A Daily Antidote to Everything Else
Experts are calling time on the fossil age as new analysis shows wind and solar power produced a record amount of the world’s electricity last year.
Source: ‘End of the fossil age’: Wind and solar broke energy records last year, report reveals
I encounter articles on renewable energy progress almost daily. I could probably do nothing but positive energy-related stories. This one is a nice, big picture summary.
Lab-grown retinal cells may one day restore vision in patients with degenerative eye disorders. New research moves them closer to trials.
Source: “Last Piece of the Puzzle”: Lab-Grown Retinal Cells for Blindness Move Closer to Trial Stage
Exciting!
It was love that motivated one Mr Kuroki to devote his time into creating this wonderful garden for his wife which lifted her spirits and restored her smile.
Source: A Garden of Love: A Farmer’s Devotion to Creating a Haven for His Blind Wife – Nspirement
Love it.
A Louisville woman gets her car and the belongings inside stolen from an auto shop, and then finds her car and her belongings all within 24 hours thanks to a Good Samaritan.
Source: Good Samaritan helps Louisville woman recover her car after it was stolen from auto shop
Quite the roller coaster ride, with a happy ending.
Barbara Thackray says she felt ok about it if a “significant donation” was given to a Stockport hospice.
Source: Runner, 85, is new face of Adidas advert
Love it.
Nine-year-old Eli stumbled on the prehistoric ammonite while at the beach with his dad.
Source: Fossils: Boy finds 200-million-year-old ammonite on beach
Fun! (Check out the last line, though 🙂 ).
Soothing words from Chris Yates helped guide Taylor Hash, 21, through an emergency landing after he learned she shared the same first name as his daughter.
Source: Veteran pilot jumps in to save young pilot when he saw something go very wrong
Well done, everyone!
Seven Ukrainian refugees delivered water bottles and volunteered with aid workers in tornado-hit Mississippi, not long after resettling in Minneapolis.
Source: After fleeing war, Ukrainians rush to help Mississippi tornado victims
Nice.
A newly launched vertical farming enterprise in Pitt Meadows, B.C., is hoping to ease food security in the province, as it offers locally grown, environmentally sustainable produce.
Source: B.C. vertical farming company says it could produce up to 6 million bags of salad greens a year
Can’t say I’m a huge fan of salad greens, but the technology to make this happen and the problems being solved are pretty cool.
Francis Zuber was skiing the backcountry area of a Washington mountain when he saw something red out of the corner of his eye. When he looked closer, he saw a board wiggling in the air above the snow and realized it belonged to a snowboarder trapped head first in a tree well.
Source: Skier digs buried snowboarder out of 6 feet of snow on Washington mountain, video shows
Wow! (The video’s pretty intense.)