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This Instagram account illustrates good news stories from the past year – 12 favourites
John Plunkett. Updated December 10th, 2019
It’s been quite a year (when was the last time it wasn’t?) and this might just be the pick-me-up you need right now.
A rather fantastic Instagram account called The Happy Broadcast which illustrates 50 of the very best good news stories from the last 12 months.
Here’s what its creators told the good people of Bored Panda.
‘It’s an anti-venom to the vitriolic rhetoric that pervades our media.’
And here are a few of our favourites (you can see the whole lot here).
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In 1979, 16-year-old Padma Shri Jadav “Molai” Payeng was devastated when he stumbled upon a pile of dead snakes, scorched to death by extreme heat on the banks of Majuli Island in Assam, India. The snakes, which came to the island by way of flooding from the Brahmaputra river, could find no shade to escape the heat. When he saw the snakes, Payeng told NPR he knew he had to do something about it or else even humans might “have to die this way in the heat.” And so, with an unquestionable love for his homeland and the most admirable dedication, Payeng planted one sapling on the barren land every day for the next 35 years. Payeng’s tremendous efforts have paid off 39 years later. Spreading over 1,360 acres, the woodland, named Molai Forest after Payeng, is about 1.6 times larger than Central Park. Source: Travel+Leisure (link in bio) #thehappybroadcast #love #instagood #photooftheday #beautiful #happy #motivation #art #friends #repost #fun #style #illustration #inspiration #goodnews #art #artist #illustration #goodmorning #goodnews #life #world #progress #planetearth #snake #india #forest #trees #woodland
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[ Swipe → for 🇫🇷 🇵🇹 🇪🇸 🇮🇹 ] A supermarket in Thailand has replaced its plastic packaging with banana leaf wrapping. Banana leaves have been traditionally used in many Asian countries, Mexico, and Hawaii for packaging food, but Rimping supermarket in Chiangmai, Thailand is probably one of the first stores to use them on such a large scale. There are myriad benefits to using banana leaves over plastic packaging. For one, leaves are organic matter and will easily compost, unlike their plastic counterparts, which will take anything between 50 and 200 years to fully break down. Banana leaves, besides composting effectively, also add nutrients to the soil and will, over time, improve the capacity of the soil to nurture new plants and crops. Little steps make a big difference. Change is coming Source: The Epoch Times (link in bio) #thehappybroadcast #love #instagood #photooftheday #beautiful #happy #motivation #art #friends #repost #fun #style #illustration #inspiration #goodnews #art #artist #illustration #goodmorning #positivenews #life #world #progress #thailand #eco #banana #noplastic #plasticfree #plants
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Despite its image as a paradise of fairness, women earn less than men. Now Iceland has become the first country in the world to enforce equal pay. Despite an equal pay act that dates back to 1961, Icelandic women still earn, on average, between 14% and 20% less than men. “The gender pay gap is, unfortunately, a fact in the Icelandic labour market and it’s time take radical measures; we have the knowledge and the processes to eliminate it,” Iceland’s Equality and Social Affairs Minister Thorsteinn Viglundsson said. Within four years from 2018, any public or private body in Iceland employing more than 25 people that has not been independently certified as paying equal wages for work of equal value will face daily fines. “The legislation will take some time to bed in, of course,” Valdimarsdóttir, the chair of the Icelandic Women’s Rights Association says. “There will be challenges. But it’s possible, and we can do it. Mainly, I’m just so proud we actually made it happen.” Source: The Guardian (link in bio) #thehappybroadcast #love #instagood #photooftheday #beautiful #happy #motivation #art #friends #repost #fun #style #illustration #inspiration #goodnews #art #artist #illustration #goodmorning #goodnews #life #world #progress #planetearth #equalpay #gendergap #women #salary #iceland #womensrights
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