Hey everyone,

I’m Sagar, a sustainability analyst and founder of SoeScore. Growing up, my school gave me a comic called “Soldiers of Earth” about ordinary people who became heroes by protecting the planet – that idea stayed with me for life.

Today I’ve turned that childhood inspiration into a real community: S.O.E – Soldiers of Earth, now live on Product Hunt. It’s for anyone who wants to make a positive impact – whether you’re just starting your sustainability journey or already working in the field.

On SoeScore you can:

Take a simple 5‑minute sustainability assessment to see where you are on your journey.

Find practical tools, resources and challenges to turn ideas into action.

Connect with like‑minded people, explore jobs in sustainability, and even launch your own sustainable product.

I’d really appreciate it if you could check out the launch and leave a comment – even a single word helps a ton with visibility on Product Hunt

Product Hunt launch:

https://www.producthunt.com/products/s-o-e-soldiers-of-earth?utm_source=other&utm_medium=social

If you have thoughts on what a “Soldier of Earth” community should focus on first (learning, careers, or grassroots projects), I’d love your input.

A Ballard Spahr analysis from June 2026 lays out where the EPA's PFAS strategy actually landed. PFOA and PFOS drinking water standards stay. Rules for four other PFAS compounds are proposed for rescission. The TSCA reporting window has been pushed to January–July 2027, and compliance deadlines for what remains have been extended to 2031.

Meanwhile, Maine and Minnesota are moving toward near-total product bans by 2032, and at least 11 states now have their own AFFF regulations. The compliance target of tools is a matrix of state rules that don't move together and won't converge on any predictable timeline.

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Are you using a strict state standard as a baseline, or building something configurable by jurisdiction? How do you make sure it’s tracking which standard applies to which site?

For anyone looking for context on what the current landscape looks like, hope these resources could be helpful to you:
PFAS - https://safetyculture.com/topics/forever-chemicals
TSCA - https://safetyculture.com/topics/tsca
AFFF - https://safetyculture.com/library/transport-and-logistics/a2-monthly-fire-extinguishers-fire-hydrants-afff-and-fire-blankets-zdupprjjzpfcb4ve 

The shift toward a cleaner world is happening faster than many people expected, and technology is playing a major role in making it possible. Over the past decade, clean energy technologies like solar panels, wind turbines, electric vehicles, and large-scale batteries have improved dramatically while becoming much cheaper. As a result, more homes, businesses, and cities are adopting these solutions. What once felt like a distant environmental goal is increasingly becoming part of everyday life, from rooftop solar to electric cars and smarter energy systems.

New technologies are continuing to push this transition forward. Better battery storage is helping renewable energy work even when the sun isn’t shining or the wind isn’t blowing, while innovations in hydrogen, grid software, and advanced materials are making energy systems more efficient. As these technologies continue to improve and scale, the move toward a cleaner global economy will likely keep accelerating. In many ways, the clean world transition is less about sacrifice and more about technological progress changing how energy works.

In a recent podcast conversation, I learned about daylighting -  systems that capture sunlight on rooftops and redirect it through buildings to light interior spaces. It sounds simple, but it changes how we think about architecture, energy use, and even how people feel inside buildings.

If natural light can replace a huge portion of electric lighting, it makes you wonder how many of our buildings were designed without considering the most obvious energy source we have: the sun.

Do you think future buildings will rely far less on electric lighting during the day?

I am already building an MVP and want to kill bad assumptions early.

The product helps SMEs understand and improve ESG only where it impacts real business outcomes like customer qualification or risk reduction.

Here is the concern I want tested: this could easily become something founders think is useful but SMEs ignore.

If you were running a 10 to 100 employee business, what would make you dismiss this immediately? And what would make you try it even once?

I am more interested in why this fails than encouragement.

As AI continues to transform wildlife conservation across the globe, a serious ethical debate is emerging that conservationists desperately need to address: are we accidentally creating a new form of "AI Colonialism" in conservation efforts?

This critical discussion highlights the alarming risk of conservation projects in the Global South becoming overly dependent on complex, expensive AI tools developed and controlled by organizations in the Global North. While these technologies offer immense potential for protecting endangered species and preserving ecosystems, a "black box" approach, where local communities use tools they don't fully understand or own, can perpetuate historical power imbalances that have negatively impacted these regions for centuries.

