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Concise two-minute 'shots' of actual good news from around the world. What you focus on determines your life experience! Good News Good Planet was created in 2015 in response to the already growing barrage of discouraging news in the mainstream media. The world is actually full of amazing people doing incredibly good things every day. Find us at goodnewsgoodplanet.com and on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Patreon and Apple Podcasts.
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For more delicious news, go to www.GoodNewsGoodPlanet.com, and scroll to bottom for more ways to find the feel good stuff!*Street VetIt’s often overlooked that people who become homeless are not likely to be able to care for their pets properly. Disturbed by this issue and the rising problem of homelessness in America, California veterinarian Kwane…
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For more delicious news, go to www.GoodNewsGoodPlanet.com, and scroll to bottom for more ways to find the feel good stuff!*Talk to the Hands Over 30 million people use sign language to communicate, but only a fraction of the world's population can understand them—until now. Kenyan inventor Roy Allela has designed a pair of gloves that translate sig…
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For more delicious news, go to www.GoodNewsGoodPlanet.com, and scroll to bottom for more ways to find the feel good stuff!*A Solar Road Trip Recreational Vehicles cost big bucks and are often big gas guzzlers. Can you even imagine travelling across the country in an RV, without regularly fueling up at gas stations? Well, now you can, and you'll be …
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For more delicious news, go to www.GoodNewsGoodPlanet.com, and scroll to bottom for more ways to find the feel good stuff!*Homeless Tiny Homes Sadly, there are over half a million homeless people living across America with varied responses to the problem from the local communities. In San Jose, California, the local nonprofit HomeFirst came up with…
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For more delicious news, go to www.GoodNewsGoodPlanet.com, and scroll to bottom for more ways to find the feel good stuff!*Super Adobe Hormuz is an island south of Iran, in the Persian Gulf. It lays claim to being an historic port that controls shipments of petroleum from the middle east. Its mountainous terrain is jagged and dramatic, full of rich…
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For more delicious news, go to www.GoodNewsGoodPlanet.com, and scroll to bottom for more ways to find the feel good stuff!*Tap the Power Torrents of water flow beneath cities all over the world, creating pressure in their pipelines which must be vented. Lucid Energy in Portland, Oregon, has found a way to harness that pressure and change it into us…
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For more delicious news, go to www.GoodNewsGoodPlanet.com, and scroll to bottom for more ways to find the feel good stuff!*Flip Flop Art For billions of people, colorful, rubbery flip-flops are the most affordable footwear option. But the flimsy shoes don't last long and often end up in dumps, ditches, and waterways. Millions end up in the oceans, …
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For more delicious news, go to www.GoodNewsGoodPlanet.com, and scroll to bottom for more ways to find the feel good stuff!*37 MLK As California's housing crisis deepens, due to skyrocketing rents, many locals have been forced from their long-time homes and are now homeless within their own neighborhoods. But a neighborhood in Oakland shines as an e…
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For more delicious news, go to www.GoodNewsGoodPlanet.com, and scroll to bottom for more ways to find the feel good stuff!*Food from Sun and Sea How do you feed the Earth's growing population with a finite amount of land? You get smart and creative, that’s how, and that's just what the Australian company Sundrop Farms has done. Addressing the incre…
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For more delicious news, go to www.GoodNewsGoodPlanet.com, and scroll to bottom for more ways to find the feel good stuff!*For One Smile Not everyone can afford a beautiful smile. In some countries, dental care is only a dream...as well as a luxury. In Brazil alone, nearly twenty million people have never seen a dentist due to social and economic h…
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For more delicious news, go to www.GoodNewsGoodPlanet.com, and scroll to bottom for more ways to find the feel good stuff!*Teaching Empathy Empathy: the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experiences of another. Empathy is vital for a civilized society to thrive, yet…
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For more delicious news, go to www.GoodNewsGoodPlanet.com, and scroll to bottom for more ways to find the feel good stuff!*“Via Verde” While there are multiple ways to combat air pollution, some ways just aren’t as feasible, especially when trying to combat it in one of the world’s most congested cities. Mexico City, populated by almost 9 million p…
