I remember earlier this year when my anxiety was through the roof and my mom suggested I go out on more walks. So I did, and I spent time at my local park and public house and I would feel significantly better.
Absolutely! I’m in medical school and I want to do psychedelic assisted therapies in a sensory garden within a geodesic dome greenhouse. The general field is called ecotherapy, so I guess that would make me a psychedelic ecotherapist :))
Ducks: Feel the rain on your skin No one else can feel it for you Only you can let it in No one else, no one else Can speak the words on your lips Drench yourself in words unspoken Live your life with arms wide open Today is where your book begins The rest is still unwritten, yeah
I break tradition The pens in my hand Ending unplanned Staring at the blank page Before you Open up the dirty window To illuminate the words you can’t find Reaching For something in the distance So close you can almost taste it Release your animbitions 🎵 🎤 I love this song 😩
Just found this channel. I’m in high school so there’s not much positivity. This makes it a lot easier to justify my optimism to my friends. Love your videos!!
Tell your friends that optimism also doesn't require justification. It's when we're at our most assured darkest times that glimmers of hope become our guaranteed way out, because the only way we stop ourselves from drowning is to swim upward. I hope everything goes okay for you, kind soul
I kinda hate this actually, since the inmates will inevitably grow attached to the dogs they are training and then they are separated from their dogs. At least that's what I assumed when hearing this brief summary of the program. If the inmates can stay in contact with the dogs they bonded with, this is an absolute win of course.
As an environmental science student i learn a lot of negative stuff and its hard to deal with.. this stuff really brightens my day. thank you. its hard to find such positivity on social media nowadays
Did you know that the world climate goes through cycles naturally? It is caused by solar activity, not by greenhouse gases. There was a global warming in the middle ages and a minor ice age in the 1800s, from which we are recovering. And we are due for a major ice age. If the ice caps melt, the world would actually freeze. CO2 does not affect the climate much. 1816 had a major volcanic eruption which caused a year without summer across the globe, but things went back to normal. When CO2 increases, plants increase. The earth can even digest plastic. What we need to do as a species is to prepare for cataclysmic events, not waste money trying to fight mother nature. We dont cause it and we cant stop it. Human record only shows cataclysm after cataclysm. Global floods, earthquakes, tornadoes, volcanoes, mudfloods. Our ancestors built sturdy pyramids, deep tunnels, and star forts.
@@Ladoga753 If you believe what you said - and I ask genuinely - Why watch the channel? 50% of what it talks about is contradictory to what you believe. And I'm rather surprised that you think a seasoned environmental science student wouldn't already know what is going on with the world's climate. Through expert analysis and simple study of what's going on with the world, precisely what they're learning from, it isn't what you say. We aren't "fighting mother nature," we've hurt her and we're now trying to fix that, because we need her. Natural disasters have happened, yes, but not as intense or as often as now. This increase is caused by the warming temperatures and removal of natural dampening. The earth has gone through cycles, yes, but spanning hundreds of thousands of years, not one hundred! The last time a global temperature change faster than usual occurred, (The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum,) it was very abrupt, and found to be quite likely that it was an enormous volcano erupting at the wrong place, releasing methane from the sediment that quickly pumped record amounts of CO2 to the surface, causing the change. The natural cycle was interrupted. It isn't the end for **us** yet, though! That increase was by more than an entire 5°C, meanwhile we're, worst case, expected around a 2°C increase. Ecosystems remain intact, we've been able to revert extinctions and remove invasive species: there is still hope, but we have to fix it. We can't just bunker down and wait. This channel is for good news, so when someone goes about saying that the end is actually inevitable and we should prepare for an apocalypse, it's... Discouraging.
The story about the dam removal made me so happy! One of the dams for our own local river is also in the process of being removed, and others are likely to follow soon ❤️
Wrong. There were huge sailing cargo ships well into the 1920's carrying timber, coal and so on in the US and Europe. Small sailing cargo ships still ply the far-flung parts of the world to the present. i.e. way out in the Pacific. Marine engine tech is really very recent.
It’s because Negativity and Drama leads to Anger, and Anger is scientifically proven to drive engagement. That’s why Ragebait is so effective. Not for positive things.
