Good News for the Environment

Sustainable stories of progress for the planet

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Moms Are Driving the Push To Get More Electric School Buses on the Streets

Moms mobilizing to protect their children’s health is not a new phenomenon; they’ve led the fight against fracking, air pollution, and contaminated water in their neighborhoods.
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How Cleveland Is Salvaging Old Buildings To Create a New Circular Economy

When two Cleveland-area nonprofits embarked on major building projects, they also set the lofty goal of going green. They used deconstruction, or the practice of carefully dismantling old buildings for reuse, to reduce the amount of waste going to a landfill.
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Europe Sizes Up Renewables To Reduce Reliance on Russian Gas

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine “might be the biggest stimulus to the rollout of renewables that the continent has ever had”
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Meet Green Girl, Environmental Leader: Leah Thomas

Rest, Hope, and Privilege: An intimate conversation with the founder of Intersectional Environmentalist
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Hope Within the Heartbreak: Finding Good News in Ukraine

Good Good Good has worked to research, vet, and share authentic good news coming out of Ukraine.
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Defending the Amazon: How Indigenous Culture Protects Colombia's Rainforest

Indigenous communities are widely considered the best guardians of vanishing rainforests. From using farm plots later regrown as forest to looking at nature as having its own rights, here’s why that’s the case
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The Solutions Project: Let's create the future we want.

This Organization Equips Frontline Communities Fighting for Environmental & Racial Justice

Diverse grassroots organizations are underfunded; This Black woman-led nonprofit is doing something about it
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Colombia's Indigenous Groups Are Training Youth To Defend the Amazon Rainforest

Creating the next generation of Amazon indigenous leaders is key to preserving fast-vanishing tropical forests.
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Zero Waste Reddit: 16 Best Subreddits About Climate Change

Recommendations on the best subreddits on Reddit that can help you be more sustainable, reduce waste, and care for Earth.
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Ownership of a California Redwood Forest Is Being Returned To Indigenous Guardianship

The InterTribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council is working with Save the Redwoods League, which donated the land, to protect California’s remaining oil-growth forest, along with endangered species such as the northern spotted owl and marbled murrelet.
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Major Civil Rights Moments in Every State

Highlighting a contribution from each state toward civil rights in America, along with what led to that historical moment and the change it brought.
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Where & How To Recycle, Resell, or Repair Your Old Shoes

How to recycle your shoes — or maybe donate or upcycle them. We’ve rounded up a list of sustainable recommendations to get you started.
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