Sustainable Living
Sustainable LivingVirginia has released over $67 million in RGGI climate funds for home energy efficiency — $15M for critical repairs in 1,000+ homes and $52M for energy-efficient affordable housing.
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Sustainable LivingA new Eurobarometer survey finds 81% of Europeans trust the EU Ecolabel's lower environmental impact claim, up from 75% in 2023. Recognition hit 46% and certified products passed 121,000.
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Sustainable LivingEvery year, the world throws away electronics faster than it can recycle them — and on 14 October 2026, the ninth International E-Waste Day turns the spotlight on the smallest, most overlooked part of the pile: "fast tech". Led by the Brussels-based WEEE Forum, the global campaign urges consumers everywhere to stop binning small electronics
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Sustainable LivingThe EU's anti-greenwashing rules now apply across Europe: vague 'eco-friendly' claims are banned and sustainability labels must be independently certified.
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Sustainable LivingThe United Nations marked the 40th World Habitat Day in Muscat on 5 October 2026 under the theme "Adequate Housing for All", warning that up to 3.4 billion people worldwide lack safe and adequate housing.
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Sustainable LivingThe Canadian government is putting $66.3 million into making homes greener, cheaper to run and more comfortable — backing 162 energy-efficiency projects across the country to deliver more energy-efficient homes, through the Federation of Canadian Municipalities' Green Municipal Fund. The announcement was made on October 2, 2026, in Toronto, Ontario, by Julie Dabrusin, Minister of
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Sustainable LivingDenmark's government proposes an extra DKK 200 million for district heating expansion in 2027, longer 45-year municipal loan terms, and doubled per-household grants — aiming for up to 19,000 oil and gas boiler conversions.
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Sustainable LivingStudents are neither clearly positive nor negative about more climate-friendly school meals — and whether they back greener menus depends far more on taste, fullness and familiarity than on what they know about the climate. That is the central finding of a new Swedish study published in the journal Appetite (2026), based on a survey
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Sustainable LivingIreland has launched a €2,000 grant to scrap fossil-fuel boilers, with enhanced SEAI home energy supports — batteries, solar and insulation — opening from 6 October 2026.
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Sustainable LivingCanada has announced $66.3 million for 162 projects to help homeowners finance energy-saving retrofits and build more efficient, affordable homes.
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Sustainable LivingBain's 2026 survey of around 7,500 consumers finds 85% are concerned about sustainability — up from 79% last year — and 83% have adopted three or more sustainable lifestyle habits.
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Sustainable LivingA UNEP and CCAC assessment finds every US$1 invested in climate and clean-air action together can return about US$15 — and that the barriers are institutional, not technical.
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News, stories and solutions driving change towards a greener and more sustainable planet for future generations.
The Ocean Cleanup will make Australia and Asia-Pacific its primary focus, directing two-thirds of its effort to Southeast Asia — source of 79% of ocean plastic reaching Australia — while urging 'action and cash' ahead of COP31.
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Climate
ClimateClimateGreen JournalismCANADA. The Equality Fund has opened applications for its inaugural Journalism Fellowship, a new opportunity designed to support working journalists in Global South countries who report on local solutions to global crises — including the climate crisis — through a gender lens. The fellowship, launched in partnership with Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) and
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Green JournalismThe Solutions Journalism Network and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have opened applications for the SJN/MIT Climate Journalism Fellowship 2027, an eight-month programme that will give ten local and regional U.S. journalists a $7,500 stipend each to report on climate solutions in their own communities. Applications close at midnight on 26 October 2026. What the
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Green JournalismAwareness article: Climate reporting is one of the most dangerous beats in modern journalism. UNESCO data shows that environmental journalists are attacked, threatened and in some cases killed for their work — and that protecting the press is a prerequisite for protecting the planet. Journalists who investigate illegal logging, poaching, pollution and the climate crisis
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Green JournalismWASHINGTON – The Washington Post’s sweeping investigation into the world’s rising flood danger, Floods Above, has won the inaugural Poynter Journalism Prize for Excellence in Climate Change Reporting, a new award for scientifically grounded climate journalism announced by the Poynter Institute. The prize, sponsored by the Hennecke Family Foundation, recognizes rigorous reporting that enlightens and
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Green JournalismLECCE: Italy's Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC) has named Agence France-Presse's "Future of the Planet" desk and Sky TG24 Deputy Editor-in-Chief Daniele Moretti as the winners of the 2026 Romeo Bassoli Award for scientific journalism on climate and sustainability. The prize will be presented on Thursday, 15 October, in Lecce during the Conversazioni sul
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Green JournalismThe European Parliament has shortlisted ten investigations — including probes into data centres' environmental toll and green investment funds — for the 2026 Daphne Caruana Galizia Journalism Prize. The winner is announced on 21 October in Strasbourg.
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Green JournalismWUFT's Rose Schnabel and the Miami Herald's 'Built on Sand' series share the 2026 Waldo Proffitt Award for outstanding environmental journalism, announced 2 October.
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Green JournalismA new international planetary health journalism prize is calling on journalists to report one of the least-covered intersections in climate coverage: how demographic change shapes the health of the planet — and vice versa. The Demographics & Planetary Health Story Prize 2026, hosted by Johns Hopkins University institutions, will award $500 in each of two
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