The Positive News Thread

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The Newark police force did not fire a single shot in 2020 after successful de-escalation training

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/no-police-shots-fired-2020-newark/

 

In 2020, Norway became the first country to sell more electric than petrol or diesel cars

https://www.positive.news/society/positive-news-stories-from-week-1-of-2021/

 

50 countries just joined new coalition to protect 30% of the planet’s land and oceans by decade’s end

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/50-countries-just-joined-new-coalition-to-protect-30-of-the-planets-land-and-oceans-by-decades-end/

 

UK debuts geothermal power plant that supplies electricity to 10,000 homes

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/cornwall-site-of-the-uks-first-geothermal-power-plant/

 

Pollution laws may have saved 1.5 billion birds over the last forty years in the US alone

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/air-pollution-laws-saved-billion-birds-says-cornell/

 

Adidas to launch shoes made from sustainable mushroom leather

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/mushrooms-new-adidas-plant-based-shoes-mushrooms-2021/

 

Implants allow a quadriplegic man to control prosthetic arms with his brain

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-12-brain-implants-enable-simultaneously-prosthetic.html

 

And on a personal note, the first whispers of sensation have started to return to the part of my leg that was replaced by a tissue graft, showing that the nerve transplant is growing in ahead of schedule.