The Positive News Thread

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New Method For Helping Those Struggling With Drug Addiction Is Giving Them Serious Hope

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Four Daring Women To Climb the Highest Peak in Mexico for Charity. One #NuttyGoodAdventure

Ten years ago, Georgina Miranda couldn’t even run a mile.  One day, she read an article about atrocities in Congo that inspired her to do something.

So, like any normal super human, she decided to transform herself in order to climb the highest peak on each continent to raise money for charity.

This March, Georgina and three other amazing women – Emma Walker, Jessica Hamel, and Elizabeth Williams – will tackle the highest peak in Mexico – Pico de Orizaba – a volcano reaching 18,491 feet.

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How a Group of Harry Potter Fans Became Social Activists

They bonded over a book — and used their connections to successfully fight for human rights.

This Mall in Turkey Let Homeless Dogs Sleep Inside to Escape the Cold

The kind people also fed all of the dogs, so they didn’t go to bed with an empty stomach.

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Driver stops bus to prevent woman from jumping off bridge

'Ma'am, you look like you're having a bad day. Can I give you a hug?' The moment a quick-thinking bus driver pulls over to talk down a suicidal woman from jumping off a bridge

   Damone Hudson from Dayton, Ohio was on his regular bus route when he noticed a woman on the wrong side of the safety rail
   He pulled his bus over and got out to try and convince the woman to step back
   Damone ended up remaining with the woman until the police showed up and took the woman to safety

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UN delivers medicine to Yemen's besieged Taiz city

Three Unicorn Riot Journalists Have #NoDAPL Arrest Charges Dropped

The Secret To Saving More Pit Bulls? Train Them As Service Dog, helping Marines and other people with post-traumatic stress disorder

Bosnia: Drivers Stop Their Car to Rescue Dog Who Leads Them to a Surprise

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Florida Adds 225 Megawatts of Solar Energy: Florida Power & Light expands solar energy, reducing carbon emissions and water waste.
 

Florida Power & Light commissioned 225 megawatts of new solar energy this week in South Florida and committed to building eight new solar power plants by early 2018.

One of the Most Famous Scientists in the World Just Explained Why Trump Is an Existential Threat

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Solidarity in historic tragedy (The Great Famine, The Choctaw Trail of Tears, Chernobyl, Vietnam i.a.) and highlighting the starvation of the world’s poor still today

Every year since 1988 there has been a walk along this route in memory of the Doolough dead and to highlight the starvation of the world’s poor still today. Archbishop Desmond Tutu has done it, the children of Chernobyl have done it. So has the Cellist of Sarajevo, Vedran Smailovic who played daily in his city despite sniper fire in the 1990s while it was under siege. And Kim Phuc - the woman who was made famous in photographs of her as a girl running naked and burned by napalm in Vietnam - she has done it too.

As have Native American Indians. When they learnt of the tragedy in 1849, members of the Choctaw tribe raised $710 which they donated to Irish famine relief. They did so because the story reminded them of their own plight when, 18 years earlier, they were forcibly removed from their land by the white man to make way for modern day Oklahoma. Their march was some 500 miles and they lost lives along the way. The Indians’ march became known as the Trail of Tears.

In 1992 a group of Irish people returned the Choctaw Indians’ kindness by walking the Trail of Tears, raising a huge $710,000 which they donated to famine relief in Africa.

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No Ban, No Wall: Native American and Human Rights Groups Join Forces With Environmental Movement to Stop the Border Wall

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American Muslims Volunteer to Guard Jewish Centers Under Threat

Bernie Sanders, Nina Turner, Civil Rights Leaders Demand Workers' Rights at Mississippi Nissan Factory

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Germany Converts Coal Mine Into Giant Battery Storage for Surplus Solar and Wind Power

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There Is A Cafe In India Where Your Bill Is Already Paid By The Previous Customer


Sir David Attenborough stops rainforest home of elephants and orangutans being destroyed

11 Reasons to Celebrate Wind Energy's Record Year

Sustainable Human - collaborative video and content creation community aiming at helping to change the stories that define our reality (great videos!)

Meet the World's First Island (off the Scottish coast) Powered by an Off-Grid Renewable Energy System

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20,000 Pakistani Schools to Go Solar

Argentina approves measures to save seabirds

Karma Kitchen - Growing in Generosity (See If There's One Near You!)

