From my Art-chive…
This is an aspirational drawing for me. I have off and on fiddled with calligraphy over the years. It has never been something I have excelled at, but when I look at it like a drawing, it tends to be a more successful piece of art. However, if I grab a calligraphy pen and try to write a fancy letter, I become all thumbs, and nothing looks the way I intend it to. 😂 Maybe if I am lucky, something will click, and I will become an expert, but until that time, I will continue to treat hand-lettering like a drawing. I hope you all had a wonderful two weeks and are ready for some more good news.
Now to the Good News…
Europe’s sky scavengers return: the ambitious rewilding project reviving vultures in Bulgaria
Long thought of as ominous and bad, vultures are getting a new lease on life in Europe. These animals, often misunderstood, have had a resurgence in Bulgaria thanks to rewinding, habitat restoration, and other conservation efforts. As nature’s garbage men, they are an important part of any ecosystem, and while they still face threats to their survival, it is great to see that attempts to keep them healthy and thriving are headed in the right direction.
A Sequoia Forest Grows in Detroit
Out of a farm in Detroit, a local tree grower, David Milarch, is working to put a dent in climate change by regrowing the oldest and strongest trees. His efforts have helped to rewild and plant some of the oldest and strongest trees all over the world. If these trees, some of which are descendants of trees that are thousands of years old, take root and grow strong, it can counter much of the climate change we are experiencing. These larger, older, stronger trees hold 50% or more of the CO2 an older forest absorbs. These trees help ecosystems thrive, and we need this kind of old growth and connection to nature for our own health as well as the health of the planet.
From the Pacific Ocean to Nebraska: One Omaha company recycles the world’s derelict fishing gear
FirstStar Fiber, a Nebraska-based company, is taking plastic fishing waste and giving it new life in the form of lumber. The plastic they take in is considered extremely hard to recycle and usually ends up on beaches in places like Hawaii. By building a facility that can handle the hard-to-recycle plastic, they are showing proof of concept that they hope will spread to other places around the world that struggle with the plastic waste on their shores. And hopefully help clean up some beaches and remove some carbon waste in the process.
Special thanks to Kim, a regular reader who sent me this amazing good news article. 😊
Till next time keep looking for the good news, and see you in two weeks with more good news.
Thank you so much for joining me on my journey.
Would you like to have this delivered to your inbox every week?
If you’re not already I would love it for you to subscribe.
Remember that supporting me with follows or donations funds my creative practice … But honestly follows are great, I try not to hide things behind a paywall
Carolyn Sehgal 