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Your weekly dose of “yay!”
Dear Reader,
Dot’s here with your weekly dose of “yay!”, starting with some Feel-Good fashion news. Guess what? Legislation works! The levels of PFAS (so-called “forever chemicals,” because they don’t go away for, well, forever) in textiles went way down after both California and New York bans took effect. And speaking of policy, the EU’s ban on destroying surplus inventory of clothes and shoes went into effect July 19, forcing retailers to come up with (we hope!) more sustainable practices.
Meanwhile, in Britain, beavers have been instrumental in stopping underground station flooding. (Dot loves this story!) West London’s Greenford Tube station used to flood whenever it rained heavily. But a couple of years ago, a family of five beavers (part of the Ealing Beaver Project) moved into Paradise Fields, a former golf course turned urban-forested park near the station. They got to work, felling trees and building a dam. Lo and behold, the station stopped flooding, and town council scrapped expensive plans for a reservoir and levee. Dot says: give more jobs to beavers!!
Still farther afield, in Cambodia, where illegal bottom trawlers wreak havoc on fish populations, underwater concrete towers not only are discouraging the practice of trawling, but they’re also acting as shelter and nurseries for fish. There are now 1,250 of these structures, protecting 125 square miles of habitat and leading to a six-fold increase in the numbers of fish.
And finally, there’s good news for clean energy enthusiasts getting whiplash over the wind energy battles. The current U.S. administration is, at least for the time being, abandoning its attempts to stop wind energy projects across the country.
Feel-Good news in your community? Tell Dot about it.
Positively,
Dot
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