no. 84: Climativity's first in-person meetup!
This week's good news includes an upcoming meetup, a new study on the twilight zone of the ocean found a lot of fungi, and investors are urging Shell to decarbonize.
no. 83: The first all-women city council in a big US city
This week's good news includes the first all-women city council in a big US city, saiga recovering from near extinction, and South Korea banning the dog meat trade.
no. 82: 2024 is set to have more good news than ever
We're back and it's a new year. This week's good news includes chocolate made directly in the Amazon, white seahorses being re-released, and London's ULEZ has been very effective.
Closing the year out strong
We (just about) made it to the end of 2023. Congrats!
It was a year filled with a lot of
#80: COP28 comes to a close
This week's good news includes the wrap-up of the UN Climate talks/COP28, lots of awesome activism, some innovation around field research, and much more.
#79: It ain't perfect, but COP28 is creating progress
This week's good news centers a lot around COP28 which has some good and some not-so-good outcomes thus far. Plus new protection for wolverines, the first commercial solar-powered boat, and much more!
#78: COP28 has begun.
The badass all-female anti-poaching Black Mambas, new mining regulations are on the way, Australia's largest civil disobedience action, and so much more!
#77: let's bring the redwoods back
This week's good news includes a goal of 800,000 acres of redwood forests, the EU criminalizing environmental damage, an Airbnb was turned into a seal sanctuary, and so much more.
#76: A Global Plastics Treaty is likely coming soon
150 countries are currently negotiating a Global Plastic Treaty in Nairobi, plus $1.7 trillion invested in clean energy, Colombian deforestation is down 70%, and so much more.
#75: 400,000 new clean energy jobs
Rainforest nations came together to work on conservation efforts for two-thirds of the world's land-based biodiversity, plus pressure builds for a global plastic treaty, NYC is expanding tree canopy coverage from 22% to 30%, and so much more.