ritchie, theguardian.com (Jan 02, 2024)
- Judge Sends Landmark Youth Climate Case to Trial, theenergymix.com (Jan 01, 2024)
- Climate-resilient millet revived by Indigenous Gurung farmers in Nepal, news.mongabay.com (Jan 01, 2024)
- Can golf courses help save the planet? Ask a herd of wild pigs, theconversation.com (Dec 28, 2023)
- World's tallest wooden wind turbine starts turning, BBC News (Dec 28, 2023)
- Renewable energy drive for indigenous groups in Colombia, BBC News (Dec 27, 2023)
- ‘We have a responsibility’: the older women suing Switzerland to demand climate action, theguardian.com (Dec 27, 2023)
- Uruguay’s green power revolution: rapid shift to wind shows the world how it’s done, theguardian.com (Dec 27, 2023)
- Spanish minister hails deal to save Andalucía wetlands as a model for green transition, theguardian.com (Dec 27, 2023)
- ‘It feels very fun and freeing’: US sees ebike boom after years of false starts, theguardian.com (Dec 22, 2023)
- ‘People are proud of this green spirit of ours’: how a small Spanish city rejected cars, theguardian.com (Dec 20, 2023)
- ‘I thought we had more time’: how motherhood spurred a New Yorker’s fight against fossil fuels, theguardian.com (Dec 19, 2023)
- How reindeer help fight climate change, BBC Future (Dec 19, 2023)
- Farming support to communities living near wildlife reserve in Cameroon lowers rates of hunting, news.mongabay.com (Dec 19, 2023)
- Bollards and ‘superblocks’: how Europe’s cities are turning on the car, theguardian.com (Dec 18, 2023)
- Collaboration involving local fishing communities helps save manatees stranded in Colombia, news.mongabay.com (Dec 18, 2023)
- Climate migration may become "abandonment" as people flee flooding, axios.com (Dec 18, 2023)
- Ireland could give nature constitutional rights, BBC News (Dec 16, 2023)
- Papua New Guinea's two large new marine protected areas “one of the first and most ambitious community-led MPA wins”, news.mongabay.com (Dec 14, 2023)
- How the Netherlands built a thriving circular economy, theprogressplaybook.com (Dec 13, 2023)
- How Jocotoco Foundation, an Ecuadorian non-profit protects 10% of the world’s bird species, news.mongabay.com (Dec 11, 2023)
- Opportunities from a community-led strategy to save Brazil’s dry forests from desertification, news.mongabay.com (Dec 11, 2023)
- California children sue EPA over ‘intentional’ role in climate crisis, theguardian.com (Dec 11, 2023)
- “Village Hosts” are collaboration experts who co-create new projects in rural areas - mixing creativity and local knowledge, The Daily Alternative (Dec 10, 2023)
- Circles of hope: the Guatemalan women reviving Indigenous concepts of mental wellbeing, positive.news (Dec 08, 2023)
- Paris mayor plans to triple SUV parking tariffs to cut air pollution, theguardian.com (Dec 08, 2023)
- Massachusetts Just Took a Big Step Away from Natural Gas. Which States Might Follow?, insideclimatenews.org (Dec 07, 2023)
- ‘It’s kind of gross but we can do it’: How a community learned to go zero waste, theguardian.com (Dec 07, 2023)
- Billions have been raised to restore forests, with little success. Here’s the missing ingredient, theconversation.com (Dec 07, 2023)
- How Bangladesh is supporting climate refugees, BBC Future (Dec 07, 2023)
- ‘Betrayed’: NT communities angered after learning only industry was consulted on scrapped net zero policy, theguardian.com (Dec 04, 2023)
- Belgian court orders 55% emissions cut from 1990 levels, theguardian.com (Dec 01, 2023)
- Climate change: Saving Uganda's mountain gorillas, BBC News (Dec 01, 2023)
- ‘A bus is open to everyone regardless of class’: riding the world’s biggest network, theguardian.com (Nov 30, 2023)
- If you want to transform a situation, note how ideas are diffused, how you overcome resistance and how networks work, The Daily Alternative (Nov 30, 2023)
