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EarthMother

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A Peoria repair cafe with no building of its own just finished its first year, and it is not slowing down

<p>Jennifer Brady and Nikki Merz Andrews started the Peoria Repair Cafe with one October event and no storefront to their name, and a year of borrowed…

Gateshead is heating homes with warm water pulled from its own flooded coal mines

<p>Gateshead spent centuries being mined for coal, right up until Margaret Thatcher shut the pits in the 1980s. Now the flooded, abandoned workings un…

In the Basque Country, 70,000 workers own the fifth-largest private employer in Spain

<p>Ninety-two cooperatives, more than 70,000 workers, and together they are the fifth-largest private employer in Spain: that is Mondragon, out of the…

On a tiny Indonesian island, 44 women learned to dive and rebuilt 850 square meters of reef

<p>On Gili Air, a speck of an island in Indonesia's Gili chain, a Dutch conservationist named Rose Huizenga built a nine-week program to teach local w…

A Montana fairgrounds pavilion now makes over a third of its own power, paid for with donated labor and community funds

<p>Sixty-six panels went up on the roof of the Fergus County Fairgrounds pavilion in Lewistown, Montana, paid for with 44,000 dollars of donated labor…

DTE put $18 million behind keeping Ann Arbor from voting on its own power company. It is now suing the city clerk

<p>Volunteers with Ann Arbor for Public Power spent months gathering signatures to put a city-owned electric utility on the November ballot, and the c…

A Queensland park got a battery, and the neighbors with no solar panels get the sunshine anyway

<p>MacGregor Park in Noosaville now has a battery bolted into the grid, soaking up the neighborhood's daytime rooftop solar and handing it back at din…

A South African school cooks lunch for 1,054 kids on gas made from cattle dung

<p>Four volunteers in Limpopo haul cattle dung by ox-cart to a digester the size of a small building, and the methane it makes now cooks breakfast and…

Georgia mapped where its marshes will need to run to, and found 56,000 acres of it still up for development

<p>Georgia's marshes are the biggest connected stretch of salt marsh left on the Southeastern coast, and they're about to need somewhere to go. With o…

Seattle just told landlords that pet rent is not a thing anymore

<p>Seattle just banned pet rent and mail fees on every rental in the city, armed its inspectors with subpoena power to catch landlords faking deposits…

Virginia's first crop-growing solar farm makes more power than it needs

<p>For years the argument against solar farms was that they would starve out farmland, panels or produce, pick one. Roundabout Meadows in Loudoun Coun…

Arizona's first health-center microgrid keeps the vaccines cold when the power goes out

<p>Four clinics in Douglas, Arizona now ride out blackouts on solar and battery power instead of hoping the grid holds, the state's first health-cente…

Three more African countries just told the deep-sea miners to wait

<p>Mauritius, Mozambique, and the Republic of the Congo just told the deep-sea mining companies to wait, joining Malawi, Kenya, and Madagascar in back…

A volunteer crew in Minnesota planted a forest you are allowed to eat

<p>Seven volunteers on the Vadnais Heights Green Team spent a Minnesota fall prepping ground and a Minnesota spring planting it, and this morning the …

Illinois is turning self-storage roofs into neighborhood power plants

<p>There are 5 million square feet of Public Storage rooftop sitting in Illinois doing absolutely nothing, and Solar Landscape is putting community so…

France collected 13,760 tonnes of worn-out solar panels last year and kept 90 percent of it out of the ground

<p>Soren, the state-approved French take-back scheme that 600 producers fund with 12 million euros in eco-contributions, collected 13,760 tonnes of wo…

Cyprus wastes enormous amounts of sunshine. Its first grid battery just started catching some of it

<p>Cyprus is one of the sunniest places in Europe and it throws a startling amount of that sunshine straight in the bin, because when the grid cannot …

A rooftop planted with 14,000 native plants made the solar panels above it work better

<p>University of Technology Sydney put 319 panels above roughly 14,000 native plants on 1,300 square meters of roof at Bradfield in Western Sydney, th…

A mining trick pulled nearly all the silver out of dead solar panels without a drop of acid

<p>Every solar panel has a little silver in it, which is one reason the industry has never had a tidy answer for what to do with panels once they are …

The rooftop solar tax credit is gone, and North Carolina installers just had a record month anyway

<p>The 30 percent residential tax credit vanished in December, everybody braced for the floor to fall out, and Jesse Solomon at NC Solar Now reports h…