Inspirational and good news.
The Mail & Guardian is reporting that a study by Curtin University in Western Australia suggests that smokers won’t exists by 2030. That is, of course, using stats that are available today to predict the future. There will be no women smokers in Australia in the year 2029 with males slow to give up the habit by a full year.
Australia currently has the lowest smoking rates in the industrialized world with 17.4% of the population smoking.
After several years of arguing with the U.S over financial aid, Moscow has come up with its own funding to speed up the deconstruction of it’s chemical weapons aresenal. Russian industry and Energy Minister Viktor Khristenko has submitted a proposal which states that Russia should reprocess 40 thousand tons of combat poisonous materials and also calls for an accelerated reprocessing pace of the chemical weapons.
In the past the officials had planned to finance the project with foreign funds, but Moscow never recieved the money. Now the government has approved the proposals providing 171 billion rubles for the program. Several new plants for the destruction of mustard gas, sarin, soman, and VX gas will be built with funds from this new budget.
This is an extremely important move toward the Global fight against dangerous chemical weapons which will hopefully encourage other countries to seriously consider deconstructing toxic weapons as well.
Toronto’s Pearson International Airport witnessed a plane crash yesterday, and believe it or not good news can be found in this.
Every passenger and crew member survived the crash!! This is the first time I’ve heard of a jetliner crashing and exploding into a fireball in which all persons aboard came out alive.
Editor’s note: This is also the first entry into our newest category Spin da News. This new category will explore the positive side of things in the news that are normally deemed to be negative.
I’ve written an article for BlogTO.com that discusses a university professor looking into air quality. He’s doing good things, check it out.
Last month we had some really good news and we have gathered it all in one place for you. Check out our Great News section!
At the end of each month we will link to the Great News from the previous month. The end of August should see our first podcast wrapping up the month’s Good Things.
This is also a good time to note that we are still looking for anybody to help us out with the site.