Tuition at a Bronx Medical School will be free after $1 Billion Donation. nytimes.com/2024/02/26/nyr…

Since 2007, Rockefeller donate their Christmas tree lumber to build homes for families.
habitat.org/stories/rockef…

Here's a thought... 💭

The Winter Solstice is the shortest day of the year, but it also marks the exact 'moment' when the Earth’s axis points farthest from the Sun.

So in a way, we're all going through the darkness together (well, in the N Hemisphere anyway).

More of this, less food waste.

Via Reddit u/dobbyisafreepup

This holiday season you can be part of something truly transformative: bringing clean water to 200 communities around the world with charity: water.

Donate today: charitywater.sjv.io/7596N5
#CharityWater

Over 20 countries in Africa joined to plant a wall of trees that stretches 8,000km long. ‘The Great Green Wall’ hopes to tackle the impacts of climate change and biodiversity loss.
education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/great…

.Verne is unlocking hydrogen for long-haul transportation with this amazing milestone w/ Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory! 🚛

Strap two of these systems behind a Class 8 truck, and it enables over 500 miles of range 🙌

Canada bans elephant ivory and rhino horn trade! Photo via WWF
globalnews.ca/news/10104111/…

Miss Thailand wore a dress made of soda tabs as a tribute to her parents who worked as garbage collectors.

Portugal powered solely by 100% renewables for six days.
canarymedia.com/articles/clean…

Sleek design, easy to install, available government incentive, AND better for the 🌎? What's not to ❤️?

Shohei Ohtani is giving baseball gloves to every elementary school in Japan:

'I’m happy to announce that I will be donating approximately 60,000 youth gloves to every elementary school in Japan. That comes out to around 20,000 elementary schools. I’m hoping the kids can spend…

Dominica are setting up the world's first sperm whale reserve!
news.mongabay.com/2023/11/domini…

Walmart announced sensory-friendly hours will be permanent.

For a few hours every day, the stores will set in-store TV walls to a static image, radios will be turned off, and the store lights will be dimmed.
amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/11/07…

Ohio becomes 7th state where voters decided to protect abortion access.
apnews.com/article/ohio-a…

western cultures believe we must be alive for a purpose. to work, to make money. some indigenous cultures believe we're alive just as nature is alive: to be here, to be beautiful & strange. we don't need to achieve anything to be valid in our humanness.

Japan's Supreme Court has ruled against mandatory transgender sterilization.
bbc.co.uk/news/world-asi…

Taiwan celebrates diversity, equality & inclusion in Asia’s largest pride march.
reuters.com/world/asia-pac…