I started classes last week (2nd year of community college), and one of my classes is environmental sociology. While reading a chapter of our required text, I came across a couple sentences that really resonated with me, and reminded me of, well, everything. "If you look at the science about what is happening on earth and aren't pessimistic, you don't understand the data. But if you meet the people who are working to restore this earth and the lives of the poor, and you aren't optimistic, you haven't got a pulse." -Paul Hawken in his speech You Are Brilliant, And the Earth is Hiring
i love how my generation is simultaneously looking back for solutions and forwards. doing so is actually very much an intended thing in human societies, and is the foundation of learning. only looking back causes degradation, while only looking forward causes mania. balance really does end up the solution almost all of the time.
The story about the Northern Bald Ibis really hit home for me. I worked at a raptor center as a teenager and helped "flightline" injured birds of prey, teaching them to fly again. Teaching these birds their proper migration patterns is incredible work. I love all your positive stories.
I absolutely adore the story about the ibis and the king fisher. And hearing that indigenous people are having their land rights recognised! I could cry it’s such a beautiful thing, this really gives me hope. We should be caretakers of this planet, not leeches. There’s so much we can give back to our world.
The nature one is so real. I often find myself when I’m stressed out or have art block, going and walking around my mom’s front yard garden. That really makes me feel a bit better.
I really love hearing all these stories. I’m doing some mini missions myself. Around where I live, Ash Trees got killed all over by ash borers, and now there’s many dead trees all around. So I’ve been taking some native plant saplings that people don’t want (say it popped up in their landscaping) and have been growing them to plant in places where the ash trees once were. I’ve also been taking some seeds from my vegetable plants so I can grow them instead of buying new ones every year.
Every ao often i go on walks in my neighbourhood without my phone or anything around sunrise. Its a really beautiful time and i always feel better after walking. Thank you for your video, despite everything bad that happens in the world, there is always something good to look forward to somewhere. I appreciate the work you do ❤
Thank you so much for this video. It's so hard to stay positive with all those negative news constantly popping up, while the good ones are overlooked. It's so relieving to hear something nice for once, especially accompanied by your contagious smile c:
Thanks, I started my day with negativity because I was foolish enough to comment on TH-cam, and I got some responses that were less than pleasant. I'm doing it again, supposedly the risk I take helps promote your videos. But I really did need some positivity, so thanks.
Well here’s a pleasant response to counter those ones a bit! You’re awesome and we need more people like you who care in the world ❤️ Have a lovely weekend and make sure to take some time for yourself and also away from social media, and I appreciate you commenting here for me!
Thank you for sharing news that warms the heart within.... and may everyone here never stabs their little toes ever again,or step on Leggos of sharp rocks 💖🌞🍀🌹
I'm a biologist and in my education we were taught the power of nature. There was a study that compared the affect of being able to view the garden/forest through the patients hospital window. And those who could see the green recovered a lot faster and needed less pain medication! Nature really is amazing
YARGH MATEYS, THE AGE OF SAIL BE UPON US ONCE MORE! I find the whole thing incredibly ironic, like there was once centuries worth of sail ships going around the world plenty of times, but it's taken us this long to go "wait we already know this" once environmental conservation became a sea-faring concern
Found this channel a month ago, and I love hearing about all of these positive things. News moves in negative circles and we all get caught in it. Some good now and then breaks the cycle!
I noticed a few people have started this good news idea over over the last few years. I really appreciated Russel Howard back then and then that guy from the office did it in the pandemic, and many others. But it always stops. it's so key to focus on the positives. Even though it doesn't initially seem profitable. So it does not get invested in. But the cost of us being isolated, hopeless and polarised is a mass deficit really. On all fronts. As a species we pay a little more attention to scary stuff, only because of an innate survival instinct. A tendency evolutionarily originating from when scary stuff could mean death. But for me and other privileged few from the global North. Scary stuff doesn't mean death. But it should actually be the exact opposite. If we pay attention to the positive stuff. then we find proactive solutions and hope. I love watching these and I hope you never stop ! Hope you get a BBC or even CNN show. (Imagine! ) THANK YOU :)
I look forward to your post every month and all the shorts I come across throughout it. Thank you and all of the folks that make your channel possible. Much love and gratitude!
I am so glad I found this channel. It's so easy to ride on the tide of negativity that is on every news channel. We need more positive stories, more hope, more reminders that people can do amazing things. Thanks for doing this
Love your channel @Sam Bentley and your naturally positive vibes :) Some great environmental news from the UK for the last day of September - closing the last coal fired power station and the closure of the TATA Steel works in Port Talbot (not great for the people losing their jobs, I know, but there will be opportunities in the new plasma furnace)
I love the variety of good news you deliver. I'm not sure which was my favourite, but the criminals and doggies is just so lovely, or the dam removal that has taken 20 years of campaigning to remove is inspiring!
Have yet to watch the video due to running late for work, but I'll be sure to watch it later. Here's a comment to help with algorithm- Keep up the good work!
I really do enjoy these videos. It's so easy to get bogged down with all of the negativity and some hope is always restored after I've finished watching. Thanks a lot for what you do here, it's greatly appreciated!
There is a lot of depression nowadays because these people aren’t going outside or appreciating nature. It’s even better when you do it with friends. Connection with nature and socializing are very important parts of a human.
I spend hours a day in nature, often the last place i am before i go to bed is outside and the first place i go once i wake up (and maybe having a piss) is outside
@@deetrvl4life875 yeah, I have to make due with a golf course out my door but my yard is sprawling with life and the course is actually pretty well wooded, to the extent that a family of bald eagles has moved in. But still I often dream of getting to rewild the entire place lol.
The inmate story is my favourite on this list! It's always lovely to hear when inmates are given opportunities to grow and give back instead of being left behind in a system that is supposed to recondition behaviour and make improvements to society. I'm glad to see so many dogs getting homes because of this program!❤
I was obsessed with the movie "Fly Away Home" when I was little in the 90's. Seeing that what that girl did for those geese decades ago has influenced our ability to reintroduce endangered birds into the wild literally made me break down into happy tears. Thank you so much for sharing this. All of this. 💖🥹
... I just cried... of happiness... I AM a person who definetly needs more good news... especially since here in germany it looks like its always just going down qwq
You know, but I'll say it anyway, your channel is very important, and I'm grateful 🙏 Much love to you and yours, much love to your viewers. Keep shining your lights ✨️ 💛
I always feel better in the forest and at the coast. Standing among tree, touching/hugging a tree, earthing by standing barefoot on grass, and feeling fog and cool coastal air on my skin always lifts my spirits.
I like this channel. It’s good to acknowledge that things can get better and show the efforts of people that work hard to save this world and make it better. Thank you!
So happy to spend time in nature, every time I go walking , hiking, and swimming I always feel so calm and hopeful, centered in myself again and all my troubles seem smaller
3:55 who would guess, that human interaction with other humans without a phone, would be beneficial. It's almost like we all are addicted to the internet and lost every human aspect of our life of smth...
I’m very depressed and realized that I’ve been coping hard by listening to TH-cam videos 24/7 (not a good mechanism, but well) Most of the stuff here prioritizes negative/ shock value stuff, so making an effort to go for more positive content, I’m very thankful for your channel. Thank you so much, really.
I experienced a lot of trauma through the winter season last year and my OCD has become almost completely unmanageable. Headlines today terrify me and make me feel completely helpless. It is nice to see someone talking about the good in the world. So many cool things we never hear about in mainstream media. Thank you for what you're doing, I hope you get serotonin in return!
4 before, 7 after. I found a Red Admiral butterfly, counted over 17 honeybees going nuts over my new flowers outside, and all 3 of my outdoor cats came by today! It doesn't cure my problems with my housing, but it does help me feel like everything will still be okay just by being somewhere I know is always there for me and is our responsibility to nurture. Thanks for asking, and thanks for being such a ray of sunshine for us that need it.
Thank you for bringing positivity to the world! I work in an intensive care unit as a nurse, and sometimes, it gets hard, especially with the news media these days.
It’s so good to see good news like this! Especially glad to hear about the Peruvian indigenous owning their land now, every little bit of progress is worth celebrating!
