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Here’s an example of what a German family are doing to lower their environmental impact and make the world a little better for their children:
Georg Fürtges’s pride and joy is a green monstrosity standing in the basement of his house in the western German city of Essen, hissing quietly and consuming dark little pellets that [...]

The Yes Men are great pranksters that try to make the people who cause problems in our world aware of what they do in creative ways. Yesterday they pretended to be from the USA’s Chamber of Commerce and staged a fake press conference talking about how the Chamber is going to tackle climate change.
The timing [...]

Today is Blog Action Day 2009 and this year’s issue is climate change. If you’re a blogger you should join in on the awareness-raising campaign by posting about climate change. The ultimate goal this year is to influence the upcoming Copenhagen conference.
Here’s some climate change news that goes underreported: you can slow climate change by [...]

Peru has a great program that is designed to combat climate change – they’re planting 512,820 tress per day on average.
Peru’s Ministry of Agriculture has decided to single handedly attempt to mitigate the effects of climate change using a nation-wide tree planting project.
The campaign began on 13th December, and aims to have 40 million trees [...]

Nasa and the JPL have created a climate time machine to quickly explain to policy makers the effects of climate change.
Because everybody is affected by the weather, it seems like everybody likes to improvise themselves a climate scientist. Amateur theories about global warming are a dime a dozen and, unfortunately, that can make it hard [...]

I’ve never been shy about my dislike of Canada’s current Prime Minister and today won’t be any different. Regular readers of Things Are Good may have noticed that other countries get mentioned often here because their national government take positive action. Three nations, though, get mentioned not because of federal efforts but because of local [...]