Celebrating Sustainable Projects
Original Post by Hugh Perry
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Social Change:
1. Marianne Williamson is paving the way for a new paradigm on running a nation and has qualified for the Democratic debate, June 26 or 27th.
https://www.marianne2020.com/video-posts/marianne-williamson-for-president
2. Home delivery of Reusable Household Containers for products in New York and Paris. It’s called ‘Recommerce’.
Individuals Making a Difference:
3. One man started ‘The Lake Revivers Collective and is Saving one lake at a time in India
https://www.thebetterindia.com/183887/tamil-nadu-lake-revival-hero-water-conservation-india/
Mature Agriculture:
4. Kernza - an alternative to wheat that does not need to be reseeded
https://krishijagran.com/agripedia/kernza-an-alternative-to-wheat-that-doesnt-need-replanting/
5. Agrihoods becoming a reality in the US.
Detroit can feed 2000 families. Other US cities joining in the shift.
6. Atlanta converts 7 acre into public fruit orchard
Philanthropist:
7. 124 acre Bee Sanctuary in Mississippi
Morgan Freeman’s contribution
Political Will:
8. Kenya joins 39 African countries to ban plastic bags
9. Getting paid to cycle to work
Luxembourg, Belgium Netherlands & France
http://cycling.today/more-than-400000-belgians-get-paid-to-cycle-to-work/
10. India doubles it’s renewable energy in 3 years
https://qz.com/india/1475736/india-is-now-a-world-leader-in-renewable-energy/
11. Switching to popular vote majority in 14 US states
https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/21/politics/nevada-senate-electoral-college/index.html
12. Salvador bans round up - yet still for sale in Canada
Combating Pharma Greed:
13. Colorado caps price of insulin
Business Consciousness:
14. Kingo Energy bringing solar to 60,000 low income and remote communities for $15/mnth
15. Morrisons, Britain’s supermarket ban plastic from produce
16. Dutch company can dye clothing without water by using CO2
http://www.dyecoo.com/co2-dyeing/
17. Hemp wood factory in Kentucky, under construction saving Oak trees
18. 1000 mopeds for rent in NYC
Hopeful Initiatives:
19. Hamilton Ontario offering tiny homes to homeless
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/tiny-houses-1.4320161
20. Kroger. USA largest grocery chain plans to eliminates plastic bags in all 2779 stores
https://triblive.com/news/world/kroger-largest-grocery-chain-in-u-s-to-eliminate-plastic-bags/
21. East-Timor will stop burning waste plastic by building a $40m plant to collect and convert it into liquid or gas
22. Philippines requires all graduates to plant 10 trees
23. Vietnam converts wild grass into straws
https://www.greenmatters.com/p/wild-grass-straws-vietnam
24. Costa Rice set to become the 1st Carbon Free country
Saving Earth calls on each of us to do 4 things:
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