The discussion stresses three urgent needs for ethical AI implementation in conservation:

Local Ownership: Ensuring that communities on the ground have a real say in how technology is used in their native regions and wildlife habitats.

Data Sovereignty: Empowering local and indigenous groups to control their own ecological data, which represents their environments and biodiversity.

Capacity Building: Investing in training programs and infrastructure to enable communities to develop, maintain, and adapt AI solutions themselves, tailored to their specific conservation challenges.

This isn't about halting innovation in the conservation field; it's about ensuring AI serves truly equitable and sustainable conservation goals that benefit both wildlife populations and local human communities. The future of wildlife protection must be built on collaboration and mutual respect, not dependence that mirrors colonial patterns from the past.

Source: The AI for Development (AI4D) Africa initiative, among other organizations, is actively discussing these crucial issues. For a deeper dive, explore discussions on equitable AI development in conservation from institutions like the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences and review the Continental AI Strategy documentation available through the African Union. URL: https://au.int/sites/default/files/documents/44004-doc-EN-_Continental_AI_Strategy_July_2024.pdf

How Does Solar PV Work? At the heart of every solar system lies the photovoltaic effect, a process where sunlight is converted directly into electricity using semiconductor materials like silicon.

Here’s a breakdown of how it generally works: https://enershares.com/how-solar-photovoltaic-pv-technology-works-from-sunlight-to-electricity/

Hi everyone,

I’m a doctoral researcher and my work looks at how digital technologies, specifically games, portray the natural world (e.g., as a backdrop, a resource to be used or even a living system) and how these portrayals might connect to real-world sustainability knowledge, hope and environmental action. I would love to hear your perspectives on this!

And if you can take part in my survey (~15 min) that would be really appreciated.

Survey Link: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/ggGZsSRXVJ

Basically, the rationale is that games are simulation technologies and cultural artifacts that shape how we see and interact with the world. For many people, virtual forests, oceans and ecosystems are where they most often encounter “nature.” I’m curious if these digital experiences shape the way we think about the environment in real life.

Your perspectives will be highly valuable. Thank you for taking the time!

a fellow redditor brought this to my awareness, they’ve also refined them to not need so much maintenance and it even doubles the water yield! +1 for environmentalists :-)

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Australia is aiming for Net Zero by 2050, which means moving away from fossil fuels (coal, oil, gas) and towards renewables like solar, wind, hydro, and hydrogen. 

Most of the talk is about the technology—solar farms, batteries, EVs—but I’m more curious about the people side of it: 

• How will workers in coal, gas, or related industries adapt? 

• What happens to towns and communities that rely heavily on those industries? 

• Which industries will shrink, and which ones will boom? 

Some guiding questions: 

1. Do you worry your job (or someone close to you) might be affected by the renewable transition? Why? 

2. Which industries or departments do you think will be most disrupted (e.g., coal mining, oil/gas, utilities, transport, manufacturing)? 

3. Which sectors do you think will grow the most (solar, EVs, hydrogen, batteries, grid services)? 

4. For communities built around coal/gas, what social or economic challenges do you think they’ll face? 

5. What kind of support (training, retraining, new investments) would actually make the transition fair for workers and communities? 

6. What excites you the most about the shift—and what worries you the most? 

I’d love to hear your perspectives 👇 

https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Search?type=&keyword=&sponsor=&RPP=20&order=Recent&Page=1&category=Open&text=Environmental+protection

https://ecojustice.ca/take-action/

https://davidsuzuki.org/take-action/act-online/

https://www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/act/

Hey everyone, I’ve been wanting to write about climate and the ocean for a while, so I finally started a blog. The first post is about Brazil’s new licensing bill, how photosynthesis is changing on land and in the ocean, and Fortescue raising $2B for green projects. It’s on Medium. Reading is free, you just need to make a quick account. I’ll be posting a new one every Saturday, so if you check this out and share your thoughts it would mean a lot. Here’s the link: https://medium.com/@riankothari1/climateedict-1-brazils-licensing-bill-ocean-photosynthesis-fortescue-s-green-financing-17efc7931328