Green Mission News – January 2026
Cultivated.
The North American Organic Agriculture Quarterly.
https://ifoamnorthamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Cultivated-IFOAM-NA-Magazine-Fall-2025.pdf
Pennsylvania’s Idyllic Retirement Community For Farm-To-Table Foodies Has Its Own Organic Farm
Pirates of the Anthropocene
“I assume we’re going to keep the oil.”
https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/pirates-of-the-anthropocene
Canada’s Tree Pulp Battery: Biodegradable, No Toxic Waste
https://ohepic.com/canadas-tree-pulp-battery-biodegradable-no-toxic-waste/
Farm to Table Restaurants
Find restaurants, cafes, bakeries, and creameries that provide farm to table dining experiences by sourcing fresh ingredients directly from local farms and ranches.
https://myhealthforward.com/pages/farm-to-table
Paper-thin solar cell can turn any surface into a power source
Researchers develop a scalable fabrication technique to produce ultrathin, lightweight solar cells that can be seamlessly added to any surface.
https://energy.mit.edu/news/paper-thin-solar-cell-can-turn-any-surface-into-a-power-source/
3 philosophical debates from the 20th century that neuroscience is reshaping
Neuroscience isn’t dissolving philosophy’s hardest problems — it’s forcing us to rethink where they live.
From planting trees to making them solar-powered — India tests 53.6 kW “living” power plant absorbing 12 tons of CO₂
https://energiesmedia.com/india-living-power-plant-absorbing-12-tons-of-co%E2%82%82/
The Beginner’s Landscape Transformation Manual
https://transformativeadventures.org/
Montana youth activists who won landmark climate case push for court enforcement
In 2023, court ruled in favor of 16 plaintiffs that officials violated their constitutional right by promoting fossil fuels
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/10/montana-climate-youth-activists-petition-law
Sugarcrete, a low cost, low carbon construction material upcycling sugarcane by-products
https://grimshaw.global/news/articles/sugarcrete-revealed/
ELEGE-Wind Turbine: Wind turbines in practice (video)
The VIVI mini wind turbine by Dospel is an innovative micro-generation energy solution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7Ac94lvGP8
Finland’s 500 km/h cargo revolution: How maglev freight could transform global trade
Meet the 2025 Brower Youth Awardees
From climate anxiety to fire resilience, storytelling to policymaking, these dynamic changemakers are tackling key issues to create a better world.
Finland Develops Cable-free Wireless Electricity System
https://ohepic.com/finland-develops-cable-free-wireless-electricity-system/
Earth’s crust hides enough ‘gold’ hydrogen to power the world for tens of thousands of years, emerging research suggests
Reservoirs of hydrogen gas that form naturally in Earth’s crust could help humans decarbonize. The challenge now is finding these accumulations and working out how best to mine them, experts say.
‘The biggest transformation in a century’: how California remade itself as a clean energy powerhouse
The Golden State’s clean energy use hit new highs in 2025. As the Trump administration abandons US climate initiatives, can California fill the void?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/20/california-renewable-energy
‘Attack on Independent Science’: Trump EPA Removes All Mention of Human-Caused Climate Crisis From Public Webpages
Climate scientist Daniel Swain called it “a deliberate effort to misinform.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/epa-website-climate-purge
The Amazon’s lakes are heating up at ‘alarming’ rate, research finds
More than 1,100 killed as deadly storms cause flooding and landslides across Asia
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/30/asia/flooding-senyar-ditwah-indonesia-malaysia-thailand-intl-hnk
Thousands ready to evacuate as flooding hits Pacific Northwest
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce91dergm00o
‘A familiar feeling’: How floods are affecting people in B.C.’s Fraser Valley
Search crews carry out tricky overnight rescue as hundreds remain under evacuation order
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-floods-evacuations-rescue-9.7012730
‘Not normal’: Climate crisis supercharged deadly monsoon floods in Asia
Cyclones like those in Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Malaysia that killed 1,750 are ‘alarming new reality’
‘There is no refuge from a planetary crisis’: The concept of ‘climate safe havens’ is filled with promises and perils
In this excerpt from North: The Future of Post-Climate America, Jesse M. Keenan looks at the complexities of “climate safe havens” — and the pushes and pulls that will lead people to relocate as the risks ramp up.
Corn’s clean-energy promise is clashing with its climate footprint
Corn dominates U.S. farmland and fuels the ethanol industry. But the fertilizer it relies on drives emissions and fouls drinking water.
https://floodlightnews.org/corn-ethanol-clean-energy-vs-climate-costs/
Early Humans Mastered Plant Processing 170,000 Years Ago, Challenging the Paleolithic Meat-Eater Myth
Learn how our human ancestors survived and thrived during climate shifts not by eating more meat, but by mastering plant processing.
Decreasing Snow Cover and Increasing Temperatures Are Accelerating in New England, USA, with Long-Term Implications
https://www.mdpi.com/2225-1154/13/12/246
When the world’s largest battery power plant caught fire, toxic metals rained down – wetlands captured the fallout
Can two Amazons survive? Invisible e-waste is poisoning the world
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/can-two-amazons-survive-invisible-e-waste-is-poisoning-the-world/
Can Fungi Help Heal the Earth? (audio)
https://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/podcast/entry/can-fungi-help-heal-the-earth
Glaciers to reach peak rate of extinction in the Alps in eight years
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/15/alpine-glaciers-rate-extinction-climate-crisis
Flat Earth, spirits and conspiracy theories – experience can shape even extraordinary beliefs
Methane 101: Understanding the Second Most Important Greenhouse Gas
https://www.ecowatch.com/methane-facts-ecowatch.html
Choosing coexistence over conflict: How some California ranchers are adapting to wolves
Why this B.C. pulp mill wants to produce hydrogen
Hydrogen will be produced and used for heat in a $21-million project at Kruger Pulp Mill in Kamloops
Will net zero really cost UK households £500 a year?
An official report lays out different scenarios for the cost of transitioning away from fossil fuels to net zero by 2050