Blessings to the tribes and people on the Klamath dam project. I live nearby and itself been so wonderful seeing the trees and native plants they put in grow and thrive!!
I love good positive things and fully believe that we CAN make a difference! There are an incredible amount of GOOD people doing GOOD things in the world. (It all starts with One, yes?) But sometimes it feels as though there are not and that's only because we are so exposed in every media to the bad. THANK YOU so very much for showing me and mine that there are many more doing good things than not. I am PROUD to be a part of this as a subscriber and Liker! (I'm actually a 'lover' but youtube doesn't recognize that. haha.) Kudos to you and all subscribers and commenters here!! ❤
Thank you for making these videos--truly from the bottom of my heart. This year I suffered deep depression and anxiety spirals which was partially exacerbated by the constant negative news (because unfortunately that's what sells the most). In addition to walking almost every day through my neighborhood and getting involved in local conservation efforts, I've been checking in with your channel and it helps me stay hopeful without feeling like I'm being unrealistic.
this helped me in a time where I feel like the bad news could swallow me up. I know you probably dont always feel like smiling in a video and all that, but I appreciate you doing it and hope you're caring for the less happy sides of yourself too.
I'm a massive fan of Massive Attack (pun intended), so hearing this news made this good news segment even better. Go give Mezzanine a listen everybody!
I go camping about three times a year between the start of June and end of September. I always feel so much more relaxed during the trip and for a period of time afterwards. I'm always at my worst in the winter when I'm stuck inside while everything outside looks dead, grey, and cold.
Your intro made me burst into tears, I've been struggling to find reasons to hold out and your channel genuinely helps. It's inspiring and beautiful, thank you for spreading some hope!
I forget about a lot of negative things in the world just after taking a short walk so def a 8/10 which makes me super excited about the solar panels as my walks can be more productive now
very happy to have this channel recommended to me - love some good news for a change! i started working outside about 2 years ago, and even if im in the mud and rain, i feel much better for it too.
I'm a huge advocate for antidepressants and medications HOWEVER I will say in Spring when I'm gardening, going outside and going in nature, I am infinitely more happy. Some people need both, one or the other and that's okay.
Thank you for making these videos, and please keep making them. It's the one but of news I look forward to every month and actually makes me cry and feel good.
Spending time in nature and meditation are amazing for mental health. Being present in nature keeps the attention out of useless negative thinking and we have a choice in how we think ❤
I remember earlier this year when my anxiety was through the roof and my mom suggested I go out on more walks. So I did, and I spent time at my local park and public house and I would feel significantly better.
Honestly you never feel worse after going for a walk it seems, such a simple solution 💚
Take your shoes off and connect to mother earth and feel even better. You can even just sit and do it. It's called GROUNDING.... and it's amazing.
Many places also get funding based on attendance so you're helping protect nature too.
Absolutely! I’m in medical school and I want to do psychedelic assisted therapies in a sensory garden within a geodesic dome greenhouse. The general field is called ecotherapy, so I guess that would make me a psychedelic ecotherapist :))
best advice by your mom ..walking is the best medicine for everything !.
Ducks:
Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins
The rest is still unwritten, yeah
An absolute anthem, I should have ended with that and a compilation of ducks enjoying the rain
I appreciate the image, lol. Thank you for joining me on this journey into the mind of a duck.
@@Pretending_To_Trumpet It's a song called Unwritten by Natasha Beddingfield. But it does work surprisingly well for ducks! xD
LMAOOOOOOOOOOOO
I break tradition
The pens in my hand
Ending unplanned
Staring at the blank page
Before you
Open up the dirty window
To illuminate the words you can’t find
Reaching
For something in the distance
So close you can almost taste it
Release your animbitions
🎵 🎤
I love this song 😩
The uk is shutting down its last coal plant tomorrow
Don't fret. Germany shut down all their nuclear and BUILT 3 new coal plants.
THAT IS WHAT WE LIKE TO HEAR !!!
@@miti342 Is it? Thousands of people froze to death in 2023 because they couldnt afford heating. Coal mining is not as harmful as cobal mining.
