Inspiring News
From the Good News Network
Sometimes the news can show the darker side of local and world events. But there is so much more! We found the Good News Network online and find their writing and focus to align well with our virtues and beliefs. We have included some excerpts below borrowed from their site. The link above with direct you to their site for further information and to subscribe directly.
Archaeologists to Excavate Glasgow’s First Skatepark with the Help of Former Skateboarders
Though it might make someone feel old, a Scottish skatepark from 1978 is set to undergo archaeological excavation—with help from the city’s skaters who once hung out there. Kelvin Wheelies in Glasgow was a radical design when it first opened to host the first Scottish...
Woman Received Thousands of Letters from Dad Growing Up, Now Anyone Can Request a ‘Letter from Dad’
A woman who was blessed with a loving father as her pen pal while growing up has decided to share her gift—her father—with the world. Starting the Dad Letter Project, she’s now connecting the love of letter writing among a group of fathers with a world of lonely,...
Masked Hero Goes Viral for Painting Over Graffiti on Buildings in Northern Italy – WATCH
Under cover of darkness in the north Italian city of Brescia, a masked man has become famous for performing “acts of urban love.” Armed with a paint roller and the moniker “Ghost Painter,” this unknown citizen stalks the city streets, painting over graffiti left by...
Florida Coral Nursery Spawns for the First Time Since 2023, Contributing to Reef Resilience
Beneath the waves of Key Largo, staghorn coral have spawned in mass since a 2023 bleaching event that left marine biologists worried over the reefs’ future. The once-a-year phenomenon can happen only on a select few days, and lasts only a few minutes. It’s difficult...
Staggering Finds Show Early Humans Lived Alongside the Very Apes They Evolved from
From Ethiopia comes an incredible discovery—early humans seem to have potentially lived alongside the very apes they evolved from. The discovery centers around teeth: that of a member of the genus Homo, of which we are a part, found next to the tooth of...
People Globally Are Living Better Lives, More Hopeful About the Future: We Know Because They Said So
With civil wars in Myanmar and Sudan, climate change manifestations the world over, instability across the Middle East, and geopolitical tensions abounding in East Asia, Europe, and North America, one would imagine the global population to have a pessimistic outlook...
These Trees Survived Hiroshima, Group Plants Their Seeds Worldwide to Preserve Their Memory
In Japan, an organization is planning how to help ensure the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings are remembered for thousands of years, rather than hundreds. Its plan revolves around the hibakujumoku or the A-bomb-surviving trees of Hiroshima. With the 80th anniversary of...
Scientists Identify a New Manta Ray Species, Just the Third Known in the World
Usually when scientists announce the discovery of a new species, it’s some small brown frog, a gnarly spider in a rainforest you’ll never visit, or a new sea-something. But Earth still has some curveballs to throw at us—like a new species of manta ray, just the third...
Nike Co-Founder Phil Knight Gifts Record $2 Billion to US University for Their Cancer Center
Co-Founder of Nike Phil Knight has opened his bank account and his heart in order to set a record for the largest charitable gift ever handed to an American university. $2 billion was given to a cancer institute bearing his name at the Oregon Health & Science...
