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Green Mission News – August 2026

Monga Bay Image Updated standards make the case for restoration: ‘We have to create uplift’

https://news.mongabay.com/2026/07/updated-standards-make-the-case-for-restoration-we-have-to-create-uplift/

The Fraud of “Clean” Natural Gas

How Big Oil and Gas Created the Myth that Natural Gas is a Climate Solution https://climateintegrity.org/uploads/media/Fraud-of-Clean-Natural-Gas-2026.pdf

As World Cup pollution mounts, Vermont team turns recycled bottles and old kits into jerseys

A garbage truck’s worth of textiles is landfilled or burned every second. https://www.thecooldown.com/green-business/vermont-soccer-jerseys-recycling-eco-friendly-apparel/

Traffic, transit, trash: Seattle shows what it can do during the World Cup

https://www.opb.org/article/2026/07/06/seattle-shows-what-it-can-do-furing-the-world-cup/

Reuse gets another shot as regulators take aim at packaging waste

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/reuse-gets-another-shot-regulators-take-aim-packaging-waste–ecmii-2026-07-14/

Takeout Boxes Are Filling Landfills. This Town Has A Plan To Phase Them Out

As Hawaiʻi island prepares to enact a ban on single-use plastic serviceware, a coalition in Hilo is rolling out the nation’s first comprehensive city-wide reuse program with over $3 million in seed funding. https://www.civilbeat.org/2026/07/takeout-boxes-are-filling-landfills-this-town-has-a-plan-to-phase-them-out/

National restoration initiatives promote China’s marine ecosystem recovery

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-026-03760-0

Legal logging and soaring saplings: the ‘green islands’ bucking the deforestation trend in central America

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/23/guatemala-small-communities-restorative-forestation-aoe

Prices could rise because of non-recyclable packaging fees

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/prices-could-rise-because-non-194500362.html

Environmentalists call for boycott of Polar Beverages, saying it opposes bottle recycling effort

https://www.wbur.org/news/2026/07/02/massachusetts-polar-recycle-cans-bottles-deposit

Hope for quick plastic market normalization fades as Iran conflict escalates 

Fighting in July squashed the promise of a June ceasefire and reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, along with packaging converters’ hopes for relief from plastic material price spikes. https://www.packagingdive.com/news/iran-plastics-effects-polyolefins-ceasefire-strait-hormuz-renormalization-2027/825843/

Food waste recycling in the USA can reduce climate and nutrient pollution impacts yet risks plastic accumulation in soils

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-026-01396-z

Solar hopes rise again at Flying Cloud Landfill

A pilot project offers a possible path for solar atop Eden Prairie’s long-closed landfill https://eplocalnews.org/2026/06/29/solar-hopes-rise-again-at-flying-cloud-landfill/

Anti-illegal dumping group launches crowdsourced map of Philadelphia’s worst sites

Anyone can contribute to the map of sites where tires, construction debris and other junk is dumped illegally.  https://whyy.org/articles/map-philadelphia-illegal-dump-sites/

Biochar is booming. Could waste fuel its future? 

Production capacity for the material, which is created by treating organic matter at high temperatures, nearly doubled in two years. The American Biochar Institute projects even faster growth by 2027. https://www.wastedive.com/news/biochar-industry-growth-report-waste-biosolids-fuel/825285/

Folsom’s Green Bin Recycling Program diverts 51,000 tons of organic waste from landfill

https://folsomtimes.com/folsoms-green-bin-recycling-program-diverts-51000-tons-of-organic-waste-from-landfill/

Soft plastic recycling laws have been delayed – an expert explains why

https://theconversation.com/soft-plastic-recycling-laws-have-been-delayed-an-expert-explains-why-287907

Lithium-ion batteries suspected in recent fires inside garbage trucks in San Jose

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/lithium-ion-batteries-fires-garbage-trucks-san-jose/4115352/

Denver finally ready to expand apartment recycling, cut construction waste 4 years after public mandate 

