Good News Notes: “A 55-year-old woman who is a Lolita dress lover has found fame after she helped adjust shoes for disabled people with legs of different lengths so that they could walk “in an equal way”. So far Xie Chuanqin, a Shanghai resident, has altered nearly 3,000 pairs of shoes, with her customers living…
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Luxury vegan silk startup sets high bar for sustainable fashion
Good News Notes: “Luxury comes in many forms but often at a significant cost to the planet. This U.S.-based company aims to make your home and pool lounging both opulent and eco-friendly with vegan silk-based products that draw attention to sustainability in material selection, manufacturing practices and post-consumer waste. niLuu offers a stunning collection of loungewear that seamlessly doubles…
Indoor, vertical farming could feed the world — and space
Good News Notes: “As the global population continues to increase, vertical farming is becoming a more widely recognized and viable solution to our food production problem. Vertical farming is a type of indoor farming where crops are grown in stacked layers, rather than spread out across large plots of land. These futuristic farms aren’t just going to have an…
‘Living Fossil’ Thought Extinct For 273 Million Years Found Thriving on Ocean Floor
Good News Notes: “A symbiotic relationship between two marine lifeforms has just been discovered thriving at the bottom of the ocean, after disappearing from the fossil record for hundreds of millions of years. Scientists have found non-skeletal corals growing from the stalks of marine animals known as crinoids, or sea lilies, on the floor of the…
New Haven Tree Commission launching reforestation project Saturday
Good News Notes: “The New Haven Tree Commission is kicking off a reforestation project that is the first of its kind in Indiana on Saturday. Near the intersection of Moeller Road and Minnich Road, about 2,300 trees will be planted over a 3,000 square foot plot. Indiana’s Department of Natural Resources is funding the commission’s…
Osaka sisters partner with UNICEF to create charity face mask
Good News Notes: On the tennis court, Naomi Osaka and her sister Mari Osaka work hard for the results they seek. Off the court they are working just as hard. Hoping to help the world deal with the threat of the COVID-19 pandemic, they have developed a great idea. They were inspired by what they…
Quit-smoking app greenlighted as Japan’s first digital therapeutic
Good News Notes: “An app to help people stop smoking received government approval Friday, becoming the first prescription digital therapeutic in Japan and heralding an emerging field of treatments developed at lower cost. The software from Tokyo-based startup CureApp to treat nicotine dependence is also believed to be the world’s first prescribed app for smoking cessation.”…
Scientists discovered the perfect hug with baby-hugging test
Good News Notes: “Researchers in Japan had parents hug their own babies, as well as others’ babies, as an experiment to find the perfect and most soothing hug. They found that infants preferred hugs with moderate pressure from their own parents, not strangers. Parents also felt more soothed when hugging their babies, suggesting there are…
Newly Discovered Pygmy Seahorse Species Is the Size of a Fingernail
Good News Notes: “In 2017, diving instructor Savannah Nalu Olivier was exploring the eastern coast of South Africa in Sodwana Bay when she spotted something surprising: a tiny seahorse no bigger than her fingernail. When pygmy seahorse expert Richard Smith and biologist Louw Claassens saw photos of Olivier’s find, they realized she had made a huge discovery,…
Japan, UNEP deepen cooperation on plastic pollution and post-conflict recovery
Good News Notes: “Japan and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) today announced a new cooperative effort to tackle plastic pollution across Asia and support post-conflict environmental recovery in Iraq and South Sudan. Japan will contribute US$6.9 million to four UNEP-led projects. The bulk of the funding will fund a second phase of the CounterMEASURE project,…