Today's good thing is the fact that this amazing woman lived 99 years on this planet, and used those 99 years to put love and good into the world. Today's good thing is that we all lived this far into our lives with her in the world. That will always be a good thing.
Today's good thing: It'll be interesting to see if this is possible on such a large scale...
Today's good thing: This is a good new step in collecting microplastics, but we also need to keep working on reducing or eliminating them entirely. But, a step is a step!
Today's good thing: Trying to throw a nuclear bomb in a hurricane is a terrible idea, but this, could be an amazing idea!
Today's good thing: This is great! And also horrifying that they have to buy back their own land, but ultimately, this is good...!
Today's good thing: Good news for buying less "stuff" and fixing what we already have!
Today's good thing: It's probably too late for these guys, but hopefully for the future, it will mean less mink in cages and more just doing their mink thing...
Today's good thing: This is how it should be everywhere. This is equality and equity.
Today's good thing: Working to help the microplastics issue is a very good thing!
Today's good thing: Saving the bees and solving the food crisis? An amazing twofer!
Today's good thing: Ford is making some good choices that looks like it'll also lead to some good employment opportunities to boot!
Today's good thing: This is wonderful news! It's good to see, if we can work on reducing our nonsense, the earth will take care of itself.
Today's good thing: I've posted stories about CRISPR before but it just continues to amaze me as a technology!
Today's good thing: This is incredible. She may be a Republican, but she is the one who started our state's mail-in ballot system back in the day, and has overseen it ever since. She even responded to my email last year when TFG was disparaging voting by mail. I'm hoping this will lead to mail-in ballots becoming a nationwide option, as it should be. Our elections are in good hands with her. And to join the Biden administration shows that she truly puts country before party. And this is a smart move on the Biden administration. By putting a Republican in charge of this, the party can't say that mail-in voting isn't safe. I'm reminded of Ainsley Hayes...
Today's good thing: If there were more people like this in the country, we'd be far better off...!
Today's good thing: This is a good way to help food get to the people who need it most.
Today's good thing: Reclaiming and reestablishing languages is always a good thing!
Today's good thing: Finding useful ways to use plastic waste is always a good thing!
Today's good thing: Hopefully this will be a good thing for caribou in the future!
Today's good thing: This new form of vaccine for covid is going to revolutionize the health of this planet for other illnesses...
Today's good thing: Hopefully this is the first of many renames to come in colonized lands.
Today's good thing: Finding the cause means we can work on a cure. This is a vital first step.
Today's good thing: India making a very good life choice is today's good thing!
Today's good thing: Today we commemorate a sad historical event that had to do with airplanes and airports. Here is something good with airports...
Today's good thing: Alternatives to AC to cool buildings will be vital in combating climate change.
Today's good thing: This is a great example of everybody being able to do something to help others.
Today's good thing: Stevie Nicks making good life choices might save lives. This is a great thing.
Today's good thing: Regrowing cleared rainforests is a big task, but a very important one.
Today's good thing: A lot of times it feels like our justice system doesn't work very well, but sometimes it seems to, and those are the best moments!
Today's good thing: After my mosquito bites a couple weeks ago, this sounds pretty good!
Today's good thing: Legos making a change for the better is today's good thing!
Today's good thing: Israel's got some good plans to help combat climate change!
Today's good thing: Bringing coding to places that don't have many educational opportunities is definitely a good thing!
Today's good thing: Hopefully this will help mitigate the damage they're guilty of...
Today's good thing: Vaccines for bees! Or I dunno, they could just stop using pesticides...!
Today's good thing: Green construction is the future. We'd better start catching up to it!
Today's good thing: It's wonderful that this man is making use of waste, but it would be even better if it didn't exist in the first place. Can bring yourself to quit for your own health? Maybe try to do it for the health of the planet?
Today's good thing: Green tractors to make farming more environmentally friendly is definitely a good thing!
