Celebrating Sustainable Projects: June 17th/19 Reporting 35 new positive efforts since June 6th
WILD LIFE PROTECTION:
1. Canada bans captivity of whales, dolphins and porpoises for entertainment
2. Spain bans Bull Fighting at annual Toro festival. Thanks to pressure from PETA & PACMA
AIR POLLUTION:
3. Germany to close all 84 coal-fired power plants
HEALTH:
4. Mandatory Vaccinations baned in Sweden
5. Meditation part of 370 British schools
6. Vegan Options in New York hospitals
7. Tim Hortons goes with plant-based breakfast sandwiches in 4000 locations
8. Poland’s Prime Minister sings Global Appeal to stop 5G
9. Louisiana calls for study on health impact of 5G
11. Germany opens 62 miles of car-free highway
12. Netherlands using polluted silt to build artificial islands creating new habitat in Markermeer Lake
SOCIAL:
13. Tennessee makes community college free
AGRICULTURE:
14. Plant Based Meats - $300,000,000 plant being built in Indiana as market doubles in 2 years.
15. Beyond Meat Shares jump as news of beef contribution of CO2 is realized
16. New Brunswick promises a 30% reduction in herbicide spraying on power lines
LEGAL:
FEMALE LEADERSHIP:
19. Iceland elects 41 yr female environmentalist
SPEAKING OUT:
20. Robert Kennedy goes public against Big Pharma
PLASTICS:
21. Maine bans styrofoam food containers
22. Canada bans single use plastics accessories like straws - (it’s a start)
23. Water refill stations on streets in Glasgow to prevent single use plastic use.
24. Japan makes it illegal to through away appliances as part of recycling regime
TREES:
26. Scotland planted 22,000,000 trees last year covering 11,200 hectares and will continue for 6 years.
BEES:
28. Virginia offers free beehives to residents
HOMELESS the HOUSING FIRST PRINCIPLE:
29. Tiny houses in Whittier Heights Village in Seattle created by women carpenters
31. Homeless Pods in Newport England
PROMISING TECHNOLOGIES:
32. Philip Ross develops growing bricks from fungi
33. Transparent Solar Panel Windows using organic molecules to absorb light. Michigan State University
34. Clothing from pineapple and bananas instead of leather and cotton saving, water, co2, and animals.
35. Turning desert in fertile soil by spraying clay and water.
Saving Earth calls on each of us to do 4 things: