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🇦🇺 Within 48 hours of the Bondi Beach mass shooting, Australian officials met, agreed on, and proposed new, stronger gun laws, including limits on the number of guns a person can own and on the types of guns and modifications that are legal.

🪧 Led by local high school students, an estimated 1,600 young people across Hillsboro, Oregon walked out of their classes to march and protest ICE activity in their communities.

Clean energy

A massive solar farm committed to recycle and reuse its nearly 1 million panels at their end-of-life

Nearly one million solar panels comprise the 400-megawatt Stubbo solar farm in New South Wales, Australia. The project hasn’t reached full commercial operations — but the panels are already set to be recycled when they reach the end of their life.

The company behind the project says that embedding “circularity” from the start is about both setting a “new standard” for large-scale solar and helping build a supply and demand chain for solar recycling.

It also makes Stubbo Solar the first large-scale project to meet independent standards that make circularity commercially viable in the industry, ​​going beyond “baseline” requirements to set materials up to be reused, not become more waste.

Why is this good news? What happens to things like solar panels and wind turbines when they reach their end-of-life is a valid concern surrounding the clean energy transition. Recycling technology is improving, and it’s important that commitments to recycling are built into a clean energy project’s plan f​​rom the start.

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You may also like: Global efforts to repurpose wind turbine blades lead to innovative designs​

More Good News

​For the first time in several years, every Salvation Army “Angel Tree” child was adopted in North Texas. Thanks to the generosity of community members, more than 35,000 children, older adults, and adults with disabilities will receive gifts this holiday season.

​A grassroots group of women mapped air pollution in their Indian village, and their findings forced coal companies to act. Within three to four months of publishing their findings, the researchers said coal companies immediately took action to reduce air pollution.

​The family of an enslaved potter reclaimed two stoneware jars he created in South Carolina before the Civil War. They’re two of hundreds of surviving works by “Dave the Potter,” who signed many of his jars, some with couplets, a powerful assertion of identity and authorship during a time when literacy for enslaved people was criminalized.

​Thanks to effective conservation measures or reduced threats, 30 animal species are on the road to recovery. Twelve of the species downlisted on the IUCN Red List are birds, and notably, the green sea turtle was reclassified from endangered to least concern.

Animals

The viral ‘drunk raccoon’ now has a merch line. So far, it’s raised over $250K for a local animal shelter

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Governments doing good

Colorado just completed construction on North America’s ‘largest wildlife overpass’

Every day, more than 100,000 vehicles travel up and down a six-lane stretch of Interstate 25 in Colorado. It’s also a crucial migration zone for elk, mule deer, mountain lions, black bears, and more.

Now, everyone will travel more safely. Colorado has completed construction on the Greenland wildlife overpass, the largest in North America and one of the largest in the world.

It’s expected to reduce wildlife-vehicle crashes by 90%.

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More Good bits

🐳 The “whale poop loop” is saving the planet.

📚 Authors think a library card should be a birthright.

🥪 School lunch debt shouldn’t be a thing, and these people agree. (Reels)

📝 Moms know there’s nothing like a handwritten letter.

🧊 Shoppers from California to New York want ICE out of Home Depot. (Reels)

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