To Anyone Going Through Trying Times Right Now:

To anyone going through trying times right now:

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Good Climate News: Headline Roundup April 1st through April 15th, 2023

Contrary to what you might expect, there's actually way more good climate news stories than I have time to post about individually. (Especially now that my health is better and I'm back to working more!) Which itself is fantastic news!

Some stories are big, some are small, but they all add up. All over the world, people are doing far more than we realize to help save the planet - and ourselves.

I'm posting this is mid-May bc I've gotten really behind on news posts, but trust me, there will be more roundups coming. And this is SO FAR from all the good climate news in April 2023. I may do weekly roundups in the future.

So, without further ado, some reasons to have hope, all from just April of 2023:

Good News Network

66% of Americans Willing to Try Anything That Can Help Save the Environment’, says New Poll

66% of Americans care equally about saving the environment as they do about saving money, according to new poll.

^Article date: 4/15/23

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Worlds Most Romantic River is Cleaned Up Ahead of the 2024 Olympics in Paris with 'Overwhelmingly Good' Water

Despite being called the most romantic river in the world, the Seine was well on its way to being ecologically dead in the mid-2010s.

^Article date: 4/14/23. And to clarify, the cleanup will NOT be temporary, they are building infrastructure and changing laws for the long term.

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Texas Lists Two Critical Pollinator Flowers as Endangered Species, Practically Guaranteeing Milkweed Recovery

The twistflower and the milkweed now enjoy the protections of the Endangered Species List, the most successful and robust such law on earth.

^Article date: 4/13/23

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Tree Growing Nonprofit is Sprouting Entrepreneurs With Unique Training and Lots of Trees for Madagascar

Reprinted with permission from World at Large, an independent news outlet covering conflict, travel, science, conservation, and health.

^Article date: 4/12/23

World at Large

Critically-Endangered West African Lion Going from Strength to Strength in Niokolo Koba, Senegal

PICTURED: Florence the lion looks down at one of her new cubs born into her third litter since reaching adulthood. PC: Panthera, Departme

^Article date: 4/10/23

Good News Network

The Biggest EV Battery Recyling Plant Opens in the US

The Covington plant from Ascend Elements can process the batteries from 70,000 electric vehicles per year.

^Article date: 4/12/23

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Total Rejuvenation of ‘Dead’ River by a Rural Indian Community Hailed as National Example - Good News Network

A once-biologically dead river in southern India has been revived to the fullest extent thanks to local dedication and government involvemen

^Article date: 4/11/23

Good News Network

Some Coastal Salt Marshes Are Keeping Up With Sea Level Rise: ‘We Were Definitely Excited’

Salt marshes on the East Coast have accumulated soil more quickly over the past century—and some appear to be keeping pace with rising water

^Article date: 4/8/23

Good News Network

‘Nest Man’ of India Has Built 250,000 Homes for Sparrows–And Trains Students to Build More (LOOK)

His efforts have resulted in nearly half-a-million nests being made entirely of recycled or biodegradable natural materials.

^Article date: 4/5/23

More roundup posts to come!

i hate that every time i look for color studies and tips to improve my art and make it more dynamic and interesting all that comes up are rudimentary explanations of the color wheel that explain it to me like im in 1st grade and just now discovering my primary colors

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So, Microsoft is terrible. Yes yes, the oldest claim in the world.

But specifically... I just hate how Windows 10 tries to conflate and confuse web searches with things on one's own computer. The start menu should never do anything related to web-searching, especially if it purports to try to give examples of things that are on my hard drive!

This will make old, computer-illiterate people more malware-vulnerable. You have to maintain a strong distinction between "things that are on this computer (and maybe even included in Windows)" (safe, one hopes, or you already got pwned by it, probably), and "things on the web" (scary, dangerous, not to be trusted at all).

Eroding that barrier in the UI is awful. It just FEELS like a violation every time I start typing into the start bar, and it tries to show me ANYTHING web-related. My computer is NOT just an internet-portal! It has tons of stuff on it, and when I'm interacting with the OS, I ONLY want to see things that are already on here!

If I wanted to see something online, I would go to my browser! All the online stuff should be segregated into the browser!

Specific programs can access the internet; that's fine. But my OS's functions and interface should JUST be about the things that are already on my computer.