September 7, 2026

Good News for Humankind 🌏
​The world's latest positive milestones for climate, justice, peace, health & more

Green economy surpasses $10 trillion, becomes world’s third-largest industry

Clean technology has quietly crossed into the financial mainstream, and the scale of that shift is striking.

Green companies now outperform the broader global market, and those earning most of their revenue from environmental products carry profit margins two to four percentage points higher than conventional peers — directly challenging the old assumption that clean business means thinner returns. Much of the momentum is coming from an unexpected place: data centers run by major tech firms drove nearly half of U.S. clean power deals in 2025.

Yet canceled projects remain a reminder that permitting and grid access are stubborn obstacles.

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Costa Rica requires wildlife crossings on all new and existing roads

Costa Rica's economy depends on the wildlife its own roads have long put at risk — sloths and monkeys struck by cars, habitat split in two, coastal crabs unable to reach the sea to lay their eggs.

Lawmakers voted unanimously to make wildlife crossings a legal requirement, built into road planning from the earliest stage rather than added as an afterthought. Citizens can now submit their own evidence to force retrofits on existing highways already causing harm.

Conservationists call it a meaningful shift away from decorative warning signs, which do little to slow drivers, toward structures proven to actually save lives.

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U.S. now requires medical equipment to be accessible for people with disabilities

Accessible medical equipment rules now give Americans with disabilities a federal guarantee that hospitals and clinics must actually have the tools to examine them — something existing anti-discrimination law never fully delivered.

General facilities must meet a 10% accessibility threshold, rising to 20% at practices specializing in mobility conditions. The gap this closes is stark: some patients had to visit a veterinary office just to be weighed, traveling dozens of miles because no doctor's office nearby could accommodate them.

Real change now depends on consistent enforcement, since most exam rooms remain inaccessible today even as the rules take effect.

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China’s solar capacity overtakes coal as its largest power source ever

Coal has been the backbone of China's electricity grid for decades. This summer, the East Asian nation crossed a pivotal threshold.

China's installed solar capacity now stands at 1,286 gigawatts against coal's 1,285 — a margin of just one gigawatt, according to the National Energy Administration. Solar supplies roughly an eighth of the country's electricity today; coal still generates most of it. But capacity is what gets built first, and the builders have already chosen: solar and wind made up more than 80% of all new power capacity China added last year.

The generation numbers are starting to follow. Coal-fired output fell nearly 2% in 2025 — the first drop in six years, and possibly the first time on record that coal generation fell while overall demand rose.

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Turkmenistan seals 8 massive methane leaks in climate “breakthrough”

Methane super-emitters — single leaks that can warm the planet more than a million SUVs combined — have long made Turkmenistan one of the worst fossil fuel offenders on Earth.

Eight of those leaks are now sealed, confirmed by satellite, after a UN monitoring system sent alerts that drove real repairs. International scrutiny appears to have been the turning point, pushing the secretive government to act where years of outside pressure had struggled.

Yet Turkmenistan still holds three of the six worst leaks detected worldwide, meaning eight fixes, however meaningful, are a beginning, not a solution.

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Remember Humans in the Fertile Crescent domesticate wheat for the first time (~10,000 B.C.E. ???) Wheat domestication began around 10,000 B.C.E. in the foothills of what is now southeastern Turkey, as people who had long gathered wild grasses started saving and replanting seeds. Over generations, they unintentionally selected for plants whose seeds stayed put instead of scattering. It was a quiet shift that reshaped both a grass and the people tending it. ​Read more​

Imagine Women hold 40% of corporate board seats across all top ten economies for first time (2036 C.E. ???) Corporate board gender parity across all ten of the world's largest economies is projected to arrive by 2036 — a threshold that once looked decades away. Binding quotas, investor pressure, and governance reforms have sharply accelerated progress in recent years. If the projection holds, the debate shifts from whether women belong in boardrooms to who still gets left out. ​Read more​

Take Action 💥

Protect U.S. forests from massive expansion of logging

From EarthJustice: The Roadless Rule — one of the most important land and forest protection measures of our lifetime — protects 45 million acres of unfragmented, pristine national forest lands nationwide from clearcutting and damaging new roads.

The Forest Service took action to rescind this rule, which has been in place for 25 years. If we allow new roads and logging on these public lands, we will worsen the ongoing biodiversity, wildfire, and climate crises.

We need you to defend the forest protections we have fought so hard for. Tell the administration that you oppose increased roads and logging on millions of acres of our most pristine federal forest lands.

Updates from Peter 👋

Hi beautiful people,

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Weekly small-group coaching. A self-paced course. A small community of people who are working through a similar transition in their life and career. And if you want, 1:1 support from me alongside it.
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No pressure. No strings. Just a conversation to explore if this is right for you.

Love,
Peter

Peter Schulte Burnout & purpose coach, recovering hustle hero. ​​​

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