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• The Hague becomes world’s first city to pass legislation making it illegal to advertise fossil fuel products and services with a high carbon footprint, theguardian.com (Sep 13, 2024) — this includes petrol and diesel, aviation and cruise ships
• South Sudan floods: the first example of a mass population permanently displaced by climate change?, theconversation.com (Sep 10, 2024)
• Three ingenious ways architects are designing buildings to stay cool in a heatwave without air conditioning, theconversation.com (Sep 04, 2024)
• ‘Transformational’: how a California city launched America’s first hydrogen-powered passenger train, theguardian.com (Sep 03, 2024)
• Improvising The Future, Alternative Editorial (Sep 01, 2024) — What is this moment in time?
• Healthy soils are good for your gut, brain and wellbeing – here’s why, theconversation.com (Aug 30, 2024)
• Growing back a forest for his people, a one-time illegal logger in Sumatra, news.mongabay.com (Aug 30, 2024)
• Giant 'living tractors' are bringing nature back to post-industrial wastelands, bbc.co.uk (Aug 29, 2024)
• Hope from Nepal’s first community-based red panda conservation area, news.mongabay.com (Aug 29, 2024)
• South Korea’s climate law violates rights of future generations, court rules, theguardian.com (Aug 29, 2024)
• The idea of a "public diner" has much historical precedent - and leads the way to a better food culture for the future, Daily Alternative (Aug 29, 2024)
• The resilience of women farmers in Chad battling climate challenges and social barriers, news.mongabay.com (Aug 29, 2024)
• Campaigners sue EU over ‘grossly inadequate’ 2030 climate targets, theguardian.com (Aug 27, 2024)
• Environmental costs of cruise ships, theguardian.com (Aug 26, 2024) — and how to reduce their impact
• Democratizing Satellite Imagery: the Sentinel-2 Land Cover Explorer Map, north-arrow.org (Aug 23, 2024)
• Could a £2-a-day basic income be the key to protecting rainforests?, theguardian.com (Aug 22, 2024)
• Unrest in Bangladesh reflects young people’s struggle to find decent work in the world’s poorest nations, theconversation.com (Aug 20, 2024)
• Bali gives a snapshot of what ‘overtourism’ looks like in the developing world, theconversation.com (Aug 19, 2024)
• The good tourist: can we learn to travel without absolutely infuriating the locals?, theguardian.com (Aug 19, 2024)
• Argentina judge halts deforestation of Chaco forest in rare move, reuters.com (Aug 19, 2024)
• For South Africa’s amaMpondo fighting to protect nature, ‘Everything is a being’, news.mongabay.com (Aug 19, 2024)
• India's schoolgirls are leading a silent cycling revolution, BBC News (Aug 19, 2024)
• Women in the Sundarbans embracing mangrove restoration as an alternative livelihood, news.mongabay.com (Aug 15, 2024)
• Madrid’s summers can be brutally hot. So why are so many of our trees being chopped down? Felicity Hughes, theguardian.com (Aug 15, 2024)
• Madagascar’s mangroves making a comeback, news.mongabay.com (Aug 14, 2024) — engagement with coastal communities is critical to empower those communities to protect the local mangroves that they depend on.
