Here are this week’s uplifting headlines.
1-5 Uplifting Headlines of the Week

1. Netherlands opens world’s first plastic-free supermarket aisle as the UK urged to follow example: “For decades shoppers have been sold the lie that we can’t live without plastic in food and drink”. – Source
2. Dog deemed “unadoptable” to become first-ever deaf K-9 in Washington. – Source
3. “He was not dying and that was that” Woman saved husband’s life by performing CPR for 30 minutes at home. – Source
4. Life imitates art as Disney opens STEM center in Oakland with that Black Panther money. – Source
5. Dolly Parton donates 100 millionth book to children. – Source
6-10 Uplifting Headlines of the Week




6. Shaquem Griffin was born with amniotic band syndrome affecting his left hand. At age four, his mother found him in the kitchen, attempting to use a butcher’s knife to self-amputate his fingers due to the pain. He is currently breaking records at the NFL combine. – Source
7. A fund raised in memory of Philando Castile, who was killed by police, pays off entire lunch debt for St. Paul schools. – Source
8. A photographer snaps cancer-stricken kids as superheroes. Pictures takeoff digital artist Josh Rossi photographed six children with life-threatening illnesses and disabilities as members of the Justice League. – Source
9. Black Panther increasing adoption of black cats (often the least likely to be adopted). – Source
10. More than 200 Quebec doctors oppose proposed pay raise for themselves: They want the provincial government to backtrack on plans for pay hikes, saying other employees in the healthcare industry such as nurses are continuing to work under tough conditions. – Source
11-15 Uplifting Headlines of the Week
11. Tiny Canada town defeats oil firm in a court fight over drinking water, bringing an end to a four-year ordeal. Quebec township of 157 people was facing a million-dollar lawsuit from an oil and gas exploration company, after it created a no-drill zone, fearing for its water supply. – Source
12. The farmer who couldn’t slaughter his cows is turning his farm vegan. – Source
13. Milkmen are returning to London as millennials order glass milk bottles in a bid to slash plastic waste. – Source
14. Hero military veteran, 88, declares “fear is not in my dictionary” as he saves a woman from five knife-wielding robbers. – Source
15. UK mosques open doors to homeless as temperatures plunge. – Source
#24- This is the most uplifting thing I’ve heard in a long time… good for him for being brave enough to say what we all know, that indigenous people in the America’s were systematically slaughtered, removed from their homelands, and had their culture stolen.
We all know it’s true, but so many of us don’t want to even think about it.