Good News in 2023 (you might have missed) 

I live in the Republic of Panama one of the biggest ones that you missed was in the very latter part of the year, when all of the indigenous people of Panama came together and protested for over seven weeks, locking down the whole country which was difficult for those of us that live away from city centers But they stopped the Canadian mine contract that had been signed illegally to open a new 17,000 acre pit mine for copper which would’ve destroyed all the habitat in that area. Congratulations to the people of Panama for standing up for their rights and stopping corporate greed.

The sad thing is ya'll put "news we might've missed" and I haven't heard even a single one of these achievements throughout the year. Like damn, this 13 min. video got me soo hopeful and wanting to be a part of the 0.01 percent to help, but "regular" media really keeps us in the mindset of the destruction of the Earth is inevitable no matter what we do. Thank you for shedding light on the positives of the world ♡

I started crying, I have major climate anxiety and little hope for this world so this proves there are good people. In 2024, I want to try my best and advocate for the enviroment.

I think i'm going to make a habbit of watching these before going to bed at night so I can make sure the last thing i see before going to sleep is something positive :)

Who else felt like crying while watching this video? Very touching. There are good things and good people around the world doing good work 🙌🏼 Thank you for the video ❤

This is the type of news I want to hear. Not just all the bad news.. There are still so many good things happening, too💚

The world needs news like this. We shouldn´t let our children to grow up without any hope for the future. Thank you for what you do.

In November 2023 in South Korea it has finally decided to ban dog meat. More slowly (but, hopefully, steadily) many dog-meat restaurants in Vietnam are closing their doors for good.

I feel so depressed about the state of the world so often seeing videos like this really makes me realise that there is good stuff out there too to feel happy about instead of depressed you simply have to look for it

was making my coffee this morning while listening to this and got to the part about the ozone layer actually improving and I had started to cry. Overwhelmed with happy tears and relief because as a teenager I remember how awful it felt to hear how we were destroying this planet and the ozone layer and it might be gone in my lifetime... and to hear that I'll be alive to see it healed was so impactful to my mental health. Thank you, feeling really good and ready to take on the day

This was so uplifting to watch. Sometimes, it can feel like positive climate action will all be for nothing. Your videos help me to combat that feeling and see how much impact that action has. The news about China is especially great!

I just want to say thank you for making this video. Our human brains are wired to focus more on the bad news than on the good ones, so it's really eye-opening to see how much good there is happening in the world

Great to hear so many good news ...we can get so bogged down with bad so seeing this is great ....we have a long way to go we can't be complacent.

In the last year, I've had to stop reading the news altogether because of how disheartening it all was and how awful it made me feel on a consistent basis. Not enough of us focus and celebrate the good in this world. Thank you so much for sharing this!! I would rather choose to believe in the good of humanity than be tortured by it's capacity for cruelty.

i consider myself an overly optimistic person but the level of optimism you spread out to the world is truly something to be envious of. you look on the bright side of something even i struggle to find myself. i respect you for spreading hope and cheer to everyone you talk to. never stop being the wonderful person you are for anyone

I've never subscribed to a RU-vid channel so fast, I see your videos on TikTok all the time and appreciate it SO MUCH! 🥰

You are a legend. Thank you for being YOU Sam! - Robbie

The railway project in the US is something I hadn't even heard about until watching this video. In the constant flow of negativity being pushed on social media, it's incredibly nice to know that genuinely good things are happening in the large scale.

this man is insane. talking positive in a world influenced by negativity. keep it up man

We really need more news like this intermixed with what we hear normally. Without hearing about the good, everyone just gets depressed at the bad Edit: age 5?! Gen alpha you're gonna do fine! go finish what mellenials and z started! ❤😭🤘

I stopped reading the news years ago, because it always made me feel depressed. Thank you so much for reminding me that not all news has to be bad, even when it is about difficult and impactful subjects

Thank you so much, Sam. I needed this 🤍 I'm from Brazil and so many of us are so often triggered by our environmental problems. I was glad to see, through your video, that we're making some progress. I wish you all well in 2024. May all the countries keep taking steps forward towards a better world!

