Dear readers, we wish you a happy 2023! Before we take a look at today’s solutions stories, here’s a brief preview of positive developments coming to Squirrel News this year.
33 stories on progress and solutions from 2022
To mark the end of 2022, we’re excited to present you with a compilation of the most interesting and powerful solutions-focused journalism Squirrel News shared this year—from children saved from Malaria to prisons without wardens and guns and much more.
Spain supports cut in working hours, Denver’s ebike voucher programme, grannies fixing the world
In today’s edition of Squirrel News, the Spanish government helps companies reduce working hours whilst increasing productivity, Denver uses e-bike vouchers to make streets greener and grandmas around the world help improve lives.
Degrees for homeless students, fighting racial profiling, guaranteed income pilots become policies
In today’s edition of Squirrel News, we have homeless students being supported to achieve degrees, guaranteed income initiatives becoming state-level policies, and the EU agreeing to ban imports related to deforestation.
#29: ‘You can’t be what you can’t see’: How to connect low-income kids with nature
Not long ago, nature was our natural environment. Nowadays, more and more children grow up in cities without much contact to trees, hills, meadows and animals. For kids from low-income families it can be even more difficult to spend time outside their towns. And sometimes transport poverty can even prevent necessary hospital visits. San Francisco based non-profit Yoots has taken up the challenge to connect these children with the outside natural world. In our new episode, Yoots founder Craig Flax tells us how they do that and why free public transport would be a good help, but not enough.
Football solving problems, floating offshore wind farms, pay-what-you-can grocery store
In today’s edition of Squirrel News, we explore the solutions football can bring off the pitch, the French plan to build large-scale floating offshore wind farms, and a pay-what-you-can grocery store in the US.