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    Built in a single weekend in June 2022, the Good Dirt Community Garden transformed a patch of lawn on the edge of a small Southern Illinois town into a flourishing space for vegetables, fruits, herbs, flowers, and tallgrass prairie plants, tended by a tight-knit community of volunteers.
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    17.07.26

    Many Hands Make a Garden Grow

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    Kiss the Ground is building mainstream momentum for regenerative agriculture by connecting consumers to the farmers and soil health practices behind the food they eat, proving that informed purchasing decisions can drive meaningful environmental change.
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    15.07.26

    Regeneration for Human and Planetary Health: One Nonprofit’s Mission to Move the Movement Past the Tipping Point

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    From the Yukon to New Brunswick, three Canadian schools are proving that lasting climate action begins not with solar panels or bike racks, but with young people who understand why their choices matter and believe they have the power to make a difference.
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    10.07.26

    Learning by Doing: From the Arctic to the Atlantic, These Students are Rewriting the Climate Classroom

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    Churchill Northern Studies Centre's Rocket Greens program uses hydroponic growing in a repurposed sea container to deliver fresh food year-round to one of Canada's most remote subarctic communities, alongside composting and community education programs.
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    08.07.26

    Churchill Grows Fresh Food Year-Round in Canada’s Subarctic Region

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    One of the garden beds at the boys’ orphanage was built with found materials such as cardboard and string.
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    03.07.26

    Beyond Beautification: Lessons from Mumbai’s Informal Food Gardens

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    Excessive plastic packaging in a retail shop reflects the widespread reliance on single-use plastics across consumer supply chains, where nearly every product is wrapped, sealed, or stored in plastic.
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    01.07.26

    Plastic-free life in a Plastic world: Is real change possible?

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    Elements has built a festival culture where attendees voluntarily clean up after themselves and compete to do it. Image: Elements Music Festival
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    26.06.26

    This Music Festival Turned Waste Cleanup Into a Game, and Fans Can’t Stop Playing

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    Arcadia Ecohome Microforest's Deadwood Garden serves as a bee shelter housing cavity-nesting species representing 30% of Southern California's 1,600+ native bees, with a homemade Bee Hotel, exposed bare ground maintained for the 70% ground-nesting species, and pesticide-free habitat supporting urban beekeeping as a Certified Bee Friendly Farm.
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    24.06.26

    Bees and Biodiversity at Arcadia Ecohome Microforest

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    Climate literacy is as fundamental to the sustainability transition as any policy or technology, with the world's ability to understand, evaluate, and act on climate solutions proving just as decisive as the solutions themselves.
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    19.06.26

    Climate Literacy as Climate Justice: Why Capacity Building Must Become a Global Priority

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    The Nature Conservation Index 2025 evaluates 180 countries across a broad range of environmental indicators, offering policymakers, conservationists, and the public a data-driven roadmap to measure where nations are succeeding or falling short in protecting the natural world.
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    17.06.26

    Nature Conservation Index 2025: Mapping the Frontiers of Global Conservation Success

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    A new wave of UK biomaterials companies is offering a genuinely circular alternative, from microorganism-derived polymers and seaweed-based packaging to mushroom-grown replacements for polystyrene. The photo shows partially composted products by Shellworks, a London-based biomaterials start-up.
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    12.06.26

    A Future Without Plastic Waste: The Rise of Biomaterial Packaging in the UK

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    Greenpop's Reforest Fest planted a single-day record of 8,327 indigenous trees at Easter 2026, combining music, workshops, and community action to drive long-term restoration of one of southern Africa's most ancient and fire-threatened indigenous forests in the Western Cape.
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    10.06.26

    What 8,000 Trees and a Music Festival Tell Us About Climate Action

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    Three 16-year-old students from India claimed the top prize at The Earth Prize 2026, the world's largest environmental competition for teenagers, with Plas-Stick, a water filtration solution that uses discarded tamarind seeds to remove microplastics from drinking water and was chosen by a global public vote of around 23,000 people.
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    05.06.26

    The first ever Global Winners of the Earth Prize are from India, and They’re Using Waste Tamarind Seeds to Remove Microplastics from Water

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    A landmark acceleration of the Everglades Agricultural Area Reservoir project moves the centerpiece of Everglades restoration five years ahead of schedule to 2029, delivering renewed momentum for one of the world's most ambitious ecosystem recovery efforts and the millions of Floridians who depend on it.
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    03.06.26

    Everglades Restoration Effort Advances with Major Project Moved Ahead of Schedule

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    Seven teenage teams from across the globe have been named Regional Winners of The Earth Prize 2026, the world's largest youth environmental competition, with innovations ranging from seaweed-based biodegradable fabric to microplastic water filtration, proving that climate solutions are not waiting for the next generation to grow up.
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    29.05.26

    The Future is Bright: Meet The Earth Prize 2026 Regional Winners

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    Palaui Island Protected Landscape and Seascape in the northeastern Philippines, a three-time ASEAN Community-based Tourism Award winner, has transformed from a remote reserve into a thriving ecotourism destination spanning 7,145 hectares of forest, coral reefs, mangroves, and seagrass meadows.
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    27.05.26

    Palaui Island: The Gem of the North

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    The rainmaking drought solution brought six unlikely summer rains to Oregon during 2024's worst fire season, cutting the catastrophic burn rate 77% from 36,585 to 6,162 acres daily after August 17, the first precipitation following strategic watering of large forest trees with 32,750 gallons total investment.
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    22.05.26

    Rainmaking with Trees as a Drought Solution Cuts Oregon Wildfire Burn Rate through Strategic Forest Hydration

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    Health In Harmony is supporting the Xipaya Indigenous Peoples in protecting 2.5 million hectares of Brazilian Amazon rainforest by listening deeply to community needs and backing locally designed solutions that link human wellbeing directly to forest survival.
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    20.05.26

    How Community Wellbeing in the Xipaya Indigenous Territory is Supporting Brazilian Amazon Conservation 

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    Boston-based Bow Seat is turning eco-anxiety into climate action by giving young people aged 11 to 18 a creative outlet through art, film, poetry, and storytelling, with its 2026 Ocean Awareness Contest inviting entries on personal connections to the ocean through June 8.
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    15.05.26

    The Climate Solution You Don’t Hear Enough About

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    What began as a personal blog in Lagos in 2016 has grown into SustyVibes, a youth-led climate movement with 800 volunteers across Africa, the UK, and the US, built on the idea that sustainability should feel relevant, accessible, and genuinely cool to young people.
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    13.05.26

    From Blog to Movement: How SustyVibes Built Africa’s Youth-Led Climate Community

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