The Positive News Thread

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Beef-Giant Canada Now Promoting a Plant-Based Diet

Britain launches renewables based electricity policy to save consumers billions

5 Tips for Saving the Planet with Sacred Activism

This Pickle Company Achieved Zero Food Waste By Turning Scraps Into Compost And Bloody Marys

Are the empty bedrooms in baby boomer homes a solution to the millennial US housing crunch?

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Meet the Rural Pennsylvania Town at the Forefront of Environmental Law

“We thought they would protect us. They wouldn’t.”

Your Personal Consumption Choices Can’t Save the Planet: We Have to Confront Capitalism

To stave off disaster, we must transform the economic system driving climate change.

Oregon's Siletz River Ecosystem Files Lawsuit to Defend Its Rights

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Renewable Energy Booming after a Decade of Progress

The United States generates nearly eight times as much electricity from the sun and the wind than it did in 2007 – enough to power more than 25 million homes – and the average American uses 10 percent less energy than he or she did 10 years ago, according to a new report by Environment America Research and Policy Center.

Want to Put a Major Dent in Climate Change? Try Adoption

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Electric cars win? Britain to ban new petrol and diesel cars from 2040

Sono Motors is presenting the solar car "Sion" in Munich for the first time

John F. Kennedy’s assassination files released by US National Archives

Protesters gather against Trump ban on transgender troops

Domestic Violence Victims in Washington Will Be Alerted if Their Abuser Tries to Buy a Gun

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A Team of Scientists Just Made Food From Electricity

A Ray of Hope

Confronted with a new round of sanctions against Russia, Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission told Washington that the time has passed when Washington can put its interests first and Europe’s last.

[AnthroHeart]

A Team of Scientists Just Made Food From Electricity

I definitely would love to see hunger end in the world.

I don't know if that will suddenly cause overpopulation though, like an explosion in population.
I didn't find much about that on Google.

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I don't know if that will suddenly cause overpopulation though, like an explosion in population.

With a more wise - and just! - distribution of resources, a less greedy, consumerist lifestyle especially in the Western world, and more sensible ways of cooperating with Earth and our fellow 2D co-habitants, rather than exploiting and poisoning them, pushing them ever further towards extinction, an increasing world population wouldn't be much of a problem, I believe.

Just found this article on the issue in my emails: Over-populated or under-developed? The real story of population growth, which I have to read yet myself.

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Google’s chefs develop plant-based ‘power dish’ to get employees to eat less meat

Conservative billionaire to build America’s largest wind farm

Trump Can't Stop the Transition From a Fossil Fuel Economy to a Greener Future

There are now more U.S. jobs in solar energy than in oil, gas and coal extraction combined.

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#OutragedAndUnafraid: Undocumented Youth Confront Trump's Anti-Immigrant Agenda

The Rolling Resistance: Meet Three Disability Rights Activists Fighting to Save Healthcare

9 Most Effective Ways to Fight Against Climate Change

Four Out of Five Americans Want Factory Farm Abuses to End—Here's How You Can Help

If You've Ever Smoked, You Should Load Up on These Foods to Protect Your Lungs

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U.S. House Votes to End VA's Painful Experiments on Dogs

How Urban Gardening Is Growing a Sustainable Food System for All

Traditional Indigenous Mexican Food Is Among the World's Healthiest—but It's Misunderstood in the U.S.

The First Openly Transgender Infantry Soldier in U.S. Army Speaks out on Trump's New Military Ban

Supporting our children from the stars

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Guinness does good and delivers water – not the black stuff – to waterless village

U.K. takes leadership on ocean plastics with ban on microbeads

Denmark now has 2,030 electric car charging docks and 2,028 gas stations

Researchers develop mobile phone that does not need a battery

The Art of Kaizen: How to Trick Your Brain Into Being Motivated

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Canadian Cities Push for a Federal Ban on Shark Fin Imports

A Healthcare Story to Celebrate: Oregon’s Reproductive Equity Act

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We are all made of stars: half our bodies’ atoms ‘formed beyond the Milky Way’

Grow Food, Not Lawns - Comic: Why You Should Turn Your Yard Into a Mini-Farm

FDA Looks To Trim Nicotine in Cigarettes, Encourage Use of E-Cigarettes

Fourteen Alleged Magical Properties That Coal and Nuclear Plants Don’t Have and Shouldn’t Be Paid Extra for Providing

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Food Waste: A New Law in New Jersey Is Combating Climate and Hunger—at the Same Time

A Carbon-Free City Is Being Built from Scratch

Humpback Whales Learn Songs Just Like Us

10 More Amazing Benefits of Hugging According to Science

4 Endearing Friendships Found in the Wild

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Tesla goes vegan

Jordanian parliament removes law that allows rapists to marry their victims

Designing for the Moment Refugees Become Neighbors

BP in talks with electric carmakers about adding chargers to gas stations

We Can Stop Climate Change Ourselves. This is How.