- How a small Caribbean island is trying to become hurricane-proof, theconversation.com (Nov 28, 2023)
- On a conference visit to Shanghai, John Thackara brings back a rich harvest of eco-civilisational practice, The Daily Alternative (Nov 27, 2023)
- A Peruvian farmer is trying to hold energy giant RWE responsible for climate change – the inside story of his groundbreaking court case, theconversation.com (Nov 27, 2023)
- We rarely hear about the disasters that were avoided – but there’s a lot we can learn from them, theconversation.com (Nov 23, 2023)
- Blue whales: Ocean giants return to 'safe' tropical haven, BBC News (Nov 23, 2023)
- ‘It is all about listening and sharing’: Indigenous solutions to the carbon divide, theguardian.com (Nov 22, 2023)
- Boy tells TDs and senators: 'We need more trains now', rte.ie (Nov 21, 2023)
- Coast Salish Indigenous, sustainable salmon fishery, by Liz Kimbrough, news.mongabay.com (Nov 21, 2023)
- Revealed: the huge climate impact of the middle classes, theguardian.com (Nov 20, 2023)
- EU criminalises environmental damage ‘comparable to ecocide’, theguardian.com (Nov 17, 2023)
- Pala’wan Indigenous community’s organic farming protecting a Philippine hotspot, news.mongabay.com (Nov 16, 2023)
- ‘We needed to get off the grid’: New Orleans’ community-driven response to blackouts, theguardian.com (Nov 16, 2023)
- NYC launches free online therapy for teens, chalkbeat.org (Nov 15, 2023)
- These cities are building solar plants on trash to save space, theprogressplaybook.com (Nov 14, 2023)
- Going to peace, Alternative Editorial (Nov 12, 2023)
- The ‘Power of Mama’ fight Borneo’s wildfires with all-woman crew, news.mongabay.com (Nov 10, 2023)
- Bletchley declaration: international agreement on AI safety is a good start, but ordinary people need a say – not just elites, theconversation.com (Nov 07, 2023)
- Kenya declares surprise public holiday to plant trees, independent.co.uk (Nov 07, 2023)
- Chehe Community Forest Association playing a vital role in protecting and restoring Mount Kenya forest, news.mongabay.com (Nov 06, 2023)
- We Have To Build The Alternative To War, Alternative Editorial (Nov 05, 2023)
- It’s time to limit how often we can travel abroad – ‘carbon passports’ may be the answer, theconversation.com (Nov 03, 2023)
- Never fly again? Go vegan? It was too hard. But I still cut my emissions by 61% and it made life simpler and better, Jo Clay, theguardian.com (Nov 03, 2023)
- How forest schools boost children's immune systems, BBC Future (Nov 01, 2023)
- The Floating Health Clinics Delivering Care to Isolated Island Dwellers, reasonstobecheerful.world (Oct 31, 2023)
- Outlaw fisher turns reef marshal in Indonesia’s Sumbawa, news.mongabay.com (Oct 31, 2023)
- Stop locking young people out of legal process in climate cases, say experts, theguardian.com (Oct 26, 2023)
- Land use plan needed to combat climate change on ‘different scale’ - Taoiseach, irishtimes.com (Oct 25, 2023)
- Broad support for repair at the EU Parliament – will the Council keep up with the ambition?, repair.eu (Oct 25, 2023) — “We applaud the huge improvements introduced by the IMCO Committee to ensure the affordability of repair, the ban of unfair anti-repair practices and the promotion of broad repair options for consumers. We now urge the European Council and Member States Ministries not to let their citizens down. They have been demanding the right to repair what they own for years and this is the time to make it happen.” Cristina Ganapini, Coordinator of the Right to Repair Europe coalition
- From grey to green: the plan to turn Paris’s zinc rooftops into gardens, theguardian.com (Oct 24, 2023)
- ‘There’s still beauty’: a national park bounces back after California’s biggest single fire, theguardian.com (Oct 23, 2023)
- The barren island that came back from the dead, positive.news (Oct 18, 2023)
- The zero-waste city: what Kiel in Germany can teach the world, theguardian.com (Oct 18, 2023)
