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April 4, 2024
Happy Eco News represents resistance to ubiquitous negative news around environmental issues. So much positive work is being done worldwide and we need to hear these stories to know that we’re not the only ones who believe change is possible.
Keep up the good work HEN.
Laura F.
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March 10, 2024
My name is Annie and I’m an illustrator based in Sydney, Australia.
I’m also a nature-nerd and have lots of passion for making art that celebrates the planet the people who are doing awesome work to protect it. Whilst looking for inspiration on my next project, I found the Happy Eco News account on Instagram and instantly fell in love with the good news that it spreads. I think hope is very important when it comes to encouraging action for the better
Annie
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February 24, 2024
Thanks for all you do Grant.
While I cannot support financially, I can offer words of support and thanks for all you do spreading good.
Best to you, and take care of yourself also. 🙂
Cheers,
Julia
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February 24, 2024
you are doing an absolutely wonderful, useful, magnificent work ! ! !
I`m hundert years old, brazilian and try to promote (little that I can…) your work.
God bless you!
Iris
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February 21, 2024
I want to take a moment to say thank you for the work you put into sharing these articles every week.
As a climate change and environmental consultant, these stories are what gives me hope. They also push me to continue the work I do with meaningfulness and resilience.
Aneesh
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February 20, 2024
I appreciate your note about advertising. Thank you for your decision. I recently unsubscribed to another environmental email (The Canopy) because of their poor advertising choices.
I will make a donation to you because of your decision and because of your content.
Thank you,
Rick
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January 1, 2024
Grant you and team do such important work. I really look forward to my Monday emails from you very week. Thank you sincerely! Happy new year.
Kayla
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December 12, 2023
Hey there, Grant. In case I didn’t say so before, just wanted you to compliment you on your major site re-design. A lot of labour must’ve gone into it and I hope you’re happy with the outcome. It’s good for people to have positive places to go when world news gets especially grim. Anyway, good luck with the challenges and changes, Grant. I applaud what you’re doing. All the best 🙂
Jeannine
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August 28, 2023
I applaud your initiative – we’re all desperate for Happy Eco News. I write merely to suggest you allow for other routes (specifically Paypal) to make a donation, not just Patreon. I myself don’t deal with Patreon, for several reasons, among which the need to register with them, and their subscription model for donations.
Keep up the good work,
Semira
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August 2, 2023
I want to thank you for all of your work with and the creation of Happy Eco News. My wife and I are both educators and have had countless experiences with students questioning why the majority of our encounters with news information have to be negative. Your site is such a breath of fresh air. I always look forward to my emails containing your weekly updates. They bring a true feeling of hope and positivity. Thanks for giving that to so many people, it is amazing.
A big Mahalo for all you do,
Sean
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July 28, 2023
The work you do is so important, an emotional life raft in the daily litany of eco-misery. Thank you for providing us with uplifting, reassuring, encouraging articles. Hope springs eternal.
Cordially,
Karen
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July 28, 2023
I look forward to every email that comes from your team, it brings me a lot of comfort 🙂 The work you do is appreciated and you should do what you need to do to keep up the good work!
Shane
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July 27, 2023
Thanks for the great work you do to help inspire people to move from fear and paralysis toward hope and ecological action! The newsletter is always a joy to see in my inbox on Monday mornings 🙂
Brenna
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October 22, 222
I came across your website due to a very important person in my life who is facing anxiety related to climate change and the environment. I was hoping to get in touch with one of your authors, who posted an article where they talk about having gone through a similar ordeal. I would love it if I could talk to them in order to understand how I can better help my friend through her journey and help her understand that there is still hope for the planet. (Editor note: Contact was made).
Warm regards,
Adarsh
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October 17, 2022
Love Happy Eco news, it’s always a morale boost when I get it.
John
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August 23, 2022
Hey there, I just want to say thank you so much for creating this site. Last year I was a the brink of ending everything as my climate anxiety became so overbearing that I was suffocating to the point I wouldn’t want to go outside because no matter what I did, I hurt the planet and felt I had no hope for the future. I have always been a climate activist but always felt I could do nothing.
I am now in my final year of teaching and always show my students your site every morning to show there are some amazing things happening. Honestly, you saved my life, and you have no idea how much of a big help you are being. It’s not so bad anymore where I feel like there is hope; thanks so much!
Jessie
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June 14, 2022
As a young 16 year-old who will most likely witness the effects of climate change in the future, my eco-anxiety is through the roof. I’ve read many negative news articles about the subject and it has taken a toll on me. I think about it every day and it really brings me down. That’s why I thank you for spreading all this positivity and hope. We really need it.
Eduardo
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April 11, 2022
Thank you so much for this site. Hope that there ARE people out there making a difference is what keeps the fight alive for a planet we can all live in.
