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liberalsarecool · 5 months

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This is real parents' choice, not the BS “Parents choice for mine AND yours” that Mommy Fascism League supports.

The 51 kids should not dictate what books/media the other 29,949 have access.

#censorship #book bands #positive news

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memeuplift · 20 days

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#wholesome #positive #memes #meme #happy #funny #humor #memeuplift #smile #uplift #wholesome news #positive news

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injuries-in-dust · 22 days

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Good news of March 2024

#if sad check this tag #good news #good stuff #positive #positivity #good things #good times #positive news #good news guy

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bi-krama-dick-ya · 3 months

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since i have to do every damn thing around here

and hes also the youngest

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thehopefuljournalist · 8 months

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Seed networks are community organizations that have multiplied in the past decade in different Brazilian biomes to collect, trade and plant native seeds in degraded areas.

In the Chapada dos Veadeiros area, in Goiás state members of seed networks from several parts of Brazil met for almost a week in early June.

Along with environmental organizations, researchers and government officials, they participated in discussions to boost Redário, a new group seeking to strengthen these networks and meet the demands of the country’s ecological restoration sector.

“This meeting gathered members of Indigenous peoples, family farmers, urban dwellers, technicians, partners, everyone together. It creates a beautiful mosaic and there’s a feeling that what we are doing will work and will grow,” says Milene Alves, a member of the steering committee of the Xingu Seed Network and Redário’s technical staff.

Just in 2022, 64 metric tons of native seeds were sold by these networks, and similar figures are expected for 2023.

The effort to collect native seeds by traditional populations in Brazil has contributed to effective and more inclusive restoration of degraded areas, and is also crucial for the country to fulfill its pledge under international agreements to recover 30 million acres of vegetation by 2030.

Seed collection for restoration in these areas has previously only been done by companies. But now, these networks, are organized as cooperatives, associations or even companies, enable people in the territories to benefit from the activity.

Eduardo Malta, a restoration expert from the Socio-Environmental Institute and one of Redário’s leaders, advocates for community participation in trading and planting seeds. “These are the people who went to all the trouble to secure the territories and who are there now, preserving them. They have the greatest genetic diversity of species and hold all the knowledge about the ecosystem,”

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The Geraizeiros Collectors Network are one of the groups that makes up Redário. They were founded in 2021, and now gathers 30 collectors from eight communities in five municipalities: Montezuma, Vargem Grande, Rio Pardo de Minas, Taiobeiras and Berizal.

They collect and plant seeds to recover the vegetation of the Gerais Springs Sustainable Development Reserve, which was created in 2014 in order to stop the water scarcity as a result of eucalyptus monocultures planted by large corporations.

“The region used to be very rich in water and it is now supplied by water trucks or wells,” says Fabrícia Santarém Costa, a collector and vice president of the Geraizeiros Collectors’ Network. “Today we see that these activities only harm us, because the [eucalyptus] company left, and we are there suffering the consequences.”

Costa was 18 years old in 2018, when the small group of seed collectors was founded and financed by the Global Environmental Facility. She says that working with this cooperative changed the way she looks at life and the biome in which she was born and raised. She describes restoring the sustainable development work as "ant work", ongoing, slow. But it has already improved the water situation in the communities. In addition, seed sales complement geraizeiros’ income, enabling them to remain in their territories.

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The Redário initiative also intends to influence public policies and regulations in the restoration sector to disseminate muvuca, the name given by the networks to the technique of sowing seeds directly into the soil rather than growing seedlings in nurseries.

Technical studies and network experiences alike show that this technique covers the area faster and with more trees. As a result, it requires less maintenance and lower costs. This system also distributes income to the local population and encourages community organizations.

“The muvuca system has great potential [for restoration], depending on what you want to achieve and local characteristics. It has to be in our range of options for meeting the targets, for achieving them at scale,” says Ministry of the Environment analyst Isis Freitas.

Article published August 3rd, 2023

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triggerblaze345 · 1 year

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#environmentalism #plastic waste #notpla #removing plastic #good news #positive news

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aquitainequeen · 1 year

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Deep in the Ecuadorian Amazon, an Indigenous group has scored a major win against extraction companies and injustice

Indigenous leaders across the globe are winning gamechanging environmental victories against the odds. In our ‘guardians of the wild’ series, we hear from those who have defeated oil companies, cancelled mining contracts and won the right to stewardship of millions of acres of land, risking their lives to protect the wildest places on our planet.

#Alex Lucitante #Alexandra Narváez #Ecuador #conservation #environment #positive news #positivity #positive.news

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hopeful-engineer · 23 days

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justalittlesolarpunk · 2 months

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Solarpunk Sunday Suggestion:

Read some uplifting stories of human progress at https://www.positive.news/

#solarpunk #hopepunk #cottagepunk #lunarpunk #tidalpunk #turbinepunk #environmentalism #social justice #community #optimism #bright future #climate justice #good news #positive journalism #positive news #solarpunksundays

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personal-blog243 · 3 months

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Some positive climate news. I didn’t know that some states in the U.S. have banned plastic bags! Let’s see if we can add more.

#baby steps #good news #stop plastic pollution #end plastic pollution #positive news #go green #climate action #climate activism #climate science #reduce reuse recycle

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thedisablednaturalist · 6 months

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I listen to NPRs environmental articles in the morning for my alarm, and today's about key deer in Florida really brought up a very good point.

Humans have done so much to negatively impact our environment. That means we also have the power to change it in a positive way as well.

