Sometimes our Climate Change and environmental problems seem overwhelming. But there are a lot of people working on solutions. Here are just two stories to inspire you.

Patagonia Founder Yvon Chouinard Declares “Earth is Now Our Only Shareholder.”

Now here’s a legacy. Yvon Chouinard, who is also co-founder of 1% for the Planet, recently transferred ownership of the company to a trust to benefit the Earth. “Instead of ‘going public,’ you could say we’re ‘going purpose.’ Instead of extracting value from nature and transforming it into wealth for investors, we’ll use the wealth Patagonia creates to protect the source of all wealth,” Read his letter and the Washington Post story about the announcement.

Bringing it home, our recent truly impactful Green Drinks at Forward Brewing in September  highlighted two local companies doing the right things too, Forward and 1North Wealth Services.

Annapolis Green also is proud to be a nonprofit partner of 1% for the Planet!

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Earthshot Prize: Imagining the Future

The Earthshot Prize was designed to find and grow the solutions imagined by Climate innovators that will repair our planet this decade. We face our greatest challenge; to regenerate the place we all call home in the next ten years. The people behind the prize believe in the power of human ingenuity to prove to us all that the seemingly impossible is possible. Go to YouTube to have a look at the ideas from which winners will be announced on December 2.

The categories include Clean Our Air, Build a Waste Free World, Protect and Restore Nature, Fix Our Climate, and Revive Our Oceans.