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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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🗞️ Good News: A middle school’s free grocery store is now open

Thursday, August 29, 2024 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. Together with good love... Tennis player Naomi Osaka made a victorious (and emotional!) return to the U.S. Open, securing her first top-10 win in over four years — with zero unforced errors in the first set. Osaka made headlines in 2021 when she withdrew from the French Open for her mental health — her decision added so much to the conversation around pro athletes and mental health. Today’s Top Good...
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🗞️ Good News: The first lung cancer vaccine is in trials

Wednesday, August 28, 2024 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. Together with Bonjour again, Paris... The Paris 2024 Paralympic Games kick off today! Tune in to the Opening Ceremony live at 2:00 PM ET on USA Network or Peacock. The Paralympics have promised an “unprecedented,” “unforgettable” ceremony… perhaps rivaling the epic Paralympic Flame-lighting moment from Beijing 2008? Today’s Top Good News Story Photo: Aaron Chown/PA Trials for the world’s first-ever...
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🗞️ Good News: The largest-ever grant for national parks

Tuesday, August 27, 2024 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. Together with get outside/the vote... As a primer for today’s top story, you should read about the crews that restored a damaged landscape in Yosemite back to conditions it hadn't seem for 150 years. Commemorating National Early Voting Day, Patagonia announced it will be closing its offices and stores and giving employees a paid day off on October 29, 2024 to vote early and volunteer. Today’s Top...
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🗞️ Good News: A historic elephant release in South Africa

Monday, August 26, 2024 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. Together with First up... Today is Women’s Equality Day! It commemorates the adoption of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution giving women the right to vote — and we can thank so many hard-working suffragists for it. Did you know? America gave women the right to vote in 1920, but 12 countries beat them to it (the first was in the 1800s)! Today’s Top Good News Story Photo: Four Paws The last...
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🗞️ Good News: UK students learn to spot misinformation

Friday, August 23, 2024 Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. Together with up First... The FDA approved two updated COVID-19 vaccines to offer better protection for more recent strains of the virus. In the most “unremarkable” way, the Walz family shows us all exactly what neurodivergent people need: to be embraced, not fixed. Today’s Top Good News Story Photo: Multnomah County, Oregon A collaborative initiative successfully housed over 5,500 formerly homeless...

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