r/EcoUplift

This High Schooler Invented a Plant-Based Plastic That Removes Microplastics From the Environment as It Biodegrades

New Mexico’s electricity supply flipped from majority fossil fuels to renewables in just 5 years. Utilities have built solar panels, wind turbines, batteries, and transmission lines. Solar panels proliferated on homes, schools, and businesses. And electricity prices remained cheaper than average 🌞🌀💰

Trump’s Iran war supercharged EV sales everywhere except the U.S.

a 255,000-square-foot recycling plant in Georgia can chew through 5 gigawatts’ worth of old solar panels per year and pull the silver, copper, aluminum, silicon, and glass back out of them. The factory going up right beside it will feed the recovered material straight back into new US-made panels. 🌞

Postcarding environmental voters in Texas

A Wall of Trees to Save a Continent Across Africa, more than 20 countries have come together for one of the most ambitious environmental projects in history: the Great Green Wall 🌳

The world’s mangrove forests are bouncing back, 4 decades of global data show. Since 2010, they have expanded by more than 2,000 square kilometres, despite ongoing degradation and climate change. That’s good news for our coasts and their people.

In a little town in Kansas, people thought 50 wind turbines would replace the ranch way of life, but clean energy provided security and survival in an increasingly uncertain rural economy, while prairie chicken and cows simply kept going, and even benefited from the shadow and access roads.

Costco takes Florida distribution center off grid with solar, batteries, and EV charging

Suriname is evicting Mennonite settlers responsible for deforestation from their land in the Amazon