Google & Apple: 100% Renewable, Sweden's Electric Roadways, Colombian Amazon's Personhood

This week’s optimistic environmental news (4/13/2018):

Apple Now Runs On 100% Green Energy, And Here’s How It Got There– “Apple says it’s finished getting the rest of its facilities running on 100% green power–from its new Apple Park headquarters, which has one of thelargest solar roofs on the planet, to its distribution centers and retail stores around the world.”
Google Officially Hits Its 100% Renewable Energy Target – “Google’s total renewable energy purchases actually exceeded the amount of electricity the company used in its operations last year, including its offices and 15 data centers located across the globe.”
The Colombian Amazon Is Now a ‘Person’, and You Can Thank Actual People – “The Colombian Supreme Court ruled Thursday that theColombian government must create a plan to combat deforestation in theAmazon, as well as climate change impacts in the country overall.”
World’s first electrified road for charging vehicles opens in Sweden – “Energy is transferred from two tracks of rail in the road via a movable arm attached to the bottom of a vehicle.”
A Grass-Roots Movement For Healthy Soil Spreads Among Farmers – “‘When I started doing this stuff—really doing this stuff—five years ago, you had to go a state away to find people farming in a similar way,’ Ficke says. Perhaps the most famous soil health pioneer is a farmer named Gabe Brown, in North Dakota. ‘Those people are all over now,’ Ficke says. ‘You can find someone like that every few miles.'”