13/08/2023
UPLIFTING POSITIVE NEWS IN OUR WORLD 🌎❤️
Today there is a lot of good news and wonderful actions that are happening around us.
Although they do not appear in the media, these actions are changing the planet and humanity while social networks are full of hate and negativity.
We can help dissolve the darkness by being the change and creating a cultural change in our workplaces businesses and through entrepreneurship.
Here’s your good news and inspiration feed compiled from various sources:
- The Norwegians have decided not to drill oil wells in the Lofoten Islands (with 53 million dollars in oil reserves) to preserve the ecosystem of the islands.
- For the first time in Malawi's history, a woman has been elected Speaker of the country's parliament. Esther Challenge has canceled more than 1,500 underage marriages and sent them back to school.
- Swedish donors receive a thank you text every time their blood saves people.
- Thanks to the Endangered Species Law, the population of sea turtles almost in danger of extinction has increased by 980%.
- Thai supermarkets stopped using plastic bags and started wrapping their purchases in banana leaves.
- Holland became the first country without stray dogs.
- South Korea organizes dance parties for people over 65 to fight dementia and loneliness.
- In Rome, you can pay for a ticket on the metro using plastic bottles. Thus, 350,000 bottles have already been collected.
- California restricts the sale of dogs, cats and rabbits in stores so people can bring pets from shelters.
- Rice farmers around the world are starting to use duck fields instead of pesticides. Ducks eat insects and pinch weeds without touching the rice.
- Canada enacted a law that prohibits the use of dolphins in the entertainment industry.
- The Netherlands plants the roofs of hundreds of bus stops with flowers and plants specifically to feed bees.
- Iceland became the first country in the world to legalize equal pay for men and women.
- German circuses instead of animals use their holograms to stop the exploitation of animals in circuses.
- The LarvalBot underwater robot sows the bottom of the Great Barrier Reef with microscopic corals grown specifically for the restoration of the ecosystem endangered by sea pollution.
- To reduce the number of suicides, Sweden organized the world's first psychiatric ambulance
- An Indian village celebrates the birth of each girl by planting 111 trees. 350,000 trees have already been planted so far
- Thanks to the ban on hunting humpback whales, their population has grown from several hundred to more than 25,000
- The Netherlands has built five artificial islands specifically for the conservation of birds and plants. Two years later, there are already 30,00 m birds living there and 127 species of plants are thriving.
What good news do you have?
What is your contribution to pushing back the darkness and confusion in the world this week?
