posted July 31, 2011 07:12 AM            

So how about some good news, Huh?

First one is an environmental Samaritan.

Love of Rivers Leads Man to Collect 70 Million Pounds of Trash

He has been on a labor of love since he was 17 -- hauling litter, tires, and even rusty cars out of the nation's rivers. Spearheading 500 cleanups he's pulled 70 million pounds of trash from the water and water's edge, including 775 refrigerators, with the help of thousands of volunteers.

For the past 13 years, Chad Pregracke has brought together donors, boats, barges, and even cranes to help him finish a job he started in high school, cleaning up every river in the country.

He was featured last Friday in the NBC Nightly News Making a Difference segment. Last fall he was named the Hardest Working Man in America/

in the *good news network* link below find

*best estimate ever on antiques road show
*species brought back from brink of extinction
*man finds 16K in bank drop box__& returns it.
*Air Force improves Jet fuel efficiency
*U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed a law establishing Medicare and Medicaid (7/30/65)

posted July 31, 2011 11:08 AM            

to the article, the hound and the flower pot !!

posted August 03, 2011 05:51 PM            

Three girls whose lemonade stand was shut down by the police in Midway, Georgia, for not having a business license and food permit, were offered a prime location to reopen in the tourist-rich state park of Jekyll Island.

Jekyll Island officials contacted the young teens and invited them to sell their lemonade at Summer Waves Water Park. They even built the girls a new lemonade stand.

posted August 05, 2011 07:17 AM            

by Jorge Salazar, Deborah Byrd

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The 2011 State of the Future Report says the world is in a race between an improving human condition – and bigger and more complex global problems.

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Futurists associated with the Millennium Project this week released the 2011 State of the Future Report, an annual report that indicates each year where humanity is winning or losing on global challenges such as energy, food and water. According to the report:

The world is getting richer, healthier, better educated, more peaceful, and better connected and people are living longer, yet half the world is potentially unstable.

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posted October 11, 2011 03:23 PM            

• NYC Murder Rate Declined 74% in 18 Years

  Tuesday, September 20, 2011

  The New York City murder rate for the first half of 2011 declined 8.8 percent compared to the same period last year. The 2011 murder rate is also 22.5 percent lower than in 2001 and 74.9 percent lower than in 1993. - Reuters News

• Rainforest destruction cut by 25%

  Saturday, June 04, 2011

  Destruction of the world's rain forests has declined by 25 percent in the three most important regions -- the Amazon, the Congo and the Borneo Mekong -- during the last decade, according to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization.

• UN Finds Global Hunger Easing in 2010

  Sunday, September 19, 2010
  The number of people in the world suffering chronic malnutrition fell for the first time in 15 years -- down 9.3 percent in 2010, according to the United Nations' food agency. - FAO
  

posted June 13, 2012 09:16 AM            

Heard any good news lately??

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