📰 Every Physics Teacher (And Student) Should Try This Open Source Software

🗒 "Bringing it down to a simpler level, KDE's Step provides you a platform to test out some of the most important basic concepts in physics, like simple motion, electrostatics and gravitation, and even things like spring (harmonic) motion."

📰🔗 https://itsfoss.com/kde-step/

🌐🔗 https://apps.kde.org/step/

#Physics #science #foss

📰 7.4 Mil. Plant and Fungi Samples Have Been Digitized to ‘Democratize Knowledge’ and Save Species

🗒 "Efforts like Kew’s and others mean that an archive of 145 million plant, animal, and fungi samples is now freely available to anyone with an internet connection worldwide who might want to access them for any reason."

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/7-4-mil-plant-and-fungi-samples-have-been-digitized-to-democratize-knowledge-and-save-species/

#plants #fungai #botany #ecology #nature #science

📰 Mushrooms Used to Clean E. Coli from Rivers and Immediately Implemented in England 🍄 💧

🗒 "The application was ever so simple: a bag of woodchips impregnated with turkey tail spores left at the bottom of the river. The mycelia, or filament system of the mushroom, filtered out 80% of the E. coli, 83% of the phosphorous, and 35% of the nitrogen."

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/mushrooms-used-to-clean-e-coli-from-rivers-and-immediately-implemented-in-england/

#goodnews #water #environment #solarpunk #fungai #mushrooms #england

📰 Global Solar Power Growth Reaches Historic Turning Point 🌞

🗒 Ember’s Global Electricity Review 2026 found that global solar power growth reached record levels in 2025, helping renewable energy overtake coal in the world’s electricity mix for the first time in more than 100 years.

https://happyeconews.com/global-solar-power-growth/

#greenenergy #solarenergy #renewableEnergy #environment #solar #goodnews

📰 EV Popularity in China Accounts for 262,000 Fewer Deaths from Air Pollution

🗒 The results were a 23.8% reduction in PM2.5, and a 30% reduction in carbon monoxide, resulting in some 320,000 fewer deaths from air pollution.

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/ev-popularity-in-china-accounts-for-262000-fewer-deaths-from-air-pollution/

#goodnews #electricvehicles #Pollution #health

At "Hope Blooms" in Helifax (NS, Canada), kids are taught how to grow food, and get produce to take home. 🍅🫛

The project also sells salad dressing, and profits go to scholarships for the students going into post-secondary.

🔗 https://hopeblooms.ca/
📺 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYzab47rqd4&t=15

#helifax #Canada #solarpunk #gardening #urbanfarm #novascotia

📰 A Future Without Plastic Waste: The Rise of Biomaterial Packaging in the UK

🗒 Designed to perform like conventional plastic, it can be stored and used indefinitely without degrading, even with repeated washing, until it enters a composting environment. 

https://happyeconews.com/a-future-without-plastic-waste-the-rise-of-biomaterial-packaging-in-the-uk/

#zerowaste #environment #greenliving #plasticfree #solarpunk

📺 Harvesting Rainwater with Brad Lancaster: How to Create Livable Desert Cities 🏜

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wN6t8xwpYZ8&t=240

#desert #landscaping #water #tucson #citygreenery #cityplanning #solarpunk #desertcities

🔧 DIY: TerraSono: a Sustainable Acoustic Intelligence System

🗒️ "TerraSono can detect threats like illegal logging, poaching, or wildfires on land, and monitor biodiversity shifts or harmful human activity at sea"

https://www.instructables.com/TerraSono-a-Sustainable-Acoustic-Intelligence-Syst/

#diy #environment #ecology

🔧 DIY: "IOT Based Water Quality Monitoring System"

🗒️ "By reducing manual testing and providing instant data access, the system improves decision-making and helps maintain safe water quality standards."

https://www.instructables.com/IOT-Based-Water-Quality-Monitoring-System/

#DIY #OpenSource #Raspberrypi