The Positive News Thread

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Lavender farming, which also creates habitat for bees, is one solution for regenerating desolated mining sites on mountaintops which are left stripped of life and any potential use. The evergreen shrub, which is used industrially for its aromatic fragrance, can survive the barren rocky terrain left behind by mountaintop removal mining. A start-up has taken notice of this so it began farming the plant in the defunct mines of the Appalachian Mountains. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/...s-lavender

If you start looking around, there's an interesting pattern of this isolated , desolated lands all around the world.
Absolute majority of these lands are not mining sites. What they have in common is they lack topsoil.

There's another project that has been going on for several years on how to approach the greening of these areas. It is similar and uses bio-degradable plastics:
Here's an example:

Reforestation anti-desertification in Los Monegros Desert Zaragoza Spain with Groasis


And more:
Conclusions "More food with less water" - 85% less water and no fertilizers with Groasis