Today's good thing: There's a whole new world to come with gene therapy, if done right...!
Today's good thing: Looks like the UK is making some good environmental choices!
Today's good thing: This is a bit different from what I usually do, but I had a great experience that I wanted to tell people about. I have ordered teas and spices throughout the pandemic from Market Spice's website and have always had wonderful experiences. It was impossible to find bulk spices during the worst of the pandemic, and the Pike Place Market was closed to customers, so I used their website and ordered them online.
A couple weeks ago, I placed another order with their Memorial Day sale and got some great deals! Unfortunately, something went wrong with the shipping and the package was seemingly lost, even though the tracking said it was delivered. I contacted them and asked if they would replace the package or refund my money, and they kindly offered to replace it at not cost, and ship it a more secure way, also at no extra cost, which I gratefully accepted.
Two days later, the new package arrived, and lo and behold, so did the lost original package! I now had two! Of course I reached out to them and offered to return the new one or bring it to the store at the Pike Place Market, which is now open to customers again. They replied today that since it wasn't too big of an order, to go ahead and keep it or share it with others. It was so nice of them! It might not be a big order, but it's still a loss for them. I will be sharing the extra items with my friends, family, and coworkers, but I also wanted to get the word out of how great they treated me, and how great their teas and spices are.
If you need bulk spices, definitely check them out. They always seem to have great sales for holidays, and their shop at the Pike Place Market is open again. They have definitely made a loyal customer out of me! And so, they are today's good thing!
Today's good thing: Improving battery technology is vital to moving away from fossil fuels. Let's hope this helps!
Today's good thing: Good news for endangered wolves and the zoos taking care of them!
Today's good thing: This sounds gross, but it's actually a great idea. And I bet it's not as stinky as it sounds...!
Today's good thing: Goods news for conservation and national park spaces in the world!
Today's good thing: Technological advances that help people with disabilities is always a good thing!
Today's good thing: So many things being done to restore the coral reefs! This is great!
Today's good thing: Technological advances in wind power can help conserve even more energy!
Today's good thing: This is a good list to help us all be nicer to one another. This is a good month for us to put this into practice!
Today's good thing: "Personalized anti-cancer vaccine" is not something I'd ever see, but how cool is this?!
Today's good thing: Walmart has a lot of sins to atone for. This is one little way they can begin to make amends.
Today's good thing: Singapore making bold choices for solar power is a good thing!
Today's good thing: I shared about Japan's lofty plans to tackle climate change, but here's one of the ways they're planning to do it!
Today's good thing: sustainable, renewable diesel fuel is definitely a good thing!
Today's good thing: I hope Japan can reach their goal and that more nations join in, as well!
Today's good thing: I didn't know sunscreen was harming coral reefs, but I'm glad to hear help is on the way!
Today's good thing: This needs to happen at all museums, but it's a great start!
Today's good thing: Some of these corporations have a long way to go to help fix what they've messed up over the years, but this a start...
Today's good thing: Australia making good life choices for our oceans is always a good thing!
Today's good thing: Another idea to soak up microplastics in our water. We've seen a lot of these ideas over the years. Seems to me it's time to start implementing them. All of them.
Today's good thing: Great possibilities for curing some of the world's most devastating diseases is always good news!
Today's good thing: Preserving languages and fighting covid is a very good twofer!
Today's good thing: Still not a fan of big banks, but I have to give praise when it's due...
Today's good thing: There are a lot of tides in the world. Maybe we can make use of them!
Today's good thing: The Middle East has a huge need for us all the address climate change. Eventually it'll be uninhabitable for humans if we don't. I hope this is successful.
Today's good thing: Who knew that all levels of policing and justice in this country would be improved with more empathy?!!!
Today's good thing: This is such a brilliant idea to help hungry people in this country!
Today's good thing: This could be a game changer in vaccinations. It makes me wonder what else MRNA could be used to cure...
