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The Best Good News Stories From 2022

Feel more hopeful about 2022 with Good Good Good’s roundup of the best positive news of the year — updated every month.
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Rewilding Projects Are Multiplying Across the U.K. – Seeking to Boost Biodiversity

One of the most innovative projects now underway may be WildEast, which ambitiously hopes to rewild an area more than three times the size of New York City, creating interconnecting wild corridors across East Anglia, the country’s most intensely farmed region.
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Giving Life To Dying Land': Solar Water Pumps Are Quenching Thirsty Kenyan Farms

Kenya's farmers have built sand dams to hold onto scarce river water — but solar-powered water pumps are making access hugely easier
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How an Italian Denim Manufacturer Has Created the World's Most Sustainable Jeans

Candiani's denim operation is sometimes called “the greenest mill in the blue world.” And their denim formula has been awarded Global Organic Textile Standards GOTS approval and won numerous awards.
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Environmentalism Must Care for People and the Planet

Activist Leah Thomas created a platform to address the ways environmentalism impacts not only the planet, but the people on it, too. She calls the platform Intersectional Environmentalism.
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Rob Greenfield — How to Be the Change in a Messed Up World

He wore his own trash for 30 days. He built tiny houses for the homeless. He dumpster dived for food. And now he’s committing to only eat food he’s grown and foraged himself for an entire year.
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Climate Activists Doing Good

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Louisiana is sinking. So this business is using the state's glass bottles to restore the coastline

Roughly a football field of Louisiana is lost to the sea every hour. Glass Half Full is slowing the erosion down.
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Jane Goodall's grandson keeps her conservation work alive: 'Hope is rooted in action'

Goodall's grandson, Merlin Van Lawick, has been working in the field in Tanzania for years, now supporting science and communication efforts at his late grandmother's nonprofit.
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Why we're craving utopian fiction, from the hope of 'Project Hail Mary,' to the wholesomeness of 'Ted Lasso'

For a new crop of novelists, optimism is not just a character trait — it’s the whole point.
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The Sustainability Edition

This special edition of the Goodnewspaper is one of our most popular of all time. (Every issue is printed on recycled paper using soy-based inks — and we're 100% certified Climate Neutral.)

While most of our Goodnewspaper stories are exclusively available in print for subscribers, here are two pieces in digital form:

These Two Young Entrepreneurs Are Combating Food Waste With Delicious Vegan Cookies

Reyanne Mustafa and Kristian Krugman were working as servers when they noticed how much food restaurants throw away at the end of the day.
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Your Questions About Sustainability, Answered Succinctly

For this issue, you asked us questions about sustainability on Instagram. The Good Answers on this page come from the Good Good Good team and community.
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Podcast Episodes About Climate Change

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Good News This Week: August 29, 2026 - Cookies, Playgrounds, & Seahorses

Your weekly roundup of the best good news worth celebrating...
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New NJ law requires data centers to report water and energy use: 'They will not operate in the shadows'

The law requires operators to disclose total energy consumption, energy used for cooling and IT equipment, peak daily water use, water sources, and backup power supplies to the state Board of Public Utilities twice a year.
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Amid Europe's record-breaking heat and drought, solar power made it possible to cope

Europe’s solar panels produced 17% more power during the summer’s heat waves than they normally do, stabilizing the grid as afternoon cooling demand climbed.
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Scientists recycle plastic bottles into protein-rich cookies: 'Would eat in a dire situation'

Global food demand is expected to rise 35–56% by the year 2050. Could 3D-printed food sourced from plastic waste be the answer?
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Take Action for the Environment

At Good Good Good we don't merely want to feel good, we want to do good. Here are a few ways you can take action and do good this week.