Based on Seva Cafe: "Your meal was a gift from someone who came before you. To keep the chain of gifts alive, we invite you to pay it forward for those who dine after you." That's Karma Kitchen, a volunteer-driven experiment in generosity.

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100% Clean Energy Bill Launched by Senators to Phase Out Fossil Fuels by 2050

Ahead of the People's Climate March, Senators Jeff Merkley, Bernie Sanders and Ed Markey stood beside movement leaders to introduce legislation that will completely phase out fossil fuel use by 2050. The "100 by '50 Act" outlines a bold plan to support workers and to prioritize low-income communities while replacing oil, coal and gas with clean energy sources like wind and solar.

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New Research Shows That Time Travel Is Mathematically Possible

Biggest US corporates setting ambitious climate targets: new report

5 Schools Moving the Needle on Sustainability

These companies show that sustainability makes better business sense

Growing food without fossil fuels: The example of Taylor Farms

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In Photos: Peoples Climate March Draws 'One Hell of A Lot of People'

Solar has become America’s fastest-growing, nonpartisan energy source

Using Science (Obviously), Bill Nye (“The Science Guy”) Predicts a Vegan Future

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College Students Spend Spring Break Installing Solar on Low-Income Housing

Researchers Can Make Water Out of Thin Air with New Technology

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Serenbe’s New Wellness District Features a Food Forest

Deep in the woods southwest of Atlanta, Serenbe is a unique designed community — a mixed-use development, with clusters of villages comprised of townhouses and apartments fueled by solar panels and heated and cooled by geothermal systems, and vast open spaces with organic farms, natural waste water treatment systems, and preserved forests.

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Massive Victory for Animals Rights as Los Angeles Bans Use of All Wild Animals in Circuses

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Chimps Could Soon Win Legal Personhood

Rights for many intelligent animals could hinge on a one-word edit in a law dictionary.

Could biomimicry revolutionise renewable energy?

A host of new technologies have been inspired by the natural world, as designers increasingly look to biomimicry when to creatinge new ideas for wind turbines, solar cells and hydropower. So could nature hold the answer to unlocking renewable energy?

Perfect beauty: Manmade, conflict-free diamonds

While filming “Blood Diamond,” Leo DiCaprio says he was horrified to learn the brutality mining funded in Africa—so he invested in Diamond Foundry.

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Thank you Nía !!! I have been away and working hard and missed your posts a lot !!!!

tons of love !!!

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Thank you Nía  !!!  I have been away and working hard and missed your posts a lot !!!!

tons of love !!!

Thanks so much, and to you! -`ღ´-

I hope to find the time for again posting positive news soon.

For today, only a short, but amazing video:

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Waking Up - spiritual experiences actually are becoming more common

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From the Worst in Human Nature to the Best: The Positive After-Effects of Tragedy

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Wind Energy Has Officially Become Cheaper Than Fossil Fuels

1.5 million volunteers in India planted 66 million trees in just 12 hours

These 38 amazing immigrants are a reminder of what makes America great

Playful plea for humanity: The world’s most illegal game of volleyball, crossing the US-Mexico border

World’s cutest solar farm in China

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Ste State of Montana Didn’t Accept Refugees—Until These Moms Took Charge

Jimmy Carter just built a solar farm to power half his home town

35 Audacious Ideas to change the future of energy

Groundbreaking new energy storage system mounts to existing poles

Insurance giant shifts entire $130 billion portfolio to ethical investments

World Renowned Scientist Michio Kaku Proves Existence Of God

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Ontario to Launch North America's First Test of Universal Basic Income

Court rules Trump administration can’t just suspend EPA’s methane rule

With ‘more at stake’ than any other city, New Orleans issues climate action strategy

Former UW researcher creates a sanctuary for retired monkeys

Our Best Shot at Meeting Paris Goals? Make Energy Public

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How the Homeless Create Homes

An unfinished nuclear power plant is finally producing energy—solar energy that is

Erin Brockovich Helps Pawnee Nation Sue Fracking Companies Over Induced Earthquakes

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Denver to Get Its First Tiny House Village for the Homeless

Utah’s Ag Gag Law is Declared Unconstitutional

Millennials Are the Biggest Public Library Visitors

Arkansas and Missouri Ban Monsanto-Made Dicamba Weed Killer

Nuns Protest Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline by Building Chapel on Proposed Route