🇪🇸Spain

A member-owned cooperative founded in Catalonia in 2010 supplies 100% renewable electricity and lets people co-invest in solar and wind.

Since 1990, this Spanish foundation has been re-flooding a steppe lagoon drained decades ago, turning wheat fields back into a wintering ground for tens of thousands of geese and cranes.

A Spanish startup paying thousands of traditional fishers to haul plastic and abandoned nets out of the Mediterranean.

A Catalan gleaning network rescues 'ugly' fruit and vegetables that farms would otherwise discard, turning them into meals and jobs.

After nitrate runoff turned Europe's largest saltwater lagoon into green soup and washed dead fish onto the beaches, ordinary Murcians collected 640,000 signatures to give the water its own rights.

Hurricanes get names and people take them seriously. Heat kills more Europeans and arrives anonymously — so Seville started naming it.

Catalan shepherds get paid in meat and cheese, not cash, for grazing their flocks through fire-critical corridors mapped by the region's firefighters.