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The B2B Opportunity in Corporate Sustainability B2B suppliers can capture growing demand for sustainable products by helping customers meet their sustainability goals.

As major brands like McDonald’s, Salesforce, and Mars push suppliers to deliver on sustainability goals, B2B companies that offer traceable, low-carbon, and circular solutions are gaining a competitive edge.

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Seawater Carbon Storage Material Could Help Fight Climate Change and Build Better Cities | Happy Eco News Seawater carbon storage removes carbon from the ocean and turns it into useful construction materials like concrete and plaster. This new process uses electricity and natural seawater ingredients to t...

What if the fight against climate change—and the key to building better cities—was already flowing through our oceans? 🌊🏙️

Researchers at Northwestern University have developed a carbon-negative building material made from seawater.

📖 Read more Happy Eco News: happyeconews.com/seawater-car...

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

Solar is no longer alternative energy—it's the new default Around the globe, solar power is scaling up at a breakneck pace, reshaping energy systems, economies, and even geopolitics.Bill McKibben reports for The New Yorker.In short:Solar and wind are now the ...

Solar is no longer an “alternative”—it’s the default. ☀️🌍

From Texas to Tanzania, solar power is scaling faster than utilities and policymakers can keep up.

📖 Source: www.dailyclimate.org/solar-is-no-...

Spore and peace: fungi power a quiet revolution in nappy waste A US-based biotech firm has developed a plastic-eating fungi, offering an eco-friendly solution to tackle the global nappy waste crisis

A dirty problem meets a natural solution 🍄🧷

250 million nappies are tossed each day — leaching plastic and chemicals into the earth. But biotech firm HIRO Technologies believes mushrooms could change everything.

📖 Read more: www.positive.news/society/spor...

Breaking Up with Plastic: Analyzing the #CleanSeas PSA clean Discover how the #CleanSeas PSA uses storytelling to inspire a global movement against single-use plastics, turning viewers into heroes for environmental change.

💔 It’s not you… it’s plastic.

In our latest blog, we break down the #CleanSeas PSA through the lens of the Hero’s Journey—and explore how a rom-com-style breakup can inspire global action against single-use plastics. 🌊✨

Read more: freerange.com/blog/breakin...

9 Mistakes Leaders Make With AI Strategy In this brief video, AI experts share advice with leaders on avoiding AI strategy missteps.

Why do so many AI strategies fall short? 🤖📉

At the 2025 MIT Sloan CIO Symposium, tech leaders shared the AI mistakes they’re still seeing — from stalling in “pilot purgatory” to overlooking the human side of transformation.

Read more: sloanreview.mit.edu/video/9-mist...

Japanese Scientists Create Saltwater Biodegradable Plastic | Happy Eco News Japanese scientists have created a supramolecular plastic that completely dissolves in saltwater within 8.5 hours. This saltwater biodegradable plastic matches conventional plastics in strength while ...

Breaking: scientists in Japan have created a plastic that dissolves in seawater! While not a solution to the ocean plastics crisis on its own, RIKEN's invention could play a crucial role in the fight against microplastics in the coming decades. happyeconews.com/saltwater-bi...

Light-powered reactions could make the chemical manufacturing industry more energy-efficient Chemical manufacturing is an energy-intensive industry. A team of chemists is designing a technique that could power the necessary reactions with sunlight or LEDs.

What if industrial chemicals could be made using light instead of heat? 🔬☀️

That’s the vision driving a breakthrough from researchers at the Center for Sustainable Photoredox Catalysis, who’ve developed a catalyst system that uses LEDs.

Read more: theconversation.com/light-powere...

What went right this week: saving the high seas, plus more The high seas treaty progressed, scientists had a leukaemia breakthrough, and proven climate solutions got a boost, plus more good news

The race to save our oceans just picked up speed. 🌊 At the UN Ocean Conference in Nice, 50 nations — including Jamaica, Indonesia, and Norway — have now ratified the High Seas Treaty to protect 30% of international waters by 2030.

Read more via Positive.News: www.positive.news/society/good...

We've got a break in the heat wave here in the US, which means it's a great time to get outside and enjoy nature—especially with so much of it under attack.

Keep fighting for our wild spaces. Thank you @andreapeterson.bsky.social for sharing such a great video.

Large white egret in flight above a scum filled pond, wings pointing forward practically enveloping the bird, legs dangling down.

Great Egret coming in for a landing.
🌎 Northern California
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New Seaweed Plastic Innovation Aims to Cut Plastic Pollution | Happy Eco News Seaweed plastic, developed by a young B.C. scientist, offers a compostable alternative to harmful traditional plastics. Ranah Chavoshi’s creation could protect soil, oceans, and human health while sup...

Biologist Ranah Chavoshi witnessed waves bringing plastic ashore instead of seashells on a scuba trip in Borneo. That moment sparked a breakthrough: seaweed-based plastic that fully composts—no microplastics, no pollution.

Read more via @happyeconews.bsky.social: happyeconews.com/seaweed-plas...

Despite new challenges, Juneteenth event organizers are unbowed Organizers of Juneteenth celebrations across the U.S. tell NPR how they're feeling this year. And NPR presents a reading of the Emancipation Proclamation.

Wishing you a very happy #Juneteenth this year! Keep celebrating everyone ✊ Thanks to @npr.org for reporting on the folks keeping Juneteenth events going in this tough year: www.npr.org/2025/06/19/n...

'Green' Spaceship Propellant Set to Crater Fuel Costs and Replace Ultra-Toxic Hydrazine with Peroxide Hydrogen peroxide fuel comes in at a cheap $10.36 per kilogram, while hydrazine explodes the budget at around $75.8/kg.