- São Paulo nurseries bring the city’s rare and forgotten trees back to life, news.mongabay.com (Oct 17, 2023)
- Bringing soil back to life in semiarid Spain, news.mongabay.com (Oct 17, 2023) — Local farmers in Southeastern Spain countering desertification with regenerative agriculture
- SUVs emit more climate damaging gas than older cars do, study finds, theguardian.com (Oct 16, 2023)
- How ‘recovery doulas’ are helping Montanans navigate addiction and parenthood, montanafreepress.org (Oct 16, 2023)
- Brazil’s Indigenous communities turn to native beekeeping to recover nature, news.mongabay.com (Oct 16, 2023)
- Opinion: Climate change isn’t just about emissions. We’re ignoring a huge part of the fight, latimes.com (Oct 15, 2023)
- Citizens' Assemblies should lean towards becoming a parallel polis - and much less a democratic figleaf for establishments, Daily Alternative (Oct 14, 2023)
- Kuza Nia: Meeting your purpose, neighbourhooddemocracy.org (Oct 13, 2023)
- Despite severe drought, Amazon deforestation continues to slow, news.mongabay.com (Oct 13, 2023)
- Concern over 3 continents format for 2030 world cup., globalvoices.org (Oct 12, 2023) — "FIFA's announcement is totally detached from reality … Not only does it contradict their own pledge to cut emissions, but it sends the wrong message to football fans around the world that such a tournament is compatible with a sustainable future and a healthy environment. FIFA is saying one thing and doing another." Freddie Daley, Cool Down Network
- Stockholm to ban petrol and diesel cars from centre from 2025, theguardian.com (Oct 11, 2023)
- ‘People are happier in a walkable neighborhood’: the US community that banned cars, theguardian.com (Oct 11, 2023)
- Climate: California governor signs law requiring big businesses to disclose emissions, lemonde.fr/en (Oct 08, 2023)
- Pope Francis: ‘Irresponsible’ Western Lifestyles Push the World to ‘the Breaking Point’ on Climate, insideclimatenews.org (Oct 05, 2023)
- The seed guardians of Peru trying to save the potato, BBC Future (Oct 03, 2023)
- In the Ambitious Bid to Reinvent South Baltimore, Justice Concerns Remain, insideclimatenews.org (Oct 02, 2023)
- The ‘climate safe rooms’ keeping low-income Australians cool during heatwaves, theguardian.com (Oct 01, 2023)
- Self-driving buses that go wherever you want? How the UK is trying to revolutionise public transport, theconversation.com (Sep 29, 2023)
- Climate Litigation Is Increasing as Government Action Falters, desmog.com (Sep 28, 2023)
- Australian households on track to add near-record rooftop solar capacity to electricity grid, theguardian.com (Sep 26, 2023)
- A checklist for map builders, by Oliver Sylvester-Bradley, murmurations.network (Sep 26, 2023)
- Flock of California Condors Spotted In Contra Costa County for the First Time in 100 Years., sfist.com (Sep 25, 2023)
- ‘Climate change killed my family’: Unusual monsoon hammers India’s Himachal, aljazeera.com (Sep 25, 2023)
- Thinking Long-Term: Why We Should Bring Back Redwood Forests, e360.yale.edu (Sep 25, 2023)
- Indigenous women are showing us how to fight for environmental and human rights, V (formerly Eve Ensler), theguardian.com (Sep 25, 2023)
- How Medellin is beating the heat with green corridors, BBC Future (Sep 23, 2023)
- Farmed rhinos will soon ‘rewild’ the African savanna, theconversation.com (Sep 22, 2023)
- Net zero by 2050? Too late. Australia must aim for 2035, theconversation.com (Sep 21, 2023)
- Biden uses executive power to create New Deal-style American Climate Corps, theguardian.com (Sep 20, 2023)
- Revealed: almost everyone in Europe is breathing toxic air, theguardian.com (Sep 20, 2023)
- The media need to cover the climate crisis as seriously as it covered Covid, theguardian.com (Sep 20, 2023)
- Can ‘road ecology’ save millions of animals?, news.mongabay.com (Sep 19, 2023)
