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Happy Eco News is a site and newsletter that curates positive environmental news. It's a great way to stay optimistic and motivated, and to keep your news diet balanced in the face of the magnitude of climate change.
The first step to combating climate change is believing that it’s possible and worthwhile to do so. That can be hard in a media environment saturated with negativity. Happy Eco News offers a different approach: focusing on genuine solutions, progress, and the people driving change.
It’s a website dedicated to a simple aim: spotlighting positive news relating to climate change and the environment. Founded in 2018 by activist Grant Brown, Happy Eco News intends to counter the ‘constant drip of negative environmental news’ that we face these days. The platform curates stories about real-world improvements from renewable energy breakthroughs to ecosystem restoration—demonstrating that environmental problems, while serious and thorny, aren’t insurmountable.
Subscribing to a newsletter might not seem like a particularly practical step, but it can inform how you understand and act on environmental issues. I discovered Happy Eco News last year and signed up for their weekly newsletter. Since then, it’s proven to be a bright spot in my inbox. The point is not to ignore the challenging nature of climate issues, but to balance it with credible reasons for optimism, and to celebrate the wins.
The Happy Eco News newsletter: a crop of positivity in my inbox every week
There’s growing recognition that this kind of framing matters. The all-encompassing nature of the climate problem, and the way it’s reported, can lead to ‘eco-anxiety’ and even apathy or disengagement in the form of ‘eco-fatigue’, particularly when you’re faced with all the dead-end discourse and greenwashing it inspires. Hopeful, solutions-focused stories in your news diet are necessary to counterbalance this, and they’re more likely to inspire action.
By regularly engaging with constructive examples, we not only stay in the game but build a more realistic picture of how change actually happens. Stories often highlight innovations and research that can lead you to more positive climate actions—trying a new habit, supporting a project, or rethinking a purchase.
To get started, you can explore the news feed. But I strongly recommend the weekly Happy Eco News newsletter, which delivers a handful of positive, digestible, evidence-based stories straight to your inbox. Scroll down to find the sign-up form here!
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