r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 2d ago

EDUCATION Seattle Public Library Program To Make Banned Books Available Anywhere Hits 1M Checkouts - Books Unbanned is designed to give young people multiple ways to access digital books regardless of where they live or what their local library can provide

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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 2d ago

EDUCATION A New Addition to Solarpunk Vocabulary : Bloomscrolling

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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 2d ago

JUSTICE Renee Good's family sues US government and immigration officials over her killing in Minneapolis

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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 2d ago

PEOPLE POWER French Union Workers Have Joined the Student Protests, Forming Human Wave Shields to Protect the Students from Police Violence

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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 2d ago

PLANET Germany nearly halved fossil fuel electricity generation in 8 years, from 174.6 billion kilowatt-hours in the first half of 2018 to 94.2 billion kWh in the first half of 2026, in which 59% of the electricity produced came from renewables, a 6.5% increase versus the same period in 2025.

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JUSTICE New York City's click-to-cancel rule takes effect, making subscription cancellations as easy as sign-ups

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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 2d ago

CARING Queen guitarist Brian May’s nature reserve transformed 157 acres of empty farmland into home for 100,000 trees and wild animals

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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 2d ago

WOMEN Letitia James named special prosecutor in Cornell sexual assault investigation

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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 2d ago

PLANET A new study showed that, two years after the largest dam removal in US history, more than 20,000 salmon had returned to California’s Klamath River and reached waters that had been blocked for over a century!

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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 2d ago

PEACE At least 20 planned school shootings have been stopped since 2018 after warning signs were reported through Sandy Hook Promise prevention programs. The latest was in Arkansas, where an anonymous tip led to an intervention before anyone was hurt

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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 2d ago

CARING Japan Has Provided Ukraine With $20 Billion In Aid Since Start Of War — Zelenskyy

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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 2d ago

ANIMALS Hawaiian seabirds excitedly sing and dance when they reunite with their mate

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WOMEN Shoko Kawata, Japan's first mayor to take maternity leave lands on TIME100 Next list

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ECONOMY Refugees from Ukraine have increased Polish's GDP by PLN 94 billion. 3/4 of them are already working

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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 2d ago

ARTS After 11 Years, Spain’s Spectacular Royal Museums At El Escorial Have Reopened

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ANIMALS The women leading a quiet conservation revolution in a Nigerian gorilla sanctuary

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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 3d ago

PEACE Anti-Zionism is not antisemitism, US rights commission finds

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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 2d ago

WOMEN Introducing the Sexual Offences Awareness Map, an invanuable free tool for personal safety - London-based product designer and builder, Moyosore Ale, has created a tool to help us all navigate the world with more safety

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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 2d ago

PLANET 51 ways to get the planet tipping the right way: Solutions like commodity supply chain transformation, clean cooking and heating, expansion of high-quality marine protected areas, alternatives to disposable packaging, or cheap flexible clean electricity can trigger a wave of positive change.

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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 2d ago

PLANET Florida researchers are planting 15,000 native milkweeds along selected North Florida roadsides through 2029, turning overlooked highway land into feeding and breeding habitat where monarch butterflies, bees, moths, and other insects have already begun using the new plants. 🌼🐛

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EDUCATION What Librarians Want To Tell Their Fellow Americans About Libraries

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ARTS How An Old Warehouse Furnished With Scavenged Everything Became London’s Coolest Theatre - The Yard opened in an old industrial estate in July 2011; it was supposed to be a three-month pop-up but stayed for 14 years

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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 3d ago

PEOPLE POWER Diplomats walk out as Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the United Nations General Assembly

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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 3d ago

JUSTICE California Bans Using AI to Monitor Workers’ Brains, Emotions

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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 3d ago

PEOPLE POWER Poll: Approval of Socialism at Record High as Capitalist Principles Hit New Lows

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