USA
No more unhoused veterans on the streets after a year into Denver, Colorado's All In Mile High Initiative program. (It has also permanently housed 857 people who are not veterans)
Portland, Oregon partnered with Ground Score via project GLITTER (Ground Score Leading Inclusively Together Through Environmental Recovery) to provide hire unhoused people with jobs; being between $20-29 per hour. More than 70% have gotten a house after working for Ground Score
Michael J. Fox Foundation partners up with Grifols -- a global healthcare company which has collected more than 100 million plasma samples of rare and chronic illnesses -- to identify traits of Parkinson's Disease before it develops
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has ruled to remove medical debt from affecting credit scores. About 49 million dollars will be removed from the credit reports of about 15 million people
World
Recycled toilet paper is made from used diapers in Japan
3d printed house project in Ireland speeds up construction by 35%
Kazakhstan's Aral Sea has had water volume increase by 42% since 1960s Soviet irrigation program split it in two separate bodies of water
200 UK charities and companies sign up for permanent 4 day work week
Over 30 years, Bangladesh has managed to get every citizen access to electricity. Along with that, it has the most dramatic poverty decrease (44.2% in 1991 to 18.7% in 2022)
Fatima and her company El Lama El Helwa gives loans to financially vulnerable women
Blas Jaime has worked with UNESCO and linguist José Pedro Viegas Barros to keep the thought-to-be extinct for over 200 years indigenious Chaná language
Thailand legalized gay marriage along with making hormone therapy free
Animals & Conservation
New blue bee species Andrena androfovea which specializes in pollinating certain plants in the Nightshade family gets finally scientifically named
New species of Pangolin is introduced: Indo-Burmese pangolin (Manis indoburmanica)
Amazon deforestation halved from 10,278 sq km in 2022 to 5,153 sq km (1,989.6 sq miles) in 2023
Bears, elephants, lions, tigers, primates, giraffes banned from Massachusetts traveling circuses
McCormick Convention Center pairs up with the company Feather Friendly to add window deterrents with polka dots on them to lessen bird deaths
New isopod species reaching 12.8 inches and more than 2.2 pounds off the Vietnamese city of Quy Nhơn named Bathynomus vaderi
Bengal Floricans show signs of thriving in captivity
Sources
Portland trash pickup, 2, 3, 4
New blue bee species, 2, 3, 4
New Pangolin, Pangolin ZSI Press
Amazon deforestation, 2, 3, 4
Toilet Paper Japan 1, Toilet Paper CEO press
Massachusetts bill, Massachusetts 2, Massachusetts 3
McCormick, American Bird Conservatory McCormick
Grifols News, Michael J Fox x Grifols
UK work week, 2, 3
Bangladesh, 2, 3, 4
Thailand LGBTQ, 2, 3
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xeviant
ok wait pls continue making these <3 /gen
recently ive been feeling rather misanthropic bc of current global situations, but this makes my faith in humanity slightly return :)
I am. There's so much for February
by Aleks/Jan; ; Report
BoxBot!
Genuinely the best thing ive seen all week, please keep this up!!
Neapolitanbby
This is so cute!! Thank you this is really refreshing <3
Elizabeth♥
You're my hero for this, man. Things seem so bleak in general.
Aleks/Jan
I forgot to put Thailand legalized gay marriage
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