Today's good thing: Goldman Sachs is definitely problematic, but this is a very good thing!
Today's good thing: Another case of nature having all the answer for what ails us...
Today's good thing: Canada doing its part to help reduce illegal fishing is a very good thing!
Today's good thing: It's shameful that food insecurity exists in the richest nation on the planet, but at least there are things like this to help.
Today's good thing: The time has come to have a conversation on the concept of a universal income.
Today's good thing: In spite of the influx of new computer and phone products, we are seeing less waste, overall, which is a very good thing!
Today's good thing: Costa Rica wants to save the planet! Let's all join in to help!
Today's good thing: Good for Ford! They do that in Europe, it's only a matter of time before it's just standardized planet-wide.
Today's good thing: Sanctuary is a good thing, but being able to leave it, is even better!
Today's good thing: I'm happy to hear that Indigenous peoples are starting to get some of their land back.
Today's good thing: U.S. airlines are pledging to combat climate change. This is very good!
Today's good thing: Philadelphia has some lofty goals. I hope they achieve them!
Today's good thing: Bezos and Amazon have a lot they could work on, as a company, but this is a good thing, regardless.
Today's good thing: Colorado has some lofty goals to protect the environment. I hope they succeed!
Today's good thing: The EU has made some good life choices with renewable energy.
Today's good thing: Good news for bikers who like to go on cross country biking trips!
Today's good thing: Some perspective, and maybe a chance to take a deep breath before we jump back into the fight for our planet.
Today's good thing: Garment workers in Bangladesh are getting a chance at an education and a better future.
Today's good thing: This is revolutionary for people who can't bend or use their hands or arms to put shoes on. This is a win against ableism!
Today's good thing: Debt forgiveness is always a good thing. It's such a good thing, it even made it into the Lord's Prayer. If only more people practiced what they prayed...!
Today's good thing: We focus on endangered animals, and rightly so. But it's good to know that there are always new kinds of animals popping up all the time too!
Today's good thing: The Middle East is going to be negatively impacted by climate change a lot in the future, so this plan will be really amazing if they can pull it off. It might become the wave of the future for the whole planet!
Today's good thing: Helping people living in food deserts is always a good thing!
Since my first set of good things posts were a countdown of days till the Inauguration yesterday, it only seemed fitting to keep going in that vein. So, 1459 is the amount of days from now till the 2025 presidential inauguration, only this time, it's an arbitrary marking of time, and not something I'm really looking forward to!
Today's good thing: Jeff Bezos has a lot to catch up on in terms of donations. MacKenzie Scott is doing way better than him!
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I made this screencap to commemorate this day. This day worthy of joyous celebration. I started this project part way through the Trump presidency as a way to remind myself that there are still, even in this time, even in the worst of worst times, good things happening in the world. The world is falling apart, a pandemic is ravaging the planet, people in power are choosing to work only to get richer, and the "little" people are suffering. But there are still good things happening, and they deserve to be known and remembered. They deserve our attention.
I have thought long and hard about what to do when this man's presidency comes to an end. Do I wrap up this project? It takes a lot of work to track down the good news stories. Maybe I should just be done with it. But there is still a huge need to remind ourselves that there is good in the world, even with a new administration, that I feel compelled to keep going with it. I will probably tweak the format a bit, but I get enough out of this that I don't want to stop it now.
So, if you have enjoyed reading these posts over the last couple years, you'll get to continue enjoying them!Today's good thing: Norway is helping to keep rain forests intact. This is a very good thing!
Today's good thing: This is fantastic news. I've shared stories about CRISPR before, and it's just wonderful to see that it's still doing so much good for people.
Today's good thing: This is a cool business. I wish these brothers the best of luck!
Today's good thing: Just more proof that nature always has all the answers and solutions to our problems...
Today's good thing: A possible palm oil alternative that could help save the world's rain forests!
Today's good thing: There has been a great stride made to eradicate malaria worldwide. This is very good news!
