Good News from Planet Earth

Can Tapping be a part of your Mental Health Self Care routing? Voice actor and licensed Rapid Tapping® PRO Practitioner, Charlie Albers walks us through this fascinating practice.

Rapid Tapping®️is an innovative mind-body wellness method created by renowned thought leader, energy psychology pioneer, & global EFT tapping author, Poppy Delbridge.

This neuroscience practice is used worldwide to release stress prevent burnout and man...

Soraya Butler, Erika Ward and Ally Murphy from Voiceover for the Planet talk about how trees have helped them look after their mental health.

From quiet walks in nature to the calming presence of green spaces, they reflect on the restorative power of the natural world. If you’ve ever felt lighter, calmer, or more grounded around trees, you’ll connect with this heartfelt conversation.

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This season on Good News from Planet Earth, we are sharing our ways of looking after our mental health. Because to experience the joy that this beautiful planet offers us, we need to be in a good space mentally.

Member of Voiceover for the Planet will share their tips for staying mentally healthy. From Tapping, to Journalling, from Walking to Grounding. We hope that these bite sized episodes will help inspire you to take care of you...

What if a playground could protect an entire city from flooding? In this episode of Good News from Planet Earth, host Serge De Marre takes us to Hoboken, New Jersey, where ResilienCity Park proves that infrastructure can be both practical and joyful.

Built on a former industrial site and opened in 2023, ResilienCity Park is now the largest resiliency park in New Jersey. On the surface, it looks like a typical community playground wi...

What if city life could be greener, healthier, and more connected? In this Climate Month episode of Good News from Planet Earth, host Diana Holguin explores how urban planners and communities are reimagining cities to work better for people, pollinators, and the planet.

The 15-Minute City model is transforming urban spaces so that everything from schools and shops to healthcare and parks is within a short walk or bike ride. Paris is...

September is Climate Month, and Good News from Planet Earth is diving beneath the waves to share an inspiring story of resilience and renewal. Coral reefs, often called the “rainforests of the sea,” support a quarter of all marine life while covering less than one percent of the ocean floor. They protect coastlines, sustain fisheries, and fuel tourism economies. But rising ocean temperatures and mass bleaching events have put reefs...

What if live music could be a force for climate action? In this Climate Month edition of Good News from Planet Earth, host Serge De Marre takes us behind the scenes of Coldplay’s groundbreaking Music of the Spheres world tour, where the band set out to reimagine what sustainable concerts could look like.

Instead of rushing into a traditional album tour, Coldplay paused in 2019 to partner with scientists and sustainability experts, i...

Looking for a dose of good news during Climate Month?  In this inspiring episode of Good News from Planet Earth, host Diana Holguin introduces us to the Solar Mamas - mothers and grandmothers from rural communities around the world who are flipping the switch on energy poverty.

Armed with hands-on training from Barefoot College in India, these fearless women - many of whom cannot read or write - are becoming skilled solar engineers....

How a Teen in Nigeria Turned a Dump into a Climate-Resilient Playground.

 Today on Good News from Planet Earth, we meet Amara Nwuneli - a 17-year-old climate innovator from Lagos, Nigeria, who looked at a trash heap… and saw a playground.

Armed with imagination, recycled tires, and a bold vision for climate resilience, Amara transformed a flood-prone dump site into a vibrant community space that absorbs stormwater, prevents eros...

 How Victoria & Justin Invented a Laundry Filter That Could Save the Planet.

This week on Good News from Planet Earth, we meet Victoria Ou and Justin Huang - teen siblings from Texas who took on one of the tiniest (and sneakiest) climate threats: microplastics.

After learning that plastic fibers from laundry were slipping past water treatment filters and ending up in oceans, and our bodies, they built a solution from scratc...

A Story of Quiet Conservation in New Zealand

 This week on Good News from Planet Earth, we’re heading to the windswept coast of Aotearoa (New Zealand) to meet 16-year-old Nate Wilbourne - a youth activist who helped nearly 200 endangered fluttering shearwater chicks find a new, safer home.

In partnership with Forest & Bird and the New Zealand Department of Conservation, Nate spent weeks feeding, monitoring, and caring for baby se...

This week on Good News from Planet Earth, we’re celebrating the power of young people, and today’s story is buzzing with brilliance!

A troop of Girl Scouts in North Carolina saw that monarch butterflies were disappearing. So they rolled up their sleeves, grabbed their shovels, and launched a Butterfly Highway - a growing network of pollinator gardens designed to help butterflies, bees, and native plants thrive.

With native seeds, com...

Welcome to Season 2 of Good News from Planet Earth! This week, we’re celebrating the next generation of climate leaders - kids who are taking action, speaking up, and making a real difference for the planet.

In today's episode, we meet Leah Namugerwa - a Ugandan climate activist who celebrated her 15th birthday not with cake, but with tree planting. 200 of them, to be exact!

From launching Fridays for Future Uganda to sparking a...

In this buzz-worthy finale of our Caring Critters series, we're spotlighting one of the planet's most unexpected environmental heroes: honey bees trained to detect landmines.

Yes - real bees. Real landmines. Real hope.

After the Balkan Wars, Croatia was left with over 90,000 unexploded landmines, making vast landscapes too dangerous for farming, wildlife, or reforestation. But thanks to the sharp sense of smell in these fuz...

This week on Good News from Planet Earth, we’re spotlighting some of the hungriest climate heroes around: firefighting goats.

Across California, Oregon, Colorado, and more, goats are being deployed to munch through dry brush, reduce wildfire risk, and create natural firebreaks - no bulldozers or fuel required! These four-legged landscapers climb steep hillsides, devour invasive plants (even poison oak!), and leave healthier soil beh...

Octopuses & Ocean Climate Wins: The Soft-Bodied Heroes of Blue Carbon

In this Caring Critters episode of Good News from Planet Earth, we dive deep into the surprising role octopuses play in the fight against climate change.

These eight-armed ocean dwellers aren't just camouflage pros and escape artists, they're keystone predators helping to protect fragile blue carbon ecosystems like seagrass meadows and kelp forests. B...

On today’s episode of Good News from Planet Earth, we’re going underground, literally - to meet the wombat: a chunky, cube-pooping marsupial with a surprising role in climate resilience.

During Australia’s devastating Black Summer bushfires, wombat burrows became unexpected wildlife shelters, giving refuge to wallabies, echidnas, reptiles—even birds. But that’s just the beginning.

These furry diggers are quietly helping restore soil ...

How Beavers Saved a Wetland (and $1.2 Million)!
 This week on Good News from Planet Earth, we’re heading to the Czech Republic to meet the world’s furriest engineers, Eurasian beavers - who stepped in when a government dam project stalled and saved an entire ecosystem.

With no permits, no budget, and a lot of mud, these beavers rehydrated dried-up wetlands, restored biodiversity, and brought back frogs, birds, and even the rare...

A little mini episode to let you know what we're all about! Which is telling all the good news from Planet Earth!

From fire fighting goats, to grandmas becoming solar powered superheroes! This podcast will give you snack sized episodes of joy every month, packaged up into seasons. 

We're shining a light on stories from around the world, of people, communities and creatures who are helping fight climate change, make a differ...