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7 May 2024
2024 was another big year for the environment; global leaders convened in Azerbaijan for COP29 after news hit that globally, we’d just had the hottest summer on record for the second year in a row.
But beyond these headline-grabbing stories, other articles were bringing readers to My Green Pod.
Here are 2024’s 10 most popular sustainability news stories from our website.
07/05/2024
For this article, which featured in our Earth Day issue of My Green Pod Magazine, we went behind the scenes at Planetir to discover how this new planet-conscious talent platform is equipping the future workforce with skills for planetary action. We also unpicked how Planetir will empower migrants and refugees, and create a level playing field for the workforce of tomorrow.
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25/06/24
This article showcased the winners of the P.E.A. (People. Environment. Achievement.) Awards, in association with OMMM, in sectors ranging from Arts and Energy to Influencers and Indigenous Communities. The event, hosted by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall at London’s Savoy Hotel, was part of London Climate Week (22-30 June) – the world’s largest city-based climate change festival.
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17/03/2024
In this piece from out International Women’s Day issue, the wonderful Dr Scilla Elworthy walks us through the art to successful negotiation and lasting peace, using examples of times when women have played key roles in peace agreements that have stood the test of time. Scilla highlights the work of key female negotiators and offers advice for how all women can make a difference.
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14/02/2024
In this Valentine’s Day 2024 article, EARTHDAY.ORG journalist Lilly Howard shares the stories of couples who fell in love on Earth Day. Their stories reveal how a love for the environment can act as an extremely powerful force when it comes to bringing people together for life, and empower them to help save the Earth together.
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20/11/2014
This piece is a real throwback – 10 years back, in fact! It’s an article about Alison and Matthew Grey’s adventure turning a Victorian pumping house into a modern family home, and the necessary focus on sustainability that came with the challenges of heating a building of this size in a cost-effective way.
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27/12/2019
This piece, published on My Green Pod five years ago, shares details of a then-new project called Innovative Fishing Gear for Oceans (INdIGO), which was launched to develop a completely biodegradable fishing net with a controlled lifespan. The nets biodegrade into natural materials within two years, not into smaller bits of plastic causing further pollution.
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01/02/2019
In this Q&A with NATRUE’s Dr Mark Smith, you’ll find everything you need to know about the silicones in personal care products. No wonder it has been a popular one this year; most of us have been trying to cut down on plastics, and are only just discovering that synthetic polymers – or ‘liquid plastics’ – like silicone are still common in personal care products.
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10/07/2023
Fully Charged’s Dan Caesar unpicks the myths around electric vehicle batteries, and spells out ‘why batteries are better’. He suggests the surging global demand for wind, solar, batteries, heat pumps and EVs of all shapes and sizes is ‘really rattling a fossil fuel establishment that has had its own way for too long’.
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23/03/2024
Emily Malkin, co-founder of Green Britain TV, shares how she and her dad launched this new platform to showcase solutions to the climate crisis made or conceptualised here in the UK. The short documentaries cover topics ranging from food and transport to staycations and community projects, offering inspiration for everyone.
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12/10/2023
This article covers the 30m-long living artwork unfurled and displayed at Westminster by artists and allotmenteers. It came with a call for the government to enable people to exercise their rights to allotments as part of the solution to food insecurity, the cost of living crisis and the climate and nature emergency. There are at least 174,183 applications on local authority allotment waiting lists across Great Britain.
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This new planet-conscious talent platform is equipping the future workforce with skills for planetary action.
This year’s top eco warriors named at glittering green-carpet reception The Savoy London.
EARTHDAY.ORG journalist Lilly Howard shares the stories of couples who fell in love on Earth Day.
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