THIS is fantastic news! Thank you for sharing it with us. ❤❤❤❤
@@Ladoga753bro please don't spread fake information. Only a few people froze to death in the UK and mostly because of drug use
Just found this channel. I’m in high school so there’s not much positivity. This makes it a lot easier to justify my optimism to my friends. Love your videos!!
Thank you Jade!
Tell your friends that optimism also doesn't require justification. It's when we're at our most assured darkest times that glimmers of hope become our guaranteed way out, because the only way we stop ourselves from drowning is to swim upward. I hope everything goes okay for you, kind soul
You're fighting the good fight, friend! 😊
@@dyhhffjuojg4sd- That was beautiful. ❤
Share the channel with your teachers! Maybe they can feature it during breaks!!
The story about the inmates training abandoned dogs with behavioral issues really touched my heart. What a great idea! It's truly a win-win!
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I kinda hate this actually, since the inmates will inevitably grow attached to the dogs they are training and then they are separated from their dogs.
At least that's what I assumed when hearing this brief summary of the program.
If the inmates can stay in contact with the dogs they bonded with, this is an absolute win of course.
we need more people like you in the world🙏
Aw you’re far too kind ❤️
Indeed!
Agreed
We need more people like him ❌️
We need to be like him ✅️
Whenever I'm stressed, I go out and "touch grass," which generally means weeding or gardening. It always calms me.
As an environmental science student i learn a lot of negative stuff and its hard to deal with.. this stuff really brightens my day. thank you. its hard to find such positivity on social media nowadays
Thank you for exposing yourself to so much to create change! We need more you’s!
This is healing my nerves. Thank you 😊
Did you know that the world climate goes through cycles naturally? It is caused by solar activity, not by greenhouse gases. There was a global warming in the middle ages and a minor ice age in the 1800s, from which we are recovering. And we are due for a major ice age. If the ice caps melt, the world would actually freeze. CO2 does not affect the climate much. 1816 had a major volcanic eruption which caused a year without summer across the globe, but things went back to normal. When CO2 increases, plants increase. The earth can even digest plastic. What we need to do as a species is to prepare for cataclysmic events, not waste money trying to fight mother nature. We dont cause it and we cant stop it. Human record only shows cataclysm after cataclysm. Global floods, earthquakes, tornadoes, volcanoes, mudfloods. Our ancestors built sturdy pyramids, deep tunnels, and star forts.
@@Ladoga753 If you believe what you said - and I ask genuinely - Why watch the channel? 50% of what it talks about is contradictory to what you believe. And I'm rather surprised that you think a seasoned environmental science student wouldn't already know what is going on with the world's climate. Through expert analysis and simple study of what's going on with the world, precisely what they're learning from, it isn't what you say. We aren't "fighting mother nature," we've hurt her and we're now trying to fix that, because we need her.
Natural disasters have happened, yes, but not as intense or as often as now. This increase is caused by the warming temperatures and removal of natural dampening. The earth has gone through cycles, yes, but spanning hundreds of thousands of years, not one hundred! The last time a global temperature change faster than usual occurred, (The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum,) it was very abrupt, and found to be quite likely that it was an enormous volcano erupting at the wrong place, releasing methane from the sediment that quickly pumped record amounts of CO2 to the surface, causing the change. The natural cycle was interrupted. It isn't the end for **us** yet, though! That increase was by more than an entire 5°C, meanwhile we're, worst case, expected around a 2°C increase. Ecosystems remain intact, we've been able to revert extinctions and remove invasive species: there is still hope, but we have to fix it. We can't just bunker down and wait.
This channel is for good news, so when someone goes about saying that the end is actually inevitable and we should prepare for an apocalypse, it's... Discouraging.
The story about the dam removal made me so happy! One of the dams for our own local river is also in the process of being removed, and others are likely to follow soon ❤️
That’s great to hear! Brook was such an awesome segment in this!
Me too I'm crying 😭😭😭
Why is that good news? Ive no idea how dam helps/not helps so im asking
"Hope is not something you find, is something you create."
I literally read that yday too!
i love this quote. thank you for sharing
Oh my... my mind is in the gutter & when I read this post, my thoughts went somewhere _very_ dirty. Thanks for the giggles. 😂😂😂😂❤
The victorians had a good idea when they sent sad people for time at the seaside 😂
5:05 I love that the last wind-powered cargo ship, centuries ago, probably had a similar cargo.
