Happy Earth News Blog

In celebration of International Youth Week, we want to talk about our little legends making a huge impact! 

Meet these local Aussie youth groups driving anxiety into change, and how we can support them and get involved...

Who's ready for some planet & money-saving vegetables? Yes, please! 

Aussie farmers are working hard to keep those prices down and keep us shopping local by offering something a little different…

Some big changes are happening, let's talk about cars. Entertainingly, we promise!  

ACT is pushing for the shift to electric vehicles with its recent goal to end the sales of new petrol cars by 2035 and the strategies in place to create the smooth transition are rather impressive…

Earlier this month it was announced that the nation of New Delhi, population of over 1.4 billion people would place a ban on 19 single use plastic products! But that's not all...

Did you know…It's estimated that 380 tonnes of wetsuit waste are dumped annually into landfills in the UK alone, so we can only imagine what our surf hub country would produce!

But!Allow us to introduce you to a group of legends on track to the solution! 

Earlier this week, the ABC reported that WA was closing its state-owned coal plants by 2030! 

WA will join South Australia, the Northern Territory, the Australian Capital Territory and Tasmania to be coal-free, and could Australia exit coal-fired power entirely by 2043?

Let's find out...

Department store giant Big W has launched a toy recycling program in partnership with TerraCycle across 176 stores! It's calledToys for Joy! 

Millions toys are discarded each year in Australia alone, so you betcha it's time to act! But it's not like we can pop them in our curb-side recycle bins, so what is the solution and how does recycling toys work?! 

Let's find out...

Sunbutter are launching the FIRST Certified Palm Oil free Sunscreen and we have had the privilege of asking the founder Tom Hiney some deep questions on all you need to know about Palm Oil, and its impact on our Earth!

“Fast Fashion is like Fast Food, After the sugar rush, it just leaves a bad taste in your mouth”... 

Circular fashion is all about keeping clothing in use over and over again.

The sustainable clothing legends Arnhem Clothing, based in Byron Bay, Australia, have launched their Circulate program where the community can buy and sell pre-loved Arnhem styles over and over again...!

A truly buzzing story on how a UK based company, have designed house bricks that are literally paving the way for the future of bees! Allow us to introduce you to the Bee Brick!

Plant lovers, get ready to renovate because these leaf inspired tiles are saving the world! An architect from London has designed Algae and seaweed hydrogel clay tiles, 'Indus tiles', that can detoxify and remove pollutants from water!

A team of research geniuses in California have created solar panels that can harvest energy during the day and at night. This innovation would help decrease our dependency on fossil fuels, with hopes for them to be eliminated one day. High five!