- People who work from home all the time ‘cut emissions by 54%’ against those in office, theguardian.com (Sep 18, 2023)
- France used 10% less electricity last winter – three valuable lessons in fighting climate change, theconversation.com (Sep 18, 2023)
- The Samburu warriors regenerating a Kenyan wilderness, positive.news (Sep 18, 2023)
- We'll have to reimagine our holiday season, as climate crisis compels us to change our means of travel and destinations, Daily Alternative (Sep 17, 2023)
- California sues oil companies claiming they downplayed the risk of fossil fuels, theguardian.com (Sep 17, 2023)
- US launches $1bn tree-planting scheme to mitigate effects of climate crisis, theguardian.com (Sep 14, 2023)
- Sea sponges offer lifeline to women in Zanzibar, bbc.com/future (Sep 13, 2023)
- How Tripadvisor for hospitals and clinics can improve healthcare, theconversation.com (Sep 13, 2023)
- Agroforestry chocolate helping save the world’s most endangered rainforest, by Liz Kimbrough, news.mongabay.com (Sep 12, 2023)
- Sundarbans tiger and prey numbers rise amid Bangladesh conservation efforts, news.mongabay.com (Sep 11, 2023)
- Small island nations take high-emitting countries to court to protect the ocean, theguardian.com (Sep 10, 2023)
- Our environmental laws are failing us in the face of the climate crisis, Tim Flannery, theguardian.com (Sep 09, 2023)
- Imagine if… we finally eradicate poverty (plus, how it could happen), positive.news (Sep 04, 2023)
- Berliners rave against motorway extension threatening cultural venues, bbc.co.uk (Sep 03, 2023)
- Do you want the time (and space) to really imagine your possibilities, in life, activism, business? Then think ten years ahead, thealternative.org.uk (Aug 31, 2023)
- A forest gave Cambodia’s captive elephants a new life. Now they’re paying it back, news.mongabay.com (Aug 31, 2023)
- Free Therapy Putting Philadelphia’s Black Men on a Path to Healing, reasonstobecheerful.world (Aug 30, 2023)
- A solution to overtourism? Introducing the ethical alternative to Airbnb, positive.news (Aug 29, 2023)
- What if everything turns out OK? The power of imagining a better future, positive.news (Aug 29, 2023)
- Conservationists work to restore last remnant of a once-great Ugandan forest, news.mongabay.com (Aug 25, 2023)
- Cities Are Depaving for a Cooler Future, nexusmedianews.com (Aug 24, 2023)
- The World’s Therapists Are Talking to Ukraine, reasonstobecheerful.world (Aug 24, 2023)
- How South Korea’s composting system became a model for the world, latimes.com (Aug 24, 2023)
- Slow train coming: only a genuine shift to rail will put NZ on track to reduce emissions, theconversation.com (Aug 22, 2023)
- The climate future is here, and it looks like this proud commune in S Africa, africanarguments.org (Aug 22, 2023) — With solar power, urban farms, and radical grassroots democracy, eKhenana provides an impressive model for a sustainable low-carbon future.
- Ecuadorians vote to halt oil drilling in biodiverse Amazonian national park, theguardian.com (Aug 21, 2023)
- Zimbabwe sees recycling boom as waste picking becomes lucrative business, news.mongabay.com (Aug 21, 2023)
- Why beaver-like dams can protect communities from flooding – new research, theconversation.com (Aug 21, 2023)
- Welcome to the world’s first zero-waste island, positive.news (Aug 21, 2023)
- Marvin Hayes Is Spreading ‘Compost Fever’ in Baltimore’s Neighborhoods. He Thinks it Might Save the City., insideclimatenews.org (Aug 20, 2023)
- 40 percent of US climate emissions attributed to richest households: study, thehill.com (Aug 17, 2023)
- The sports movement spreading positivity in war-torn Yemen, positive.news (Aug 16, 2023)
- A Community-Led Approach to Stopping Flooding Expands in the Chicago Region, insideclimatenews.org (Aug 15, 2023)
- Dry Springs in Central Texas Warn of Water Shortage Ahead, insideclimatenews.org (Aug 15, 2023)
