The Positive News Thread

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Bad Jobs And No Welfare Give Rise To A New Type Of Charity: The Diaper Bank

Big Pharma Can Be Beaten: This Union Proved It

Activists Are Working With Chinese Authorities to Shut Down Barbaric Dog Meat Trade

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Troubled Waters: Tennessee Families Stand Up for a Clean Environment

Wind energy saves up to 12,000 lives, $108 billion in health costs

10 ways to peace after Charlottesville

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How (Not) to Challenge Racist Violence

If we truly want to challenge racism, oppression, and inequality, we should turn our attention away from the few hundred marchers in Charlottesville and towards the real sources and enforcers of our unjust global order.  They are not hard to find.

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Clean energy needs a better battery and it’s coming

5 Ways to Help Pollinators

Volkswagen is working on an electric version of its legendary microbus

Patagonia Steps Up Its Public Lands Activism With First-Ever TV Commercial

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Climate Justice Is Racial Justice Is Gender Justice

Former Carnivore Shares How Going From Chicken Wings to Tofu Wings Changed His Life

The Netherlands opens the world’s biggest parking garage… for bikes

18 Plants to Grow for a Bee-Friendly Garden (Infographic)

A Strong Opinion: Stop Counter-Protesting

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Google helps journalists to document hate crimes to support better reporting

You get more nutrients from food you want to eat than from food you don’t enjoy

Australia Man Hails Drag Queens As ‘Angels’ After They Fight Off His Homophobic Attackers

The 1979 Solar Eclipse Ended With A Heartbreaking Wish For The Future

"That’s 38 years from now,” he said. “May the shadow of the moon fall on a world at peace."

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1,000s of Muslims march against terrorism in Barcelona after van attack

These Images Of The Total Eclipse Were Well Worth The 38-Year Wait

Spanish Swimmer Forfeits World Championship Race To Honor Barcelona Victims

Ai Weiwei Is Building Fences All Over NYC In A Powerful Public Art Project

Macron Seeks To Curb Cheap Eastern European Workers in Western Europe

In Arizona, People Power Triumphs Over Dark Money in School Voucher Fight

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You Can Donate Your Eclipse Glasses To Schools Outside The U.S.

Pipeline Victory Could Have Major Implications for Climate Fights Ahead

Black Girls Rock! Creator Beverly Bond On The Power Of Creating A Safe Space For Sisterhood

Only Solution, Says McKibben, 100% Renewables 'As Fast as Humanly Possible'

South Australia to Build 150-Megawatt Solar Thermal Power Station

Helping Dogs Adjust When Kids Go Back to School

A Meditation for Working with Post-Charlottesville Stress

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EU starts in-depth probe of Bayer, Monsanto deal

How Reducing U.S. Air Pollution Can Help Feed Africa

If you want to know what compassion is, study humpback whales

A sustainable concrete jungle: The road to a zero-carbon cement industry

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World's Biggest Floating Solar Farm Goes Live on Top of a Former Coal Mine

7 Things They Never Told Me At School – But Could Have

The eclipse was a test, and the solar industry aced it

Arizona Federal Judge Thwarts Conservative Efforts to Kill Ethnic Studies

Skamania County, Washington, considers the Sasquatch, Yeti, Bigfoot or “Giant Hairy Ape” an endangered species

Colorado Adolescents Did Not Increase Marijuana Use in the Year After Retail Sales

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Heartwarming School Supplies Donation in Texas

New Afghan TV Station Puts Women Front and Center

Nine RGGI States Embrace Clean Energy by Collectively Capping Power Plant Emissions Through 2030

Texas GOP Racist Voter ID Law Smacked Down

7 Good Things That Happen to Your Body When You Cut Dairy Out of Your Diet

Lonely Planet Agrees to Stop Promoting Elephant Rides

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German supermarket EDEKA removed all foreign products to take a stand against racism

Northeast States Just Delivered A ‘Major Victory’ Against Climate Change

India court bans Islamic instant divorce in big win for women’s rights

Forget Tesla’s Powerwall, you can build your own with recycled laptop batteries

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Remaking Media in the Pursuit of Justice

Chile Rejects Mining Project to Protect Humboldt Penguins

Illinois Just Became the First State to Ban Performing Elephants

DOE Grid Study Correctly Shows Wind, Solar Not a Threat to Electricity Reliability

Change Yourself and You Change the World

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These ‘Plastic’ Bags Are Actually Made of Potato & Tapioca – and Can Become Animal Food on Disposal

A Montana Judge May Have Just Saved This Grizzly Bear From Extinction

UVA Welcomes Its ‘Most Diverse Class’ Ever

How to Reverse Aging and Become Whoever You Want to Be

Regeneration: Discarded orange peels brought back a rainforest in Costa Rica

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When times get dark, we must shine brighter

How To Start A Raw Food Diet (The Easy Way)

The Local Food Movement as A Catalyst for Community

What Alaska Knows About Clean Energy

Free Online Event: 11 Days of Global Unity, September 11–21

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8-Year-Old Maddison Has Park Named in Her Honor After 27,000 Sign Her Petition

We Need to Change the Way We View Our Pets, Here’s How

How to Create a Culture of Mindfulness in Your Family

Lightwarriors, Fear Not What is Happening… Everything is Perfect!

