A little bit of good environmental news from the last month :)

37 land titles in the Amazon rainforest were secured for indigenous people in the last year.

Guimareas Vasquez, M, & Pineda W. (2024, September 6). Record number of Indigenous land titles granted in Peru via innovative process (commentary). Mongabay. https://news.mongabay.com/2024/09/record-number-of-indigenous-land-titles-granted-in-peru-via-innovative-process-commentary/

Lego is planning to make half the plastic in their bricks from renewable materials by 2026, and they're fronting the cost!

Butler, S. (2024, August 28). Lego plans to make half the plastic in bricks from renewable materials by 2026. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/aug/28/lego-plans-to-make-half-the-plastic-in-bricks-from-renewable-materials-by-2026

Norway just became the first country to have more electric cars than gas cars on its roads.

Berggreen, J. (2024, September 17). CleanTechnica. https://cleantechnica.com/2024/09/17/there-are-now-more-fully-electric-cars-on-norwegian-roads-than-gas-cars/

Following a campaign launch in February of 2023, Brazil has nearly eradicated all illegal mining in the Indigenous Yanomami territory in the northern Amazon.

E360Digest. (2024, September 16). Brazil Rooting Out Last of Gold Miners on Yanomami Lands. https://e360.yale.edu/digest/brazil-yanomami-miners-removed