- Youth wins climate case against U.S. state of Montana in first-of-its-kind legal ruling, news.mongabay.com (Aug 14, 2023) — by Liz Kimbrough
- It’s time for a new climate populism, to show how the super rich got us – and the planet – into this mess, Andy Beckett, theguardian.com (Aug 11, 2023)
- India was a tree planting laboratory for 200 years – here are the results, theconversation.com (Aug 10, 2023)
- Defuelling California’s wildfires with sheep, chinadialogue.net (Aug 10, 2023) — If rotated wisely, sheep and cattle can graze away the fuel of deadly wildfires in the American West
- One of Europe’s Hottest Cities Rediscovers an Old Cooling Technique, bloomberg.com (Aug 08, 2023)
- Surveying the Open Climate Data Landscape, creativecommons.org (Aug 08, 2023)
- Unique Taskumets in Tallin's city center, greentallinn.eu/en (Aug 07, 2023) — Taskumets is a parking lot size garden inspired by the concept of rewilding
- Back to the stone age: the sustainable building material we’ve all been waiting for…, theguardian.com (Aug 06, 2023)
- How California’s Wiyot Tribe turned to community land trusts to fight for justice, thenews.coop (Aug 03, 2023) — 'Access to the land and going back to their ancestral lands is part of the healing process for a lot of Indigenous groups'
- More Massachusetts cities seek to ban gas, citing lack of diversity in pilot and urgency of climate crisis, energynews.us (Aug 03, 2023)
- Many global corporations will soon have to police up and down their supply chains as EU human rights ‘due diligence’ law nears enactment, theconversation.com (Aug 03, 2023)
- ‘More in hope’: lessons from our tiny reforestation scheme in the Amazon, theguardian.com (Aug 03, 2023)
- This Northern Manhattan Wetland Has Faced Climate-Change-Induced Erosion and Sea Level Rise. A Living Shoreline Has Reimagined the Space, insideclimatenews.org (Aug 03, 2023) — In the process to create a climate-resilient city, the shoreline restoration of one of the largest remaining wetlands in Manhattan has succeeded due to community engagement and consistent stewardship. By Juanita Gordon
- New grant program asks residents to ‘throw shade,’ foster climate resiliency in Flint, flintbeat.com (Aug 02, 2023)
- Doughnut Economics Takes Hold in Nanaimo, B.C., theenergymix.com (Jul 30, 2023)
- “If we design well, we design for shared aliveness”. Speaking from China, John Thackara lays out an economy defined by care, The Daily Alternative (Jul 28, 2023)
- Zimbabwe’s therapeutic ‘friendship benches’, coming to a city near you, positive.news (Jul 26, 2023)
- Spain’s latest weapon against wildfires? Wild horses, positive.news (Jul 25, 2023)
- Meet the young graduate who lives in a nursing home, positive.news (Jul 24, 2023)
- How China protects its ‘unofficial’ wetlands, China Dialogue (Jul 24, 2023)
- Seville’s ‘Bioclimatic Bus Stops’ Could Cut Temperatures by 20°C, theenergymix.com (Jul 23, 2023)
- Vandana Shiva, Robert Pirsig, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Einstein and others speak on the inner change that system (and climate) change requires, The Daily Alternative (Jul 20, 2023)
- The farm that grows vegetables in the middle of the desert, positive.news (Jul 19, 2023)
- We know that cosmolocalism is a way of empowering communities. But it's also the seeds of a new (and needed) economic system, The Daily Alternative (Jul 18, 2023)
- These Chicago Afghans Have Built A Community On The Soccer Field, borderlessmag.org (Jul 18, 2023)
- How refugees are helping Amsterdam become one of the first circular cities, positive.news (Jul 18, 2023)
- Is it time to choose sustainable rice?, Wicked Leeks (Jul 17, 2023) — You might not know it, but traditional rice cultivation emits serious levels of greenhouse gases. Clare Hargreaves interviews a man working with rice farmers to get climate-friendlier rice onto British dinner plates.