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Here’s How To Help The Victims Of Hurricane Harvey

India Declares Freedom Of Sexual Orientation A Fundamental Right

The Rock Wowed By Boy Who Copied His Skills To Save Toddler’s Life

Pets Weren’t Forgotten In The Rush To Save People In Harvey’s Path

Irish housing activists come to US to raise $5 billion to end vulture funds evictions

Women Prefer the Scent of a Man Who Eats More Vegetables

Colorado Strongly Defends Legal Marijuana Program In Letter To Jeff Sessions

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Learning to live within planetary boundaries

Plant Neurobiology Shows How Trees are Just Like Humans

Sir David Attenborough is more optimistic than ever about the future of the planet

Indigenous Navigator Offers New Way to Monitor Indigenous Rights Worldwide

Fourth Animal Race Canceled in UK in 2017

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Major UK Newspaper Encourages Readers to ‘Go Vegan!’

A Different Way to Be with the Chaos in the World

Woman Shows Up At Shelter And Asks For The Dog No One Else Wants

Greek Villagers Secret Weapon: Grow Your Own Food

Maryland Will Be The First U.S. State To Ban Bee-Killing Pesticides For Consumer Use

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Tweets, But No Laws — Support for Transgender Service Members Comes From All Sides

Doklam standoff: India, China agree to disengage troops after talks

What's the Most Carbon-Efficient Way to Travel? Reduce your carbon footprint by using public or shared transport, and walking or biking for short trips

All Slaughterhouses In England To Have Mandatory Cameras Installed

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Chicagoans to March in Solidarity Against White Supremacists

Reporter Leads Rescuers To Truck Driver Trapped In 10 Feet Of Water

Good Samaritans Rescue Fellow Citizens Amid Catastrophic Floods

Irishman’s amazing tale of paying it forward and redemption

Global Drum Prayer, August 29th 6.30 PM PST:

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What started with one woman, one box and one car is now a movement that has rescued 100,000 pounds of fresh fruit to feed people in need

UNESCO sets up Traditional Knowledge Database

Activists plan to plant 10bn trees to offset CO2 released by Trump policies

Kevin Hart Challenges Famous Friends To Help Hurricane Harvey Victims

What about a park and a healthy river instead of a wall for the US-Mexico border?

Why Self-Regulation Is Important

Acupuncture Beats Injected Morphine for Pain: Groundbreaking Study

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Mexico Offers Aid for Harvey Victims

J.J. Watt Starts His Own Harvey Relief Fund And Raises Money In A Hurry

Here’s How To Help The Victims Of Hurricane Harvey

Standing still: a new form of protest in Turkey

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Brewery Donates 155,000 Cans Of Water To Harvey Victims

Check out the new kit and help get your government to sign and ratify the Ban Treaty

The Houston Texans Are Donating $1 Million To Harvey Disaster Relief

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Great article about a black journalist who shielded a right-wing protester who was being beaten with his own body.

http://www.npr.org/2017/08/28/546831794/...-protester


Interview highlights


On why he protected this man
What came to me was that he was a human being, and I didn't want to see anybody die. And, you know, I've been thinking a lot about the events in Charlottesville, and I remember seeing the pictures of a young man being brutally beaten by these guys with poles, and when I saw that I thought, "why didn't anybody step in?"
And you know, in retrospect, it doesn't matter if he doesn't see my humanity, what matters to me is that I see his. What he thinks about me and all of that, like — my humanity is not dependent upon that.

love to all

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Norwegian Billionaire Funds World’s Largest Yacht To Clean Up Ocean Plastic

Kenya brings in world's toughest plastic bag ban: four years jail or $40,000 fine

This Man Is Teaching People How He Healed His Own Cancer For Free

Fasting For Just 3 Days Rebuilds Your Entire Immune System

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Ethiopia's Tigray Region bags gold award for greening its drylands

China is making high-tech electronics from autumn leaves

The neighborhood of the future is made from homes that are power plants

Los Angeles is painting streets white to reduce urban warming

Science determines the ideal number of hours to work (and it’s not eight)

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UN Calls For Worldwide Treaty To Phase Out Pesticides & Transition To Sustainable Farming

How a Mattress Store Became a Home for Harvey Victims

Lebanon president signs country's first animal welfare bill into law

Live in California and buy eggs? If voters approve this in 2018, they'll need to be from cage-free hens

This Swedish Farmer Is Turning Away From Dairy - To Grow Oats For Vegan Milk

Growing number of Howard County families adopting vegan diets

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Brazilian court blocks attempt to open parts of the Amazon to mining companies

Farmers in Colorado save water in exchange for money in pilot project

Renewable energy on track to exceed expectations, again

How to Be a Force for Good

The Human Brain Can Create Structures in Up to 11 Dimensions