I stopped watching, reading, listening to or engaging with, mass or broadcast media; particularly television and network news. I'm 58 and there's too much bad news a person can hear, see or read about and I found it nearly 30 yrs ago. I only today found your channel. Thankyou.

This is what i need more of, need reminding how much good is happening out there. Im done with normal news but i want to be more in tune with all the good thats happening all around me. Thanks for this, just subscribed and hope to see more of this more often from you. Keep spreading love and positivity 😊

So tired of social media negativity, thank you so much for this!

Your channel is a great thing because all the bad news is so overwhelming and discouraging it’s so east to feel hopeless for our future

Unfortunately the new NZ govt have pledged to reverse the decision to ban new oil and gas drilling...so...ugh. so close. 😢

My comment was kicked off this list. I will try to fix it. My point was that I absolutely love your efforts to show us the positive actions. I regularly use your stories to feed my energy as an activist. ⭐️👏🏽👏🏼👏🏾. This info is vitally important but I wanted to say that viewers, watching and reading this, have the courage to see reality and exactly where our path of crazed consumption is sending us. Not true for most of the collective consciousness. How do we get the danger to reach deeper into humanity’s understanding? Up until now the message has been nothing more than vague warnings filled with jargon, rhetoric, and career ego. No definitive picture, or hourglass, is provided. No clear consequences are stated. These vague warnings do no more than build vague fear in humanity. Forming a nearly universal response along the lines of… “2 degree rise in surface temperatures!? How does that affect my chance at survival? Get off my screen.” and many get up to kick their “cat” to relieve their fear. An alarming amount of “cat” kicking (fascist targeting) is going on right now. I lay this violence at the feet of global warming experts and world leaders. If we are able deflect and rationalize, our way out of the reality of extinction, then any reality can be distorted or flat out denied. Fascists are feeding on the delusional escapism of the collective consciousness. Can our crazed consumption be the collective consciousness binge eating because of our vague fear? Our solutions may always stay at no more than 1% of 1% if we do not clearly state reality. No SEA ICE… NO US… NO LIFE at all. That IS an hourglass, to the existence of life on this planet, that even a third grader can understand. Without it then “experts” and world leaders are just ending (klg) us with kindness.

Also one good News, I have started growing lots of plants in my flat. The are great for me they also make the air better and give aerosolised pytochemicals which make me feel better. I bet the earth also appreciates that. Also try it too its so rewarding. If you eat fruit or whenever you have seeds just put them in soil and water them. Its is great, we also have seeds at home and it's good for everybody ❤❤

THE FIRST STEP TO CHANGE SOMTHING, IS BELIEVE THAT CHANGE IS POSSIBLE IN THE FIRST PLACE. When all you see around is apocaliptic data, and tragic news, spreading knowledge of the tremendus efforts taking place in a pledge to move the niddle in the opposite direction is has never been so important. With the realistic grain of salt when learning about something, thank you very much for this bref summary great news.

This made me cry. So nice to see so many people doing their best. Faith in humanity restored

It's sooooo important for countries to keep talking and keep each other accountable for measures against pollution, climate change, etc. I think most people in Europe don't know just how important the EU is in making laws.

These are not insignificant achievements either. Great video. Much appreciated.

Just woke up, got to RU-vid, and was recommended to your channel. I was not disappointed because it was so pleasant listening to you. Thank you for sharing this important news!

I hope one day every piece of news can be on here. I hope we can have a world where everyone tries to do their part.

I’m so grateful to be sharing this planet with you all! Thank you, Sam for all that you do in spreading the news.

Great video! Definitly some things that you have missed though. Nuclear power is making it's comeback with 60 new nuclear plants under construction and 110 planned ones. Also, going into space is getting cheaper and cheaper with SpaceX launching almost 100 times this year!