Andrea
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December 12, 2021
Thanks, Happy Eco News. Your article got me using SearchScene and it’s giving great search results. Also, like the design — and how nice to help reputable charities instead of tax-avoiding billionaires!
Jeannine
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November 3, 2021
Hey guys,
Wanted to thank you for the awesome work you do with this blog! Like a lot of young people, I often experience intense climate anxiety and your page really helps to relax me and put a positive spin on things.
Thanks again and keep up the great work! 🙂
Caitlin
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October 6, 2021
I just wanted to say thank you for your website/Facebook page. When everything in the news seems hopeless it is very isolating and depressing. Your page shows that millions of people care and are using their creativity, ingenuity, and research to help. Climate anxiety is something that I really struggle with, but your page has helped give me a bit of hope and perspective, showing that people care and that positive change can happen. So thank you.
From Hannah
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September 7, 2021
Great text! Good ideas !! Funny dog !!! Hope it will work out !!!!
Pierre
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September 3, 2021
Thank you for Happy Eco News. I often feel terrified and hopeless about the future. Your site’s articles give me some hope.
Stephanie
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August 16, 2021
Hello there,
I really appreciate your weekly newsletter! I first heard about you on a David Suzuki call a year or so ago.
Thank you for what you do!
Sincerely,
Shana
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August 8, 2021
I really like to know about news conservations organizations around the world and sounds like this Hurakaan Eco-Táctica got my attention, principally in countries like Mexico with so many biodiversity and nature, I will look up for more and see how can I help.
Gustavo
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July 20, 2021
This makes me warm inside, I feel that same deep emotion, we all do even if it it hasn’t hit us yet or our personalities of feelings deny it.
Mother Nature is our home it created us, it’s begging for our help.
I have a hope, slowly.
There are enough good people who feel this internal burning we won’t lie down without a fight.
Bison
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July 20, 2021
Beautiful connections with nature. Thanks for helping others see simplistic living is so available. One just has to live in that authenticity.
Lorrie
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July 19, 2021
Thanks for sharing! So inspiring and I really hope that we together can create awareness for many many others. ?
Emille
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July 18, 2021
Loved reading this newsletter – beautiful – i’m sure you have a book in you 🙂
hope all is well at your end. all is blessed over here.
Kindly,
Anjula
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July 18, 2021
Beautiful article, hear felt and real, thank you
Emma Mary
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July 7, 2021
Thank you for writing this. And a thank you to brother Bob who filmed the video. As I understand it, there has been a two year moratorium on logging at Whispering Creek headwaters. I believe me need more certainty that it will not be logged in future. And all other locations that contribute to the beauty and ecology that is Howe Sound.
Heather
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July 1, 2021
Hi Grant,
No suggestions or questions, just a big thank you for what you do from France 🙂 We need more people like you !
Best regards,
Rémy
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June 29, 2021
Very nicely put together taking into account various aspects of environment related issues . Definitely get you thinking!
Keep up the good work.
Kavita
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May 24, 2021
Wow, what brilliant minds these women have. All the best to them and the wonderful things they will do in this world.
Myeco
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May 24, 2021
You put into words how earth day feels!
It IS every day.
It is so much more than picking up garbage around you for one day ?
It IS standing up to the systems which destroy healthy life in our planet.
Thanks for stepping it up with your realistic honest piece! Cheers, Grant.
Debora
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February 24, 2021
HI jamie – I read it. It’s good ! … and I found out more about you … which IS good too !
You have my full support.
J’espère que tout cela, ce nouveau projet t’amènera loin … en avant…
Take care, keep in touch !
Pierre
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February 11, 2021
Hey,
Big fan of your website, I’ve been visiting it regularly for the last year or so. It’s been a great help in dealing with my anxiety problems.
I found this article about my home state’s work to revive our oyster reefs, bringing along with it a surge in biodiversity.
Cheers,
Nicole
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January 25, 2021
Thank you so much for supporting these causes where those who rely on it for its resources do not or should a lot better. Thank you.
Kevin
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January 9, 2021
thank you!
wowzer, you do so much!
yes, please pace yourself and remember self care is as important as all the good works we extend into the world.
i will be in touch soon – and i appreciate your support – thank you!
Kindly,
Anjula
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December 29, 2020
Thank you so much for running this site.
There’s so much negativity in the news, especially since the rise of endless news feeds and ‘doomscrolling’. But to drive the change the world needs you can’t rely on fear alone, you need something to hope for.
The weekly blog post, in particular, is a part of the week I always look forward to.
Personally, I’m most excited about the continually plummeting costs of renewable energy given that, as we’ve seen in places where the government might not prioritize reducing emissions, you can’t fight economics. The argument of “expensive clean energy” is crumbling and will soon be flipped on its head.
I think we’ll soon see the same for EVs.
Hopefully, you’ll keep finding good news for us in 2021 ?
Ben
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December 28, 2020
Thanks Grant.
Appreciate your fact finding.