The Navajo Nation is transitioning from coal to solar

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Putin Declares Russia GMO-Free As They Prepare To Become Top Producer of Organic Food

Canada Has Eliminated The Milk Category From National Food Guide And May Tell Residents To Choose Vegan

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Tesla’s new Solar Roof is actually cheaper than a normal roof

Shocking New Role Found for the Immune System: Controlling Social Interactions

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Nebraskans Install First Solar Panels Inside the Keystone XL Pipeline Route

Millennials Are Speaking Out Against Hardee's and Carl's Jr. for Supporting Torture of Chickens

The First American College to Divest From Fossil Fuels Has Outperformed the Average Investment Return of Hundreds of U.S. Schools

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Psychologists Behind CIA Torture Program Finally Head to Court

Kenyan Girls Develop App to End Female Genital Mutilation

Bali Bans the Dog Meat Trade

Miami Just Banned the Sale of Dogs and Cats in Pet Stores

Washington Redskins Player Goes Vegan and Encourages Teammates to Join Him

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Can a Vegan Diet Fight Depression?

A Manual for a New Era of Direct Action

Court Orders EPA to Reinstate Obama-Era Methane Rule

Far-Reaching Bill Would Legalize Weed, Offer Reparations for War on Drugs

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California to list Glyphosate as cancer-causing

Occupy Spirituality: Prayer And Protest In The Age Of Trump

If Everyone Ate Beans Instead of Beef, the U.S. could almost meet greenhouse-gas emission goals

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Dallas cops do something all cops should do: Meditate

Katerra makes buildings with sustainable wood that are earth quake resistant

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New Zealand Just Made it Legal for Doctors to Prescribe CBD Oil

Why Growing Your Own Organic Food Is One Of The Most Important Things You Can Do In A Corrupt Political System

Pope Francis Gives A Surprise TED Talk Calling For A “Revolution Of Tenderness”

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France leads the world in providing nutrition and handling food waste

How States Across the Country Are Making Universal Health Care Happen in the Face of Rabid GOP Opposition

The renewable energy revolution is in full swing

Largest U.S. organization of doctors urges hospitals to offer plant-based foods

Your brain shows that being generous makes you happy

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Mexico City Says No More Captive Dolphins

Rescued Greyhounds Give Sense of Purpose to Prison Inmates

10 Mental Health Apps for Depression and Anxiety (I'm certainly not a fan of more technology, but some of these could be really helpful.)

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Muslim, Christian, Jewish leaders join Quaker farmers' market campaign for Palestinian human rights

Meet Houston's Latino Police Chief Standing Up to Texas's Anti-Immigrant "Show Me Your Papers" Law

Bipartisan Senate ‎and House Bills Tackle Abusive Shell Company Practices

"We're Ready to Stop It Again": KXL Opponents Flood Nebraska's Capitol

Stories of Indigenous-led Resistance to Oil and Waste

UN Report: Muslim Youth Fighting in Syria Mostly Not Motivated By Islam

You Cannot Begin a Crime in Good Faith

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Canada Opens Montreal Olympic Stadium For Housing Migrants From US

From New York to Los Angeles police departments denounce Donald Trump's endorsement of 'police brutality'

Universal Basic Income Is About Trust and Decency

Planting Resilience to Climate Change

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Neuroscientist Shares How Your Brain Hallucinates To Create Reality (TED Talk)

The Study of Fundamental Consciousness Entering the Mainstream

Indigenous stories lead scientist to discover plants can hear

This LA Musician Built $1,200 Tiny Houses for the Homeless (Video)

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A Bold Clean-Up Plan for Alberta’s Giant Oil Industry Pollution Liabilities

Schwarzenegger Unveils Legislative 'Blueprint' to Challenge Trump on Climate

Oxford study shows what a vegan world could look like... (with video)

Good news from the Sahara, the emerging center of solar energy

Learn how to use the medicines that grow around you