The Positive News Thread

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122 Countries Overcome U.S. Opposition and Pass Landmark U.N. Global Treaty to Ban Nuclear Weapons

Medicare For All Is Coming, No Matter What They Say

4 Elderly Protesters Who Show Us How Civil Disobedience Is Done

The Women's March Organizers Take on the NRA With a Two-Day March

Growing My Way Out of Dystopia: Can We Stop Feeling Quite So Helpless and Hopeless in a World on the Skids?

The Developing World Is Turning Its Poop Problem Into A Resource

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Ready for Good News? Americans Are Getting Smarter About Climate Change

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Farmers And Ranchers Are Planning To Install Solar In The Path Of The Keystone Pipeline

Reverend William Barber Leads Multifaith Clergy in Protest Against Health Care Bill

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Rejecting 'Cruel and Discriminatory Policy,' Federal Judge Deals Blow to Muslim Ban 2.0

Oscar-Nominated Actor James Cromwell Speaks Out Before Jail Time for Peaceful Anti-Fracking Protest

Jeremy Corbyn Talks With Naomi Klein About Creating a Better World

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Ravens Plan for the Future — Just Like Humans

Philadelphia Story: An Ambitious Campaign to Spread Opportunity Into All Corners of the City

We're richer when we share: Like a book library... but then for things. (I'm unable to embed the Facebook video, sorry.)

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Hotel Refuses Refund for Woman's Canceled Wedding—So She Invites Homeless to Fantastic Dinner

California Declares Glyphosate Weed Killer a Cancer-Causing Poison

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Fed Up with Washington, DC? Look to Washington State:

In the face of gridlock at the federal level, Seattle is leading the way towards a more just economy.

This ‘School For Justice’ Trains Sex Trafficking Survivors To Be Lawyers

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US Judge Halts Deportation of 1,400 Iraqis

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Slightly negative phrasing, positive news though : 46 Republicans Join Democrats to Slap Trump in the Face With Huge Climate Change Concession

How Tiny Homes Could Spur Affordable Housing, Ease Gentrification, Reduce Consumerism and Help the Environment

Report: Public ownership makes energy cheaper, serves climate goals better

Indian Railways fights air pollution with first train with solar-powered coaches

The Drought Fighter: Could a controversial farmer in California have found the most effective way to grow food in a warming world?

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Americans under 25 are bringing a new era of tolerance, education, and vastly improved behaviors

DIY Miniature Pantries Provide Free Food for Whoever Needs It

Wellbeing campaigner: society should shape business – not the other way round

Cancer Patients Need More Nature

Activist Nuns Build Chapel on Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline Route

Brutal Greyhound Racetrack in China Will Close Forever

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Argentina Adopts ‘Vegan Mondays’ at President’s Official Residence

Sri Lanka Navy Saves Elephant Swept Out to Sea

9 Slow Lorises Destined to Be Pets Were Saved Just in Time

Supreme Court Rejects Reach of Trump's Travel Ban

California Lawmakers Move to Protect Undocumented Workers

Arkansas and Missouri Ban Monsanto-Made Dicamba Weed Killer

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New Poll Shows Nation Moving Left on Healthcare, Embracing Medicare for All

To the Millions Who Have Stood Up to the Trump Administration: Thank You

Organics: Ferreting Out the Fraudulent Few, While Demanding Higher Standards, Better Enforcement

Veganism in America Has Grown by 600 Percent Since 2014

Stop obsessing with how personally green you live – and start collectively taking on corporate power

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Building a Mass Movement to Stop Mass Killing

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Ram Nath Kovind, a low-caste Dalit, has been elected as India's president

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Consumer Watchdog Calls for Immediate Congressional Hearings on Bipartisan Bill to Change Internet Law So Child Sex Trafficking Websites like Backpage.com Can Be Held Accountable

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How to Heal Unthinkable Trauma and Choose Love

Service, doing for others, is the most powerful and profound trauma healing there is on the planet. It’s so powerful, it elongates our lives. When you do for others you have a 22% reduced risk of mortality. I remind myself that every day…

Everything that you give, you get back. So all of the nurturing, healing and love that you give out, you get back. And there’s science behind all this too. This has been my experience, but it’s true.