Voters in 2022 overwhelmingly supported a measure requiring many landlords and business owners to provide access to recycling and composting  https://coloradosun.com/2026/07/16/denver-apartment-recycling-expansion/

Consequences of agricultural deforestation and subsequent afforestation on soil biodiversity and ecosystem multifunctionality

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-75740-z

Managing the Tire Waste Conundrum with Circular Innovation

Drainage networks made from scrap tires are slowly catching on due to the unique benefits of the material, known as tire-derived aggregate (TDA). The main draw is that TDA has more than twice the airspace of traditional gravel and stone. This enables smaller stormwater systems with higher water retention, and at substantially less cost. https://www.waste360.com/waste-recycling/managing-the-tire-waste-conundrum-with-circular-innovation

What are PFAS? ‘Forever chemicals’ are common and dangerous.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/health-wellness/what-are-pfas/91040171007/

‘Forever chemicals’ could be aging dolphins beyond their years

Exposure to PFAS and metals affects dolphins in ways also concerning for human health https://www.sciencenews.org/article/forever-chemicals-aging-dolphins

Brothers keep Germany’s ancient charcoal-burning tradition alive, in photos

https://apnews.com/photo-gallery/brothers-keep-germany-s-ancient-charcoal-burning-tradition-alive-photos-bedad038a7cb4f5c852ac75beb87f085

‘This Is Obscene’: Shell Profits More Than Double as Iran War Pushes Up Gas Prices 

“We’re running out of words to describe the obscenity of these numbers.” https://www.commondreams.org/news/this-is-obscene-shell-profits-more-than-double-as-iran-war-pushes-up-gas-prices

What’s to blame for Canada’s wildfires?

We can expect future smoky days. And — surprise — it makes no sense to fight every blaze https://www.sciencenews.org/article/what-blame-canada-wildfires-toxic-smoke

‘Climate change kills’: Pedro Sánchez speaks plain truth to Spain’s deniers

PM has long history of speaking out on realities of global heating but political opponents remain unnmoved https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/02/climate-change-kills-pedro-sanchez-speaks-plain-truth-to-spains-deniers  

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Lithium-ion batteries suspected in recent fires inside garbage trucks in San Jose

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/lithium-ion-batteries-fires-garbage-trucks-san-jose/4115352/

Denver finally ready to expand apartment recycling, cut construction waste 4 years after public mandate 

Voters in 2022 overwhelmingly supported a measure requiring many landlords and business owners to provide access to recycling and composting 

https://coloradosun.com/2026/07/16/denver-apartment-recycling-expansion/

Consequences of agricultural deforestation and subsequent afforestation on soil biodiversity and ecosystem multifunctionality

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-75740-z

Managing the Tire Waste Conundrum with Circular Innovation

Drainage networks made from scrap tires are slowly catching on due to the unique benefits of the material, known as tire-derived aggregate (TDA). The main draw is that TDA has more than twice the airspace of traditional gravel and stone. This enables smaller stormwater systems with higher water retention, and at substantially less cost.

https://www.waste360.com/waste-recycling/managing-the-tire-waste-conundrum-with-circular-innovation

What are PFAS? ‘Forever chemicals’ are common and dangerous.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/health-wellness/what-are-pfas/91040171007/

‘Forever chemicals’ could be aging dolphins beyond their years

Exposure to PFAS and metals affects dolphins in ways also concerning for human health

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/forever-chemicals-aging-dolphins

Brothers keep Germany’s ancient charcoal-burning tradition alive, in photos

https://apnews.com/photo-gallery/brothers-keep-germany-s-ancient-charcoal-burning-tradition-alive-photos-bedad038a7cb4f5c852ac75beb87f085

‘This Is Obscene’: Shell Profits More Than Double as Iran War Pushes Up Gas Prices 

“We’re running out of words to describe the obscenity of these numbers.”

https://www.commondreams.org/news/this-is-obscene-shell-profits-more-than-double-as-iran-war-pushes-up-gas-prices

What’s to blame for Canada’s wildfires?

