Good News for the Environment

Sustainable stories of progress for the planet

House W, a tiny home covered in solar panels and timber, sits on a snowy plateau in Japan

This net-zero tiny home generates almost double the energy it needs — here's how

House W utilizes a ‘solar skin’ of 56 panels to generate all the off-grid energy it needs — and more.
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A woman stands in the entrance of a tiny home made from a decommissioned wind turbine nacelle at Dutch Design Week

Decommissioned wind turbine redesigned as eco-friendly tiny home, scalable to build '2,000 houses a year'

Designers estimate that thousands of wind turbines worldwide will be decommissioned in the coming years, offering a “gold mine” of new resources.
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A photo collage of an aerial view of a solar farm, a woman walks up a hill with a stick, a Spotify playlist screenshot of the 'Is This What We Want?" album by 1,000 UK Artists, a mother and son posing for the camera, and a crowd looking at the SS United States -- a historic ocean liner

Good News This Week: March 1, 2025 - Hostels, Trees, & Albums

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A shipping container home sits near a bayou in Louisiana under a navy blue night sky

Hurricane Katrina survivor builds 'durable' shipping container homes for others displaced by disaster

After living through his own share of loss, Joshua Clark has created affordable homes to withstand future disasters.
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A "road closed" sign gates off Manzanita Lake in Lassen Volcanic National Park

Federal budget cuts are impacting national parks. Here are 5 ways you can help

National parks are in trouble due to federal budget cuts. Here’s what’s happening and how you can help.
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Two photos side by side. On the left, four people stand in front of a shipping container. On the left, a Palestinian man holds up two large, green bundles of Nepali mustard greens inside of a hydoponic garden.

Shipping container transformed into indoor farm that feeds immigrants for free: 'Forefront of innovative agriculture'

Food grown by Village Hydroponics is distributed among Nepali, Somali, Iraqi, Congolese, and Burundi communities.
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A photo collage of people standing in front of a hotel converted into a housing complex, a woman talking to a man, Billie Eilish performing on stage, activists carrying signs, and an aerial view of a North Carolina school district

Good News This Week: February 8, 2025 - Quilts, Hotels, & Veterans

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A few from nature featuring mountaintop removal in Letcher County, Kentucky

Activists buy a prison site to rewild the land: 'A sign of progress'

Once a coal mine, then slotted to be a prison, a group of activists are working to reclaim the land.
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Jelly Roll sings on stage at Rose Bowl Stadium

Jelly Roll (and friends) host benefit concert for 16,000 of LA's incarcerated firefighters, first responders

Paid for by Live Nation, the free Rose Bowl show included guests like Marshmello, Lainey Wilson, and Shinedown.
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A photo collage of an aerial view of a forest, a tablet displaying imagery of genetic editing, a young girl wearing a Taylor Swift The Eras Tour shirt, a section of a vertical farm, and a row of solar panels in a solar farm

Good News This Week: February 1, 2025 - Shovels, Forests, & Vertical Farms

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A woman in a blue safety vest stands next to a large trash receptacle and holds a trash pick-up stick

Portland pays homeless residents to clean up trash: 'This gives people purpose'

Currently or formerly homeless workers get paid $20-29 an hour and have access to an array of benefits.
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