Wrong. There were huge sailing cargo ships well into the 1920's carrying timber, coal and so on in the US and Europe. Small sailing cargo ships still ply the far-flung parts of the world to the present. i.e. way out in the Pacific. Marine engine tech is really very recent.
idk why negativity and drama get more views than the good things we have left in the world, it's kinda sad tbh😭
It’s because Negativity and Drama leads to Anger, and Anger is scientifically proven to drive engagement. That’s why Ragebait is so effective. Not for positive things.
Thank you so much for making this channel lots of people get wrapped up in constantly bad news so having your channel is like a light in the darkness
I hope it can add some balance to what’s out there!
I started classes last week (2nd year of community college), and one of my classes is environmental sociology. While reading a chapter of our required text, I came across a couple sentences that really resonated with me, and reminded me of, well, everything.
"If you look at the science about what is happening on earth and aren't pessimistic, you don't understand the data. But if you meet the people who are working to restore this earth and the lives of the poor, and you aren't optimistic, you haven't got a pulse." -Paul Hawken in his speech You Are Brilliant, And the Earth is Hiring
Thanks for sharing I’ll check out this quote, I have one of his books too!
i love how my generation is simultaneously looking back for solutions and forwards.
doing so is actually very much an intended thing in human societies, and is the foundation of learning.
only looking back causes degradation, while only looking forward causes mania.
balance really does end up the solution almost all of the time.
So many solutions we can find by looking back!
I am so VERY excited at the prospect of the Age of Sail coming back to us! Age of Sail, MKII?
Looking to the past holds so many answers !
That would be awesome. And make harbors so much prettier.
The story about the Northern Bald Ibis really hit home for me. I worked at a raptor center as a teenager and helped "flightline" injured birds of prey, teaching them to fly again. Teaching these birds their proper migration patterns is incredible work. I love all your positive stories.
that’s amazing work and so kind of y’all to help other species
I absolutely adore the story about the ibis and the king fisher. And hearing that indigenous people are having their land rights recognised! I could cry it’s such a beautiful thing, this really gives me hope. We should be caretakers of this planet, not leeches. There’s so much we can give back to our world.
i can confirm as someone who used to have depression that it was somewhat cured by being out in nature often and seeing the beauty of life.
That’s great to hear! we need to make nature more accessible for everyone so we can all seek refuge there 💚
Happyness before and after spending time in nature:
Before: 4.9
After: 7.8
Bonus +1.2 when Clothing is optional
Needed a reason to smile today… thank you so much for the updates!!🥰
Hopefully it got a smile out of you ☺️
was just coming down here to say the same thing. this was wonderful. thank you for making these
The nature one is so real. I often find myself when I’m stressed out or have art block, going and walking around my mom’s front yard garden. That really makes me feel a bit better.
It’s such a great happiness hack to just get outdoors!
I really love hearing all these stories. I’m doing some mini missions myself. Around where I live, Ash Trees got killed all over by ash borers, and now there’s many dead trees all around. So I’ve been taking some native plant saplings that people don’t want (say it popped up in their landscaping) and have been growing them to plant in places where the ash trees once were.
I’ve also been taking some seeds from my vegetable plants so I can grow them instead of buying new ones every year.
After weeks of job searching with no results, this puts me on ease knowing the world is recovering in some places.
good luck stranger!
Every ao often i go on walks in my neighbourhood without my phone or anything around sunrise. Its a really beautiful time and i always feel better after walking. Thank you for your video, despite everything bad that happens in the world, there is always something good to look forward to somewhere.
I appreciate the work you do ❤
That’s a good idea not to take phone too so you can fully immerse in it!
I walk my dog right after sunrise, no phone. It's a great start to the day!
Thank you so much for this video. It's so hard to stay positive with all those negative news constantly popping up, while the good ones are overlooked. It's so relieving to hear something nice for once, especially accompanied by your contagious smile c:
You’re welcome 💚
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You a real one 🙏🏼
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I'm hopping on this train! :D
@@vernfeufel1462 me too
Thanks, I started my day with negativity because I was foolish enough to comment on TH-cam, and I got some responses that were less than pleasant. I'm doing it again, supposedly the risk I take helps promote your videos. But I really did need some positivity, so thanks.