#wrenfea.exe #environmental news #positive news #earth positive #earth optimism #climate optimism #environmental optimism

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hope-for-the-planet · 2 years

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I don’t know if your non-US audience will have heard of it (or even those in the US, based on convos I’ve had today), but the Inflation Reduction Act has passed both chambers of the US legislature. It provides HUGE amounts of funding to climate solutions, in a way that benefits not only the US but other countries through research and driving down costs of clean energy!

I don’t have a great link handy - haven’t found one that summarizes the climate provisions well - but it’s a momentous day for gov’t action on climate!

Hi Noelscope!

Thank you for bringing this up! I have personally been waiting with bated breath watching the IRA (Inflation Reduction Act) move through the legislative process--and have similarly been surprised that I don't hear more people in the US talking about it.

Even though this is a massive piece of positive climate change news, part of me has hesitated to post it here because, like every piece of legislature, this is an imperfect bill made by imperfect people and an imperfect political process—for anyone looking to be negative and get up in arms about something there is plenty of stuff to point fingers at that could have been better.

But but but. Looking through the lens of when I first started this blog less than 4 years go—this seems like a legitimate miracle. That we have gotten this far this fast after four years of Trump environmental policy is almost unbelievable.

This is the largest piece of climate legislature passed in the US by a truly massive margin—most models anticipate that it will drop US emissions 30-40% by 2030 and potentially actually put us within reach of our Paris Agreement goals.

Do we need to do more? Yes. Is this an excuse to let up environmental efforts and political pressure? Absolutely not. But this is a massive piece of progress that would not have happened if the people involved had given up when it started to seem impossible.

This video has a great overview of what is in the IRA, what it is intended to do, and some of the downsides (good stuff that had to be left out of the bill and bad stuff that had to be grudgingly included in order to get it to pass).

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#US politics #submission #ask #politics #climate change #global warming #news #carbon emissions #inflation reduction act #positive news #hope #ecoanxiety

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thehopefuljournalist · 9 months

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This article isn't solely about the environment, but some of the things there are, so I'll summarize them for you :)

Bhutan and India boosted tiger numbers

According to Bhutan's latest tiger census, tigers have increased their population from 103 to 131 since 2015 - which is a rise of 27 per-cent.

This follows the country's major interventions to help the wild tiger population, including community based tiger conservation programmes, habitat improvement and human-wildlife conflict management projects.

Tigers are, of course, still at risk, but Bhutan's dedication to help and preserve their population is inspiring.

India has also reported a six pre-cent rise in their wild tiger population since last year. The country is believed to be populated by 3,682 tigers now.

Germany’s €49 travel pass

A part of a green new policy in Germany, a €49 (£42)-a-month pass allowing unlimited travel on buses and trains in Germany.

This will result in about 25 per-cent rise (per year) in the numbers of people choosing public transport instead of cars - a low carbon way of transport (according to the national rail operator Deutsche Bahn (DB)).

The Deutschlandticket launched on 1 May as a plan to lower the cost of living and encourage people to take the train instead of driving.

It seems to already have some great results: The Association of German Transport Companies says that almost 10 million people had used the pass by the end of June. DB has also said that trains to holiday destinations were busier this summer.

UK crop yields rose despite a fall in fertiliser use

New data from the UK’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) revealed that UK crop yields rose last year, despite a sharp decline in fossil fuel fertiliser use. Many believed that these fertilisers were necessary, but this data proves that belief wrong.

According to Defra, wheat, barley, oilseed rape and sugar beet yields rose by 2.4 per cent in 2022, while fertiliser use fell by a reported 27 per cent.

These artificial fertilisers are made using natural gas, and because the prices soared in 2022, following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, farmers had to either use much less of them, or embrace more natural alternatives.

England’s plastic bag charge was hailed a success

Since the government in England forced supermarkets to charge 5p a plastic bag, there's been a 98 per-cent reduction of single use plastic bags.

That’s according to figures from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which introduced the charge in 2015, then increased it to 10p in 2021.

Environmental campaigners welcomed the figures, but urged the UK government not to row back on other green policies, including a deposit return scheme for plastic bottles and rules to make plastic producers contribute to clean-up costs. Both policies have been delayed until 2025.

Have a good weekend everyone!

Let me know, what good news have yo read or heard about lately?

#climate change #climate #hope #good news #more to come #climate emergency #news #climate justice #hopeful #positive news

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positive-vibes-news · 2 years

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[Image: A cat relaxes on top of a cat tree — a great piece of furniture to give cats an outlet for their scratching. END]

Apr. 23, 2022, “The new law, which goes into effect in October, prohibits veterinarians from performing the surgical procedure..."

“The first U.S. state to ban declawing was New York, which did so in 2019. “

#animals #pets #cats #maryland #animal welfare #image described #cat #article #good news #positive news #link

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aquitainequeen · 3 months

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Hannah Ritchie used to be convinced that she didn’t have a future to live for. Now, a new book by the myth-busting data expert and climate ‘solutionist’ shows how we can all replace the ‘deadweight’ of endless unsolvable problems with useful, urgent optimism Posters in hand, a 13-year-old Hannah Ritchie stood before classmates at Falkirk high school gloomily forecasting runaway global warming and rising oceans. This much of the planet would be flooded at two degrees, this much more at three degrees. The world was slipping into a watery abyss, she told them. Now 29 and a renowned environmental scientist, Ritchie’s work speaks to audiences of hundreds of thousands, and instead of being laden with doom it is radically hopeful. After diving deep into the data on some of the world’s most pressing problems, she’s surfaced as a rare, positive, fact-based voice. For the first time in humankind’s history, Ritchie argues, true sustainability is tantalisingly within reach.