I'm not even halfway through and I've already subscribed. Please, please, please make this a monthly thing if you can. Half the reason I don't watch the news is because it's so negative. If you did more videos like this I would click on every single one.

In October the entire country of Panama went to the streets to protest Central America's largest open air copper mine that was incredibly polluting for the water, air, soil and broke the natural pathways of local wildlife. In November the government ruled to shut the mine down.

The environmental issue can't be solved by the individual, but rather the larger corporations that created the issues. Not to day that individuals can't make a difference, but ultimately to see real change would take cooperation from both the individual's responsibility and the corporation's responsibility.

This is a video everyone needs to see! I've stopped looking at the news nowadays because I'm just so sick of the negativity with everything.. Life is a balance of good and bad. We need to know the bad in order to value the good, however in the modern age I fear that is missed. Everything we see is negative. Everything we see is bad. I think it would be nice if the world started sharing these stories too. It's about time we start seeing something positive.

Ive just come across this whilst searching for some desperately needed good news because my mind is at breaking point with the negative narrative that is all over the news. To shift people's mind into a positive energy we need, like more than ever news like this. If people were more alert or just a aware of all the amazing things that are happening around the world i know with all my heart and soul that the entire world would be buzzing with happiness and any of the negativity would disappear. I know this is a big dream of mine but i also know that if i am aware of everything good then everything good is all i will see. An abundance of love and light from me, to everyone and everything in this entire world and universe ❤️🩵💚 Thank you for you videos, you're AMAZING 🙏🏻

I nearly cried watching this, as a young person living in such a crazy world I truly believe in the beautiful work being done to support our environment. Since I was just I child, I’ve been told my generation will take up the mantle and save our planet from the destruction caused by so many before us. It’s a lot, but this video has restored my faith that it can be done.

Please give good news! The light on S.A. in the industries of music and tv are righteous but disheartening that humanity is humane 🥴🥴🥴 so bring in the good news 🙏🏾🖤.. geez! Of course current "wars"

I love your smile, and I love what seems to drive your smiles.

This - looking at and celebrating the reality that progress is happening when we do the work- is vital along with pushing for change and awareness. Thank you for cheering on our hearts!

Thanks for putting this all together! Good to hear good news at this time, when the future is feeling pretty dismal .

Thirteen minutes of much-needed great news presented by a young and good-looking guy with a cheerful smile: now, why can't things be like this more often? Happy New Year, folks :)

Thank you for this wonderful video. We really are at an exciting moment in history. It is possible for absolutely everyone to make a significant positive change to our planet. Just look how many of the groups that made change appeared to be grassroot groups. I for my part changed my career of 22yrs for becoming an energy assessor to help homeowners reduce their homes footprint while still enjoying a comfortable home to live in. Mossy Earth is another wonderful group that I have donated to that are doing incredible things to help the planet. We can do this we just need to believe it and action it. :)

Didn't see these mentioned, so have a few from the queer side! July 10 2023 - Nepal is the first South Asian country to recognize same-sex marriage September 11 2023 - Hong Kong has legal recognition for same-sex couples Source: ILGA Asia

Activism works activism works activism works! The situation with regards to fossil fuel subsidies in the netherlands is crawling at a torturous pace, but as someone who spent so much of this year taking to the streets with my fellow extinction rebellion rebels- I can confidently say that we've built en enormous amount of momentum. (our elections took a lot of wind out of those sails unfortunately, but We Will Be Back. (In fact weve got some action happening in amsterdam at this very moment!)) The movement is bigger than ever. (our largest protests grew from barely a thousand to tens of thousands!) If you care about the climate, make your voice heard. Recycling at home and adjusting personal habits are great steps, but we change the world once we actually go out there and show everyone that we will not be moved until our future is secured. Get in their faces, don't let them look away, as just the act of being seen can change everything.

Happy 2024! This is certainly what I need as a boost as I've public speaking and exams to do in the next few months, so wish me luck! Other than that, I wish YOU a happy new year!