Choosing Love means having the courage to be grateful when life isn’t easy, to forgive when the person who hurt you is not sorry, and to step outside your own pain to help someone else…

We want kids to know that they have a choice. That they are responsible for their thoughts and feelings and that they can always choose love. We are trying to cultivate resilient, connected and compassionate people. There’s strong evidence that children who develop these skills have less anxiety, lower rates of depression and mental illness, experience less bullying, violence and incarceration and even in later life, have lower rates of divorce.

We all have the courage that Jesse showed that day… the courage to be kind and gentle. The courage to create peace even in the face of terror. The courage to respond to fear with love. The courage to tell the truth, to show up and be present…

There’s no other solution. Legislators and politicians can’t do it. We are the most powerful proponents of it. I’ve learnt that when we choose love, we change the world around us.

I remind myself that I’m a courageous human being when I’m feeling low. And I experience that miraculous thing of being able to shift yourself from a lower energy into a higher level, by practising gratitude. Contemplating forgiveness for yourself and others, and understanding that forgiveness cuts the cord that attaches you to pain, doesn’t mean that you condone or forget. It doesn’t even mean that you can’t hold the person that hurt you accountable. It simply means cutting the cord that attaches you to pain. And then shifting your focus outward to others, and passing this along. Passing the message, the formula and awareness, on to others. That is how you can be part of the solution.

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India introduces electric buses that can swap batteries at ‘gas stations’

North and South Korea Want a Peace Treaty: The US Must Join Them

Cape Town Heeds the Fossil Fuel Divestment Call

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Dublin man who makes 50 curries a week for the homeless goes viral

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Women have become more engaged in politics since Donald Trump's inauguration, a new poll finds

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5 Sensible Things To Do Instead of Obsessing About, and Enabling Trump's Narcissism

Another Major Travel Site Takes a Stand Against Animal Cruelty

Rats Need Rescuing Too

Rise for Syria

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I'm not a Trump support, but I'm very anti-war, and I think he's right. Hillary at this time, would have been waging a full war in Syria. He also raises some other very good points about the positive aspects of the Trump presidency (though I'm still of the opinion that Trump is more chaos-oriented than anything else).

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Meet the Former EPA Staffers Resisting Trump’s Climate Agenda

3 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Humans' Ancient Relationship with Dogs

Veganism’s next goal: animal-free farming

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For the first time in history, over half of people living with HIV are now receiving treatment

Fighting deforestation by paying people not to cut down trees works

Erasing hunger: Mushrooms can be grown everywhere and are just as filling as meat

Rare Footage Captures Huge Humpback Whale Jumping Completely Out Of The Water

Monopoly was invented to demonstrate the evils of capitalism

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Rare Footage Captures Huge Humpback Whale Jumping Completely Out Of The Water

Cool video! Yeah, our main whale watching spot is Hermanus, there is this wonderful restaurant there called Bientang's Cave, where they swim and breach just a few meters away from you.

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Always Look for the Helpers: After an Attack on a Bus of Hindu Pilgrims in India, a Muslim Driver Saves Lives and a Politician Saves Government Dignity

13 Bright Spots and Optimistic Thinkers Challenge the Dark Future of Trump

EPA Decided Preventing a West, Texas-Style Accident Wasn't a Priority. So 11 Attorney Generals Are Suing

South Miami just made a huge rooftop solar decision

The Art of Blessing Your Food

Massachusetts Court Rules Local Police Can't Detain Immigrants Without Charges

Vatican Turns Off Historic Fountains Amid Drought That Threatens Italian Farming

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Jim Carrey at Homeboy Industries on suffering, forgiveness and meditation:

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Tobacco-style California climate lawsuits could stimulate clean energy revolution

Florida school district bans homework and asks kids to read books instead

US military treats PTSD veterans with meditation

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One of the Oldest Greyhound Tracks in the U.S. is Ditching Dog Racing

10 Reasons to Celebrate Sharks, Not Fear Them

A Guide to Helping Senior Citizens Stay Safe at Home

Top Vatican official Cardinal Pell faces Australian court on sex charges

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Germany's Gay Pride march celebrates same-sex marriage law

More images: Berlin gay pride revelers mark legalization of same-sex marriage

Three weeks ago: German Police Arrest ‘High Level Politicians’ In Major Pedophile Ring Bust