Good News Network
The Good News Network (GNN) is a website dedicated to sharing positive and uplifting news stories from around the world. Founded in 1997, it aims to counterbalance the often negative focus of mainstream media by highlighting acts of kindness, scientific breakthroughs, inspiring individuals, and other heartwarming developments. The site covers a wide range of topics, including health, environment, culture, and technology, with the goal of promoting optimism and hope. GNN also features a daily newsletter and encourages readers to contribute their own good news stories.
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Surfer Conquers Biggest Waves in the World Despite Only Having One Leg
‘Pegleg’ Bennett was born with a birth defect that led to the amputation of his foot when he was a baby, but the 55-year-old never let it impede the pursuit of his passion: surfing. The father of three has traveled the world surfing, making it to some of the most famous big wave surfing spots […]
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Taylor Guitars Made From Condemned Urban Trees and Imperfect Ebony are Saving Money, Carbon and the Amazon
Guitar manufacturers like Taylor and Gryphon are utilizing native California trees marked for removal in the state’s urban areas to birth a new generation of acoustic instruments. The motive: helping musicians and consumers dodge the increasing prices for prized woods needed to make guitars, as well as helping memorialize condemned native trees in the state. […]
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City’s Experiment with Reusable Cups at Chain Restaurants Is Smashing Success as Diners Return Them All Over Town
Last July, GNN reported on the California city of Petaluma and its experiment collaborating with local restaurants to create a city-wide return-and-reuse beverage cup program. At the time, the plan was a 3-month trial: the results of which are in. It was a home run. With major chains like Starbucks and Taco Bell joining in […]
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Electricity Captured from Falling Rain Conjures the Ultimate Picture of Tropical Sustainability
Scientists in Singapore have broken a long-standing limitation on the ability to generate electricity from flowing water, suggesting that another elemental force of nature could be leveraged for renewable electricity: rain. With the simplest and smallest scale test setup, the team could power around 12 LED lightbulbs with simulated rain droplets flowing through a tube, […]
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More Than 90% of Schools in England Ban Smartphone Use, 13 US States Have Already Taken Action
Without a government body to legislate the result, UK education authorities have discovered that over 90% of national schools have instituted smartphone bans, a measure still being debated by industry members and scientists. Representing a triumph of distributed sovereignty, a survey of more than 15,000 schools found that 99.8% of elementary schools and 90% of middle […]
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Team of Tradesman Go ‘DIY SOS’ and Transform Home for Disabled Dad for Free
A charity in the UK organized a team of volunteer builders to add an extension onto the house of a disabled man who’s been forced to sleep in his dining room for 3 years. 58-year-old Paul Kitterman hasn’t been able to walk since getting an abscess on his back three-and-a-half years ago, but without a […]
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After 50 Years, Trout Population Is Restored to Historic Numbers in One of the Largest Lakes in US
Through a combination of invasive species control and stocking with captive-raised fish, it’s now believed that a self-sustaining and harvestable population of lake trout has returned to Lake Champlain. Following this historic success, a decision has been made to suspend the stocking of the New York lake, believing wild-born, wild-grown trout will be able to […]
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Pee From Runners at the London Marathon is Going to Be Turned into Fertilizer for Wheat
How many mouths could 3,000 loaves of bread feed? Whatever the answer is, that’s how many could be made from wheat grown with a special liquid fertilizer. Armed with specially designed female port-a-potties, a team of firms in London thinks that solely using urine from female competitors at the London Marathon, a significant amount of […]
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LSD Tweaked to Harness Therapeutic Power for Mental Health Without Hallucinogenic Effects
With its ability to aid in enhancing neuroplasticity, the famous hallucinogenic compound LSD has been theorized as a treatment option for neurological disorders like cognitive decline and schizophrenia. One wouldn’t want to dose a schizophrenic with LSD, but following the synthesis of a new molecule based on LSD at a laboratory in California, they may […]
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Child Born with Heart Outside Chest Becomes Solitary Survivor Thanks to Surgical Procedure Invented for Her
Last Wednesday, a team of English surgeons and attendants arrived in the city of Leicester to be briefed on an upcoming surgery never before attempted or imagined in the history of the country. Their patient was Vanellope Wilkins, the solitary survivor known to British medicine of ectopia cordis, a condition where a fetus develops with […]
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NASA’s Lucy Mission Provides Humanity’s First Picture of Peanut-Shaped Giant Asteroid – (LOOK)
Asteroids are hugely significant features of our solar system, and a NASA space probe just sent back a photo of one as it passed close-by, revealing its odd, peanut-like shape. NASA’s Lucy space probe is on a 12-year journey to study Jupiter’s Trojan and main-belt asteroids, aiming to uncover insights into the early solar system’s […]
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90-year-old Who Has Saved Over 10,000 Animals at Sanctuary Has No Plans to Retire
A 90-year-old Englishwoman who owns an animal rescue sanctuary has reportedly rescued 10,000 animals from abuse or abandonment. Barby Keel has dedicated 54 years to running the Barby Keel Animal Sanctuary in Sussex, UK, a long journey that she admits won’t come to an end anytime soon, provided she can stay on her feet. Keel’s […]
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Bride Skis Down the Aisle in her Wedding Dress to Get Married at 8,000-feet (WATCH)
Instead of walking down the aisle, this bride decided to ski down in her wedding dress, tying the knot at 8,000-ft on a snowy mountain. Jess and Ladis Hoefkens got married on March 28, at the top of Mont Brévant in Chamonix, France, in an intimate ceremony with 20 guests joining them on the slopes […]
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Adults With Life-Threatening Peanut Allergy Can Desensitize With Daily Doses, ‘Life-Changing’ Study Shows
The first clinical trial to test whether adults with peanut allergies can be desensitized has shown great success—with two-thirds of participants able to consume the equivalent of five peanuts at the end of the study without reacting. Known as oral immunotherapy, the approach has been successful in infants and children worldwide, but this first-of-its-kind study—the […]
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Adding 70 Windows to Illinois School Improves Student Wellbeing and Performance, Confirming Studies – LOOK
An elementary school in Jacksonville, Illinois, is busting through walls—literally—to improve student learning, attendance, and wellbeing by adding some daylight to the depressing classrooms. American schools, especially those designed in the 60s and 70s, were built without windows because people erroneously believed they would be a distraction to learning. But that thinking would today earn
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