Hello and happy Friday! In a world where the news surrounding the climate crisis can often feel overwhelming, it is important to take a moment to celebrate the positive developments. Recently, I was inspired by Joycelyn Longdon’s idea that sharing good news in no way negates the challenges ahead, but rather, provides a moment to…
Partner Spotlight: CS Quarterly on Decolonizing Gender
By Orel Smith Cultural Survival, a partner of Sunflower News, celebrated their 50th anniversary last year as a global leader in the fight for Indigenous sovereignty. Their work is crucial, as Indigenous communities face new challenges in the ongoing transitions toward sustainable energy. These challenges stem from the unfortunately still extractive and colonial priorities of…
Good News for a Sustainable Future: Climate Solutions in Action
Climate change can often feel overwhelming, and the news can be filled with doom and gloom articles. However, it’s important to remember that there are actions being taken all around the world to address the issue. This blog post will highlight some of the innovative and impactful solutions that are currently being implemented to protect…
Bright lights: Some of our favorite good news this week
We spend a lot of time scanning Sunflower News feeds here, in support of various projects, and for one of them we capture good news each week. Here are some of our favorite stories we’ve seen in the past week that we think you might find inspiring! These inspiring stories were found and summarized by…
Report: Indigenous Forests Are Some of the Amazon’s Last Carbon Sinks
The World Resources Institute (WRI) has published a new report on the net carbon impact of Amazon forests, finding that areas under management of Indigenous communities and other local people remain big carbon sinks, absorbing carbon from the rest of the world. Areas of the Amazon controlled by other parties, on the other hand, are…
Friday update: What are you working on? How are you?
Hello dear early beta users and friends! We just finished an important Sunflower meeting and I wanted to put up a blog post inviting you to introduce yourself and share with the community what you’ve been working on this week. Want to give it a shot? I’m Marshall Kirkpatrick, founding publisher of Sunflower News, and…
10+ Ways You Can Use What’s on Sunflower News
Want to hear this list explained, with some examples? Here’s a 9 minute walk-through I did. Here at Sunflower News we want to help you overcome information overload, but there’s still a whole lot to read on this site! Once you find something interesting, how can you make use of it? Here are a list…
Gender, transportation, and the climate movement: The story of Autofrei in Germany
We loved a new article in YES! Magazine this week about Volksentscheid Berlin AutoFrei, an inspiring grassroots organization in Germany. Titled Looking to Women to Shape the Future of Berlin’s Transportation, the article discusses the movement in Germany to bring a lens of gender to matters of transportation and urban planning. “The Autofrei initiative argues…
Inspiration from South Australia: 104% renewable energy for a week
“South Australia aims to reach 100 per cent ‘net renewables’ within a few years – over a full year,” Giles Parkinson wrote this week in Renew Economy, “but in the past week it has already done better than that.” Parkinson reported that the region has in fact been averaging 104.1 per cent of consumer demand over the seven days prior filled by renewable sources.
What lessons, inspirations, or concerns come to your mind regarding the important work being done in South Australia regarding transition to renewables?
Recommended readings from Jae Pasari
Investment professional & scientist Jae Pasari, Climate Program Manager, Preston-Werner Ventures “Climate change is a multifaceted problem that poses a suite of daunting challenges. First, the vast scale and slow spread of the problem aren’t easily internalizable. Second, climate change is a reflection of humanity’s inequitable allocation of power and resources, so fighting it necessarily…