Good News Headlines 11/1/16

Skateboarding Is Helping Kids Stay Kids A Little Longer In Afghanistan
by Maija Liuhto, Good Magazine
Every Thursday, Najib and his friends Sadiq Naqibullah and Farzad Bashir walk 30 minutes each way from their neighborhood in eastern Kabul to spend an hour learning how to skateboard… Read More
Harvard Dining Service Workers Say They ‘Achieved Every Goal’ With New Contract
by Fred Thys, WBUR
Harvard said its dining services will resume full operations over the next few days and looks forward to welcoming its dining services employees back to campus… Read More
Meet The Tiny Towns Taking On Climate Change
by Kate Yoder, Grist
Take some inspiration from the tiny communities around the world that are taking the fight against climate change seriously, sluggish politicians and pessimistic couch potatoes be damned. When the rest of us just can’t even, these little towns could — and did… Read More
3D Printed Organ-On-A-Chip May Replace Animal Testing
by McKinley Corbley, Good News Network
Built by a fully automated, digital manufacturing procedure, the 3D-printed heart-on-a-chip can be quickly fabricated in customized form factors allowing researchers to easily collect reliable data for short-term and long-term studies… Read More
Job-creating Bags Will Reuse Lifejackets And Boats Of Refugee Crisis
by Kimberley Mok, Treehugger
Didi Aaslund and Floor Nagler of No Mad Makers are launching a project they call Bag2Work, which aims to employ resettled refugees in making sturdy rucksacks made from the materials recycled from boats and lifejackets used during the migrants' dangerous crossing across the sea… Read More
World’s Largest Marine Sanctuary Declared Off Coast Of Antarctica
by Jason Daley, Smithsonian.com
The 25 parties to the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources voted to protect 600,000 square miles of the Ross Sea… Read More
Brazil Opens The First Elephant Sanctuary In Latin America
from Euronews
Maia and Guida, two Asian elephants who spent their lives performing in chains in a circus, have been released into their new 2,800 acres-home in the western Brazilian state of Mato Grosso… Read More
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