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📰 How to recycle batteries the right way (without starting a fire or trashing the planet)
🗒 "Most batteries contain metals such as cobalt, nickel, and manganese that can be harmful if they leak into soil and water. Keeping them out of landfills reduces the risk of contamination. It also keeps valuable materials in circulation, which matters because recycling reduces the need for mining new raw materials."
#recycle #environment #greenliving #batteries #circulareconomy
"People Fixing the World: The school run by kids"
🗒 "Children are responsible for every aspect of running the school, from buying food for the kitchens to disciplining fellow students and even recruiting new staff.
The children also run their own businesses, and perform several hours of community service every week."
🎙 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0n2qtjf
📰 Regenerative agriculture sows success in Kenya
🗒 "They’re reporting up to 81% higher yields and 92% improvement in water retention. Meanwhile crop failure, soil erosion and dependence on chemicals have sharply reduced.
Outcomes have been validated by the Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry, which analysed samples from 2,000 project sites and reported massive improvements in soil health and microbial diversity."
https://www.positive.news/society/regenerative-agriculture-sows-success-in-kenya/
📰 Earth's heat to power 10,000 homes in renewable energy first for UK
🗒 "But this project has drilled to far greater depths - three miles below the surface - where temperatures climb to nearly 200C, and this is enough heat to generate electricity."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cewzg77k721o?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss
📰 Teacher Wins $1M Prize for Turning India’s Slums Into Hundreds of Open-Air Classrooms
🗒 "...Ms. Nagi designs education around real life: flexible schedules for working children, hands-on learning using recycled materials, and practical skills that demonstrate immediate value to families. As a result, her programs have reduced dropout rates by more than 50% and significantly improved long-term school retention."
📰 "Vienna is turning parking spaces into parks and it’s changing the city"
🗒 "The city has more than 350 projects underway to replace parking spots with green infrastructure and public areas. That includes a major street reimagined as a Dutch-style cycling corridor, where 140 parking spaces were swapped for nearly a mile of bike lanes and plants."
#vienna #citygreenery #solarpunk #econews #bikes #bicycles #walkability
📰 A Circular Economy Repair and Reuse Community Grows Across Ireland and Europe
🗒 Across Ireland, circular economy repair and reuse community initiatives brought people together to rethink consumption and resource use. In October, more than 3,000 events in 45 countries celebrated International Repair Day, encouraging people to extend the life of their belongings by fixing, mending, and repurposing items rather than discarding them
https://happyeconews.com/a-circular-economy-repair-and-reuse-community/
📰 "Urban Farm Shops Combine Dutch Greenhouse Technology and Food-Retail into One"
🗒 "LocalDutch is calling its idea Urban Farm Shops, and believe the concept is straightforward and scalable—produce fresh vegetables year-round, sell them locally, and build a social meeting point around food that is grown in the community."
📰 "New Spray-on Powder Instantly Seals Life-Threatening Wounds in Battle or During Disasters"
🗒 " The new AGCL powder reacts with cations, such as calcium in the blood, to turn into a gel state in one second, instantly sealing the wound,” said study co-leader Professor Steve Park.
“Furthermore, by forming a three-dimensional structure inside the powder, it can absorb blood amounting to more than seven times its own weight.”
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/new-spray-on-powder-instantly-seals-life-threatening-wounds/
📰 "Scientists Find a Global ‘Language’ Hidden in Bird Calls."
🗒 "Bird species that live thousands of miles apart and diverged millions of years ago are using strikingly similar alarm calls to warn of parasitic threats near their nests, according to an international team of scientists."
https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-find-a-global-language-hidden-in-bird-calls/
