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Green Mission News – November 2025

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Australian household energy bills are set to halve by 2050, leaving ‘policy room’ for the federal government to cut emissions in the electricity sector without hurting households.

https://grattan.edu.au/report/bills-down-emissions-down-a-practical-path-to-net-zero-electricity/

At 40, Farm Aid Is Still About Music. It’s Also a Movement.

Willie Nelson launched the music festival in 1985 as a fundraiser to save family farms. With corporate consolidation a continuing threat to farms, it’s now a platform for populist organizing, too.

https://civileats.com/2025/10/15/at-40-farm-aid-is-still-about-music-its-also-a-movement/

California Can Lead a Just Climate Transition

A new report from the UAW calls for a green industrial policy in the Golden State.

https://inequality.org/article/california-can-lead-a-just-climate-transition/

 

CO2 levels in Earth’s atmosphere jumped by a record amount in 2024

The global average concentration of CO2 surged by 3.5 parts per million to reach 423.9 ppm last year, fuelling worries that the planet’s ability to soak up excess carbon is weakening

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2500100-co2-levels-in-earths-atmosphere-jumped-by-a-record-amount-in-2024/

Decline in phytoplankton suggests weakened planetary capacity to absorb carbon dioxide.

New research reveals that a key biological carbon pump is weakening, threatening ecosystems and the climate.

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/17102025/oceans-lose-luster-phytoplankton-decline/

Warming oceans probably fueling Hurricane Melissa’s rapid intensification

Climate scientists have long warned that warming oceans are making explosive storm development more common

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/27/hurricane-melissa-warming-oceans-climate-crisis

The 2025 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)01919-1/abstract

3D Solar towers boost electricity production by around 50% 

https://newatlas.com/energy/solar-towers-electricity/

 

8.5M tons of packaging entered California landfills in 2024: CalRecycle study 

The study, mandated by SB 54, sheds light on how materials covered under the extended producer responsibility program might be diverted in the future.

https://www.packagingdive.com/news/california-packaging-landfills-covered-material-sb54-epr/801929/

Why countries struggle to quit fossil fuels, despite higher costs and 30 years of climate talks and treaties

https://theconversation.com/why-countries-struggle-to-quit-fossil-fuels-despite-higher-costs-and-30-years-of-climate-talks-and-treaties-266993

As Planet Burns, US Banking Agencies Ditch Climate Risk Rules 

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell recently warned that due to climate disasters, “there will be regions of the country where you can’t get a mortgage, there won’t be ATMs, banks won’t have branches.”

https://www.commondreams.org/news/bank-regulators-pull-climate-rules

Typhoon disaster in Western Alaska raises questions around the region’s future

Climate change forces combine to make the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta especially vulnerable, threatening a region that has sustained Indigenous people for millennia

https://alaskabeacon.com/2025/10/17/typhoon-disaster-in-western-alaska-raises-questions-around-the-regions-future/

Climate disasters in first half of 2025 costliest ever on record, research shows

LA wildfires and storms this year cost $101bn, new study by non-profit resurrecting work axed by Trump says

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/22/climate-disasters-2025-cost

What Are Microplastics — and How Do They Get Into the Food We Eat?

Findings show that shellfish, beer, salt, and even produce carry some of the highest concentrations of microplastics in the human diet. But there are ways to mitigate exposure.

https://www.foodandwine.com/what-are-microplastics-and-how-to-reduce-risk-11834862

Bill to ban plastic foodware advances.

https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2025/10/26/hawaii-news/bill-to-ban-plastic-foodware-advances/

Bottle Underground + Remark Glass | Closed-Loop Glass

https://mainlineshift.com/blog/spotlight/bottle-underground-2/

Glass Half Full | Glass Recycling, Coastal Restoration

Glass Half Full is a New Orleans based glass recycling company servicing Louisiana, Mississippi and across the Gulf South. Glass Half Full recycles post-consumer glass waste into sand and gravel for coastal restoration and erosion protection, disaster relief, new glass products, and more.

https://glasshalffull.co/

How Did This State Become the Data Center Capital of the World?

From America Online to the rise of AI, Virginia has been good for an industry now transforming the economy and grid. Has the industry returned the favor?