Well here’s a pleasant response to counter those ones a bit! You’re awesome and we need more people like you who care in the world ❤️ Have a lovely weekend and make sure to take some time for yourself and also away from social media, and I appreciate you commenting here for me!
Here's another pleasant comment! I hope that you have a good day
God bless you for being courageous !
I wish you a fantastic day, where you feel loved and wanted and valuable❤
Sending gratitude to you for caring. Big respect, joy and hope ❤✨️🙏🏻😃
The story about the scientists guiding the bald ibises on their migration path is honestly so precious. thank you for these videos!
I'm glad I found a channel specifically dedicated to good news. We all need this nowadays :(
I’ve got your back 🙏🏼
Great news!
Usually, like 6 before nature, and 9 after nature
Thank you for sharing news that warms the heart within.... and may everyone here never stabs their little toes ever again,or step on Leggos of sharp rocks 💖🌞🍀🌹
If I can guarantee people who watch my videos will never stub their toe again that’s a great sell!
And yes, we need bio-degradable Legos as well.
I'm a biologist and in my education we were taught the power of nature. There was a study that compared the affect of being able to view the garden/forest through the patients hospital window. And those who could see the green recovered a lot faster and needed less pain medication!
Nature really is amazing
I love the prisoner dog story! Thank you 🎉
I find the alternative to polystyrene (9:20) especially exciting. Sounds awesome! 😀
We have so many solutions to end this pollution now let’s hope we escalate the solutions asap!
You make me feel like the human species is winning instead of losing. Keep up the great work Sam!
Aw I hope I can add some balance!
YARGH MATEYS, THE AGE OF SAIL BE UPON US ONCE MORE!
I find the whole thing incredibly ironic, like there was once centuries worth of sail ships going around the world plenty of times, but it's taken us this long to go "wait we already know this" once environmental conservation became a sea-faring concern
Found this channel a month ago, and I love hearing about all of these positive things. News moves in negative circles and we all get caught in it. Some good now and then breaks the cycle!
It’s so easy to get swept in isn’t it!
I know I'm watching this every time it releases now
5:23 back to windpower. We've come full circle
So many solutions in the past!
I noticed a few people have started this good news idea over over the last few years. I really appreciated Russel Howard back then and then that guy from the office did it in the pandemic, and many others. But it always stops. it's so key to focus on the positives.
Even though it doesn't initially seem profitable. So it does not get invested in. But the cost of us being isolated, hopeless and polarised is a mass deficit really. On all fronts.
As a species we pay a little more attention to scary stuff, only because of an innate survival instinct. A tendency evolutionarily originating from when scary stuff could mean death.
But for me and other privileged few from the global North. Scary stuff doesn't mean death. But it should actually be the exact opposite. If we pay attention to the positive stuff. then we find proactive solutions and hope.
I love watching these and I hope you never stop ! Hope you get a BBC or even CNN show. (Imagine! ) THANK YOU :)
I look forward to your post every month and all the shorts I come across throughout it. Thank you and all of the folks that make your channel possible. Much love and gratitude!
I am so glad I found this channel. It's so easy to ride on the tide of negativity that is on every news channel. We need more positive stories, more hope, more reminders that people can do amazing things. Thanks for doing this
Love your channel @Sam Bentley and your naturally positive vibes :) Some great environmental news from the UK for the last day of September - closing the last coal fired power station and the closure of the TATA Steel works in Port Talbot (not great for the people losing their jobs, I know, but there will be opportunities in the new plasma furnace)
Yess i was too far in the edit to include that one but thanks for sharing it here!
I just really really needed this right now. I'm crying and for once it's for good things.
Awwwww. 🥹🫶 You clearly are a kind spirit.
I love the variety of good news you deliver. I'm not sure which was my favourite, but the criminals and doggies is just so lovely, or the dam removal that has taken 20 years of campaigning to remove is inspiring!
Thanks Stephanie!
