The Top 5 Happy Eco News Stories for July 25, 2022

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The Footprint of Investing – Attention Boomers, this means You

Guest Post by: Grant Brown, founder of Happy Eco News

The carbon footprint of investments and investing is huge and Baby Boomers can really move the needle. Do they want to?

Happy Eco News Weekly Top 5

1. An Eagle Snatched a Baby Hawk for Dinner, Then Ended Up Adopting It

Takeaways:

• A pair of bald eagles have adopted a baby red-tailed hawk and are raising it alongside their own eaglet.
• The hawk was snatched up but as soon as it started begging for food, it was let go.
• This is the second time this has happened, the first occurring in 2017 in Sidney. B.C…[read more].

2. Climate Change: ‘Sand Battery’ Could Solve Green Energy’s Big Problem

Takeaways:

• Finnish researchers have installed the world’s first “sand battery”, which can store green power for months.
• Using low-grade sand, the device is charged with the heat made from solar or wind.
• The sand can store heat at around 500 degrees Celcius which can warm homes in the winter…[read more].

3. A Large-Scale Experiment Used Human Pee to Fertilize Crops. Here’s What Happened

Takeaways:

• In response to depleting soil nutrients and harsher weather conditions, people in Niger are looking at using human pee as fertilizers.
• Urine already consists of phosphorus, potassium and nitrogen, found in traditional fertilizers, and is relatively sterile.
• From 2014 to 2016, communities using pee as fertilizer saw an average 30 percent increase in pearl millet yield…[read more].

4. Exxon CEO: All New Cars Electric by 2040 — What That Actually Means

Takeaways:

• The CEO of ExxonMobil announced that all new car sales will be electric by 2040.
• This could mean that crossover to 100% electric could happen even before this deadline.
• And although ExxonMobil is an oil giant, there is still an opportunity to make massive profits as they did a decade ago…[read more].

5. British-Made Ecovado Offers Low-Impact Alternative to “Unsustainable” Avocados

Takeaways:

•  Arina Shokouhi has invented an avocado alternative called Ecovado, which is meant to wean people off the resource-intensive imported fruit.
• The Ecovado is made of a combination of local ingredients and packaged in fake avocado skin made of wax.
• The product prototype comprises a mixture of broad beans, hazelnut, apple and rapeseed oil…[read more].

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