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What are our Reasons to be Hopeful?

Here you’ll find the people, projects, stories and ideas that are inspiring us. Whether they’re already working to make our planet a better place, or they’re in the pipeline, they are all certain to leave you full of optimism and positivity.
Why not find out how you could feature as one of our Reasons to be Hopeful?

Oct 43 min read

10 Reasons to Feel Hopeful After the Building Hopeful Futures Festival and UN Summit of the Future

1. The Pact for the Future & The Declaration on Future Generations - were agreed and signed by 147 countries at a big UN meeting about...

Sep 261 min read

Meet the ‘Heat Geek’ Who’s Helping Keep Our Homes Warm-without Using Fossil Fuels!

Did you know that even on a cold day, heat naturally occurs in the air, ground, and water? Clever engineers and plumbers have developed a...

Aug 222 min read

The Tree Musketeers and Their Adventures to Find the Best Trees for a Warmer London!

Why we Need Trees in Urban Environments: Having trees in cities helps in so many ways! Trees make our cities cooler, clean the air we...

Feb 234 min read

How to Teach Children Coping Strategies for Climate Change Concerns

Climate change is scary, full of unknowns, and paved with uncertainty. Building emotional resilience around climate change requires an...

Oct 6, 20231 min read

The Ocean Cleanup Project

The Ocean Cleanup is an organisation clearing tons of plastic from seas and rivers around the world, including the great Pacific Garbage...

Oct 5, 20231 min read

Seaweed Farms

Did you know seaweed is the ideal food to stop cows from farting so much?? ( Or in more technical terms, stops them releasing so much...

Oct 4, 20231 min read

Edible Jelo Cups for Your Next Birthday Party???

Photo from Evo Ware/ Rethink Plastics website https://rethink-plastic.com/home/product/ello-jello-cup The inspired people at the...

Oct 3, 20231 min read

Reusing single -use plastic??

The organisation Save Plastic are building houses with bricks they make from waste plastic collected from the North Sea. How they are...

Oct 2, 20231 min read

Successfully Growing New Coral Reefs

The Coral Restoration Foundation has restored over 17,500 square metres of Florida's coral reefs that had died due to rising sea...

Oct 1, 20231 min read

Dissolvable Packaging You Can Eat??

Could this be the beginning of the end of plastic packaging and landfill mountains?? How they are doing it: The clever scientists at...