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🌎 April is Earth Month! This is our annual, month-long opportunity to raise awareness and advocate for change around the issues most impacting the planet.
✝️ Christians around the world will celebrate Easter tomorrow. Last weekend, during a Palm Sunday Mass, Pope Leo XIV said that God doesn’t listen to the prayers of those who make war or cite God to justify their violence.
Activists are selling symbolic ‘stock’ in national parks to remind Americans to ‘protect what’s yours’
A new stock market-inspired campaign called Going Public aims to celebrate Americans’ shared pride for the country’s iconic public lands and inspire people — regardless of identity or political affiliation — to help protect these natural spaces.
From now until May 30, people can support their public lands by claiming a free, symbolic “share” of their favorite public lands, like major national parks, local trails, protected forests, and other natural spaces visited every day.
Each share represents a vote for a favorite public land location, which then ends up on a leaderboard where advocates can watch their stock “climb.”
Even better:Nature Is Nonpartisan, one of the groups behind the Going Public, also plans to use the results to compile a report about how many people in each state and congressional district joined the campaign to “send a message to leaders.”
Nine and a half years in the making, renovations to the school ensured it was fully accessible to seniors, kept “pride” on display throughout, and preserved some of the building’s historic charm, like chalkboards and a bell system.
It’s open to any community members over 62 who qualify for affordable housing, and residents live in rent-restricted studio, one- and two-bedroom apartments at various income tiers. They also enjoy amenities like a landscaped courtyard, walking track, fitness center, and even a resident cinema.
Why is this good news?In addition to providing much-needed housing support, the community offers safety that some have never experienced until now, like one resident who is a “long-term HIV-AIDS survivor” who had to stop working and “didn’t think I’d ever live to see retirement.”
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War & Conflict
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A nonprofit invented modular playgrounds for kids in war zones — and refugee children helped design them
London-based photographer and tinkerer Alexander Meininger built his own sons an indoor treehouse, but it wasn’t until he saw children displaced by the war in Ukraine that he realized the importance of play.
To help, he just launched his nonprofit, Playrise, which makes modular, packable play equipment and furniture for children living in disaster zones and refugee camps.
He worked with an architecture studio to design the fully customizable and reconfigurable play structures, which are built from simple wood components and colorful accessories.
Even better:Meininger and his team spoke personally with Sudanese, Palestinian, and Eritrean child refugees to learn what children living in displacement actually wanted. Their feedback confirmed what the inventors knew to be true: Play is vital for child development.
The largest offshore wind farm in the U.S. just sent its first power to the grid
Dominion Energy’s Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project has been under construction since 2024, and once complete, it will be the largest wind farm in the U.S. It’s currently about 70% complete, and power is now being generated from one of the wind turbines.
The wind farm’s turbines will be turned on gradually throughout the rest of the year, with construction scheduled to finish in early 2027.
Dominion was the first of five projects to sue the Trump administration late last year after the Interior Department ordered the projects to halt construction. All five wind farms have since been allowed to resume construction.
Why is this good news?Amid rising gas prices, energy providers and customers are looking for alternative, abundant fuel sources — and wind is one of them. When CVOW is fully online, it will produce enough electricity to power 660,000 homes and save customers an estimated $3 billion in its first decade of operation.
After a Texas ban on rainbow crosswalks went into effect, a Dallas man repainted a dozen of them in a few hours
Last week, Dallas began removing its rainbow-painted sidewalks in compliance with a new state directive requiring cities to remove “political ideologies” from public roadways.
Mason Whiteside moved to Dallas in 2023 and said that wasn’t “the Dallas I came to love.” So, in a few hours, with chalk and spray paint, he repainted more than a dozen crosswalks in red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple.
Whiteside was arrested for what police officials say were unrelated, outstanding warrants. Still, Whiteside said he’d do it again, “How much longer until it’s not just crosswalks? Until they take our spaces — our actual spaces?”
Why is this good news? Whiteside said he moved to Dallas to start over outside of his “small-minded” hometown — to a city that was more welcoming for a queer man like him. Visual symbols like rainbow-painted crosswalks help signal to queer people that they are celebrated and welcome in a community. Whiteside’s nonviolent resistance helps signal that for others, and to people in power to shape our communities.
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The Environment Edition of The Goodnewspaper holds two truths at the same time: There are very real threats facing our planet — and there are also countless solutions being implemented to protect and improve our world every single day.
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