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26102025/virginia-data-center-capital-ai-boom/

Rare earth mining expands into Laos, threatening entire Mekong River

https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/rare-earth-mining-expands-into-laos-threatening-entire-mekong-river/

 

Acute Exposure to Microplastics Induced Changes in Behavior and Inflammation in Young and Old Mice 

https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/24/15/12308

Scientists Confirm Widespread Microplastics in Milk and Cheese

Researchers in Italy’s University of Padua detected plastic particles in nearly every dairy sample they tested, with the highest concentrations found in aged cheeses.

https://www.foodandwine.com/microplastics-milk-and-cheese-2025-study-11827170

Rice, two curries and dal: The Indian cafes where you can pay in rubbish

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250818-the-indian-garbage-cafes-giving-out-food-in-exchange-for-plastic-waste

Renewables overtake coal as world’s biggest source of electricity

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2rz08en2po

Carbon tax to be increased to €71 per tonne of CO2 

https://www.rte.ie/news/budget-2026/2025/1007/1537082-budget-2026-climate-environment/

Quannah ChasingHorse Says The Colorado River’s Survival Is About More Than Water

The new nature documentary “The American Southwest” spotlights what stands to be lost if we can’t learn how to live with nature instead of trying to tame it.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/american-southwest-colorado-river-documentary_n_68dd7ec3e4b06c0a3a8c1dec

The 7 greenest cities in America right now

From clean energy to walkability, these U.S. cities stand out for policies and infrastructure that make eco-friendly living easy

https://qz.com/greenest-cities-usa-2025-california

Five projects using community-led regenerative agriculture to fight climate change

https://www.oneearth.org/five-projects-using-community-led-regenerative-agriculture-to-fight-climate-change/

Branching Out: Veterans Grow Their Fruit Tree Knowledge

https://smallfarms.cornell.edu/2025/07/branching-out-veterans-grow-their-fruit-tree-knowledge/

Regenerative agriculture practices and multidimensional poverty in eastern rural India

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-18461-5

Empowering Rural Cambodian Women Through Sustainable Victory Gardens

https://www.oneearth.org/projects/improving-rural-cambodian-lives-through-organic-gardening/

Regenerating the Desert in Arizona: From Wasteland to Farmland (video, 42 minutes)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9oT-iLBOl4

New PepsiCo and Unilever Initiative Helps Farmers Adopt Regenerative Ag Practices

https://www.agriculture.com/new-pepsico-and-unilever-program-helps-farmers-adopt-regenerative-ag-practices-11813569

Why Regenerative Organic?  It’s Farming the Way Nature Intended

Growing food and fiber with industrial techniques has devastated our climate. That’s why we’re supporting farms working toward the highest organic standard, Regenerative Organic Certified. These practices reduce greenhouse gas emissions and could help trap more carbon than conventional agriculture.

https://www.patagonia.com/regenerative-organic/

 

A new study has traced microplastic contamination in commercial fish, factors that increase the uptake of of these toxic particles, and the resulting risks for fish and human health along the Goan coast

Microplastics threaten Goa’s estuarine fisheries, human consumers 

 https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/energy-and-environment/microplastics-threaten-goas-estuarine-fisheries-human-consumers/article70162157.ece

As EPA Stalls, States Are Left to Handle Solar Panel Waste

A federal plan to manage the coming “solar waste tsunami” of retired panels has missed its start date, leaving states and the solar industry to patch together their own rules for retiring the panels. Fifteen states have no rules at all.

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18102025/epa-solar-panel-waste/

Sorry, you can’t trick your gut with short-term healthy eating

https://newatlas.com/diet-nutrition/microbiome-healthy-diet/

This 16-Year-Old Invented an A.I. Tool to Help Cool Down the World’s Hottest Cities

Isaque Carvalho Borges experiences the urban heat island effect in his home of Palmas, Brazil, and he wants to do something about it

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/this-16-year-old-invented-an-ai-tool-to-help-cool-down-the-worlds-hottest-cities-180987544/

Everyone can be an environmentalist.

Together, we will create a climate movement made in the image of all of us.

blackgirlenvironmentalist.org

 

Trump’s hatred for renewables means the US is falling behind the rest of the world

As well as embracing ‘beautiful coal’, the president has set about obliterating clean energy projects

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/05/donald-trump-hatred-renewables-us-falling-behind-world

Trump’s Polluter Playground: Fossil Fuel Insiders & Ideologues Prop Up Dirty Energy & Derail Clean Power

https://www.citizen.org/article/trumps-polluter-playground/

Women in Mexico step up to protect ancient Aztec farms and save a vanishing ecosystem

https://apnews.com/article/mexico-xochimilco-chinampas-women-island-farms-427086e05486eedbceb478c6dc6cb819



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New PepsiCo and Unilever Initiative Helps Farmers Adopt Regenerative Ag Practices

https://www.agriculture.com/new-pepsico-and-unilever-program-helps-farmers-adopt-regenerative-ag-practices-11813569

