Good News for a New HYear

Often on this podcast we bring you some discouraging words about the environment, though generally with some concrete solutions.  Although 2020 was a pretty terrible year on many fronts, there was, in  fact, some positive news on the environmental front and in this program,  we offered good news from around the world. We don’t want to minimize the crisis. According to the World Wildlife  Foundation, “Humanity has wiped out 60% of mammals, birds, fish and  reptiles since 1970, leading the world’s foremost experts to warn that  the annihilation of wildlife is now an emergency that threatens  civilization.” While  that statistic is chilling and heartbreaking, there are some good news  stories, and we provided some from here in the US, from Canada, from  around the world on topics ranging from preserving Marmots and Tasmanian  Devils to solar cars and how reading labels can save the earth.