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Celebrating What Makes Us Unique And What Brings Us Together

by Jennifer Williams

Ready for Some Good News About the Planet?

It’s not all doom and gloom. Yes, we have serious work ahead of us to keep our planet healthy. But beyond the headlines, many people and initiatives are making a tangible, positive difference.

Giant Panda Comeback

The wild Giant Panda population is rebounding. In September 2021, the International Union for Conservation of Nature upgraded the Panda’s status from Endangered to Vulnerable with a growth rate of 17% in the past decade. World Wildlife Fund credits preserving and expanding the panda habitat in China for this population growth.

Giant Panda

Reasons To Be Cheerful

If you’re looking for news stories that don’t send you spiraling into gut-wrenching anxiety, check out Reasonstobecheerful.world. Billing themselves as “Tonic for Tumultuous Times,” the news source provides in-depth coverage of stories that “balance a sense of healthy optimism with journalistic rigor, and find cause for hope.” In their words, “We are part magazine, part therapy session, part blueprint for a better world.”

Ozone Layer Recovery

The ozone layer is recovering. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says, “The Montreal Protocol began life as a mechanism to protect and heal the ozone layer. It has done its job well over the past three decades. The ozone layer is on the road to recovery. The cooperation we have seen under the Montreal Protocol is exactly what is needed now to take on climate change, an equally existential threat to our societies.”

Sustainable Denim

We all love our blue jeans! But each pair of jeans consumes 2,000 gallons of water and the indigo blue dye contains benzene (a rat poison), mercury and more. Stretch denim is an even worse as it’s made with plastic. “Most jeans take hundreds of years to degrade,” says Danielle Arzaga, Sustainability Manager of Candiani denim. “Our stretch denim takes six months.” You may not have heard of Candiani jeans but their material is used for many sustainable denim lines, including Lee, Levi’s, Lucky, Hugo Boss, JCrew, Stella McCartney and Diesel. Look for it at your favorite shop.