Sustainable Living
Sustainable LivingFrom 1 November 2026, Canadian households installing an eligible cold-climate heat pump may qualify for a retroactive rebate of $2,000, or up to $10,000 for low- to median-income households, once the programme portal opens in early 2027.
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Sustainable LivingFive cities — Addis Ababa, Santiago de Cali, Istanbul, Jingdezhen and Katowice — have won the 2026 Shanghai Award for sustainable urban development, presented at World Cities Day in Fuzhou, China.
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Sustainable LivingUS small-scale solar generation has quadrupled in a decade to 92,979 gigawatt-hours, led by California — changing what a sustainable home looks like, from rooftop panels to home batteries.
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Sustainable LivingScotland is consulting on a new Household Recycling Code of Practice to make household recycling easier and more consistent.
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Sustainable LivingAround 163,800 energy-efficiency measures have been installed in 74,900 social housing households in the UK, with insulation the most common upgrade, according to the government's October 2026 statistics.
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Sustainable LivingQTS Data Centers will invest $14 million in the Fayette County Community Resilience Program with Georgia Power, helping more than 800 eligible homes with pre-weatherization repairs and energy-efficiency upgrades.
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Sustainable LivingThe UK government has rejected a 'reuse-first' housing policy that MPs said could turn vacant historic buildings into around 640,000 homes, ruling out a dedicated heritage-to-housing scheme.
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Sustainable LivingSeattle Public Utilities and WM awarded 2026 ReThink Waste Grants totalling $10,000 to five local repair and reuse projects, from community closets to furniture repair.
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Sustainable LivingThis is an explainer, not breaking news: a guide to the small, everyday choices that make a home more sustainable — repairing before replacing, buying secondhand, and wasting less food. None of these steps alone solves climate change, but together they cut the resources, energy a
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Sustainable LivingEARTHDAY.ORG has launched Food for Our Planet, a multiyear global campaign to transform how food is produced, consumed and valued, with the aim of building a healthier, more sustainable and fairer global food system. The campaign was launched in Rome on 14 October 2026, as the World Food Forum met ahead of World Food Day,
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Sustainable LivingGhana has launched a United Nations-backed project to build affordable homes from local, low-carbon materials, in a direct answer to a housing shortfall of about 1.83 million homes and to the climate cost of how homes are built. The project was unveiled in Accra this week at a launch and stakeholder validation workshop, and it
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Sustainable LivingSimple, practical changes at home cut household food waste by an average of 28% among participating households in a European study, according to the EU-funded COMBINE project. The finding, published in a new European toolkit on 19 October 2026, suggests that awareness alone is not enough: what works is making the right choice the easy
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News, stories and solutions driving change towards a greener and more sustainable planet for future generations.
Bangladesh will press developed countries at COP31 in Antalya to provide climate finance as grants rather than loans, State Minister Shama Obaed Islam said at a Dhaka briefing on 2 November.
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Green JournalismUN-OHRLLS has opened a fully funded journalism fellowship for reporters from 44 least developed countries to cover the Doha Programme of Action Midterm Review in Doha on 25-27 March 2027. Applications close 30 November 2026; ten fellows will be selected.
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Green JournalismCanada and United Nations University experts brief journalists on 2 November 2026, a week before COP31 opens in Antalya, Türkiye.
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Green JournalismStephanie Wallcraft has won the 2026 AJAC Environmental Journalism Award for her article on Natural Resources Canada's Fuel Consumption Guide, with Nadine Filion as runner-up.
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Green JournalismGrist has launched Distorted, a months-long reporting series on how misinformation spreads before, during and after extreme weather, and how trusted journalism can help communities find the truth.
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Green JournalismThe UN's first comprehensive restoration assessment, published on 29 October 2026, gives climate journalists a verifiable global scorecard: 252 million hectares under restoration across 149 countries, but finance must more than quadruple to meet 2030 targets.
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Green JournalismToxic Ground, a cross-border investigation into hidden landfill sites across Europe, has been shortlisted in the Environment and Energy category of the British Journalism Awards 2026.
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Green JournalismTürkiye's communications chief Burhanettin Duran urges solutions-focused climate reporting ahead of COP31 in Antalya, warning against 'green fatigue', as 1,400 of about 3,000 press accreditations are completed.
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Green JournalismThe Society of Environmental Journalists has opened book entries for its 25th annual awards for reporting on the environment. Books published in 2025 or 2026 are eligible, with the standard deadline on 21 December 2026.
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