Good News, Bad News
Top: Timely articles on range of issues // Below: Hawken-related articles
Five Ways We’re Making Progress on Climate Change
The good news about global warming.
by Bryan Walsh - Vox.com - 04-26-2025
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/410553/climate-change-clean-energy-carbon-emissions-renewable-energy-progress
How They Do It in "Foreign Lands"
Just a little global check-in re climate and clean tech
by Bill McKibben - Substack - 05-06-2025
bit.ly/4mfwqVK
$8B of US Climate Tech Projects Have Been Canceled So Far in 2025
Battery, solar, and wind projects are getting killed in record numbers. Here’s a map of all the cancellations so far this year.
by Casey Crownhart - MIT TechReview - 04-21-2025
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/04/21/1115511/canceled-climate-tech-projects/
We Now Have Evidence of How Old Trees Share Critical Intel with Forest Youth
by Bronwyn Thompson - NewAtlas.com - 04-29-2025
bit.ly/4mbjyja
Spongy New Material Pulls Drinkable Water from Thin Air in Emergencies
by Abhimanyu Ghoshal - NewAtlas.com - 05-08-2025
bit.ly/4migfXJ
Modular Carbon Capture Tech Slashes Cargo Ship CO2 Emissions by 70%
by David Szondy - NewAtlas.com - 05-08-2025
bit.ly/3YDZkEG
How Nearly a Century of Happiness Research Led to One Big Finding
Decades of wellness studies have identified a formula for happiness but you won’t figure it out alone.
by Susan Dominus - NYTimes - 05-01-2025
https://archive.is/2w7Wf#selection-621.0-628.0
Study Reveals Stark Differences in Life Expectancy across US States
by Colin Poitras - Yale University/Medical Express - 05-05-2025
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-05-reveals-stark-differences-life-states.html
Massive Asbestos Operation Turns Dangerous Waste to Valuable Materials
by Abhimanyu Ghoshal - NewAtlas.com - 05-05-2025
bit.ly/4jgmh8B
A Cure for Trumpism: Radical Empathy and Radical Change
Some reflections on Dr. Abdul El-Sayed’s playbook for a post-Trump America
by Anand Giridharadas - Substack - 05-04-2025
bit.ly/3ZcswCV
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PAUL HAWKEN has founded several companies, starting in the 1960s with Erewhon Trading, one of the first natural food companies in the US; Smith & Hawken, a retail and catalog company; and OneSun, an energy company focused on ultra low-cost solar. As an author, his earlier books include Growing a Business; The Ecology of Commerce; Blessed Unrest; Natural Capitalism; He is the founder of both Project Drawdown and Project Regeneration, the latter of which has created the world’s largest, most complete listing and network of solutions to the climate crisis.
The Climate Movement Is Talking about Carbon All Wrong, a New Book Argues
Carbon isn’t an enemy to “combat” or “tackle,” the environmentalist Paul Hawken writes, but the animating force of life.
by Kate Yoder - Grist.org - 03-21-2025
https://grist.org/language/paul-hawken-book-climate-movement-carbon/
Carbon - excerpt - Chapter One
by Paul Hawken
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/316928/carbon-by-paul-hawken/#
A Love Letter to the Flow of Life (audio & transcript)
by Tami Simon & Paul Hawken
https://resources.soundstrue.com/transcript/a-love-letter-to-the-flow-of-life/
'We don't have a climate crisis. We are the crisis' Environmentalist Paul Hawken on the worldview that has led to the mindless exploitation of the planet — and how we can shift perspectives for a better future.
by Sascha Pare - LiveScience.com - 03-18-2025
bit.ly/4jOUHA3
Regeneration, Justice, and Renewal
The path to a climate-resilient future
by Paul Hawken - Sierra Club - 09-25-2021
https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2021-4-fall/feature/regeneration-justice-and-renewal-paul-hawken
Let’s Protect What We Love Together
by Project Regeneration - 03-31-2025
https://regeneration.org/news/250331-issue-88
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