- Universal basic income is winning the argument against sceptics, and mobilising across the world, The Daily Alternative (Jul 15, 2023)
- With our food systems on the verge of collapse, it’s the plutocrats v life on Earth, George Monbiot, theguardian.com (Jul 15, 2023)
- This Global Tapestry Of Alternatives is building across all continents, a step-by-step “network of networks”, The Daily Alternative (Jul 14, 2023)
- Ancient windcatchers in Iran give architects cooling inspiration, theguardian.com (Jul 13, 2023)
- ‘It Affects All of Us’: Free Financial Counseling Helps Tulsans Thrive, reasonstobecheerful.world (Jul 13, 2023)
- How ancient 'skywells' are keeping Chinese homes cool, BBC Future (Jul 13, 2023)
- Microplastics found in the soil on farms used to grow crops, newscientist.com (Jul 12, 2023)
- How a group of Peruvian coffee farmers are thriving despite the odds, positive.news (Jul 12, 2023)
- Paris to charge SUV drivers higher parking fees to tackle ‘auto-besity’, ground.news (Jul 11, 2023)
- The new approach to ending FGM that’s showing promise in Kenya, positive.news (Jul 10, 2023)
- An indigenous solution to deforestation in the Amazon, courier.unesco.org (Jul 05, 2023)
- Climate change: China's green power surge offers hope on warming, BBC News (Jun 29, 2023)
- The white roofs cooling women's homes in Indian slums, BBC Future (Jun 29, 2023)
- Small acts of kindness are frequent and universal, finds study, positive.news (Jun 28, 2023)
- You don’t want a “deadlihood” - you want an “alivelihood”. In Gandhi’s spirit of swaraj, here’s a new approach to education and work from India, The Daily Alternative (Jun 28, 2023)
- How India’s ‘millet ambassador’ preserves ancient grains – and helps promote food security, The Guardian (Jun 23, 2023)
- Crime figures are in. The verdict? The world is getting safer, Positive News (Jun 21, 2023)
- Court decision in youth climate lawsuit against Ontario government ignites hope, The Conversation (Jun 20, 2023)
- Fighting climate change by reconnecting to ecosystems in our own backyards, nationalobserver.com (Jun 20, 2023)
- The Indigenous forest collective restoring a corner of California, Positive News (Jun 20, 2023)
- Canada’s fires are getting fiercer – and rebuilding is becoming a challenge, The Guardian (Jun 19, 2023)
- UN adopts first ‘historic’ treaty to protect high seas, aljazeera.com (Jun 19, 2023)
- Australia needs to reduce emissions to net zero by 2038 to do ‘fair share’ to contain global heating, analysis shows, The Guardian (Jun 18, 2023)
- News collaboratives, youth media outlets, and a newsletter bee (“La Abeja”) buzzing around Latin communities. A better media, in California Central Valley, The Daily Alternative (Jun 17, 2023)
- ‘My life and my home’: young people start to testify at historic US climate trial, The Guardian (Jun 13, 2023) — The plaintiffs note that Montana’s constitution pledges a healthy environment ‘for present and future generations’
- Belize’s co-management framework is a model for community conservation, globalvoices.org (Jun 12, 2023)
- Women-led legislature revives a small Spanish town against all odds, globalvoices.org (Jun 07, 2023) — They wanted to stop the depopulation of the municipality... and they did it!
- ‘Game changing’: spate of US lawsuits calls big oil to account for climate crisis, The Guardian (Jun 07, 2023)
- Amsterdam’s floating eco-community is a model for modern living, positive.news (Jun 05, 2023)
- Here Comes Everyone: XR's strategy for 2023-24 aims sees strengthening communities as the path to effective climate protest, The Daily Alternative (Jun 04, 2023)
- The New Livestock Farm Is a Forest, Too, reasonstobecheerful.world (Jun 02, 2023)
- In Sierra Leone, post-civil war, you might live next to your amputator. Family talk (fambul tok) was a community resource for peace. It’s a lesson to our polarised societies, The Daily Alternative (Jun 02, 2023)
- Plastic recycling is failing – here’s how the world must respond, The Conversation (May 30, 2023)
- What can I do about climate change? 14 ways to take positive action, positive.news (May 30, 2023)
- Alternative Editorial: Our Human Revolution, The Daily Alternative (May 28, 2023)
