'Wow!'

Some impressive achievements are already happening towards a more sustainable Earth.

And, some big 'what if we did this?' ideas. Yep.... solutions to move to a safer, healthier world for EVERYONE.

WNCAN: 'A definite 'Wow!' for ENERGY PRODUCTION OPTIONS'

We could produce enough electricity to meet current global electricity demand on the land now used for growing biofuels

"If we put solar panels on those 32 million hectares of biofuel land, we could generate around 32,000 terawatt-hours (TWh) of electricity. Incidentally, that’s the same amount of electricity as the world consumes in a year.

So we could keep the biofuels, which amount to around 1,400 TWh of energy, and meet around 4% of global transport demand. Or we could use it for solar and produce enough electricity to meet the world’s current electricity demand"

(This is the introduction from a post by Hannah Ritchie who works for Our World in Data and is a researcher at the Oxford Martin School at Oxford University)

WNCAN: 'ENERGY PRODUCTION is the core reason we're in such a mess, so some news here about big shifts away from fossil fuels.'

(Excerpts from an April 2026 article by Paul Krugman*)

'Last month, out of more than 11,000 new passenger vehicles registered in Norway, only around 150 had internal consumption engines. The rest were fully electric. In mainland Europe as a whole, EV sales are up 51 percent from a year ago.

The global energy transition — the shift from fossil fuels to electrotech, which uses solar, wind and batteries to power an electrified economy — is accelerating. It’s now clear that the closure of the Strait of Hormuz marks an inflection point: the global green energy curve, which was already on a rapidly rising trajectory, has suddenly become even steeper. “Investors,” reports the Financial Times, “are piling into clean energy funds.” '

(* Paul Krugman", whose self-description is 'Professor, CUNY Grad Center, Nobel laureate and former columnist, NY Times. Also, according to Donald Trump, a “Deranged BUM.”' The excerpt above is from the introduction to "Trump Is Losing a Second War: The Iran debacle is accelerating the shift away from fossil fuels". The full article can be read here.)

WNCAN: 'NATURE RECOVERY - a triple win here. The results just take a long time to show.'

Scottish seabeds rebound after trawling bans.

Scientists surveying South Arran Marine Protected Area have recorded the return of more than 1,500 seabed species (WIN 1) nearly a decade after bans on bottom trawling and dredging were introduced. Protected areas supported roughly twice as many species and up to three times more marine life than nearby fished zones (WIN 2), with early signs that healthier sediments are also improving long-term carbon storage (WIN 3). Ref: Oceanographic