Environment
Need some good news about the environment? The Optimist Daily is your go-to herald of positive environmental news, highlighting eco-friendly solutions and scientific progress around climate action, circularity, conservation, and more. Learn about everything eco in our Environment section.
Bison will once again roam Badlands National Park
Thanks to work by Native American leaders and World Wildlife Fund workers, visitors to Badlands National Park in South Dakota will once again see large brown bison dotting the snowy landscape. Once numbering between 30 and 60 million, Bison have not set foot in this area of the Great Plains since Read More...
Coldplay to refrain from touring until a greener way of doing concerts is found
The platinum-record selling band Coldplay has announced it will not tour the world after the release of its new album in order to spare the environment. The band, which is world-renowned for songs such as Viva La Vida, said they want to take time over the next year or two “to work out” how Read More...
Sustainable fashion: this water-proof parka is made from recycled PET bottles
When it comes to coats and jackets, choosing a light-yet-durable option is best, so you don’t find yourself in a mummy-tight arctic coat when all you really need is a lightweight, waterproof shell. That is where the Maium Lightweight Parka comes in to play. Both light and waterproof, this parka Read More...
New Jersey just doubled its offshore wind power promise
How do you go about generating renewable energy when your state has 130 miles of windy coastline? Massive wind farms, of course. This week, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy declared the state will install 7.5 gigawatts of offshore wind by 2035, almost double its initial target of 3.5 gigawatts. Read More...
This brand will pay you to send back their old sneakers to be 100% recycled
A pair of designers have come up with a pair of white sneakers that can be recycled in their entirety. The brand, which goes by the name Thousand Fell, is the first to launch a model that actually pays its customers to ship back their old pairs so that the company can assure that they are taken Read More...
Dominica is on course to become the world’s first ‘hurricane-proof’ island
It was in 2017 when Hurricane Maria gathered its strength and powered its way through the tiny island of Dominica. When Maria had moved on, over 90 percent of the island’s structures were destroyed, leaving huge swaths of the population homeless and the economy crippled. In the span of a single Read More...
Whales have an amazing potential in fighting climate change
While trees may be the best nature-based terrestrial solution to capturing carbon from human emissions, a new report shows that the ocean has its own gentle giants with an incredible potential to combat climate change — whales. According to the report, published by the International Monetary Read More...
Make your life at home waste-free with these super easy swaps
Recycling, driving an EV, composting, these are some of the more obvious ways people can make their lives eco-friendly. With that said, there are so many other things you can do that are arguably more impactful and not so difficult to implement in your life. For instance, you can easily make your Read More...
How a tech industry trick could save the humble banana
The humble banana is a key staple in most fruit bowls and everyone’s go-to cure for cramps, but the Cavendish banana variety we find in most stores today was not always the world’s top variety. In the 1950s, Gros Michell was the banana variety of choice for production across the entire Read More...
Soil erosion is a huge problem for small-scale farmers. Here's a brilliant fix
Soil erosion is a vicious cycle, one that is being exacerbated by climate changes as long periods of drought followed by brief, torrential rainfall mean that fertile topsoil and seeds are flushed away before they get a chance to germinate. This leads to a lack of vegetation, which in turn makes it Read More...