{"id":258676,"date":"2026-08-21T08:02:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T08:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/258676\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T08:02:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T08:02:12","slug":"feel-good-friday-planting-trees-in-syria-and-baltimore-iraq-taps-the-sun-and-vaxxes-for-wild-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/258676\/","title":{"rendered":"Feel-Good Friday: Planting Trees in Syria and Baltimore, Iraq Taps the Sun, and Vaxxes for Wild Animals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dear Reader,<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our weekly dose of Feel-Good news takes us to Syria, Iraq, and Baltimore, where incredible eco-action is taking place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let\u2019s start in the former warzone of Syria, where locals are restoring their forests after years of conflict, logging, and wildfires, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trtworld.com\/article\/3193e01eabdc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this story<\/a>. \u201cThe project has mobilized local residents, schoolchildren, the Syrian Civil Defense (White Helmets), and volunteer groups to plant trees and rehabilitate damaged land.\u201d Volunteer Walid Al-Hassan told a reporter that \u201cPlanting trees has become a \u2018message of hope\u2019 for me, reflecting the deeply rooted desire of Syrians to rebuild their community and environment. \u2026 Reforestation days have turned into social gatherings, bringing youth and families together in volunteer activities with a profound national and humanitarian purpose.\u201d Sounds glorious, doesn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over to Iraq, which now has its first-ever solar module assembly production line, thanks to Italian company Ecoprogretti. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pv-magazine.com\/2026\/07\/22\/inside-pv-manufacturing-iraqs-first-solar-module-production-line\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PV Magazine tells us<\/a> that \u201cThe turnkey facility has been developed for the project engineering department of the Al-Abbas Holy Shrine, an Iraqi institution responsible for a range of developmental, service, cultural, and educational programs,\u201d\u00a0 located in Karbala, capital of the Karbala governorate in central Iraq. \u201cThe modules will be supplied to different projects and market segments, including hospitals, schools, solar parks, and projects intended to provide electricity to the city of Baghdad and other areas of Iraq.\u201d The facility has assembly robots, an annual capacity to make 200 megawatts of solar (with plans to scale to 600 megawatts). It will serve Iraq\u2019s growing solar market, which sounds like a win to Dot!<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We all know the value of urban forests: They lower surface temperatures and cool neighborhoods, reduce stormwater runoff and flooding, absorb carbon emissions, and <a href=\"https:\/\/bluedotliving.com\/dear-dot-do-trees-reduce-pollution\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">remove pollutants from the air.<\/a> The folks at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baltimoretreetrust.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Baltimore Tree Trust<\/a> know this, too, which is why they\u2019ve planted more than 23,000 trees in 199 neighborhoods around the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And some bonus Feel-Good news! <a href=\"https:\/\/worksinprogress.co\/issue\/why-we-should-vaccinate-wild-animals\/?utm_source=sb-ini&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=suburbia-s-empty-nest-problem&amp;_bhlid=c7d56e02a0878f7e1eb16679a6d597fd7dad4f31\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read this story<\/a> for a wild ride through the whys and the hows of vaccinating wild animals, including a repurposed \u201ccoyote getter,\u201d designed to kill them but reimagined to save them from disease instead. While there\u2019s plenty of work to be done, the energy and ingenuity that already goes into protecting wild animals from often devastating disease is a Feel-Good story indeed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Positively,<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dot<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bluedotliving.com\/climate-quick-tip-filter-fitness\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Filter-Fitness-2.png\" alt=\"Climate Quick Tip: Filter Fitness Dirty filters waste energy and create safety hazards. Check and replace the filters in air conditioners and heaters throughout your home. Clean the lint filter in your dryer after each use to reduce your risk of a fire and speed up drying time. Increase heating and cooling efficiency and reduce your risk of fires by replacing\/cleaning filters in your home. Check out Imagine It! For more eco advice.\" class=\"wp-image-14537\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more Bluedot Climate Quick Tips, <a href=\"https:\/\/bluedotliving.com\/category\/climate-quick-tips\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">click here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Got a question for Dot? Let her know here:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dear Reader, Our weekly dose of Feel-Good news takes us to Syria, Iraq, and Baltimore, where incredible eco-action&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[14],"tags":[71217,94,9042,29849,69327],"class_list":["post-258676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iraq","tag-forests","tag-iraq","tag-pollution","tag-solar","tag-trees"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117132456620022768","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}