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Where once a million flamingos awashed the shores in pink along Lake Nakuru, a community is replanting saplings to help rebuild the forests they had burned for farmland in the 1990's. Realizing the error in judgment they have planted more than 3000 trees since January, and the flamingos are already returning, along with valuable tourist dollars. (
Six thousand people walked in Charlotte on a four-mile trek to raise money for Juvenile Diabetes. It was the largest turnout in 17 years of events with proceeds expecting to total $1.8 million — one of the most successful in the U.S. The most spectacular fact is that this year's organizer was 16 years old! Andrew Leggett said it was difficult to keep up with his schoolwork. (
Port Phillip in Australia is encouraging people to smile or say "G'day" — the standard Australian greeting — to both neighbors and strangers as they stroll down the street. "Smiling," the mayor says, "encourages people to feel more connected with each other and safer, so it reduces fear of crime — an important element in the quality of life of many neighborhoods." ... 
The 1997 Academy Award-winning documentary, "A Story of Healing," has been re-released this week under a Creative Commons License, the first time in history that an acclaimed film is being widely distributed over the Internet for free with the message, "Please copy." The nonprofit group that was the subject of the film recognized that by releasing the film under a relatively free license (strictly for non-commercial use, attribution required and no derivatives allowed) they would encourage people to spread the word about their inspiring charitable work. (And the fact that it's here on the Good News Network proves they were right.) Good News Login
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