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For more delicious news, go to www.GoodNewsGoodPlanet.com, and scroll to bottom for more ways to find the feel good stuff!*"Street Store"We’ve all seen the homeless rummaging in bins and trash cans to find not only food but often, much needed clothing. Clothing for the homeless has long been an issue, and now a dignified solution has been invented.…
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For more delicious news, go to www.GoodNewsGoodPlanet.com, and scroll to bottom for more ways to find the feel good stuff!*BUS STOP BEESHoney Bees are one of the most important pollinators on the planet. Unfortunately, Honey Bee populations are declining due to human interference on many levels. But there’s a news buzz of hope on the horizon in Eur…
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For more delicious news, go to www.GoodNewsGoodPlanet.com, and scroll to bottom for more ways to find the feel good stuff!*GERMAN WATER TRAINSWhile public transportation is an essential part of a cleaner world, when it comes to trains, most of them run on diesel which emit greenhouse gases and carbon dioxide. But nowthere is an amazing eco-alternat…
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For more delicious news, go to www.GoodNewsGoodPlanet.com, and scroll to bottom for more ways to find the feel good stuff!*CANCER K9SCancer is going to the dogs. While canines are often used to sniff out drugs and bombs, researchers are now using them to nose out certain types of cancer. A British organization called Medical Detection Dogs is condu…
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For more delicious news, go to www.GoodNewsGoodPlanet.com, and scroll to bottom for more ways to find the feel good stuff!*AVOCADO FORK From pit to plasticA Mexican company has created a pollution solution from its most favorite fruit. BIOFASE (Bee-o Fassa) offers a line of cutlery and straws created from avocado pits. Founder Scott Munguia came up…
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For more delicious news, go to www.GoodNewsGoodPlanet.com, and scroll to bottom for more ways to find the feel good stuff!*MEDITATION EDUCATIONYou've heard the term "mind over matter," but how about mind over detention? In America, schools nationwide are replacing detention and discipline with mindfulness programs and meditation, garnering some ama…
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For more delicious news, go to www.GoodNewsGoodPlanet.com, and scroll to bottom for more ways to find the feel good stuff!*THE ABILITY APPFrom disability to ability, with an app. Holding a job, running errands, or just going out to dinner can be challenging for those with disabilities. An Idaho teenager hopes to avert those challenges through the p…
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For more delicious news, go to www.GoodNewsGoodPlanet.com, and scroll to bottom for more ways to find the feel good stuff!*BIO-GASThey say that one man's trash is another man's treasure, and now it’s also another’s power. Garbage collection comes at a high cost, environmentally speaking, due to the colossal amount of fossil fuels trash trucks requi…
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For more delicious news, go to www.GoodNewsGoodPlanet.com, and scroll to bottom for more ways to find the feel good stuff!* GAMING FOR PEACEGaming is everywhere—from cell phones, to video consoles, to tablets, etc. While the majority of games tend to be violent, one young man has developed a game that teaches peace. When Lual Mayan saw his first la…
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For more delicious news, go to www.GoodNewsGoodPlanet.com, and scroll to bottom for more ways to find the feel good stuff!* BIOLOGICAL BUILDINGHistorically, ‘sustainability’ is not a word often associated with the construction industry, and the impact of traditional building methods on our planet are huge considering their sheer scale. The addition…
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For more delicious news, go to www.GoodNewsGoodPlanet.com, and scroll to bottom for more ways to find the feel good stuff!*FOR THE LOVE OF LAKES32-year-old Indian activist, Arun Krishnamurthy, has always had an affinity for the water. Growing up in an Indian neighborhood surrounded by rivers and lakes, he watched with concern as India's waterways b…
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For more delicious news, go to www.GoodNewsGoodPlanet.com, and scroll to bottom for more ways to find the feel good stuff!*FREE FOOD FORESTMore than 23 million people in America live in "food deserts"—low-income areas, mostly in cities, that lack access to fresh, whole foods. Without healthy foods, these populations are at a higher risk for obesity…
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For more delicious news, go to www.GoodNewsGoodPlanet.com, and scroll to bottom for more ways to find the feel good stuff!*ALGAE TILESIndustrial wastewater is a hazard to everyone, and finding ways to clean it before it harms the local community is challenging.Enter Indian Architect, Shneel Malik and her invention,” Indus”, with its Bio-Integrated …
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For more delicious news, go to www.GoodNewsGoodPlanet.com, and scroll to bottom for more ways to find the feel good stuff!*FREE LAUNDRY FOR THE HOMELESSWhen we think of the needs of the homeless, most people think of food pantries, soup kitchens, and shelters. But homeless people have many other needs just like everyone else, like finding a place t…
