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Good News This Week: March 1, 2025 - Hostels, Trees, & Albums

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A string of biodegradable Mardi Gras beads is made from 3D-printed bio-based plastics. The gold, purple, and green beads sit on a plain black backdrop.

Mardi Gras beads take up to 500 years to decompose, so these LSU students designed a biodegradable alternative

The PlantMe Beads have been nearly four years in the making.
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A shipping container home sits near a bayou in Louisiana under a navy blue night sky

Hurricane Katrina survivor builds 'durable' shipping container homes for others displaced by disaster

After living through his own share of loss, Joshua Clark has created affordable homes to withstand future disasters.
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A "road closed" sign gates off Manzanita Lake in Lassen Volcanic National Park

Federal budget cuts are impacting national parks. Here are 5 ways you can help

National parks are in trouble due to federal budget cuts. Here’s what’s happening and how you can help.
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Two photos side by side. On the left, four people stand in front of a shipping container. On the left, a Palestinian man holds up two large, green bundles of Nepali mustard greens inside of a hydoponic garden.

Shipping container transformed into indoor farm that feeds immigrants for free: 'Forefront of innovative agriculture'

Food grown by Village Hydroponics is distributed among Nepali, Somali, Iraqi, Congolese, and Burundi communities.
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A photo collage of people standing in front of a hotel converted into a housing complex, a woman talking to a man, Billie Eilish performing on stage, activists carrying signs, and an aerial view of a North Carolina school district

Good News This Week: February 8, 2025 - Quilts, Hotels, & Veterans

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A few from nature featuring mountaintop removal in Letcher County, Kentucky

Activists buy a prison site to rewild the land: 'A sign of progress'

Once a coal mine, then slotted to be a prison, a group of activists are working to reclaim the land.
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Jelly Roll sings on stage at Rose Bowl Stadium

Jelly Roll (and friends) host benefit concert for 16,000 of LA's incarcerated firefighters, first responders

Paid for by Live Nation, the free Rose Bowl show included guests like Marshmello, Lainey Wilson, and Shinedown.
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A photo collage of an aerial view of a forest, a tablet displaying imagery of genetic editing, a young girl wearing a Taylor Swift The Eras Tour shirt, a section of a vertical farm, and a row of solar panels in a solar farm

Good News This Week: February 1, 2025 - Shovels, Forests, & Vertical Farms

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A woman in a blue safety vest stands next to a large trash receptacle and holds a trash pick-up stick

Portland pays homeless residents to clean up trash: 'This gives people purpose'

Currently or formerly homeless workers get paid $20-29 an hour and have access to an array of benefits.
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A photo collage of a corner of an empty kitchen, recycled rolls of toilet paper made from disposable diapers, a close-up shot of Marcus Freeman smiling, a man sits next to a coffee cup recycling machine, and a power plant factory seen from a distance

Good News This Week: January 25, 2025 - Diapers, Coffee Cups, & Houses

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A collage of celebrities and YouTubers including Jean Smart, Ke Huy Quan, Josh Brolin, Ben Schwarts, Jason Segel, Rhett and Link, The Try Guys, and more.

Try Guys, Jason Segel, Josh Gad, others raise over $1 million for LA wildfire relief in YouTube stream-a-thon

Here’s where you can stream and catch the highlights.
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