May 2024 Good (& Sad) News
Today is my birthday, which is bittersweet because I lost my father last week.
This will be the first that I don't hear him singing and now I wish I'd kept all the messages from before. My dad raised me singlehandedly and, for most of my life, he was the source of a solution to any problem, the keeper of answers to all questions. A few years ago, I wrote this song for him. No, I’m no Liz Phair, but it was his favorite.
GOOD NEWS FOR BETTER SUNSCREEN
Yet one more reason to choose minerals: Old-school sunscreen burns like hell when you get it in your eyes, but you can literally rub natural sunscreens on your lids without stinging. Made from zinc oxide and/or titanium dioxide, they don’t hurt you or the equally delicate ecosystems in our oceans, rivers, and lakes. I love these natural sunscreens from Suntribe (which sponsored the post).
UNRELATED GOOD NEWS
The Americas Act plans to incentivize circularity by allocating $14 billion to build textile recycling infrastructure and reshore manufacturing from China to the U.S. Elmo-themed reusable bowls are so much better than a Happy Meal, nixing these single-use plastics can save $15,000 over a decade, and crinkly plastic chip bags could soon become relics of the past. Last year global clean energy investment increased 17 percent, global annual renewable capacity increased by nearly 50 percent, and half the added electric grid capacity in the U.S. came from solar. Today, renewable energy is — or soon will be — cheaper than fossil fuels.
Things are shifting, friends!
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