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For more delicious news, go to www.GoodNewsGoodPlanet.com, and scroll to bottom for more ways to find the feel good stuff!*THE MILKMAN COMETHAs consumers become more aware of the damage plastics do to the environment, more people are turning to a blast from the past—the milkman, and his delivered glass bottles. The trend is surging across Great Bri…
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For more delicious news, go to www.GoodNewsGoodPlanet.com, and scroll to bottom for more ways to find the feel good stuff!*TUTUS IN THE HOODBallerina Aesha Ash is on a mission, to help change the often demoralizing, objectified images of African-American women, and she’s doing it in a tutu. Her ‘Swan Dreams Project’ is aimed at promoting diversity …
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For more delicious news, go to www.GoodNewsGoodPlanet.com, and scroll to bottom for more ways to find the feel good stuff!*FROM WASTELAND TO WONDERLANDIn 1969 fried-chicken tycoon J. David Bamberger had a novel idea: to buy the worst piece of land he could find in the hill country of Texas and restore it back to being one of the best. Inspired by h…
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For more delicious news, go to www.GoodNewsGoodPlanet.com, and scroll to bottom for more ways to find the feel good stuff!* ROMAN THE RESCUERRoman McConn of Augusta, Georgia is not your typical seven-year-old. Every weekend, he visits animal shelters with his mother where he gets to know unwanted pets. He then makes videos with them and uses the in…
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For more delicious news, go to www.GoodNewsGoodPlanet.com, and scroll to bottom for more ways to find the feel good stuff!*PLARNPlastic bags have a huge impact on our planet. Over a hundred billion are used every year worldwide. Each bag takes five hundred years to degrade, releasing chemicals that contaminate our environment as they break down and…
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For more delicious news, go to www.GoodNewsGoodPlanet.com, and scroll to bottom for more ways to find the feel good stuff!*HEDONISTIC SUSTAINABILITYSkiing is big in Denmark even though the country’s landscape happens to be flatter than a pancake. Most enthusiasts travel elsewhere to enjoy their sport, but now Copenhagen offers a ‘powerful’ and uniq…
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For more delicious news, go to www.GoodNewsGoodPlanet.com, and scroll to bottom for more ways to find the feel good stuff!*COMPOST CITYOften real change takes place only when we take matters into our own hands. That’s exactly what New Yorker Kate Zidar decided on instead of waiting for her local government to step up for her city neighborhood. In t…
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For more delicious news, go to www.GoodNewsGoodPlanet.com, and scroll to bottom for more ways to find the feel good stuff!*TREES INSTEAD OF TOMBSTONESWorldwide, death services is a 20 billion dollar industry. Most people don't like to think about death let alone its environmental impact on the Earth. Embalming fluids, caskets, and other aspects of …
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For more delicious news, go to www.GoodNewsGoodPlanet.com, and scroll to bottom for more ways to find the feel good stuff!*DOG FORESTINGWatch out Johnny Appleseed, there's a new kid…or rather dogs…in town, and they're part of an effort to reseed central Chile. In 2017 forest fires devastated the El Maule region, with over 100 fires scorching over a…
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For more delicious news, go to www.GoodNewsGoodPlanet.com, and scroll to bottom for more ways to find the feel good stuff!*"WHERE THE RUBBER IS THE ROAD"We’ve all hit and cursed a pot-hole somewhere along our travels. Pot-holes are everywhere, and repairing them is costly and time consuming. The majority of road damage is caused by bad weather whic…
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For more delicious news, go to www.GoodNewsGoodPlanet.com, and scroll to bottom for more ways to find the feel good stuff!*INVISIBLE ALGAE PLASTICWhen it comes to food packaging, single use plastics have become so normal they’re almost invisible. Lettuce in plastic boxes, cookies in plastic trays, and bread in plastic bags are just some of the ever…
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For more delicious news, go to www.GoodNewsGoodPlanet.com, and scroll to bottom for more ways to find the feel good stuff!*COLLEGE BEHIND BARSThe likelihood of actually being rehabilitated in prison without education is minimal. Studies prove that education is the best insurance against repeat offenders enduring another term of incarceration.Bard C…
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For more delicious news, go to www.GoodNewsGoodPlanet.com, and scroll to bottom for more ways to find the feel good stuff!*A Worm Food Win-WinAs plastics and other non-biodegradable materials pile up in landfills and in our oceans, scientists are looking for new solutions. And solutions that often are already in our mists, are the most promising.St…
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