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Norm Leo's book, Look At It This Way, published in December 2025, is structured around five themes shaping daily life: health, wealth, food, water, and infrastructure, each pairing climate impacts with practical solutions designed to inspire action rather than anxiety.

Contributed Articles

01.05.26

Look At It This Way: The New Way of Talking About Climate Change

Madame Gandhi’s climate activism uses music and storytelling to amplify nature’s voice, blending art and climate advocacy to inspire deeper connections with the environment.

Society

01.05.26

Madame Gandhi’s Climate Activism Uses Music to Amplify Nature’s Voice

With plastic-free alternatives already widely available on shelves, Scotland’s plastic wet wipes ban is expected to shift consumer habits and reduce the millions of pounds spent each year clearing blocked sewers.

Northern Europe

30.04.26

Scotland’s Plastic Wet Wipes Ban is a Win for Beaches, Sewers, and Wildlife

Battery recycling with carbon capture offers a new approach to recovering valuable battery materials while simultaneously capturing carbon dioxide during the recycling process.

Technology

30.04.26

New Battery Recycling with Carbon Capture Could Make Clean Energy Even Cleaner

Reducing carbon emissions requires coordinated action across governments, businesses, and individuals, but competing priorities and voter indifference continue to slow the policy responses that environmentalists say are long overdue.

Contributed Articles

29.04.26

How to Change the World

New England plug-in solar legislation could allow small solar panels to plug directly into household outlets, expanding solar access to millions of residents who cannot install rooftop systems.

North America

29.04.26

New England Plug-in Solar Legislation Could Expand Clean Energy Access for Renters

Food waste fermentation technology developed by Copenhagen-based Reduced transforms food processing byproducts into premium savory flavors, an innovation that recently closed €4 million in Series A funding to scale clean-label ingredients for major manufacturers.

Food

29.04.26

Danish Startup Scales Food Waste Fermentation Technology with €4 Million Investment

A sand battery for industrial heat system sits as a practical, large-scale installation that demonstrates how ordinary sand stored in insulated silos can capture and release renewable energy for factory operations.

Happy Eco News

28.04.26

Sand Battery for Industrial Heat: A Simple Solution to a Complex Problem

Washington State clean water funding will provide $156.8 million for 121 projects, including the $4.7 million to Union Gap to remove copper, zinc, and other pollutants from stormwater along five key streets, protecting Spring Creek and the Yakima River (above) from untreated runoff.

North America

28.04.26

Washington State Clean Water Funding Reaches 121 Projects Across Every Region

A purpose-driven climate investment model enabled Ecosia to plant 250 million native trees, including 144 endangered or vulnerable species, across 35+ countries through partnerships with 125 local reforestation organizations employing 200,000 tree planters, making the search engine the world's largest threatened-tree conservation contributor.

Business

27.04.26

Ecosia’s Purpose-Driven Climate Investment Reaches 250M Trees

The EU ban on the destruction of unsold clothes levels the playing field for sustainable brands by making it illegal for competitors to destroy surplus stock rather than invest in responsible inventory practices.

Europe

27.04.26

EU ban on the destruction of unsold clothes marks a turning point for fashion waste

Carbon-pricing food proposals are being explored across the EU to reduce the environmental footprint of food systems by aligning prices more closely with their climate and ecological impacts.

Europe

27.04.26

Study on Carbon-Pricing Food in Europe Suggests Small Price Changes Could Cut Food Impacts

Cordillera Day has grown from an act of resistance against dam construction into an annual gathering where indigenous communities across the Cordillera region unite to defend ancestral lands, water sources, and the right to self-determination.

Contributed Articles

24.04.26

Shared Struggles, Shared Strength: The Continuing Story of Cordillera Day

The Intihuasi seed bank preserves seeds at -20°C in an earthquake-proof facility dug into the Atacama Desert hillside, using aluminum pouches to protect against seismic activity, while storing billions of specimens of Chilean native flora.

Food

24.04.26

Intihuasi Seed Bank Safeguards Agricultural Future Against Climate Change

Low-carbon urban construction offers cities a way to meet rising housing demand while reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the built environment.

Climate

23.04.26

Low-Carbon Urban Construction Could Help Cities Solve Housing and Climate Challenges

The Greenland Wildlife Overpass provides a safe crossing for animals such as elk, pronghorn, foxes, and coyotes, helping species move between fragmented habitats and maintain healthy populations.

North America

23.04.26

Greenland Wildlife Overpass in Colorado Reconnects Habitat Across Major Highway

Earth Day 2026 shifts the spotlight from large-scale climate policy to everyday decision-making, framing conscious consumption around energy use, waste, and resource efficiency as a direct and accessible expression of personal environmental power.

Contributed Articles

22.04.26

Earth Day: Climate Action is Closer to Home Than We Think

Seaweed farms’ ocean carbon capture may help remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by altering ocean chemistry and increasing seawater alkalinity.

Oceans

22.04.26

Seaweed Farms’ Carbon Capture Capability Could Boost Ocean CO2 Storage

Indigenous-led renewable energy projects like the Isneg community's 7.5-kilowatt micro-hydro system in Apayao, Philippines, tapped from the Matalag River (above), provide electricity for nearly 20 years while sustaining river ecosystems, demonstrating alternatives to large dams that displace communities and destroy habitats. Photo by Raymond Villanueva/Kodao courtesy of SIBAT.

Energy

22.04.26

Indigenous-led Renewable Energy Systems Protect Rights and Ecosystems

Antarctic krill fishing is drawing renewed attention as Sea Shepherd Global launches its 2026 Operation Antarctica Defense campaign, sending the vessel Allankay to document industrial harvesting in critical whale feeding grounds in the Southern Ocean.

Antarctica

21.04.26

Antarctic Krill Fishing Draws Attention as Conservation Patrol Returns to Southern Ocean

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