• Sustaining birds, bees & communities, Rio’s grassroots agroforestry, news.mongabay.com (Aug 13, 2024)
• Ancient Tracking Skills and New Tech Are Protecting Namibia’s Endangered Pangolins, reasonstobecheerful.world (Aug 09, 2024)
• Barcelona protests: holiday hotspots need fairer tourism for local communities, theconversation.com (Aug 08, 2024)
• Women finding empowerment working with nature’s bounty in Brazil’s Pantanal, news.mongabay.com (Aug 08, 2024)
• ‘It’s nice to help a life to live’: meet Sri Lanka’s turtle guardians, theguardian.com (Aug 08, 2024)
• Hurricane blackouts: New Orleans' 'lighthouse' solution to keep the power on through floods and high winds, bbc.co.uk (Aug 07, 2024)
• Clam gardening building resilience among Indigenous youth on Canada’s West Coast, news.mongabay.com (Aug 06, 2024)
• Fighting for the Native Forest of the Gran Chaco in Argentina, insideclimatenews.org (Aug 06, 2024)
• ‘Ultra-cheap energy for every household’: could a different kind of tariff change everything?, theguardian.com (Aug 02, 2024)
• Calling all Local Organisers: Organise a Global Donut Days event!, doughnuteconomics.org (Aug 01, 2024) — Join Global Donut Days 6 to 9 November by organising a local event where you are
• We compared land transport options for getting to net zero. Hands down, electric rail is the best, theconversation.com (Jul 29, 2024)
• Green economy could generate 3.3m jobs across Africa by 2030 – report, theguardian.com (Jul 26, 2024)
• Life at 115F: a sweltering summer pushes Las Vegas to the brink, theguardian.com (Jul 25, 2024)
• Urban greening in Africa will help to build climate resilience – planners and governments need to work with nature, theconversation.com (Jul 22, 2024)
• Why Diversity Is Not Enough, Alternative Editorial (Jul 21, 2024)
• A ‘green new deal’ is Canada’s best hope of achieving a just carbon-zero transition, theconversation.com (Jul 21, 2024)
• Millions of Californians live near oil and gas wells that are in the path of wildfires, latimes.com (Jul 21, 2024)
• Celebrities add voices to outcry over severity of Just Stop Oil sentences, theguardian.com (Jul 19, 2024)
• You may find Just Stop Oil annoying. You may dislike their tactics. But they do not belong in prison, Chris Packham and Dale Vince, theguardian.com (Jul 19, 2024) — These protesters are shouting ‘fire’ while the world burns. A society that locks them up cannot be called democratic
• A record sentence for a Zoom call, arrests for those holding signs outside. This is a blight on British democracy, George Monbiot, theguardian.com (Jul 19, 2024)
• The new UK govt aims for "growth, growth, growth" to solve all problems. The planet will have something to say about that, suggests James Meadway, Daily Alternative (Jul 19, 2024)
• African island state embraces the hunters to end turtle hunting, news.mongabay.com (Jul 17, 2024)
• There is a rage for urban swimming in Europe right now - in the Seine for the French Olympics, but in Copenhagen, Glasgow and London too, Daily Alternative (Jul 17, 2024)
• Climate in the courtroom: all sides are using ‘green lawfare’, and it’s good for democracy, theconversation.com (Jul 15, 2024)
• Amazon deforestation cut by 83% in places protected by Indigenous communities – new research, theconversation.com (Jul 15, 2024)
• The Plurality Is Here, Alternative Editorial (Jul 14, 2024)
• Money for nothing: is universal basic income about to transform society?, theguardian.com (Jul 14, 2024)
• This LA Restaurant Serves Up Empowerment for Refugees, reasonstobecheerful.world (Jul 12, 2024)
• How China’s most ‘futuristic’ city restored its mangroves, dialogue.earth (Jul 11, 2024)
• “Sing Wild Seeds”, guided by Brian Eno, invites songwriters and musicians to become social futurists with their skills. First gig? Glastonbury, Daily Alternative (Jul 11, 2024)
• How Germany’s ‘Orchestra of Change’ Inspires Action, reasonstobecheerful.world (Jul 11, 2024)
• “What if you could create a physical place in every community where people can gather and turn to one another in the event of a crisis?” To the Lifehouse!, Daily Alternative (Jul 10, 2024)
• ‘All threats to the sea come from humans’: how lawyers are gearing up to fight for the oceans, theguardian.com (Jul 10, 2024)
• Public luxury for the everyday citizens of Mexico City—with “100 Utopias” being built by new Mayor Clara Brugada, Daily Alternative (Jul 06, 2024) — "brilliant example of collective amenity and a public infrastructure of care", David Madden
• "Nepal convenes the world system. There is no omniscient narrator, no possible third person." A report on the latest World Social Forum, Daily Alternative (Jul 04, 2024)
• ‘It needs to stay in the loop’: German reuse schemes turn shopping upside down, theguardian.com (Jul 04, 2024)