This made me feel HAPPY! Sam, I would love to hear something from YOUR intention about why farmers markets are so much MORE expensive than chain grocery stores. A move towards lower prices for people who want to support farmer's market vendors would be great. Most small vendors at these markets are not paying large quantities of employees wages, not paying for expensive retail space, etc. I believe supporting farmers markets should be easier on the wallet, not harder. Do you have any news/ideas that can be shared in this? ❤

Thank you, that’s the spirit! Everyone can contribute for the better. Let the good be heard and seen! Fight negativity!

Check out the amazing work that’s happening under the banner of “stop Ecocide “Polly Higgins began the work a few years ago and her legacy lives on thanks to so many committed and passionate people

Thank you for this video, there's so much doom on the internet, but there are so many good things that happen in the world that aren't reported by anyone

"it´s nuts that we do so much with so little, AND THAT WE ARE DOING IT WITH SO LITTLE" ❤ Ay, cómo necesitaba videos así. Gracias !!

They need to make tobacco companies and Alcohol companies responsible for all the Healthcare costs that they directly contribute too, that tax payers who do not participate in consumption are currently paying for in the USA. IT COSTS MORE THAN THE ENTIRE MILITARY EXPENSES... make them pay!!!

Even though I'm totally baking in January, it's still wonderful to hear good news. Solar has really taken off in Australia and has even pushed down wholesale power prices. The news keeps getting better :)

I fell down an awful rabbit hole of depressing video essays and so I looked up ‘good news’ and found this video and it made me more motivated to keep up my environmentalist efforts more than any of the doomsday media nowadays :)

The world is always focusing on the negative news but never the positive news. Often overlook. Thank you for the video

My deepest gratitude for this video! There are many things in this video that I was worried about and this is the best news I've heard all year! Many great wins for our planet! Many good wins for the rainforest! And deep sea mining and all the other wonderful things discussed! Thank you!

this was SO much more motivational toward action than anger and fear

I don’t know where you’ve been, but I only just discovered your channel today, but I definitely have subscribed, I am so thrilled to find a good news channel!!!! Thank you with all my heart!!!! Happy tears!!! 💖💖💖

I literally started crying this is beautiful 😊

In Portugal in 2023 we can already count 100s of ecosystem restoration iniciatives to heal very degraded lands (mostly driven by private landowners, often foreigners). The money raised by Ryanair flight customers is helping to regenerate a large Natura 2000 classified area of 28000ha burned recently by funding tree planting and suppot for landowners who lost everything (Renature Monchique).

im in eureka spring live on a mushroom farm we try every day to make this world a better place were active in are local markets and community we thrive together i wonder i feel like theirs been a big just in local food markets in the passed couple year farm to table and all definitely since coved happen i wonder if you could do a video on how local food market around the world are becoming stronger cabbie it would help with awareness and give the movement a boost i feel if we become more cenerd to are region and not dependent on big food life could be inproved

Me and my Wife have agreed to start our day with your content, it’s put us in such a good mood! Keep it up mate

Thank you for this - so important to see the positives. Would love to see something positive about reducing cruelty and abuse of animals that are used specifically by humans - the 80 billion farmed ones in particular. If anyone sees anything about this, please share 🙏

LOL great outro. My eyes welled up. That was such amazing news.

every single bit of news i heard i genuinely felt joy and rejoiced out loud. This is the news i need to hear more often. Thank you for doing this

Please encourage acts of good vibes daily! Promoting animal protection is crucial for fostering a harmonious relationship between humans and nature. Initiatives like the ban on the dog meat trade in South Korea signify positive steps toward respecting and preserving the well-being of all living creatures. Please Create a daily positive news channel. That will promote good vibrations, offering a platform to inspire and reinforce acts of kindness, ultimately contributing to a more compassionate world. ❤️🌍 and helping humanity reach its next level of evolution which is crucial to our own survival

This is amazing, thank you so much for sharing this it really means a lot and it makes me feel hopeful for the future, it even inspires me to try and do something to help! Thank you again ❤️ Subscribed

I wish there was a recommend button to promote this content

Thank you for this Sam! We need more videos that give us hope. People will lean into the doom with a "might as well give in" mentality if that's all they hear. So reminding people there is hope is key!

