This is Good News Friday, where we find some good economic, energy, and environmental news and share it with PP readers. Please send any positive news to dd@peakprosperity.com with subject header "Good News Friday." We will save and post weekly. Enjoy!
Economy
We’ve officially annihilated a second strain of polio. Only one remains (jdargis)
Oral polio vaccines use weakened versions of the virus to train the immune system to fight the devastating disease. Thus, those vaccinated can harbor these weakened viruses in their guts for a short period of time, excreting them in waste. In under-immunized populations with poor sanitation, the weakened viruses can circulate and spread just like the three wild strains.
Patients who received aducanumab experienced significant benefits on measures of cognition and function such as memory, orientation, and language. Patients also experienced benefits on activities of daily living including conducting personal finances, performing household chores such as cleaning, shopping, and doing laundry, and independently traveling out of the home.
Supreme Court Lets Climate Change Lawsuit Proceed (RS)
In its suit, Baltimore said the companies’ “production, promotion and marketing of fossil fuel products, simultaneous concealment of the known hazards of those products, and their championing of antiscience campaigns” harmed the city, which “is particularly vulnerable to sea level rise and flooding.”
The battle, for now, is mostly about whether the suit belongs in state court.
Wisconsin School Breaks Up Lunchtime Cliques With Assigned Seating (tmn)
For new students, the seating rules can be a welcome relief. Sophomore Kylie Burger went to public elementary and middle schools before coming to the University School her freshman year of high school.
“At first I was really hyped,” said Kylie, 15. “I moved a lot with middle school, and usually I would sit alone. So I was excited to not sit alone at a table all year.”
MIT engineers develop a new way to remove carbon dioxide from air (Thomas R.)
The device is essentially a large, specialized battery that absorbs carbon dioxide from the air (or other gas stream) passing over its electrodes as it is being charged up, and then releases the gas as it is being discharged. In operation, the device would simply alternate between charging and discharging, with fresh air or feed gas being blown through the system during the charging cycle, and then the pure, concentrated carbon dioxide being blown out during the discharging.
Wells Fargo to Donate $1 Billion to Affordable Housing and Homelessness Across America (Thomas R.)
To address challenges in construction, financing, and support services for low- and moderate-income families, the elderly and the homeless, Wells Fargo hopes to ease the cost burden for housing across the country, “from Alaska to Florida.”
Finally, a Clear Look at the Weird Substance China Found on the Moon (tmn)
A clearer image of the substance was shared on October 8 by Our Space, a government-sanctioned science publication on the social media site Weibo. It was spotted by Andrew Jones of Space.com, who has been reporting on the weird substance for months.
Happy as a Crab That Just Finished a Maze (jdargis)
Crabs often clamber through complex landscapes in their daily lives, says Edward Pope, a marine biologist at Swansea University who is an author of the new study. So, it is not particularly surprising that crabs would be able to find their way through a maze and even be able to remember it later.
Can desert greenhouses defuse food security time bomb? (Sparky1)
Pure Harvest had already secured more than $7.5 million in financing. Now the company is pursuing an ambitious international expansion plan that will require investment on a new scale.
The three-year-old start-up is aiming for nothing less than a transformation of the agriculture industry, and to resolve the growing threat to food security that faces the UAE.
These Mexican Villagers Have Been Working to Plant 5 Millions Trees To Ease the Climate Crisis (Thomas R.)
Plant for the Planet—an organization that is dedicated to planting 1 trillion trees around the world over the course of the next three decades—strategically targeted the Mexican region because trees grow four times faster than they do in central Europe.
$85 million initiative to scale up agroforestry in Africa announced (RS)
The Green Up project is envisioned as a massive scaling-up of Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) — the encouragement of regeneration of trees and shrubs that sprout from stumps, roots and seeds found in degraded soils, such as those currently under agricultural production — and other complementary practices across a swath of Tanzania, Uganda, Malawi, Zambia, Kenya and Ethiopia.
Gold & Silver
Click to read the PM Daily Market Commentary: 10/24/19
Provided daily by the Peak Prosperity Gold & Silver Group
Article suggestions for the Daily Digest can be sent to dd@peakprosperity.com. All suggestions are filtered by the Daily Digest team and preference is given to those that are in alignment with the message of the Crash Course and the "3 Es."
The post Daily Digest 10/25 – Good News Friday: Planting Trees To Ease The Climate Crisis, Can Desert Greenhouses Help Food Security? appeared first on Peak Prosperity.
from Peak Prosperity https://ift.tt/2MK3QwS