🚀 A cleaner, cheaper fuel for space travel? Yes, please. 🌍✨

Arkadia Space has successfully tested a green spacecraft thruster powered by hydrogen peroxide—offering a safer, far less toxic alternative to traditional hydrazine.

Via Good News Network: www.goodnewsnetwork.org/green-spaces...

Waves of creativity bring the UK coastline to life in Beach of Dreams project Beaches became open-air galleries in a month-long arts festival to celebrate the UK’s coastal beauty – and spotlight the climate crisis

🌊 Beaches as galleries, waves as inspiration 🎨

From tidal sculptures to sonic treasure hunts, the Beach of Dreams festival transformed the UK coastline into an open-air celebration of creativity and climate awareness.

Read more via Positive.News: www.positive.news/lifestyle/wa...

Escape Velocity Even the most determined opposition can’t stop the clean energy revolution.

Despite rollbacks in climate policy, the energy transition is gaining unstoppable momentum. From surging solar to market-driven innovation, the clean energy revolution may already be too powerful to reverse.

Read more via Vox: www.vox.com/climate/4084...

Writers of Banned Books Speak Out - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly What’s it like to have your book banned? NPQ talked to two writers whose works have been swept up in the rising tide of book challenges, including the author of one of the most banned books in the Uni...

With nearly 700 book ban attempts in 2023 alone, authors like Ashley Hope Pérez and Julia Scheeres are facing censorship—and personal attacks.

Read more via Nonprofit Quarterly: nonprofitquarterly.org/writers-of-b...

Maryland Protected Nearly a Third of Its Land, and It’s Reaching for More

🌿 Maryland just became the first U.S. state to protect 30% of its land—six years ahead of schedule.

Read more via The New York Times: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/c...

"I Know Where I Stand": Taonga Leslie on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Age of Trump Taonga Leslie joins The Free Ranger to discuss DEI, affirmative action, and redefining merit through lived experience in U.S. law and education.

Taonga Leslie, Director of Policy & Program for Racial Justice at the American Constitution Society, joins us to talk DEI (Diversity, Equity & Inclusion). freerange.com/blog/i-know-...

Harvey Milk Day is a day for both activism and celebration, says nephew Stuart Milk Stuart Milk, cofounder of the Harvey Milk Foundation, talks to The Advocate about his uncle's legacy and the foundation's work.

Happy #HarveyMilkDay!

Harvey Milk, a politician and prominent gay rights activist, would have turned 95 today. He was assassinated for refusing to hide his identity.

Today, we remember his sacrifice and look forward to a freer, kinder future.

www.advocate.com/news/harvey-...

Gray Slums of Brazil Turn Green with Rooftop Garden Project in Full Bloom In 2014 Cassiano began teaching and planting, gardening and growing, all over Parque Arara, one of Rio's large favelas.

Luis Cassiano Silva started the Green Roofs Favela initiative to cool down his neighborhood by planting rooftop gardens—reducing extreme heat, improving air quality, and building climate resilience from the ground up.

Read more via Good News Network: www.goodnewsnetwork.org/brazils-slum...

Man Saves Boatloads Of ‘Stunned’ Animals After He Spotted Shadows in the Waves Every winter since then, Upton has remained vigilant for potential cold-stunning events when the water temperatures start to fall too low.

Since 2018, Captain Brandon Upton of Corpus Christi has turned his winter watch into a sea turtle rescue effort—scanning Gulf waters for cold-stunned turtles in danger.

Read more via Good News Network: www.goodnewsnetwork.org/man-saves-bo...

A Country of 2 Million is the World Leader in Beekeeping and Protecting Pollinators This small Eastern European country leads the EU in good pollinator policy, conducting research through the vast beekeeping network.

From delayed mowing in Ljubljana to a continent-wide Bee Path Cities Network, Slovenia is showing how small nations can spark big environmental change.

Read more via Good News Network: www.goodnewsnetwork.org/country-of-2...

Humpback Whales Are Singing More: Number of Songs Has Doubled as Food Sources Became More Abundant Eavesdropping on whale songs over 6 years shows the number of days humpbacks have been singing has nearly doubled–with their food source.

Researchers from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute have spent six years eavesdropping on whales—and discovered that the frequency of their songs is linked to food availability.

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A great example of bike-friendly urban planning in action.

Spring has sprung! Add some native plants to your garden this year to help out the bees 🐝

What went right this week: the sceptic-defying green economy, plus more The green economy defied sceptics, a river was granted rights, and ‘life-changing’ therapy treated a rare blindness, plus more good news

Spain just proved the green economy skeptics wrong. Powered by a boom in renewables and immigration, Spain’s economy outpaced every other OECD nation last year, despite an aging population and bold tax reforms.

Read more good news via Positive.News: www.positive.news/society/good...

Flour power: the campaign to get real bread to more people Bread is a household staple, but many people can’t afford a proper loaf. The Real Bread Campaign is on a mission to change that

Can better bread build a better world? For 15 years, this movement has been on a mission to make real, additive-free bread accessible to all—supporting local bakers, healthier communities, and a more sustainable food system.

Read more via Positive.News: www.positive.news/society/the-...

Project 195 aims to unite artists from every country in the world Project 195 is built around the premise that art is global society’s ‘only true universal language’

Could art be the one language that unites us all? A new global movement, Project 195, is inviting artists from every country on Earth to collaborate on a single creative mission.

Read more via Positive. News: www.positive.news/society/mast...