- Mon dieu, France invests cool $2 billion to promote cycling, momentummag.com (May 26, 2023)
- Jordan’s Bedouins take on the struggles of climate change, aljazeera.com (May 26, 2023)
- Uganda’s Communal Food ‘Epicenters’ Aim to End Hunger Forever, reasonstobecheerful.world (May 26, 2023) — Pushing past the conventional food aid model, a regenerative farming system offers a recipe for success — and self-reliance. Peter Yeung
- Tiger protection in India also saved 1 million tonnes of carbon emissions – new study, The Conversation (May 25, 2023)
- The Ancient ‘Wonder Material’ Sucking CO2 Out of the Atmosphere, reasonstobecheerful.world (May 22, 2023)
- Alternative Editorial: AI Is Not The Only New Form Of Intelligence, The Daily Alternative (May 21, 2023)
- Inside the world’s first native bee sanctuary (plus, how to really save bees), Positive News (May 19, 2023)
- A global ‘conservation basic income’ might cost trillions – but it’s still a shrewd investment, The Conversation (May 18, 2023)
- ‘Six times the size of Yosemite’: the new tribal sanctuary off the super-rich California coast, earthisland.org (May 18, 2023)
- Community spirit and organic farming buoy a typhoon-battered Philippine town, news.mongabay.com (May 15, 2023)
- How to host: Stress-free communal eating, Wicked Leeks (May 15, 2023)
- A Simple Fix Lifts Single Moms Out of Poverty in India’s Slums, reasonstobecheerful.world (May 12, 2023)
- How Gdańsk is reclaiming its industrial waterfront, The Conversation (May 11, 2023)
- ‘Harvesting water’: Indigenous Bolivian women lead organic farming project against climate change, Global Voices (May 11, 2023)
- Standing up and saying NO to erasing our environmental heritage. Stopping land encroachment., medium.com (May 09, 2023)
- Community-led coral restoration project is rare hit amid slew of misses in Indonesia, news.mongabay.com (May 04, 2023)
- ‘Peace of mind at last’: the Bangladeshi villagers digging their way out of the floods, The Guardian (May 04, 2023)
- Talking robots, urban bogs and free bikes: inside Europe’s ‘green capital’, Positive News (May 02, 2023)
- Green Congo Initiative: a Youth Engagement for the Climate in the Heart of Africa, happyeconews.com (Apr 28, 2023)
- ‘Like a dam breaking’: experts hail decision to let US climate lawsuits advance, The Guardian (Apr 25, 2023)
- Costa Rica restored its ravaged land to health. The rich UK has no excuse for such complete failure, George Monbiot, The Guardian (Apr 21, 2023)
- The pedal-powered revolution that’s coming to a town near you, Positive News (Apr 18, 2023)
- Vacationers Generate 8 Times More Carbon on a Cruise Ship than on Land, foe.org (Apr 18, 2023)
- The Reintroduction of Cheetahs in India After 70 Years, happyeconews.com (Apr 17, 2023)
- The eye-popping new school designed by its pupils, Positive News (Apr 12, 2023)
- Does climate breakdown mean we’re doomed? No: if we’re brave, big change can happen fast, Gaia Vince, The Guardian (Apr 11, 2023)
- We can halve emissions by 2030, ipcc.ch (Apr 04, 2023) — We have options in all sectors to at least halve emissions by 2030
- Food forests are bringing shade and sustenance to US cities, one parcel of land at a time, The Conversation (Apr 04, 2023)
- A "Miyawaki forest" takes two decades to mature at the heart of a city. In Lisbon, it's burgeoning in two years, The Daily Alternative (Apr 02, 2023)
- Ecuador court upholds ‘rights of nature,’ blocks Intag Valley copper mine, news.mongabay.com (Mar 31, 2023) — by Liz Kimbrough
- Barcelona green space plan could improve health of 30,000, study finds, The Guardian (Mar 30, 2023)
- Tiny island nation takes climate change to The Hague, axios.com (Mar 24, 2023)
- IPCC’s conservative nature masks true scale of action needed to avert catastrophic climate change, The Conversation (Mar 24, 2023)
- Vermont farm models diverse method of raising sustainable grains: Duck, duck, rice, news.mongabay.com (Mar 22, 2023)
- Proportional representation is the most popular form of democracy for countries in the world today., electoral-reform.org.uk (Mar 20, 2023) — There are over 100 countries which use either a Proportional Representation or a mixed system across the world. Less than 50 use the First Past The Post system.
