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The Harmony Report - Issue #13 - 12.01.26


Good morning from Fossoway Stables. As the new year gets gently underway, this week’s stories bring signs of progress from nature recovery, clean energy innovation and global conservation, all reminders that hopeful momentum is growing in different corners of our world.


🌍 This Week’s Curated Highlights


1. Island energy transformation ... a renewables milestone


In Brazil’s Fernando de Noronha archipelago, a pioneering project called Noronha Verde has been launched to transform the island into the first inhabited oceanic community in Latin America powered entirely by renewable energy. The initiative combines large-scale solar generation and advanced battery storage backed by substantial investment and planning to move the island away from fossil fuel dependence and towards a 100% clean-energy model.

Iberdrola

Why this matters: It’s an example of how communities, even remote ones, can pioneer sustainable energy systems that both preserve natural heritage and cut emissions.


2. Conservation success: glow-marked snails return to the wild


More than 7,000 Partula snails, once declared extinct in the wild, were released back into their native habitat across four islands in French Polynesia as part of a long-running international conservation programme. Conservationists even spotted the first wild-born juvenile of one previously extinct species ... a meaningful milestone for biodiversity recovery.

Why this matters: It illustrates how decades-long collaboration and care can bring tiny yet ecologically significant species back from the brink.


3. Brazil commits to sustainable ocean stewardship by 2030


At the COP30 climate summit, Brazil announced a landmark commitment to sustainably manage its extensive national waters by 2030, joining the Ocean Panel and pledging stewardship over a vast expanse of ocean that supports livelihoods, ecosystems and culture.

Why this matters: The oceans are essential to climate regulation and biodiversity. Long-term care and policy commitment help protect coastlines, fisheries and coastal communities.


🌿 Reflection from Fossoway


This morning’s stories share a quiet but powerful theme: what sustained care makes possible.

🔹 A whole island shifting to renewables ... not tomorrow, but in planned stages

🔹 Tiny snails returning to their ancestral forests after years of careful reintroductions

🔹 A nation pledging ocean care as a long-term priority.


At Fossoway, this echoes what we do every day. Whether we’re planting trees, teaching children outdoors, restoring hedgerows or nurturing soil, progress doesn’t always arrive all at once, but with attention, patience and commitment, the gains grow deeper.


🌱 How This Could Ripple at Fossoway


We might invite the community to share what small, sustained action they’re committing to in 2026 just like Noronha Verde’s long-term plan or the decades-long snail recovery. Could we mark a tiny species or habitat on site that we’re helping recover, and share its story?

What if we shared one local “ocean of care”... a map of the habitats, hedgerows and woodlands we steward as part of our own environmental pledge?


✨ Parting Thought


Hope sometimes grows slowly, but it grows. That could be a remote island planning for a renewable future, a species inching back into its home, or waters being cared for as a shared legacy.


This week, may we notice the power of steady care ... the kind that builds ecosystems, relationships and resilience over time.


With gratitude,


The Harmony Report Team xx


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