The Happiness Report (3.2.21)

This Teen’s Nonprofit Has Donated 30,000 Pairs Of Shoes To The Homeless

When Lindsay Sobel was 13, she needed a community project to meet the requirements of her Bat Mitzvah. That’s when she came up with the idea of collecting lightly used shoes and donating them to the homeless.

Lindsay, who is from Chatsworth, California, started collecting shoes in her own garage where she amassed some 30 to 40 pairs between her younger twin sibling and parents that were just collecting dust. After realizing that there were probably more families just like her, Lindsay started a nonprofit called Shoes For Souls that have been collecting shoes and distributing them to the homeless since 2017.

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https://www.optimistdaily.com/2021/03/this-teens-nonprofit-has-donated-30000-pairs-of-shoes-to-the-homeless/

Source: The Optimist Daily

Little Girl Trudges Through Heavy Snow To Get Help For Her Sick Dog

The other day, veterinarian Ogün Öztürk was called to a small village in Turkey to attend to a client’s cow. He hadn’t planned on staying long.

Evidently, word had gotten around that a vet was in town — and that presented an opportunity which the girl, 8-year-old Cemre Su Türköz, refused to pass up.

Cemre’s dog, named Pamuk, had fallen sick. Desperate to get him help, she decided to carry Pamuk more than a mile from her home to the spot she’d heard that Ogün would be.

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https://www.thedodo.com/daily-dodo/little-girl-trudges-through-snow-to-get-help-for-her-sick-dog

Source: The Dodo

New Plant-based Plastic Can Be Broken Down And Recycled With Near-perfect Efficiency

A recent paper published in Nature shows us that hard plastic polymer can be manufactured with “break points” in the molecular carbon chains which allow them to be chemically recycled with 10x as much efficiency.

The polymers presented in the study could be manufactured with plant oils instead of fossil fuels, and when heated to 248°F (120° Celsius) in either ethanol or methanol, they breakdown from their complex polymers at a salvage rate of 96%.

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https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/almost-100-of-plant-oil-plastic-can-be-chemically-recycled/

Source: Good News Network

Watch 2,200 Sea Turtles Get Released Back Into Gulf By Volunteers

An update on the sea turtles! Hundreds of sea turtles are now returning to their home in the Gulf of Mexico after suffering a terrible ordeal during the recent winter storm in Texas.

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https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-56218484

Source: BBC News

Watch This 6-year-old Girl Learn She’s Going To Get A Bionic Arm

A six year old British girl cried tears of joy after finding out that her GoFundMe campaign had raised enough money for a new bionic arm.

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https://www.today.com/video/watch-this-6-year-old-girl-learn-she-s-going-to-get-a-bionic-arm-101444677856

Source: TODAY

New Zealand Designer Makes Ingenious Solar-powered Skylight That Desalinates Water For Drinking

People living in the shanty towns of Chile’s coastline have all the water they could ever need, but they can’t drink it because it’s too salty. There’s also abundant solar energy here, but nothing to harness it.

Now, a finalist in the 2021 Lexus Design Award, Henry Glogau, has created something that takes advantage of both these abundant resources: a solar-powered lighting fixture that desalinates water.

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https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/solar-desalination-still-by-henry-goglau-purifies-water-and-makes-light//

Source: Good News Network

Kitten Bounces Back From Being So Tiny And Becomes Sweetest Friends With One-eyed Cat

A tiny orphaned kitten was brought to CatRescue 901, a volunteer-run cat rescue, in desperate need of help. The kitten whom they named Flora, was so tiny that she could fit in the palm of a hand.

Without a mother's milk, Flora had all the odds stacked against her. Katerina, a foster volunteer, started intensive care on the kitten and used her own body heat to keep the little one warm and comforted around the clock.

Continue reading:
https://www.lovemeow.com/kitten-sweet-one-eyed-cat-2650688793.html

Source: Love Meow