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Costa Rica expands protected ocean area from 2.7 percent to > 30 percent of its territorial waters; mercury levels in fish tissue have declined with the closure of coal mines ...
These stories and more in today's Solutions Digest: https://t.co/rSPCt4BfHQ

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The Planetary Health Initiative's free Permaculture & Social Enterprise Course for young people will now start online at 9am Wed 5 January.
Participants will create a permaculture design for a Planetary Health Leadership Centre at the old Katoomba Golf Course. Ph. 0407 437 553

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Scientists calling for a 'green status' category to identify how to bring endangered species back to sustainable levels; world's top chefs now creating vegan menus; and Denmark's government announces goal to make domestic flights fossil fuel free by 2030.
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In the garden hope emerges as gardeners provide a glimpse of the future; Landcare plants 60,000th tree for the Creating Canopies in Greater Sydney project; and QLD rangers rescue 74 endangered green sea turtles at Raine Island.
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A new health plan puts the focus on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture and leadership; companies are racing to stem the flood of microplastic fibres into the oceans; and New Jersey will phase out diesel trucks.

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A volunteer-run wetlands project has transformed the once drought-ridden NSW town of Goulburn; an extinct species of fish has been successfully reintroduced in Mexico; and what if we didn't build a single new building in 2022? Today's Solutions Digest: https://t.co/RNI4pJgLED

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Chile is rewriting its Constitution to confront climate change and ecological emergency; California will phase out gasoline-powered lawn equipment; and a South African court has halted oil giant Shell's seismic testing for oil and gas on the east coast

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Thanks to conservation efforts numbers of Chilean Burrowing Parrots, African giraffes, wild animals in New York City, and critically endangered orange-bellied parrots in Tasmania are now increasing. These stories and more in today's Solutions Digest: https://t.co/1JjJoKG5jq

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New York's 30,000 acres of parkland is teeming with wildlife — everything from raccoons to bald eagles to coyotes. Decades of cleaning up and expanding the city's green spaces, rivers, forests, and wetlands is paying off. https://t.co/Idim45hVPp

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The Blue Mountains Planetary Health Pluriversity is offering a free Permaculture & Social Enterprise Design Course (PDC+) for young people (16-24) from 5 January: Wed-Fri for 4 wks (72 hours). Followed by optional mentoring to develop a social enterprise. Ph. 0407 437 553

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Kind people, like surgeon Demetrio Aguila, are leading the way to a different world. He’s pioneering ’sober surgery’ and ‘compassionate pricing’. Get inspired by how you too can become part of the change through all our stories here: https://t.co/ytoryx0mvV

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The best quote I’ve read this week is 'History expands the imagination’. It was in a National Geographic article about how we can take hope from history to help us take the long road back to a stable climate. This and more in today’s Solutions Digest: https://t.co/FN0Vqat6u2

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If there was ever a time we needed to focus hard for common rather than individual preservation it's now ... why not use Lockdown to scroll through thousands of ways you could contribute to the common good in our many many Solutions Digests here: https://t.co/WajYHUxJps

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Don't let the arseholes grab your full attention and lead you to despair when there are so many kind, generous, big-hearted people working damn hard to make the world a better place. They need you to join them! Check out the 53 stories here: https://t.co/dbU8Jv8K8H

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The poet Rainer Maria Rilke once said: “Now I come to you full of future, and from habit we begin to live our past.” Check out how Indigenous futurists and systems thinkers are suggesting a better way forward for us all than rugged individualism.
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Are beliefs more dangerous than climate change? Naomi Klein said, we’re f*cked if we believe we’re f*cked. An article about the danger of belief, and plenty of great stories about our #generationrestoration in today’s Solutions Digest: https://t.co/kHkEg3xSRu

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“Change can happen slowly, but then it can happen all at once.” From the pandemic turning many of us away from mindless consumerism (I no longer shop, therefore I am!) to 'greentrolling using 'inoculation theory' to tackle greenwashing!
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What's so overwhelmingly beautiful about the stories I've highlighted today is their overt expression of care and love for all life.

These stories and more in today's Solutions Digest: https://t.co/gwT0AQqjgW

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Don't forget, mainstream for-profit media is not an accurate reflection of reality ... there are also a lot of great people out there working very hard to fix the problems we've created!
These stories and more in today's Solutions Digest: https://t.co/Mwo6T1dToX