A lot of news that comes out about the environment, climate change, and the like is very dispiriting. Has anyone seen a Lemmy community geared towards uplifting stories in the area? Species that are recovering, rivers that are being cleaned up, microbes being developed to eat plastic, that sort of thing.
I enjoy checking in on this site when I need some nice news:
https://reasonstobecheerful.world/
Edit: it’s not strictly green/environmental news, but there are often articles about that kind of thing
There’s !climatehope@lemmy.world - however it’s not super active, but you can be the change you want to see in the world!
I know it’s paywalled but Washington Post has a Climate Solutions category that tends to have a little more uplifting coverage - not 100% positive, but usually with a flare of “and here’s how we can fix it”.
Did someone say paywalls? https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean
Did someone say Chrome?
Well done for trying to avoid the Internet doom-spiral. Staying mentally healthy is important in this day-and-age. On Lemmy there’s upliftingnews@lemmy.world and also Climate hope as someone else mentioned.
There’s also these two websites that I often visit. The Futurecrunch Newsletter is definetely worth signing up to, which has a climate section:
