{"id":15922,"date":"2022-11-28T11:59:01","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T11:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/sustainability\/?p=15922"},"modified":"2023-11-29T15:30:28","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T15:30:28","slug":"monthly-good-news-3-november-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/sustainability\/monthly-good-news-3-november-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Monthly Good News #3: November 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you don\u2019t already know, here\u2019s the goal: to prove that planet Earth isn\u2019t all that bad in 500 words or less.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Big goal, potentially hard to achieve (although I could possibly do it in 3 words: <em>Twitter user <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dog_rates\"><em>@weratedogs<\/em><\/a>), but we\u2019re going to give it a shot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are some reasons that humanity is perhaps not entirely terrible and being alive on this planet, in fact, could actually be pretty okay despite, you know, <em>everything <\/em>\u2013 but specifically limited to things that happened during the month of November 2022:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.positive.news\/society\/smart-plastic-alternatives\/\">This article<\/a> about start ups that are creating alternatives to oil-based plastics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A Scottish community has successfully secured <a href=\"https:\/\/www.positive.news\/society\/the-town-that-pulled-off-britains-most-ambitious-rewilding-project\/\">10,000 acres of land<\/a> for Britain\u2019s biggest rewilding project and nature reserved<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Brazil\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazonfund.gov.br\/en\/home\/\">Amazon Fund<\/a> has been revived by the country\u2019s supreme court, with the goal of eliminating deforestation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Carbon Brief has discovered that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carbonbrief.org\/analysis-eus-co2-emissions-fall-5-in-three-months-after-post-covid-surge\/\">EU emissions have dropped 5% in 3 months<\/a> after the pandemic\u2019s 16-month emission surge<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rewilding Europe has secured funding to <a href=\"https:\/\/rewildingeurope.com\/news\/iberian-highlands-becomes-rewilding-europes-tenth-landscape\/\">restore habitats across the Iberian Highlands<\/a> in Spain<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A record label is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.positive.news\/lifestyle\/arts\/the-record-label-bringing-forgotten-female-composers-out-of-obscurity\/\">resurrecting the music of forgotten female composers<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>French senators have approved the motion to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicsenat.fr\/article\/parlementaire\/l-obligation-de-pose-de-panneaux-photovoltaiques-sur-les-grands-parkings\">install solar panels above parking spaces<\/a> in car parks<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Plumber-led support network in the UK <a href=\"https:\/\/www.positive.news\/society\/the-plumber-helping-people-through-the-cost-of-living-crisis\/\">provides free and discounted plumbing and heating services<\/a> to those in need<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A film studio in Bristol has launched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.positive.news\/society\/the-film-studio-powered-by-community-energy\/\">one of the largest community-powered rooftop solar arrays<\/a> in the UK<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tokyo is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/01\/tokyo-issues-same-sex-partnership-certificates-amid-marriage-equality-debate\">now formally recognising same-sex relationships<\/a>, allowing them the same access to housing, health and welfare as heterosexual couples<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The National Trust is turning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationaltrust.org.uk\/services\/media\/north-devon-grassland-savannah-to-become-largest-to-be-created-in-the-uk\">120 football pitches-worth of land in North Devon<\/a> into a wildflower savannah<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jeff Bezo\u2019s ex-wife <a href=\"https:\/\/www.happy-headlines.com\/blog-posts\/mackenzie-scott-donates-84-5-million-to-girl-scouts\">Mackenzie Scott donates $84.5 million<\/a> to Girl Scouts<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jeff Bezos has pledged <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/nov\/14\/jeff-bezos-fortune-dolly-parton-amazon-climate-crisis\">most of his $100 billion fortune to charity<\/a> (which is good news, even though it\u2019s about Jeff Bezos and the article is actually saying he\u2019s being rather slow on the uptake \u2013 so let\u2019s instead think about Mackenzie Scott again, <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2022\/03\/23\/tech\/mackenzie-scott-donations\">who donated \u00a33.8 billion of her divorce settlement to 465 charities<\/a> <em>in less than a year<\/em>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Researchers develop <a href=\"https:\/\/www.happy-headlines.com\/blog-posts\/researchers-develop-completely-plastic-free-takeaway-packaging\">plastic-free takeaway packaging<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.happy-headlines.com\/blog-posts\/chile-is-creating-a-national-park-in-the-driest-desert\">Chile is creating a national park<\/a> in their driest desert<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>California has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.happy-headlines.com\/blog-posts\/california-bans-natural-gas-heaters-and-furnaces-to-lower-their-carbon-emissions\">banned natural gas heaters and furnaces<\/a> to lower carbon emissions<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Use of <a href=\"https:\/\/reasonstobecheerful.world\/cars-are-vanishing-from-paris\/\">cars in Paris has dropped by 45%<\/a> since 1990, while use of public transportation has increased by 30%<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Germany is the newest country to announce <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/germany-to-leave-energy-charter-treaty\/\">they will be leaving the energy charter treaty<\/a>, which allows energy companies to sue governments for a loss of profits as a result of policy changes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Malta has pledged to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-63650476\">end its blanket ban on abortion<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/oceanographicmagazine.com\/news\/cop19-protection-for-sharks-achieved\/#:~:text=The%2019th%20Conference%20of%20the,54%20shark%20species%20increased%20protection.\">54 shark species are now protected<\/a> and almost 200 countries voted to regulate the global trade of shark fins<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>British Paralympic sprinter John McFall has been unveiled as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/live\/science-environment-63710967\">world\u2019s first disabled astronaut<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Developing nations will be compensated for climate catastrophes after COP27 delegates struck a historic deal to create a <a href=\"https:\/\/unfccc.int\/news\/cop27-reaches-breakthrough-agreement-on-new-loss-and-damage-fund-for-vulnerable-countries\">\u2018loss and damage\u2019 fund<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>There. 500 words exactly and your faith in humanity is restored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>By Bethany Climpson, Sustainability Engagement Assistant<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you don\u2019t already know, here\u2019s the goal: to prove that planet Earth isn\u2019t all that bad in 500 words or 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