Good News Friday
- Editor OGN Daily
- Mar 14
- 3 min read
What better way to celebrate the end of the week than with a beer?
Drown Your Sorrows
A Canadian brewery is offering a 'Presidential Pack' to help the country's beer drinkers get through the second Trump administration. Moosehead Breweries says the crate - which retails for CA$3,500 (approx £1,990) - contains 1,461 cans, enough for one beer a day until Trump exits the White House. "While we can't predict how the next four years will go," said the brewery's marketing director, "we have a feeling that this large pack will come in handy." As OGN Daily went to press, the website says it has already sold out. Hopefully, more are on the way. Also in Canada...
Affordable Childcare
In one of Justin Trudeau's final acts, Canada has secured the future of affordable childcare, reports CBC News. The country's transformative national childcare program will get an additional $37 billion investment, ensuring affordable early education until 2031. The program has already created 150,000 new childcare spaces nationwide. Beyond maintaining $10-a-day fees, the new agreement includes annual funding increases, "cementing childcare as a foundational building block of Canadian identity."
US Right to Repair
Wisconsin just became the final state to introduce legislation, completing nationwide coverage. Six states have already passed laws requiring companies to sell repair parts, share manuals, and remove software locks that restrict repairs, and 20 more are actively considering bills. iFixit’s Kyle Wiens said covering the entire map is a “tipping point” for the movement: “We’ve gone from a handful of passionate advocates to a nationwide call for repair autonomy. People are fed up with disposable products and locked-down devices. Repair is the future, and this moment proves it.”
Closing The Gap
New research from the UN Environment Programme shows that private funding for nature has surged to over $102 billion in the last four years. The Global Biodiversity Framework agreed to at COP15 calls for mobilizing at least $200 billion per year from domestic, international, public, and private resources for biodiversity-related funding by 2030 - this surge in private funding helps close that gap.
Tasmanian Devils
After a 3,000 years of absence on mainland Australia, Tasmanian devils have been released into a protected sanctuary in New South Wales. New Scientist says that the rewilding initiative aims to restore ecological balance by reintroducing these apex predators, which can help control invasive foxes and cats devastating native wildlife (did someone just say trophic cascade?!).
China Leagues Ahead
China, long the world’s biggest greenhouse gas emitter and designated bogeyman of climate conferences, is now leagues ahead of any other country on wind, solar and electric vehicles, and green tech now contributes significantly more to its economy than any other major power. It’s a huge net good for the world as a whole, says the Washington Post.
“The success of every woman should be the inspiration to another. We should raise each other up.” Serena Williams
On This Day
14 March 1879: German American physicist Albert Einstein, one of the most creative intellects in human history, known for his groundbreaking theories of relativity, was born in Ulm, Germany.
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