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I'm George, a climate optimist who's channelling his inner climate frustrations by recapping positive climate news. Sometimes it's insightful, questionably funny and always a great way to start the week.
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🌱 The Grumpy Optimists #178 (opens the original)
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Happy Monday. 👋Welcome back to another edition of The Grumpy Optimists. This week’s episode is a nice one, so let’s get into it. Thanks for reading The Grumpy Optimists! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</div
🌱 The Grumpy Optimists #177 (opens the original)
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Happy Monday. 👋I know I said I’d take a week off, but I ended up taking two. My bad. In my defence, the good news kept coming while I was gone, so this week you get a two-week backlog squeezed into one email. For a little bit of catching up, I had a fantastic time completing my first Ironman 70.3 Austria a few weeks ago. You can see my write-up and my tri-suit that is a tad too small <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/georgewade-zevero_i-completed-my-first-ironman-703-a-few-weeks-activity-7
🌱 The Grumpy Optimists #176 (opens the original)
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Happy Monday. 👋Welcome back to another week of positive climate news. This week, it’s coming from a well-slept and very content George who’s had a great weekend. I had the luxury of spending the weekend cycling around the Isle of Wight and generally having a massive appreciation for life. So that’s fun. This week feels like a good one: lots of great stories and a lot of very different topics too. Enjoy and let me know what I missed. <p class="ct
🌱 The Grumpy Optimists #175 (opens the original)
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Happy Monday. 👋Welcome back to another edition of your favourite (hopefully) positive climate newsletter. Now more than ever it feels like we need positive news. I’m genuinely so fed up with sweating. To think this is going to be the coldest summer for the rest of our lives. 🙃With that being said, there are plenty of bits of good news for you. For those who have watched Chris Packham’s People’s Climate Emergency Briefing, the petition for a UK-wide briefing has hit 100,000 signatures so it will
🌱 The Grumpy Optimists #174 (opens the original)
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Hello, welcome back to your weekly round-up of positive climate news.A slight hiccup in getting this post out yesterday, mainly because I had my laptop stolen from my flat whilst I took a Sunday afternoon nap. Serves me right for being lazy! I also took last week off after some wonderful time back at my parents house in Wales, running along the coast, swimming in beautiful lakes and being Uncle George to my nephew. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/
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