Sitemap - 2023 - The Hopemakers

Closing the year out strong

#80: COP28 comes to a close

#79: It ain't perfect, but COP28 is creating progress

#78: COP28 has begun.

#77: let's bring the redwoods back

#76: A Global Plastics Treaty is likely coming soon

#75: 400,000 new clean energy jobs

#74: The most comprehensive plan to tackle plastic pollution

#73: 23 good stories as we head into Halloweekend

#72: Free solar for the elderly, 3D-printed homes, and NYC is changing its trash system

#71: Electricity emissions are peaking, 42 new UNESCO sites, and an electric blue tarantula

The EU bans microplastics, biking is on the rise & London's first beaver in 400 years

Let's take some action! Climativity's ongoing recommendations & partners

Six young people take 32 EU countries to court & Lawrence the kitten is saved from a drainpipe

This week's good news: 75,000 people march in NYC and the American Climate Corps launches

This week's good news: NYC to turn off lights at night & a new comet won't be seen again until 2457

This week's good news: a global carbon tax, tropical bird sanctuaries & Utah's new walkable city

England bans single-use plastics!

Gen Z is rejecting job offers with bad ESG records!

The High Seas treaty is finalized!

Amazon deforestation is down 68%!

Solar and wind are generating more electricity than coal!

A misleading Shell ad is now banned!

France is paying people back for repairing their clothes!

The first-ever youth-led US climate lawsuit was won!

This week's good news: a solar punk video game, NASA's new satellite & five high-speed trains

The can't-miss events of New York Climate Week 2023 (because I'll be there)

This week's good news: the only spotless giraffe, Ecuador votes out Big Oil & the tree of the year

This week's good news: IRA turns 1, Texas sues Big Oil & cathedral-like trees!

This week's good news: Kpop4climate, 1 million protected acres & smart butterflies

This week's good news: a real-life anti-coal vigilante & 21,872 sea turtles

This week's good news: wild horses, solar canals, and canceled pipelines

This week's good news: 57,000 Beluga whales and carbon-negative cement

This week's good news: giraffes return to ancestral home and a solar panel breakthrough

This week's good news: Asia's tallest tree, healthy coral, and moss

This week's good news: the first smartphone-free island

This week's good news: Austin, Texas wants to end fossil fuels

This week's good news: nuclear energy is back & more

For the first and only time: a new plastic treaty & France promotes biking

GOOD NEWS: we can ban private jets

This week's good news: Amazon rainforest preservation and fully charge your EV in 5 minutes

This week's good news: No more styrofoam takeout & animals are returning to Australia

Parrots learned to Facetime & self-healing mushroom leather

The most news we've ever had!

A lot has changed

This killer whale will be released after 50 years

Renewables surpass coal for the first time ever!

Lawyers refuse to prosecute climate protestors

Mushrooms are eating our butts

Willow was approved. What now?

Did we stop the Willow Project?

Over 1.5 million sign letters to stop Willow

No more roads, yes more clean energy jobs

There are 8,514 of us :)

Play games to help the planet

Vertical mealworm farms are the future of protein

Everything I do to reduce my waste (that I forgot to mention last time)

I chatted with climate content creators

There are 83 climate tech unicorns!

How to not waste your dog's poop

Renewables are on course to create 25% of US energy!

All the ways I've reduced my waste over the past year

England bans some single-use plastics

Better late than never

Have you heard of fleather?

Fleather is leather made from discarded flowers

Supermarkets are eliminating those confusing use-by dates

Three previously-extinct woodpeckers were rediscovered!

2022 saw the most climate action ever