Sustainable Living
Sustainable LivingA new Eurobarometer survey finds 81% of Europeans trust the EU Ecolabel's lower environmental impact claim, up from 75% in 2023. Recognition hit 46% and certified products passed 121,000.
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Sustainable LivingEvery year, the world throws away electronics faster than it can recycle them — and on 14 October 2026, the ninth International E-Waste Day turns the spotlight on the smallest, most overlooked part of the pile: "fast tech". Led by the Brussels-based WEEE Forum, the global campaign urges consumers everywhere to stop binning small electronics
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Sustainable LivingThe EU's anti-greenwashing rules now apply across Europe: vague 'eco-friendly' claims are banned and sustainability labels must be independently certified.
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Sustainable LivingThe United Nations marked the 40th World Habitat Day in Muscat on 5 October 2026 under the theme "Adequate Housing for All", warning that up to 3.4 billion people worldwide lack safe and adequate housing.
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Sustainable LivingThe Canadian government is putting $66.3 million into making homes greener, cheaper to run and more comfortable — backing 162 energy-efficiency projects across the country to deliver more energy-efficient homes, through the Federation of Canadian Municipalities' Green Municipal Fund. The announcement was made on October 2, 2026, in Toronto, Ontario, by Julie Dabrusin, Minister of
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Sustainable LivingDenmark's government proposes an extra DKK 200 million for district heating expansion in 2027, longer 45-year municipal loan terms, and doubled per-household grants — aiming for up to 19,000 oil and gas boiler conversions.
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Sustainable LivingStudents are neither clearly positive nor negative about more climate-friendly school meals — and whether they back greener menus depends far more on taste, fullness and familiarity than on what they know about the climate. That is the central finding of a new Swedish study published in the journal Appetite (2026), based on a survey
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Sustainable LivingIreland has launched a €2,000 grant to scrap fossil-fuel boilers, with enhanced SEAI home energy supports — batteries, solar and insulation — opening from 6 October 2026.
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Sustainable LivingCanada has announced $66.3 million for 162 projects to help homeowners finance energy-saving retrofits and build more efficient, affordable homes.
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India has proposed allowing chemically recycled plastic in food packaging, as the EU prepares to ban plastic-waste exports to non-OECD countries from 21 November.
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Green JournalismAmphora Media's cross-border investigation "Profit in Every Drop" has won Environment and Planning Journalism at the Malta Journalism Awards 2026.
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Green JournalismBroadcast journalists from Namibia, Zambia and Senegal have begun a two-day climate reporting programme under the AUB–Green Climate Fund Climate Impact Stories Partnership, aiming for accurate, human-centred, solutions-focused coverage.
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Green JournalismEntries have opened for the 2026 Climate Media Awards, celebrating African reporting on how communities grow, share and source food in a changing climate.
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Green JournalismUN-OHRLLS has opened a fully funded journalism fellowship for reporters from 44 least developed countries to cover the Doha Programme of Action Midterm Review in Doha on 25-27 March 2027. Applications close 30 November 2026; ten fellows will be selected.
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Green JournalismCanada and United Nations University experts brief journalists on 2 November 2026, a week before COP31 opens in Antalya, Türkiye.
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Green JournalismStephanie Wallcraft has won the 2026 AJAC Environmental Journalism Award for her article on Natural Resources Canada's Fuel Consumption Guide, with Nadine Filion as runner-up.
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Green JournalismGrist has launched Distorted, a months-long reporting series on how misinformation spreads before, during and after extreme weather, and how trusted journalism can help communities find the truth.
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Green JournalismThe UN's first comprehensive restoration assessment, published on 29 October 2026, gives climate journalists a verifiable global scorecard: 252 million hectares under restoration across 149 countries, but finance must more than quadruple to meet 2030 targets.
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