Posted By:  adamclare Posted On:  Apr 30, 2008	3 Trillion Dollar Spending Spree
Here, have $3,000,000,000,000 and spend it ! What appears to be an art project (or is it marketing?) is critiquing the cost of the USA invading and occupying Iraq. That’s right, it will cost $3 trillion to fight for oil, er, freedom. The website linked above is a challenge to see how...... [view]

Posted By:  adamclare Posted On:  Mar 12, 2008	Into the Future by Using the Past
To most people it looks like leaders in North America keep forgetting about global warming, well this isn’t all true. Brush the Bush and Harper conservative agendas aside and you’ll find other political leaders trying to save the planet. In Mexico, aboriginal leaders are looking into...... [view]

Posted By:  adamclare Posted On:  Jan 30, 2008	HIV/AIDS Drug Patent Revoked
Doctors WIthout Borders has released a press release that says that an HIV/AIDS drug can now be made generically . This will lower the cost of the drug allowing more people access to it, this is very important for people living in the developing world. The company that held the patent, Gilead...... [view]

Posted By:  adamclare Posted On:  Dec 10, 2007	The Truth About Recycling
The Economist looks into the truth about recycling and they have discovered some neat things. Of course, there are some complications with recycling, and it’s important to remind ourselves that nothing is perfect, but it’s good that we aim for perfection. Recycling is a really...... [view]

Posted By:  adamclare Posted On:  Dec 3, 2007	Environmentalists Sue Harper, Bali Begins
I’ve never been shy about my dislike of Canada’s current Prime Minister and today won’t be any different. Regular readers of Things Are Good may have noticed that other countries get mentioned often here because their national government take positive action. Three nations,...... [view]

Posted By:  adamclare Posted On:  Oct 18, 2007	Costa Rica to Stay Beautiful
Costa Rica is a gorgeous country and so it’s really good to hear that their forests will continued to be protected. A US-based conservation group has arranged $26 million of Costa Rica’s national debt to be alleviated in exchange for a section of the rainforest to be preserved...... [view]

Posted By:  adamclare Posted On:  Oct 19, 2007	Greenpeace Tracking Whale Tails
Greenpeace is tracking the movement of whales to monitor their safety and help science. You can track the whales online using Google maps . From the Greenpeace whale tracking announcement: Today we launched the Great Whale Trail, following the migration of humpback whales from the warm...... [view]

Posted By:  adamclare Posted On:  Sep 24, 2007	Countries Agree that Ozone Layer is Good
In what is deemed an historic agreement all the nations of the UN have agreed to speed up the pace of phasing out of a dangerous chemical compound known as HCFC . HCFCs replaced the more dangerous CFCs (they both cause damage to the ozone layer) many years ago and now are now ready to be...... [view]

Posted By:  adamclare Posted On:  Sep 6, 2007	Mark Your Calendars to Stand Up
Next month, October (ROCKtober) 16 and 17, to be precise, people will stand up to draw attention to international poverty. You can join millions of people from around the world to send a message to politicians that you Stand Up and Speak Out against poverty and inequality. In 2000, world...... [view]

Posted By:  adamclare Posted On:  Jul 16, 2007	Less Corruption in Developing Nations
More often than not, rich countries state that they’ll only give aid to countries with ‘good governance,’ whatever that means. To me it seems like a vague term, nonetheless this vague term is now more vaguely applied - and that’s a good thing! The World Bank, which...... [view]

Posted By:  adamclare Posted On:  Jul 12, 2007	Cities Are Great!
People ought to live in urban centers to ensure the world develops in a good way according to a new United Nations report. People are already drawn to urban centers for employment, lifestyle, and education so it makes sense for politicians to plan for cities to continue growing. By embracing...... [view]