We are all used to hearing news reports about things
that go horribly wrong, but what about stories of things that are
actually going right? There are plenty of those too, and maybe it’s time
we pay a little more attention to those good news. Under the hashtag
banner #itshappening, British environmental organization 10:10 is doing just that and have a dedicated page where they collect crowdsourced “examples of the shift to a low-carbon world.”
Here are examples of some of the top stories at the time of this writing:
Amazon rainforest on the right track
As well as being home to some of the world’s most amazing wildlife, the Amazon’s trees absorb and lock away billions of tonnes of CO2. Amazon deforestation has been slowing down for a while now, and is now at the lowest level since records began 24 years ago. The real victory comes when the Amazon’s gaining more trees than it’s losing, but this is still fantastic progress. Photo: Neil Palmer/CIAT
China’s new city is a glimpse of the future
A new ‘Great City” is defying all the stereotypes of Chinese urban living. You can get anywhere in the city on foot in about 15 minutes, and the super-efficient buldings are mixed with plenty of green space. The result: half as much energy and carbon as a similar development, and a better life for the 80,000 residents. The new development, designed by Adrian Smith and Gordon Gill, gets underway in early 2013 and should be completed in about eight years. Photo: Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture
Here are examples of some of the top stories at the time of this writing:
Amazon rainforest on the right track
As well as being home to some of the world’s most amazing wildlife, the Amazon’s trees absorb and lock away billions of tonnes of CO2. Amazon deforestation has been slowing down for a while now, and is now at the lowest level since records began 24 years ago. The real victory comes when the Amazon’s gaining more trees than it’s losing, but this is still fantastic progress. Photo: Neil Palmer/CIAT
China’s new city is a glimpse of the future
A new ‘Great City” is defying all the stereotypes of Chinese urban living. You can get anywhere in the city on foot in about 15 minutes, and the super-efficient buldings are mixed with plenty of green space. The result: half as much energy and carbon as a similar development, and a better life for the 80,000 residents. The new development, designed by Adrian Smith and Gordon Gill, gets underway in early 2013 and should be completed in about eight years. Photo: Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture
Westmill Solar Cooperative just
became the UK’s first and world’s largest community-owned solar
project, after raising £6 million to buy out their local solar park.
The South Korean government has announced new
emission reduction targets for 2013 – industrial and power sector
businesses will be required to make a 3% cut compared to this year’s
target of 1.4%. Reaching the new target would equate to a reduction of
17.2 million metric tonnes of CO2 equivalent. Photo: Ryan Pikkel
10:10 wants to see how #itshappening where you are. Help them share the good news by submitting a photo of your own.
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