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  • News Farming support to communities living near wildlife reserve in Cameroon lowers rates of hunting, news.mongabay.com (Dec 19, 2023)
  • News 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)
  • News Sea sponges offer lifeline to women in Zanzibar, bbc.com/future (Sep 13, 2023)
  • News 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)
  • News 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

2022[edit | edit source]

  • News Trees, tools and training, Tree Aid (May 11, 2022) — Tree Aid working with entrepreneurs to grow sustainable businesses in Africa's drylands

2021[edit | edit source]

Four-day week 'an overwhelming success' in Iceland, Jul 5[1]

Spain to launch trial of four-day working week, Mar 15[2]

After the Pandemic, We Can’t Go Back to Sleep, David Graeber, Mar 4[3]

2020[edit | edit source]

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'Pilot universal basic income and shorter working weeks in Wales', Oct 19[4]

Jacinda Ardern flags four-day working week as way to rebuild New Zealand after Covid-19, May 20[5]

The full impact of Finland’s UBI experiment is in - improving wellbeing, cognitive confidence, and a sense of personal control, May 5[6]

Holland's Sea Ranger Service hugely sequestrates carbon. But it also socially benefits many: the unemployed, veterans, port workers. Feb 7[7]

I pioneered the four-day week – now policymakers must adopt it to fight the climate crisis, Andrew Barnes, Jan 29[8] ...Climate change solutions

2019[edit | edit source]

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Finnish Prime Minister Marin calls for a 4-day-week and 6-hour-day for her country, Dec 19[9]

Much shorter working weeks needed to tackle climate crisis, May 22[10] ...UK Climate news 2014 - 2019

'We stopped needing to work in our 30s', Mar 1[11]

It seems the idea of a four-day working week is going mainstream. Onwards to 21 hours? Jan 31[12]

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Created February 10, 2015 by Phil Green
Modified December 29, 2023 by Phil Green
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