The Top 5 Happy Eco News Stories for July 18, 2022

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Switching to Sustainable Jewelry: What You Need to Know

Guest Post by: Dan M, Digital Marketer

Premium fashion brands have been embracing innovative ways of manufacturing accessories. While vintage clothing rises, designer brands are executing practices to promote sustainable fashion. Recycled goods and fresh ingredients are now used to create sustainable accessories.

The goal of fashion designers is to create a fashion industry that utilizes fiber-to-fiber recycling in the future. No doubt that sustainability has weaved its way into the fashion industry. As a result, major fashion brands have noticed this and shifted production towards sustainability.

Sustainable jewelry, for instance, is items made from lab-created diamonds. These diamonds are grown in highly controlled laboratory environments with the use of advanced technological processes. The processes duplicate the conditions under which mined diamonds develop when forming in the mantle…[read more].

Happy Eco News Weekly Top 5

1. 3M Has Cut its Greenhouse Gases by 71% Over Two Decades. How?

Takeaways:

• 3M has reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 71.1% over the last two decades.
• They have set a goal of using 50% of renewable energy by 2025, which they have almost reached.
• The company has also reduced water usage by 10.7%…[read more].

2. Groundbreaking California Rule Transforms How Renewables Connect to the Grid

Takeaways:

• The California Public Utilities Commission is simplifying the interconnection process for distributed energy resources (like solar) and providing valuable transparency for project developers.
• This will replace parts of the frequently imprecise expedited screening processes that can result in costly, time-consuming, and often unnecessary project reviews.
• “Today’s decision by the CPUC takes the first step toward a vastly improved interconnection process that better reflects the realities of the grid and makes it faster and easier to install the levels of clean energy that will be needed to reach California’s decarbonization goals,” said Sky Stanfield, Partner at law firm Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger…[read more].

3. It’s Time To Switch To Plastic-Free Chewing Gum

Takeaways:

• Today’s chewing gum gets its chewiness from plastic, but there are alternatives to plastic gum.
• Many plastic-free chewing gums are made of chicle, a material extracted from the sapodilla tree, which the Mayans chewed.
• These gums also contain natural sweeteners derived from the bark of birch and beech trees…[read more].

4. California Passes Nation’s Toughest Plastic Waste Law

Takeaways:

• California has passed a single-use plastic and packaging waste law which requires that by 2028 at least 30% of plastic packaging in the state be recyclable.
• The law also requires that recycling polystyrene hit 25% by 2025.
• If this number isn’t reached, the material will be banned entirely in the state…[read more].

5. Go Wild in These Countries: Five Exciting Rewilding Projects to Visit

Takeaways:

• Rewilding projects are taking place all over the world. Here are a few that you can visit:
• Affric Highlands, Scotland, is the UK’s biggest rewilding project and aims to protect the red grouse, short-eared owls, Scottish wildcat and more.
• The Patagonia National Park has over 750,000 acres of vast grasslands, forests, alpine lakes and snow-capped peaks and has seen the return of the guanaco and puma…[read more].

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