Why Regenerative Organic?  It’s Farming the Way Nature Intended

Growing food and fiber with industrial techniques has devastated our climate. That’s why we’re supporting farms working toward the highest organic standard, Regenerative Organic Certified. These practices reduce greenhouse gas emissions and could help trap more carbon than conventional agriculture.

https://www.patagonia.com/regenerative-organic/

 

A new study has traced microplastic contamination in commercial fish, factors that increase the uptake of of these toxic particles, and the resulting risks for fish and human health along the Goan coast

Microplastics threaten Goa’s estuarine fisheries, human consumers 

 https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/energy-and-environment/microplastics-threaten-goas-estuarine-fisheries-human-consumers/article70162157.ece

As EPA Stalls, States Are Left to Handle Solar Panel Waste

A federal plan to manage the coming “solar waste tsunami” of retired panels has missed its start date, leaving states and the solar industry to patch together their own rules for retiring the panels. Fifteen states have no rules at all.

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18102025/epa-solar-panel-waste/

Sorry, you can’t trick your gut with short-term healthy eating

https://newatlas.com/diet-nutrition/microbiome-healthy-diet/

This 16-Year-Old Invented an A.I. Tool to Help Cool Down the World’s Hottest Cities

Isaque Carvalho Borges experiences the urban heat island effect in his home of Palmas, Brazil, and he wants to do something about it

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/this-16-year-old-invented-an-ai-tool-to-help-cool-down-the-worlds-hottest-cities-180987544/

Everyone can be an environmentalist.

Together, we will create a climate movement made in the image of all of us.

blackgirlenvironmentalist.org

Trump’s hatred for renewables means the US is falling behind the rest of the world

As well as embracing ‘beautiful coal’, the president has set about obliterating clean energy projects

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/05/donald-trump-hatred-renewables-us-falling-behind-world

Trump’s Polluter Playground: Fossil Fuel Insiders & Ideologues Prop Up Dirty Energy & Derail Clean Power

https://www.citizen.org/article/trumps-polluter-playground/

Women in Mexico step up to protect ancient Aztec farms and save a vanishing ecosystem

https://apnews.com/article/mexico-xochimilco-chinampas-women-island-farms-427086e05486eedbceb478c6dc6cb819

 

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Green Mission News – Earth Month 2021

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Green Mission News – December, 2020

For sustainable business, ‘planetary boundaries’ define the new rules https://news.mongabay.com/2020/11/for-sustainable-business-planetary-boundaries-define-the-new-rules/ What could a good green recovery plan actually look like? What do governments across the

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Green Mission News – July 2020

A greener economy: how we make sustainability central to business  https://theconversation.com/a-greener-economy-how-we-make-sustainability-central-to-business-139086   The Path Beyond Extinction and Escape:  Return to Earth, Regenerate and Share Message for

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Green Mission News – May 2020

From Emergency to Emergence.   The pandemic has also exposed extreme vulnerabilities in the global market economy, including its long and highly specialized linear supply chains,

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Green Mission News – Earth Month 2020

Ecological Reflections on the Corona virus From the forests, to our farms, to our gut microbiome https://navdanyainternational.org/one-planet-one-health-connected-through-biodiversity/ Coronavirus pandemic leading to huge drop in air

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Green Mission News – March 2020

Al Gore promotes carbon markets, regenerative agriculture at D.C. conference https://thefern.org/ag_insider/al-gore-promotes-carbon-markets-regenerative-agriculture-at-d-c-conference/ How to support your children in turning climate angst into climate action https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/transformation/how-support-your-children-turning-climate-angst-climate-action/  

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Green Mission News – February, 2020

Banking on Climate? https://www.ran.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Banking_on_Climate_Change_2019_vFINAL1.pdf Hundreds of workers defy Amazon rules to protest company’s climate failures Employees ‘needed to stand up for what’s right’ despite policy

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Green Mission News – January 2020

Statistic of the decade: The massive deforestation of the Amazon https://theconversation.com/statistic-of-the-decade-the-massive-deforestation-of-the-amazon-128307 Greta Thunberg named Time magazine’s person of the year Teen activist lauded by magazine

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Green Mission News – October 2019

‘Genius’ Grant Goes To Marine Scientist Who Embraces Flash Mobs And Comic Books https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/09/25/763456317/genius-grant-goes-to-marine-scientist-who-embraces-flash-mobs-and-comic-books Is Compost the Secret to Making Ag Climate Friendly? A new

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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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