Happy Earth News Blog

Bubbles, foam and a proudly Aussie idea are taking on forever chemicals, and the world has noticed. Find out how a clever bit of borrowed nature just won a big award.

A bigger warehouse, a lot more meals: how one new Sunshine Coast hub is helping OzHarvest rescue food faster and reach even more local families doing it tough.

Discover the 2026 Clean + Conscious Award winners! Safe, sustainable, award-winning GFZ brands in skincare, makeup, kids and more. Shop the champions today.

A Melbourne warehouse has spent twenty years proving that one person's old office chair really can become someone else's fresh start, and a 2026 award nod agrees.

Great Barrier Reef coral cover is climbing again after 2024's mass bleaching event, though the recovery is patchy and the reef's not out of danger yet.

A Tasmanian dive centre has trained its first underwater gardeners, hand-planting kelp to help regrow a forest that's lost more than 95 per cent of itself since the 1950s.

Europe just made it illegal for big retailers to destroy brand new, unsold clothes. Here is what changed, why it matters, and what it could mean for Australia.

Noosaville just switched on a 360kWh community battery that shares stored solar power with the whole neighbourhood after dark, even if you don't have panels of your own.

An old t-shirt, a dab of glue and a mould. Meet the Paris studio quietly turning cast-off clothes into the walls, windows and furniture of tomorrow, one brick at a time.

Yarra Valley Water just backed 18 community projects with nearly $180,000, from rainwater-fed chicken coops to a shoe charity's water-saving wash system. Meet the local heroes behind them.

A group of Sydney neighbours has transformed their properties into a 40-hectare wildlife corridor, creating a safe pathway for native animals and protecting precious habitat.

A new AI powered road system is helping drivers spot wildlife before it's too late, showing how technology could create safer roads for both people and Australia's native animals.