Some Good News To Bring In The New Year

I’m always happy to read some positive news, especially at the close of 2009, after world leaders failed to reach a real and binding climate change treaty at the Copenhagen summit. If you, too, need some good news, click here to read about the Top Ten Good News Stories of 2009, from the U.S.-based Good News Network.

While there aren’t many good news climate-change stories out there right now, you can click here to read about the top 9 eco-stories of 2009 (that have nothing to do with climate change) from Mother Nature News.

On the good news/climate change front, here, from Climate Change News,  is an interpretation of the Copenhagen Conference that asserts that Copenhagen was a triumph for those of us concerned about climate change, not a disaster.  Click here to read the article.

And more on the potentially good news front from Bill McKibben’s blog on 350.org, from December 21st:

But–good news today. 100 groups have today endorsed the petition filed with the United States Environmental Protection Agency by 350.org and the Center for Biological Diversity (which did almost all the work). The petititon asks the EPA to set the official safe air quality standard for the US at 350 ppm co2. Since carbon dioxide is a globally mixed gas, it’s not quite like the other pollution the act usually regulates this way–but it turns out there are provisions in the law which make it possible for America’s environmental regulators to figure out what the country’s contribution to a safe atmosphere should be.

Click here to go the Center for Biological Diversity’s web page and read more about the campaign and see the list of groups who’ve signed on.

Hope you enjoy these good news stories – and if you know of more, please let me know!  Anyway, Happy New Year!  Here’s to saving ourselves from ourselves in 2010!

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