- ‘Historic moment’ for nature as Europe’s first wild river national park announced in Albania, The Guardian (Mar 15, 2023)
- Children and teenagers can carry out valuable wildlife research – here’s how, The Conversation (Mar 06, 2023)
- Ocean treaty: Historic agreement reached after decade of talks, BBC News (Mar 05, 2023)
- The surprisingly simple solution to poverty that is changing lives, Positive News (Mar 03, 2023)
- Carbon emissions from global SUV fleet outweighs that of most countries, The Guardian (Feb 28, 2023)
- Ireland has lost almost all of its native forests – here’s how to bring them back, The Conversation (Feb 24, 2023)
- ‘We’ve come so far’: how one village rose from the ashes of a wildfire, Positive News (Feb 24, 2023)
- We like the sound of a "values-based urban living laboratory". It's flourishing in Romania, and is called "OurCluj", The Daily Alternative (Feb 18, 2023)
- Indigenous Peoples defend a precious natural resource- empowering them protects us all, ashden.org (Feb 14, 2023)
- Rising seas threaten ‘mass exodus on a biblical scale’, UN chief warns, The Guardian (Feb 14, 2023)
- Biodynamic agripreneurs are set to trigger an organic farming trend in Nepal, Global Voices (Feb 10, 2023)
- Catalonian housing co-op wins social innovation prize from European Commission, thenews.coop (Feb 08, 2023) — Sostre Cívic was praised for its alternative housing model which judges found 'fairer and more accessible, non-profit, non-speculative and transformative'
- Velotopia (meaning a paradise for bike-riders) is currently being built in Amsterdam, the Ruhr in Germany and South Korea, The Daily Alternative (Feb 08, 2023)
- Permanent climate assembly in Brussels, buergerrat.de (Feb 04, 2023)
- Accessible information vital in extending knowledge of wildfire risk, scionresearch.com (Feb 01, 2023)
- Emissions divide now greater within countries than between them – study, The Guardian (Jan 31, 2023)
- Saving Kenya’s Oloolua Forest, China Dialogue (Jan 30, 2023)
- From a French citizens' assembly, an eyewitness report on how non-experts are their real strength, The Daily Alternative (Jan 21, 2023)
- The cycle-mad city in Finland that doesn't stop for snow, BBC News (Jan 21, 2023)
- Agents of change, cbc.ca (Jan 16, 2023) — A small neighbourhood in Toronto has built a program to help residents reduce their household emissions. Could their grassroots approach become a template for the rest of the country?
- The Maasai community that took on the Tanzanian government – and won, Positive News (Jan 11, 2023)
- The Green Jobs Boom Is Benefiting the People Who Need It Most, reasonstobecheerful.world (Jan 10, 2023)
- Net zero possible in 2040s, says outgoing UK climate business expert, The Guardian (Jan 09, 2023)
- Sierra Madre: Fighting to save what's left of a vital rainforest, BBC News (Jan 05, 2023)
- Why 2023 will be a watershed year for climate litigation, The Guardian (Jan 04, 2023)
- First solar canal project is a win for water, energy, air and climate in California, The Conversation (Dec 22, 2022)
- Argentina's record-breaking 2022 heatwave made '60 times more likely' by climate change, carbonbrief.org (Dec 21, 2022)
- Biodiversity: one way to help countries stick to their commitments to restore nature, The Conversation (Dec 20, 2022)
- Cop15 in Montreal: did the summit deliver for the natural world?, The Guardian (Dec 20, 2022)
- The best countries for social progress, according to new research, Positive News (Dec 14, 2022)
- ‘This case has made legal history’: young Australians just won a human rights case against an enormous coal mine, The Conversation (Nov 25, 2022)
- Brussels launches permanent citizens’ assembly on climate, knoca.eu (Nov 17, 2022)
- US approves largest dam removal in history to save endangered salmon, The Guardian (Nov 17, 2022) — Four dams on California-Oregon border to be decommissioned on Klamath River, which fish use to reach spawning grounds
- ‘In Delhi I can see the climate catastrophe unfolding before my eyes’, The Guardian (Nov 15, 2022)
- The village that stood up to big oil – and won, The Guardian (Jun 01, 2022)
- "The State of Us" event revealed the mulitple forms of agency within municipalism, Daily Alternative (Nov 12, 2021)
- The Political Opportunity, Alternative Editorial (Jul 25, 2021)
- Participatory performance as policy-making, cusp.ac.uk (May 12, 2021)
- Is China really building an 'Ecological civilization'?, deceleration.news (Feb 10, 2018)