Good News Headlines 1/3/17
Game Changer For Elephants: China To Ban Ivory Trade By End Of 2017
by Elly Pepper, NRDC
China will begin phasing out registered legal ivory processors and traders by March 31, 2017 and shut down its legal commercial ivory trade completely by December 31, 2017… Read More
There’s Hope: Fewer Teens Are Doing Drugs Than Ever Before
by Karen Weintraub, USA Today
American teenagers are the best behaved they’ve ever been — drinking and smoking less and doing fewer drugs than their predecessors in more than 40 years of tracking… Read More
Costa Rica Ran Almost Entirely On Renewable Energy In 2016
by Maria Gallucci, Yahoo! News
Renewables supplied about 98.1 percent of Costa Rica's electricity for the year, the Costa Rican Electricity Institute (ICE) said in mid-December. Fossil fuels provided the remaining 1.9 percent… Read More
Muslim Women Catch Up To – And Even Surpass – Male Counterparts In Education
by Story Hinckley, The Christian Science Monitor
In Qatar for example, the richest country in the world, 51 percent of young female adults have a higher education, compared with 34 percent of their male counterparts… Read More
Uber Driver Saves 16-Year-Old Girl From Sex Trafficking
by Brian Latimer, NBC News
For Uber driver Keith Avila, Monday's shift in Sacramento, California started out like any other — but ended with him helping save a 16-year-old girl from child sex trafficking… Read More
This Woman Offered To Pay For All Adoptions At An Animal Shelter
by Duncan Strauss, The Washington Post
When Sacramento real estate agent Kim Pacini-Hauch visited Gina Knepp, the director of that city’s Front Street Animal Shelter, she had no inkling she’d soon make a decision that would dramatically alter the shelter’s fortunes… Read More
U.S. Citizens Are Protecting Twice As Much Land As The National Parks
by McKinley Corbley, Good News Network
The United States prides itself on the beauty and expanse of our national parks – but although thousands of acres of precious American wilderness are protected by the National Park Service, a new census shows that private citizens are protecting twice as much land… Read More
‘Friendship Benches’ Alleviate Mental Illness Symptoms For Thousands
from Good News Network
Their office hours are spent on simple wooden seats, called Friendship Benches, on the grounds of mental health clinics around Harare and other major cities in Zimbabwe… Read More
Healing The Homeless With Grow Good
by Mackenzie Marcotte, Food Tank
Grow Good began as a source of fresh produce for the neighboring Salvation Army shelter but has grown to represent something else for the shelter’s residents, many of whom require long-term rehabilitation before re-entering the workforce… Read More
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