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Climate change and wellbeing need hope. Here is a round up of the latest positive news on planet and people. Each story helps build the Good Life (Buen Vivir) around the world. Keep this newsletter running by donating below or on Substack

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  • GOOD PLANET NEWS, 8 September 2026

    Edition: 8 September 2026 Theme: Scaling Hope This week the United Nations declared that the world will miss target and exceed 1.5 degrees warming. While we now know that it will get worse before it gets better, there is still so much we can do to avoid worst-case scenario. To do so we can still…

  • GOOD PLANET NEWS, 12 August 2026

    Edition: 12 August 2026 Theme: Community Solidarity The climate responses that work best come from communities working together. They come from those on the ground with firsthand knowledge, experience and heritage to protect. This week we look at five stories from communities around the world that have responded to climate change not with resistance but…

  • GOOD PLANET NEWS, 7 July 2026

    Edition: 7 July 2026 Theme: El Niño — What the Pacific’s Great Warming Brings On 11 June 2026, the NOAA officially declared El Niño conditions in the tropical Pacific. Sea surface temperatures in the El Niño 3.4 monitoring region had climbed to +1.7°C above average by mid-June, and models now project a 63 percent chance…

  • Good Planet News, 31 May 2026

    Edition: 31 May 2026 Theme: Water Oceans, Rivers, Wetlands and the Communities That Live By Them Water is life, and it is also a story, a memory, and an identity. Water is the thread that runs through every culture and protecting it is an act of collective responsibility with positive impacts on communal wellbeing. In…

  • Good Planet News, 18 May 2026

    Theme: The Circular Life — Repairing, Reclaiming, Reimagining This week we slow down and look at one of the most quietly radical ideas of our time: that nothing needs to be wasted. From community repair tables in Buffalo to fashion factories in France, from Kenya’s waste pickers to a breakthrough that could finally crack the…

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