I'm so happy you started this, as I desperately was looking for youtube sources like this and there was just the Good News Channel that stopped posting ages ago. Plenty of nasty content though. Thank you! I check some good news websites and there was a lot in 2023 that related to medicine breakthroughs, like effective cancer treatments and the possible 'elixir of anti-ageing' discovery (so far, only for mice xD) maybe you could also include that.

This literally helped my mental health. Thank you 😊

I like watching these when I feel really anxious about anything even if it's like something in my personal life it's really comforting

11:39 The way I just got overjoyed when seeing this because I love trains and I have beef that the US doesn't have that great of a train system

I'm so grateful to have found this channel. Thanks, Sam. Hopefully there will be (relatively) more good news coming out of the USA, often misidentified as "the greatest country in the world", but only by those who live here and don't travel much. On its behalf, I would like to take this opportunity to apologize for our collective, untreated illness, particularly over the past 5 years. We need a good therapist, but it'll have to be someone who donates her time. Our healthcare system is run like the blood diamond industry.♥

I live in Australia amd the bit about the ozone layer recuperating was my favourite part, haha. I was out yesterday covered in sunscreen and still got burned. It'd be great for that to improve!

That voice mail (and epic music)... put a "teeny tiny tear" into my eyes.

Every single time i see positive content, i just.. think they're automatically lying because i'm already so used to negative content

This is incredible! I’ve gone the whole year without hearing any of this, and it gives me hope for the future. Thank you!

All the good news is so good for my mental health, thank you so much for all your hard work and I hope for much more good news in 2024!

This is the type of journalism we need especially now!!

Good thing I ignored all news in 2023, so now I think 2023 was only good things.

Thanks for making this video! This really helps shine a positive light on humankind as well :-) With all the doom and gloom around us, this positive news is something some of us really need

Only problem I have with all these project is emphasis on wind turbines, which are not as effective and are known to kill a large number of birds.

Thank God finally some good news I am sick and tired of hearing nothing but bad news all the time

Well done, awesome video. Thank you so much for producing. We can make the world a better place!!

Wow! So many positive initiatives are seemingly already being put into life. It is very uplifting!

This is a nice fresh video that does not shine light on more and more problems, until it eventually becomes a pile of worry as for most of those problems, there is nothing we can do!

I feel so happy many of these good news are in Brazil! Im proud. Thank you for your work, we need this.

Thanks for highlighting all the environmental good news. I just wish there was good news in more areas than just that.

I think the development of utility scale batteries to store renewable powers is also one of the great news of 2023

This might be considered small but I live in California and as of November 2023 the state is going to phase out fossil fuel driven trains (mainly used for transportation of goods and contribute a lot to emissions) by 2030 in favor of electric ones. This along with the gas car ban by 2035. This video was sorely needed, thanks. I feel like mainstream news doesn’t talk about this stuff because outrage and depression keep people watching, and by getting us to feel hopeless large corporations can continue destroying everything without us stopping them. But we can stop them! Seeing the good people are doing will give more people hope and that is worth fighting for.

I just came across your channel for the first time and I am so glad I did! This is incredible ❤❤❤ THANK YOU!

Thank you for finding and sharing all these good things especially nowadays when it’s so easy to get lost in all the bad things :D

Wow definitely shed a few tears throughout this video, thank you so much for this and i hope you do one for 2024 too! I really really needed this today, was feeling deeply depressed about my life and the state of the world and just how such dark news and negativity is EVERYWHERE you look especially on social media and esp RU-vid now a days :( really needed this positivity pick me up to restore my faith in the world and what not