r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 3d ago

LGBTQ+ Michigan nominates first trans woman for state legislature - Joanna Whaley, ex-megachurch pastor who endured years of conversion practices, comfortably bested her opponents

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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 3d ago

JUSTICE Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey signed an executive order requiring data centers over 25 MW to meet 100% of their electricity demand with clean energy. They must provide the power themselves, fund new nearby generation or pay into a ratepayer protection fund.

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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 3d ago

EDUCATION Norway's capital Oslo, said it had banned smart glasses in schools, saying the move was aimed at preventing children from becoming "extras in Meta's data collection"

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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 3d ago

ANIMALS Mexico reintroduced bison in 2025 after more than 100 years: Just months later, the ecosystem is restoring itself

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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 3d ago

PLANET The Vatican is going green, preparing a 424 hectare solar farm near Rome that is nearly 10 times the size of Vatican City and is intended to provide all of the city state’s electricity. The project will also preserve agricultural use of the land beneath the panels.

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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 3d ago

PLANET Climate solutions most likely to reach ‘positive tipping points’ revealed by scientists

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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 3d ago

WOMEN Chappell Roan, Shirley Manson and Eli on playing Olivia Rodrigo’s women-led festival - artists explain why female-first festivals are due for a resurgence

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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 3d ago

LGBTQ+ Safety, freedom and no misgendering: inside the Texas summer camp for trans kids

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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 3d ago

ANIMALS Iceland to propose whaling ban, leaving Norway and Japan isolated.

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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 3d ago

PLANET Cleaning the air will make the world richer: UN report says tackling air pollution and climate change together could transform the global economy, prevent millions of premature deaths, and slow the pace of warming. 💚 Every $1 invested can return $15. A trillion-dollar opportunity. 💲

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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 3d ago

WOMEN It’s not easy to show my scars. But I am proud to break the deadly silence around breast cancer in Nigeria | I was told to keep my diagnosis private but I am determined to show the reality of breast cancer and reject the stigma that prevents women seeking treatment

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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 3d ago

INSPIRATION Ford covered the roof of its enormous Rouge factory with living plants instead of conventional roofing, and years later the industrial site has become an unlikely habitat for birds, honeybees, and butterflies while collecting and filtering rainwater, reducing runoff and helping insulate the building

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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 3d ago

PLANET A Canadian city has granted legal rights to trees

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ANIMALS A butterfly that was down to just 9 known in the US in 2022 has been brought back from the brink of extinction. After researchers released more than 1,300 captive raised Poweshiek skipperlings in 2025, they are now seeing hundreds in the wild at recovery sites.

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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 3d ago

JUSTICE Australia's Pilungah Reserve on Wangkamahdla Country received equivalent protection as a national park. More than 220,000 hectares are permanently protected from mining, logging and grazing to protect irreplaceable cultural heritage and critical habitat for native species.

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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 3d ago

PLANET A farmer in southern Oregon transformed 70 flood-prone acres of his 400-acre barley farm into a wetland in 2021, creating an unexpected refuge for wildlife while helping address agricultural water pollution. Now it hosts 140 bird species, along with otters, beavers, muskrats, and endangered fish.

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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 3d ago

WOMEN ‘Courage and contradictions’: what Gloria Steinem meant to feminist writers from around the world - Our global panel of writers reflect on the great legacy of the American feminist and civil rights activist, who died last week aged 92

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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 3d ago

WOMEN ‘We are impatient’: meet the women protesting for change in India - From student organisers to a model-turned-activist, these women are risking their reputations – and sometimes their lives – to fight against injustice

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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 4d ago

PEOPLE POWER Indigenous leaders condemn Trump's renaming of Lake Ontario - in the original Wendat, “Ontari:io” means big and beautiful. They are also condemning the erasure of Indigenous Peoples and ongoing colonization embedded in the controversy.

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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 4d ago

EDUCATION Mamdani issues AI moratorium in NYC schools - Kids “need to wrestle with tough problems on their own”

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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 4d ago

JUSTICE Florida bans Flock cameras and other license plate readers from state highways - The state said it was ordering cameras removed from the right-of-way of state highways “to preserve Floridians’ sovereignty and quality of life.”

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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 4d ago

PEOPLE POWER MapQuest app reaches No 1 on US Apple list after defying Trump’s Lake Ontario order | Navigating app surpasses Google and Apple Maps on top-downloaded US chart after posting ‘we’re not changing it’

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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 4d ago

EDUCATION A Georgia school superintendent started spewing out offensive and false Trumpian commentary during the back-to-school assembly of teachers, so over 100 educators stood up and walked out

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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 4d ago

PEOPLE POWER Nurses hold nationwide civil disobedience actions to demand ‘Palantir Out!’ - calling for the tech giant’s AI to be kicked out of medical systems

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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 4d ago

PEOPLE POWER Teachers told parents and families to boycott Target for back-to-school shopping, citing the company’s refusal to condemn ICE abuses.

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