And for some reason, I actually ‘ believe’
Your statistics.
Gray Panthers in Maine are turning into GREEN Panthers.
Alice
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December 11, 2020
Excellent news: there is eco- hope !
Irene
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December 7, 2020
Thank you ??
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”
Alice
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November 21, 2020
Grant,
Great editorial. Getting harder to stay happy, isn’t it?
Van
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November 5, 2020
Following your inner guide. Good for you and for the world 2:)
John
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October 26, 2020
Thank you for this. Good news leads to hope. And hope leads to solutions. In a world drowning in bad news, good news is like an endangered species, and we need to save it. Thanks for your part. I share it with my family and friends in person, or by text. That’s perhaps a smaller than social media, but I stay away from that. In the end, perhaps it’s more powerful. It is for me.
Bill
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October 26, 2020
I wanted to leave you a note of thanks.
I discovered your site about a year ago and I now visit every morning to get my little fix of hope. There is no end of doom and gloom available out there, but I love coming here for a 180 degree turn in perspective to see instead positive news of what is being done and being planned for the future by like minded people and individuals not willing to let the scale of problems stop them from taking steps forward. Your site is a wonderful place to glimpse a brighter future with projects and changes already in motion. Seeing that success is the best possible advert for change.
Thank you,
Tom
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October 12, 2020
Is Grant’s company on the NYSE? An I.P.O. ?
I would like to invest:)
Alice
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June 23, 2020
Hi Grant,
In case no one’s told you lately….you are a gem of light during these strange times.
I share Happy Eco News in my church’s newsletter every Sunday (I’m on the Green Sanctuary team). I am only focusing on good news these days. You are my main source!
Of course I include local good eco-news as well. Today I was able to include the good news regarding one of the largest power plants in Georgia, Georgia Power’s Plant Scherer. The local Altamaha Riverkeepers have tested the water and found coal ash poisons and have managed to fight back and “may” get funding from the state to have the coal ash pits lined.
I just wanted to give you some good eco-news back.
Mostly: THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for the work you are doing!
Melissa
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June 16, 2020
Hi Grant
As always, I deeply appreciate you hosting this site and providing hope, positivism, progress and information.
How can we help support you?
Thanks
Heather
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May 26, 2020
Always great to see these weekly recaps and I feel it’s getting harder to choose with so many good and progressive actions being taken.
Thanks once again for putting this all together
Mary
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May 26, 2020
Firstly, Thank you for all your hard work bringing this positive information to us. Back in the winter the scale of the Climate emergency hit me and I was hunting up websites for positive environmental news, your website was about the only website centred around this subject that I could read without any anxiety. Secondly, I can only say one thing. YAY!!!! It was the one of the most stupid thing done by Ontario’s government! So glad it got overturned!
Taylar
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May 18, 2020
I make it a point to visit your website DAILY. It sets me up for a positive day. Keep on keeping on.
Glenn
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May 4, 2020
Thank you for all the stories, hope and progress you share.
Heather
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May 4, 2020
Thank you so much for your positivity! I knew happy ecological news was there and I appreciate you finding it and telling us about it. That’s fantastic!
Kat
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March 17, 2020
Thank you thank you thank you.
I write my congregations 3 R’s newsletter and I always include information from Happy Eco news.com
We have just earned the green sanctuary certification from Georgia Interfaith Power & Lights g.i.p.l. and I honestly feel your good news has kept us motivated!
Melissa
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February 2, 2020
love your website – I’m about to link it to my clients database so hopefully that generates some traffic to you!!
one possible suggestion to add, perhaps have a tab on what we can all collectively do as individuals to help the environment
keep up the great work!
Anthony
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January 7, 2020
It’s so good to get positive news about the environment from this site. Especially because we are reeling from unprecedented bush fires in Australia caused clearly by global warming.
Krishna
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January 6, 2020
I am so happy for you all. As I can see, you two are doing good and it makes me happy.
Emmure
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January 2, 2020
Love your page and what you write. I have eco-anxiety and when I feel down or stressed this is where I go. It feels good to have good news because not everything needs to look grim when we think about the future. We often see way too many bad news and I feel like it discourages people. Continue the good work and I look forward reading even more good news in 2020.
Audrey
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December 18, 2019
Thank goodness for the good eco and climate news you bring.
Well done.
From a concerned Grandpa.
Julian
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September 26, 2019
I am so desperate to get some positive climate news, thank you for compiling and sharing what you find. You’re helping me to keep on trying against insurmountable odds.
Gypsy
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August 6, 2019
This made my day, efforts like these will change our planet and help us tackle the fight against climate change
Aarya
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April 29, 2019
Plastic pollution is on its worst and we really need to do something to save our environment from dying. More power to you!
Lie
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February 20, 2019
Thank you so mucj for your work to help keep us informed and motivated. I too want to leave the earth better than i found it.
Bonita
