A thoughtfully curated collection of articles on innovative solutions, brought together to inspire and inform.
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Is No Mow May helping bees or just overgrown hype? Here’s what the experts say | The Optimist Daily
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5 unexpected solutions to the plastic crisis | BBC Earth
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Clean energy surge leads to historic coal decline in China and India | The Optimist Daily
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Britain becomes the first G7 nation to end coal power | The Optimist Daily
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The world is sitting on $7 billion of wasted fertilizer
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Is No Mow May helping bees or just overgrown hype? Here’s what the experts say | The Optimist Daily
No Mow May is buzzy, but is it good for bees? Experts weigh in on the benefits, the flaws, and…
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5 unexpected solutions to the plastic crisis | BBC Earth
The plastic crisis is one of the greatest challenges facing planet earth. Here are five of the strangest solutions.
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Clean energy surge leads to historic coal decline in China and India | The Optimist Daily
For the first time since the 1970s, coal power fell in China and India thanks to a massive clean energy…
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Britain becomes the first G7 nation to end coal power | The Optimist Daily
The closure of the UK’s last coal power plant marks a historic turning point, ushering in a new era of…
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The world is sitting on $7 billion of wasted fertilizer
Researchers mapped hotspots of human and animal waste and matched it against US crop nutrient demand. The numbers work. The…
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This is junk science, in the best possible sense
Chemists discovered that two waste problems—spent lead-acid batteries and hard-to-recycle polymers—can solve each other, with sunlight doing most of the…
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Engineers turn dirty water into clean hydrogen
New Princeton research shows that reclaimed wastewater can replace purified water in hydrogen production, cutting treatment costs by 47%.
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Tracking traffic pollution in real time could transform city climate policy
Using traffic cameras and phone data, researchers created a real-time emissions map—giving cities a powerful new tool to cut pollution…
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‘Time for Half Measures Is Over’: Study Warns of Terrifying Atlantic Ocean Current Collapse -commondreams.org
“We must avoid this collapse at all costs,” said a leading current researcher, who warned that “the stability of the…
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Fruit trees turn marginal farms into carbon sinks and cash machines
Study finds fruit-based agroforestry can store vast carbon while boosting farmer incomes nearly 5X conventional cropping.