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🗞️ Good News: A wind-powered cargo ship crossed the Atlantic

Friday, September 13, 2024 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. Together with to the weekend! Typically awareness months start on the first day of the month, but Hispanic Heritage Month starts Sunday! (More on that below.) Sounds like this was a particularly long week for a lot of us... try to work in some (non-cliché) self-care time this weekend. Today’s Top Good News Story Photo: Ronan Gladu/TOWT The world’s largest wind-powered cargo ship just made its first...
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🗞️ Good News: New protection against all COVID-19 variants

Thursday, September 12, 2024 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. Together with but first... Yesterday, Hurricane Francine made landfall as a Category 2 hurricane in Louisiana — intensifying from a Category 1 just before hitting the Gulf Coast. We’re on the lookout for stories of hope and helpers (like Megan Thee Stallion did after Hurricane Beryl in July) — we do know that the infamous Cajun Navy is waiting in the wings to help. Today’s Top Good News Story...
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🗞️ Good News: A marine sanctuary protects 100+ miles of coastline

Wednesday, September 11, 2024 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. Together with heroes and helpers... On the anniversary of 9/11, we’d love to re-share the inspiring words of John Feal, a 9/11 first responder who now advocates to ensure healthcare and support for victims and first responders. Comedian and advocate Jon Stewart is also not giving up the fight until the health of every last person impacted by 9/11 is taken care of. Today’s Top Good News Story...
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🗞️ Good News: Finland builds the world’s largest heat pump

Tuesday, September 10, 2024 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. Together with save a life... Today is World Suicide Prevention Day, and this year’s theme is “Changing the Narrative on Suicide” — with a call to action for all of us to “Start the Conversation” to reduce stigma and encourage open dialogue to prevent suicides. And the data shows it really does help: Our friends at Crisis Text Line found that asking hard, vulnerable questions can open the door to a...
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🗞️ Good News: A historic comeback for gray wolves

Monday, September 9, 2024 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. Together with More Good News After announcing her retirement last week, pro women’s soccer player Alex Morgan’s final game on Sunday became the first women’s sports event ever to be shown across multiple outlets at the same time in the U.S. It was a poetic sendoff since Morgan has long advocated for equality in women’s sports, including in broadcasting (that growing movement is alive and well)....
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🗞️ Good News: The world’s biggest battery comes to Maine

Friday, September 6, 2024 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. Together with Today’s Top Good News Story Photo: David Degner/Getty Images The world’s biggest battery is coming to Maine, and it uses a novel lithium-alternative system An energy company just released plans to open the largest battery in the world in Maine, with capacity to store 8,500 megawatt-hours of energy once it is completed. That’s about 130 million times as much energy as a laptop computer...
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🗞️ Good News: New tech brings justice for assault survivors

Thursday, September 5, 2024 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. Together with first, take action... Heartbreakingly, there was another school shooting yesterday in Georgia — at least four people were killed. Despite how regularly this happens, it’s important we don’t get desensitized to it: there are data-backed, proven ways to prevent school shootings. Today would be a great day to contact your elected officials and ask them to pass common-sense gun safety...
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🗞️ Good News: America’s largest dam removal is complete

Wednesday, September 3, 2024 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. Together with First up... After the first case of polio in 25 years was reported in Gaza, health workers have officially started an emergency vaccination drive (and so far, it’s “going well”). Despite humanitarian aid struggling to reach Gaza, UNICEF was able to deliver 1.2 million doses of the polio vaccine to help boost the drive. Today’s Top Good News Story Photo: Carlos Avila Gonzalez/Hearst...
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🗞️ Good News: Clean energy hits a new global milestone

Tuesday, September 3, 2024 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. Together with Today’s Top Good News Story Photo: Michael Förtsch / Unsplash For the first time ever, zero-carbon sources made up over 40% of the global electricity generated in 2023 The global clean energy transition is making record-breaking progress — and is projected to contindue doing so. New reports showed that zero-carbon sources made up over 40% of electricity generated globally last year....
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🗞️ Good News: Over $160k raised for LGBTQ+ and human rights

Friday, August 30, 2024 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. Together with Heads up: There will be no Goodnewsletter in your inbox on Monday, September 2nd. Our team will be commemorating Labor Day, and will be back to filling your inbox with good news on Tuesday! Today’s Top Good News Story Photo: Lucienne Nghiem Pop star Chappell Roan is using her meteoric rise to fame for good — raising over $160,000 for LGBTQ+ and reproductive rights During pop star...

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