In today’s edition of Squirrel News, New Zealand enacts a near-total ban on tobacco products, climate-friendly infastructure is seeing more success through ‘green bank’ funding in the U.S., and two young entrepreneurs in India create leather alternatives from biowaste.
Climate action-focused banks support environmental efforts into reality
The U.S. Inflation Reduction Act has ushered in a model for more climate-friendly infrastructure projects being successfully funded, through ‘green banks’.
Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have achieved a net-positive energy output from a nuclear fusion reaction, the first time in human history.
The proposed tax focuses on imports from third countries who do not comply with EU climate protection laws, and the EU came closer to passing it on Tuesday.
Friends transform biowaste into leather alternatives
These two college friends left their jobs to develop a sustainable venture that creates alternative leather from biowaste such as orange peels and coconuts.
New York-based organisation teaching people what manhood can entail
After redefining masculinity for himself, Joe Horan started the programme Building Men to teach students what the concept may mean and look like beyond the traditional.
Colombian ex-FARC soldiers looking to rebuild peacefully through agriculture
After years of fighting and horror, these ex-FARC soldiers are working to change the future of their regions through developing them socially, peacefully.
