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What if a playground could protect an entire city from flooding? In this episode of Good News from Planet Earth, host Serge De Marre takes us to Hoboken, New Jersey, where ResilienCity Park proves that infrastructure can be both practical and joyful. Built on a former industrial site and opened in 2023, ResilienCity Park is now the largest resilien…
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City Life Reimagined: 15-Minute Neighbourhoods & Wild Urban Rewilding
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What if city life could be greener, healthier, and more connected? In this Climate Month episode of Good News from Planet Earth, host Diana Holguin explores how urban planners and communities are reimagining cities to work better for people, pollinators, and the planet. The 15-Minute City model is transforming urban spaces so that everything from s…
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Reef Relief: How Science, Coral Nurseries, and a Few Fishy Friends Are Saving the Seas
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September is Climate Month, and Good News from Planet Earth is diving beneath the waves to share an inspiring story of resilience and renewal. Coral reefs, often called the “rainforests of the sea,” support a quarter of all marine life while covering less than one percent of the ocean floor. They protect coastlines, sustain fisheries, and fuel tour…
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Coldplay's Dance Power - A Climate-Positive Tour, Reinventing Live Music for a Greener Future
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What if live music could be a force for climate action? In this Climate Month edition of Good News from Planet Earth, host Serge De Marre takes us behind the scenes of Coldplay’s groundbreaking Music of the Spheres world tour, where the band set out to reimagine what sustainable concerts could look like. Instead of rushing into a traditional album …
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The Solar Mamas - Women Powering the World with Solar Energy
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Looking for a dose of good news during Climate Month? In this inspiring episode of Good News from Planet Earth, host Diana Holguin introduces us to the Solar Mamas - mothers and grandmothers from rural communities around the world who are flipping the switch on energy poverty. Armed with hands-on training from Barefoot College in India, these fearl…
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How a Teen in Nigeria Turned a Dump into a Climate-Resilient Playground. Today on Good News from Planet Earth, we meet Amara Nwuneli - a 17-year-old climate innovator from Lagos, Nigeria, who looked at a trash heap… and saw a playground. Armed with imagination, recycled tires, and a bold vision for climate resilience, Amara transformed a flood-pron…
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Teen Siblings Who Are Saving the World from Microplastics
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How Victoria & Justin Invented a Laundry Filter That Could Save the Planet. This week on Good News from Planet Earth, we meet Victoria Ou and Justin Huang - teen siblings from Texas who took on one of the tiniest (and sneakiest) climate threats: microplastics. After learning that plastic fibers from laundry were slipping past water treatment filter…
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The Teen Who Helped a Flock Find Its Way Home
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A Story of Quiet Conservation in New Zealand This week on Good News from Planet Earth, we’re heading to the windswept coast of Aotearoa (New Zealand) to meet 16-year-old Nate Wilbourne - a youth activist who helped nearly 200 endangered fluttering shearwater chicks find a new, safer home. In partnership with Forest & Bird and the New Zealand Depart…
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The Girl Scouts Who Built a Butterfly Highway
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This week on Good News from Planet Earth, we’re celebrating the power of young people, and today’s story is buzzing with brilliance! A troop of Girl Scouts in North Carolina saw that monarch butterflies were disappearing. So they rolled up their sleeves, grabbed their shovels, and launched a Butterfly Highway - a growing network of pollinator garde…
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Welcome to Season 2 of Good News from Planet Earth! This week, we’re celebrating the next generation of climate leaders - kids who are taking action, speaking up, and making a real difference for the planet. In today's episode, we meet Leah Namugerwa - a Ugandan climate activist who celebrated her 15th birthday not with cake, but with tree planting…
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The Bees Who Sniff Out Landmines (and Help Heal the Land)
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In this buzz-worthy finale of our Caring Critters series, we're spotlighting one of the planet's most unexpected environmental heroes: honey bees trained to detect landmines. Yes - real bees. Real landmines. Real hope. After the Balkan Wars, Croatia was left with over 90,000 unexploded landmines, making vast landscapes too dangerous for farming, wi…
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This week on Good News from Planet Earth, we’re spotlighting some of the hungriest climate heroes around: firefighting goats. Across California, Oregon, Colorado, and more, goats are being deployed to munch through dry brush, reduce wildfire risk, and create natural firebreaks - no bulldozers or fuel required! These four-legged landscapers climb st…
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The Octopus Who Saves Seagrass (and Inspires Soft Robots)
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Octopuses & Ocean Climate Wins: The Soft-Bodied Heroes of Blue Carbon In this Caring Critters episode of Good News from Planet Earth, we dive deep into the surprising role octopuses play in the fight against climate change. These eight-armed ocean dwellers aren't just camouflage pros and escape artists, they're keystone predators helping to protect…
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On today’s episode of Good News from Planet Earth, we’re going underground, literally - to meet the wombat: a chunky, cube-pooping marsupial with a surprising role in climate resilience. During Australia’s devastating Black Summer bushfires, wombat burrows became unexpected wildlife shelters, giving refuge to wallabies, echidnas, reptiles—even bird…
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How Beavers Saved a Wetland (and $1.2 Million)! This week on Good News from Planet Earth, we’re heading to the Czech Republic to meet the world’s furriest engineers, Eurasian beavers - who stepped in when a government dam project stalled and saved an entire ecosystem. With no permits, no budget, and a lot of mud, these beavers rehydrated dried-up w…
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A little mini episode to let you know what we're all about! Which is telling all the good news from Planet Earth! From fire fighting goats, to grandmas becoming solar powered superheroes! This podcast will give you snack sized episodes of joy every month, packaged up into seasons. We're shining a light on stories from around the world, of people, c…
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