Today’s Top Good News Story

LEGO just announced new accessibility standards at its stores to make them more inclusive for all

​April is Autism Acceptance Month, and LEGO just announced it’s celebrating by partnering with KultureCity, a nonprofit focused on sensory inclusion and accessibility, to make its stores more accessible for all LEGO lovers.

In addition to all-new comprehensive staff training, every LEGO store will offer “sensory bags” created by a team of research professionals and neurodivergent developers. They include noise-reducing headphones, a visual cue card, and more.

A store manager said they’ve already seen how the training and inclusion initiative has reshaped shopping experiences for customers — and their neurodivergent customers echo those sentiments.

What’s even better: Already this year, the LEGO Foundation’s Play For All Accelerator program has disbursed over $11 million in grants to five organizations that center on the development of innovative toys, products, and services for neurodivergent children around the world. LEGO also recently started mass-producing Braille bricks.

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It’s time to “Pivot” to a new pair of glasses

​Pair Eyewear knows it can be boring to wear the same glasses day after day.

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More Good News

​A building in Detroit was transformed into permanent housing for veterans experiencing homelessness. Four organizations in the city and a national partner are using data to reduce homelessness toward “functional zero.”

​Thousands of farmers in Africa have reforested a combined area about seven times the size of Manhattan in less than 10 years. The TREES program helps farmers swap monoculture crops for biodiverse forest gardens, which provide food, protect the soil, and improve tree cover.

​Every new mom in Flint, Michigan is getting cash aid for an entire year. The city has one of the country's highest rates of child poverty, and is rolling out the new benefits to wipe out deep poverty during a crucial time for child development.

Good Progress To Celebrate

More people care about climate change around the world than you might think

Data shows that globally, a significant majority of people in countries around the world both worry about climate change and support policies to address it. At the same time, this level of concern is also consistently underestimated by most people.

In recently published research, 59,000 people across 63 countries were surveyed and 86% said they believed in climate change — that action was needed, humans caused it, it was a serious threat to humanity, and/or a global emergency.

Even in the country with the lowest agreement, 73% still agreed it was a serious threat.

More research surveyed nearly 130,000 people across 125 countries, and 89% wanted to see more political action for climate change, and 69% said they’d contribute at least 1% of their income to support efforts to address climate change.

Not only is it encouraging to know that the majority of your friends, family, and neighbors (all over the world!) agree that climate change is a major issue — but this knowledge can also help governments, companies, and even individuals take meaningful climate action.

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More Good bits

📆 This month, we’re celebrating Arab American Heritage Month!​

🗳️ The first Gen Z member of Congress is hopeful about his generation’s future in politics.​

♻️ We’re environmentalists, of course we recycle! (While addressing broken systems, too).

✈️ Reusable cups like the view from 30,000 feet, too.

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What’s good?

Even though I’m really passionate about climate action, even I get a little tripped up and nervous to talk about it!

Did you find it encouraging to know that most people want to see action, too?

Hit “reply” and let me know!

— ​​Megan