• ‘My escape is going north’: heatwaves begin to drive tourists in Europe to cool climes, theguardian.com (Jul 02, 2024)
• California Communities Celebrate ‘Massive’ Victory as Oil Industry Drops Unpopular Referendum, insideclimatenews.org (Jul 01, 2024)
• I saw first-hand just how much fracking destroys the earth, Rebecca Solnit, theguardian.com (Jun 30, 2024)
• ‘Groundbreaking’: How children in Hawaii won landmark climate case, aljazeera.com (Jun 21, 2024)
• How the small Pacific island nation of Vanuatu drastically cut plastic pollution, theguardian.com (Jun 20, 2024)
• Community-led approach to mangrove restoration in southern Thailand based on beekeeping, news.mongabay.com (Jun 18, 2024)
• EU passes law to restore 20% of bloc’s land and sea by end of decade, theguardian.com (Jun 17, 2024)
• Cars Are Slowing Down in European Cities, reasonstobecheerful.world (Jun 11, 2024)
• Senegal’s remote Bassari people talk about climate change, and how their local knowledge is key to coping strategies, theconversation.com (Jun 11, 2024)
• Wild horses return to Kazakhstan steppes after absence of two centuries, theguardian.com (Jun 10, 2024)
• ‘A sanctuary’: how neglected Native American communities are organizing their own food hubs, theguardian.com (Jun 06, 2024)
• How artistic organisations can express their role in helping the survival of biodiverse and human life on this troubled planet, Daily Alternative (Jun 05, 2024)
• ‘Game-changing’: Vermont becomes first state to require big oil to pay for climate damages, theguardian.com (May 31, 2024)
• ‘The tranquility frees you’: Bogotá, the city that shuts out cars every week, theguardian.com (May 30, 2024)
• Right to manage a Brazilian state park celebrated by fishing community, news.mongabay.com (May 28, 2024)
• Electricity cooperatives have served rural America since 30s. In this renewable era, it's time to update and strengthen them, Daily Alternative (May 25, 2024)
• Rio de Janeiro bay reforestation shows mangroves’ power to mitigate climate disasters, apnews.com (May 24, 2024)
• What might a parallel polis feel like? David Bollier’s idea of a “commonsverse” - a world in which commons are viable & valued - could tell us, Daily Alternative (May 24, 2024)
• Young Alaskans sue state over fossil fuel project they claim violates their rights, theguardian.com (May 23, 2024)
• It’s not vehemence towards a system, but a sense that a better system is possible, that makes it shift (says Charlie Leadbeater), Daily Alternative (May 22, 2024)
• International development can tackle the climate and migration crises together, theconversation.com (May 21, 2024)
• States have legal duty to cut greenhouse emissions, says top maritime court, theguardian.com (May 21, 2024)
• It’s easy, it’s everywhere: the simple solution improving mental health around the globe, positive.news (May 20, 2024)
• Climate change is a human rights issue, theconversation.com (May 20, 2024)
• South African communities vs Shell: high court victories show that cultural beliefs and practices count in climate cases, theconversation.com (May 18, 2024)
• Activists sue Russia over ‘weak’ climate policy, theguardian.com (May 16, 2024)
• German government must amend climate plan, court rules, dw.com (May 16, 2024)
• How Women Are Helping Their Neighbors Heal From Depression, reasonstobecheerful.world (May 16, 2024)
• Herd of 170 bison could help store CO2 equivalent of almost 2m cars, researchers say, theguardian.com (May 15, 2024)
• The Guardian asked 380 top climate scientists what they felt about the future, theguardian.com (May 08, 2024)
• ‘We can live again’: Belgian nursing home residents hit the nightclubs, theguardian.com (May 02, 2024)
• Inside the exquisite Tibetan monasteries salvaged from climate change, bbc.com (May 01, 2024)
• Fewer wildfires, great biodiversity: what is the secret to the success of Mexico’s forests?, theguardian.com (May 01, 2024) — More than half of the country’s forestry is in community and Indigenous hands – and from CO2 absorption to reducing poverty the results are impressive
• Top Human Rights Court Urged to Tackle Corporate Climate Crimes, desmog.com (Apr 30, 2024)
• Rio’s dolphins back from the brink of extinction thanks to education and research, news.mongabay.com (Apr 30, 2024)
• ‘Composting Our Emotions’: How Climate Action Cultivates Well-Being, reasonstobecheerful.world (Apr 30, 2024)
• First Nations woman one of seven global winners of prestigious Goldman prize for environmental activism, theguardian.com (Apr 29, 2024)
• Analysis of the adopted Directive on Common Rules Promoting the Repair of Goods, repair.eu (Apr 23, 2024) — EU campaigning pays off with promising new repair rules, but we need many more products to be covered

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