We can expect future smoky days. And — surprise — it makes no sense to fight every blaze

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/what-blame-canada-wildfires-toxic-smoke

‘Climate change kills’: Pedro Sánchez speaks plain truth to Spain’s deniers

PM has long history of speaking out on realities of global heating but political opponents remain unnmoved

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/02/climate-change-kills-pedro-sanchez-speaks-plain-truth-to-spains-deniers

 

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Green Mission News – September 2019

Greta Thunberg’s Transatlantic Sailing Trip Is Seriously Carbon-Neutral https://cleantechnica.com/2019/08/22/greta-thunbergs-transatlantic-sailing-trip-is-seriously-carbon-neutral/   Walter Jehne – The Soil Carbon Sponge, Climate Solutions and Healthy Water Cycles (video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=123y7jDdbfY

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Green Mission News – July 2019

  A new generation of leaders understands that individual actions won’t fix our environmental problems By defining environmental citizenship as responsible consumption, sustainability advocates downplay

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Green Mission News – June 2019

Climate change and biodiversity should be top headline news (David Suzuki) http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/david-suzuki/2019/05/climate-change-and-biodiversity-should-be-top-headline-news We’re Not the Class of 2019. We’re the Class of 0000. Deliver a

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Green Mission News – May 2019

A Global Deal For Nature: Guiding principles, milestones, and targets https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/4/eaaw2869 AND New paper proposes a science-based ‘Global Deal for Nature’ https://news.mongabay.com/2019/04/new-paper-proposes-a-science-based-global-deal-for-nature/ Why Is Going

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Green Mission News – March 2019

US Youth Climate Strikes https://www.youthclimatestrikeus.org/ Becoming Greta: ‘Invisible Girl’ to Global Climate Activist, With Bumps Along the Way https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/18/climate/greta-thunburg.html THIS IS A CRISIS FACING UP

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Green Mission News – October 2018

California Climate Strategy An Integrated Plan for Addressing Climate Change http://www.climatechange.ca.gov   New study finds incredibly high carbon pollution costs – especially for the US

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Green Mission News – May 2018

Closing the Loop, the world’s first feature-length documentary film on the circular economy.   “Unless we go to Circular it’s game over for the planet; it’s game over

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Green Mission News – November 2017

The Woman Aiming to Get 50 Million Americans Into the Worker-Owner Economy And she has a plan to do it. http://www.yesmagazine.org/new-economy/the-woman-aiming-to-get-50-million-americans-into-the-worker-owner-economy-20171026 Global atmospheric CO2 levels

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Green Mission News – August 2017

A Soil Scientist with a Plan for a More Resilient Food System http://www.gracelinks.org/blog/8074/building-a-more-resilient-food-system-requires-a-paradigm-s Earth is becoming ‘Planet Plastic’ http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-40654915 and Production, use, and fate of

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Green Mission News – June 2017

Rethinking Transportation 2020-2030 The Disruption of Transportation and the Collapse of the Internal-Combustion Vehicle and Oil Industries https://static1.squarespace.com/static/585c3439be65942f022bbf9.pdf India’s ‘Fruit of the Gods’ Could Make Solar

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Green Mission News – May 2017

Humans Produce So Much Junk, We Are Creating a New Geological Layer The technofossils we leave behind will create a mark on the planet. http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2017/03/humans_are_creating_a_new_geological_layer_of_technofossils.html

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Green Mission News – December 2016

What makes plastic trash seem so tasty to seabirds? http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/1109/What-makes-plastic-trash-seem-so-tasty-to-seabirds Plastic island: How our trash is destroying paradise http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2016/12/world/midway-plastic-island/ Life in Syntropy (Agroforestry; 15 minute

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Green Mission News – October 2016

How restorative agriculture could lead to commercial advantage http://www.producebusinessuk.com/opinion/fresh-opinions/2016/09/22/how-restorative-agriculture-could-lead-to-commercial-advantage Fair World Project Releases Statement on US, China Formal Sign-On to Paris Climate Agreement Leading Consumer

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