Our media has a fantastic power of making incredible amounts of money on terrible news around the world. How else do you think certain news networks get so much money? It is way easier to get more views with the headline "Mass Shooting in London" than "College Alumni Donates Thousands to Alma Mater for New Library". The media taking advantage and grabbing onto every tragedy that happens every day has caused many people to think that our world is onward spiral and that humanity no longer exist. If you are one of those people, then I encourage to read on and look to these next ten current events and news stories that may instill a bit more hope and faith in the world than you may have had before.
1. The Olympic arenas and Stadiums in Rio are going to be disassembled and used to build things like public schools and parks in the city.
(http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/olympic-buildings-d...)
2. A Non-Profit is using donated iPods and customized playlist to help awaken memories of Alzheimer's patients
(http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2014/03/05/ipod...)
3. This 11 year old boy raised $16,000 from mowing lawns and is donating it all the tornado victims in Oklahoma.
(http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/boy-mows-lawns-rai...)
4. "Roadie", a delivery network app, is offering free shipping to victims of the Louisiana floods.
(http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/get-word-free-shipp...)
5. The usage of coal used by American colleges and Universities has dropped 64% since 2008.
(http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/university-coal-use...)
6. A new study done in Hungary came out recently proving that dogs ACTUALLY understand what we're saying to them.
(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27576923)
7. A little boy spent his allowance on sandwiches for his local police department.
(http://nj1015.com/how-this-tiny-guys-big-gesture-h...)
8. This student at the University of Michigan is working at creating a tablet that produces braille so blind people can access more information.
(http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/a-kindle-fo...)
9. This guy created a Airbnb for Refugees and he made it totally free.
(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/amr-arafa-emergencybnb-airbnb-refugees-victims-of-domestic-violence_us_57c05032e4b04193420ec576?)
10. Obama is creating the largest protected environment on the planet in Hawaii.
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-to-c...)
It's unfortunate that main stream media does not give more attention to stories such as these. There are so many positive news stories happening around the world and even in tragedy struck countries. Feeding into the negativity of main stream media news stories only encourages it. You can still have faith in humanity and be positive and be socially aware of events happening around the world without admitting "the world is falling apart" every time you turn on your local news station.
