Here are this week’s uplifting headlines.
1-5 Uplifting Headlines of the Week
1. Colorado law would bar convicted animal abusers from owning pets. – Source
2. Meet the woman who rented hotel rooms for homeless in Chicago during the dangerous polar vortex. – Source
3. 778.686$ raised to buy unprotected peat forest containing 4% of the population of Orangutans, flat-headed cats, many other critical species and conserving indigenous people’s lands! – Source
4. 11-year-old Ruby Kate Chitsey discovered that residents at the care home where her mother works couldn’t afford simple luxuries, like visits from their dogs. Ruby has now raised $62,000 to help “make life sweeter” for elderly people. – Source
5. Teenagers emerge as a force in climate protests across Europe. – Source
6-10 Uplifting Headlines of the Week
6. Judge upholds state protections for endangered Gray wolves. – Source
7. Oldest Nobel Prize winner Arthur Ashkin invented optical levitation and is working on light concentrators that may give everyone clean, cheap energy. – Source
8. The first and only female in the USA, Chef Dominique Crenn gets her third Michelin Star 2019. – Source
9. Barack Obama’s former chef to use $250,000 lottery winnings to feed the homeless. – Source
10. Pakistan extends full legal protections for trans people as equal citizens, allowing even trans+trans and non-trans+trans people to marry freely. Discrimination, harassment banned. Safe houses to be set up, inheritance rights have been equalized, and trans allowed to run for office and the assembly. – Source
11-15 Uplifting Headlines of the Week
11. Samsung ditches plastic packaging for sustainable materials. – Source
12. NBA star Yao Ming’s dedication to saving elephants and sharks have resulted in an all-time low demand for ivory and shark fins. – Source
13. Three-year-old boy missing in woods for two days says friendly bear kept him safe. – Source
14. Endangered red panda cub found safe after escaping from Belfast Zoo. – Source
15. Supreme Court of Canada says bankrupt energy companies must clean up old oil, gas wells before paying off creditors. – Source
