Hello! Thanks for joining us here at Sunflower News, a community of people and organizations working on mitigating and adapting to climate change. This post is like our site’s guest book! Our mission is to support the climate movement’s transformation of how societies interact with the planet we’re part of, by connecting organizations and people…
This Week in Climate Solutions: Sponge cities, bird data, and island food sovereignty
Do you have a weekly routine that keeps you inspired to take climate action? Stories that uplift impactful change at the community level are certainly keeping us going. Imagine those efforts happening in communities everywhere around the globe. Let us know what you think about this week’s stories and any additions you have! Crowdsourced bird…
This Week in Climate Solutions: Participatory video, bioacoustics, and circular rebuilding
There’s an abundance of climate solution stories this week from around the globe. As always, let us know what you would add to this inspiring list. Designing solar parks that benefit local ecosystems, increase biodiversityHungarian solar company SolServices has published a comprehensive white paper in collaboration with national parks, environmental orgs, energy companies, and beekeepers…
This Week in Climate Solutions: Living shorelines and financing regenerative ag on Native land
Another week, another list of inspiring climate solutions! Share your thoughts and any additional stories we should uplift in the comments. Simple, small-scale wildlife observations reveal bigger picture of overall ecosystemNew research shows that a small snapshot of interactions between species – like insects pollinating flowers or birds feeding on plants – is a reliable…
This Week in Climate Solutions: Restoring ancient irrigation tanks, biocrusts, and fish forests
What solution stories are inspiring you this week? Here are a few we’re really excited about sharing. Sri Lanka aims to restore ancient cascading irrigation tanks in climate change planSri Lanka intends to revive its village tank cascade systems, a neglected but highly efficient series of ancient irrigation systems as part of its climate adaptation…
This Week in Climate Solutions: Smart meters, aquifer restoration, and a living classroom that feeds abundance
Here are five inspiring stories we found around the world this week. Living classroom program inspires “capital of abundance” in Colombia More than 7,000 students from all over Colombia have taken classes at La Cosmopolitana Foundation, where the aula viva (living classroom) method teaches cooperative and abundant-minded ways of thinking and applying it to agriculture….
What can cities learn from global rewilding efforts?
This week, the mayors of London and Montréal – Sadiq Khan and Valérie Plante – met in London to discuss city collaboration on climate, launching a report on urban rewilding that shares best practices from urban nature initiatives from around the world. Case studies include pocket forests in São Paulo, vertical gardens in Lagos, biodiversity…
This Week in Climate Solutions: Empowering women leaders, restoring river wisdom, and more
In need of a little more inspiration this week? Check out these stories of resilience and restoration! A Miami program prepares women of color for climate resilience leadership A six-month course run by the CLEO Institute – a Miami-based, women-led organization dedicated to climate education and advocacy – empowers women of color to prepare for…
Early heat waves expected to continue – how can we prepare?
What collaborative opportunities exist to help communities cope with extreme heat? Intense, record-breaking heat waves have enveloped large parts of Asia in the last week, bringing questions of state preparedness to the forefront. In a story about heat-related fatalities in India over the weekend, The New York Times states: “Extreme heat can be deceptively dangerous,…
Report: The beginning of the end for fossil fuels?
The independent energy think-tank Ember published its 4th annual report on global energy today and that’s the big take-away from their findings. The UK organization, founded in 2008, is widely respected for its quantitative analysis. The new report got write-ups in Carbonbrief, Reuters, Euronews, CNN, and more. Key take-aways: Here’s a key chart. What’s your…
This Week in Climate Solutions: New indigenous teachers, Chilean fog nets, and more
Inspiring and innovative projects are getting us through the week! Amidst a very serious climate crisis, there are incredibly compelling stories of solutions and resilience from around the world, and we want to share with you some of the highlights that have us really energized. This week features several stories about the successful blend of…