I live in a small town and essentially live in nature. I am privileged to be in outstanding terrain.
Commenting for engagement ! Thanks for what you do!
Have yet to watch the video due to running late for work, but I'll be sure to watch it later. Here's a comment to help with algorithm- Keep up the good work!
Aww that’s faith right there! I appreciate it
I really do enjoy these videos. It's so easy to get bogged down with all of the negativity and some hope is always restored after I've finished watching. Thanks a lot for what you do here, it's greatly appreciated!
Thanks Oli! Appreciate your lovely words
There is a lot of depression nowadays because these people aren’t going outside or appreciating nature. It’s even better when you do it with friends. Connection with nature and socializing are very important parts of a human.
Agreed! I swim in the sea year round (if safe) with a group and I always feel better afterwards even if I didn't realize how stressed I was before.
I spend hours a day in nature, often the last place i am before i go to bed is outside and the first place i go once i wake up (and maybe having a piss) is outside
A Nature piss is also unmatched!
haha, (whatever your bathroom routine) I always get coffee and Open the Door and view whatever scenery there is!
@@deetrvl4life875 yeah, I have to make due with a golf course out my door but my yard is sprawling with life and the course is actually pretty well wooded, to the extent that a family of bald eagles has moved in. But still I often dream of getting to rewild the entire place lol.
I always feel better after a walk in nature!❤
Me too!
The inmate story is my favourite on this list! It's always lovely to hear when inmates are given opportunities to grow and give back instead of being left behind in a system that is supposed to recondition behaviour and make improvements to society. I'm glad to see so many dogs getting homes because of this program!❤
Yes agreed. My heart goes out to the inmates having to give them up. I bet some got attached. 🥲
Just watched August yesterday! Grateful I found this channel. You're making a difference, Sam! ❤
You have such a contagious smile! Thank you for sharing it with us :)
I was obsessed with the movie "Fly Away Home" when I was little in the 90's. Seeing that what that girl did for those geese decades ago has influenced our ability to reintroduce endangered birds into the wild literally made me break down into happy tears. Thank you so much for sharing this. All of this. 💖🥹
... I just cried... of happiness...
I AM a person who definetly needs more good news... especially since here in germany it looks like its always just going down qwq
I also cry from happiness a lot… I’m such a spiritual optimistic softie. Sending peace and smiles to you, Beatrix. 🥹🫶❤️
Glad all these happy folks are doing important, constructive things. I feel like a failure. Sic decades of Dead Dreams. _sigh_
You know, but I'll say it anyway, your channel is very important, and I'm grateful 🙏
Much love to you and yours, much love to your viewers. Keep shining your lights ✨️ 💛
Thank you 🥹🥹
I'm very glad these educational recaps exist. Thank you for sharing this knowledge to people who otherwise might not have access to it!
I always feel better in the forest and at the coast. Standing among tree, touching/hugging a tree, earthing by standing barefoot on grass, and feeling fog and cool coastal air on my skin always lifts my spirits.
I like this channel. It’s good to acknowledge that things can get better and show the efforts of people that work hard to save this world and make it better. Thank you!
Thank you for your service to mental health.
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So happy to spend time in nature, every time I go walking , hiking, and swimming I always feel so calm and hopeful, centered in myself again and all my troubles seem smaller
3:55 who would guess, that human interaction with other humans without a phone, would be beneficial. It's almost like we all are addicted to the internet and lost every human aspect of our life of smth...
I’m very depressed and realized that I’ve been coping hard by listening to TH-cam videos 24/7 (not a good mechanism, but well)
Most of the stuff here prioritizes negative/ shock value stuff, so making an effort to go for more positive content, I’m very thankful for your channel. Thank you so much, really.
I experienced a lot of trauma through the winter season last year and my OCD has become almost completely unmanageable. Headlines today terrify me and make me feel completely helpless. It is nice to see someone talking about the good in the world. So many cool things we never hear about in mainstream media. Thank you for what you're doing, I hope you get serotonin in return!
4 before, 7 after. I found a Red Admiral butterfly, counted over 17 honeybees going nuts over my new flowers outside, and all 3 of my outdoor cats came by today! It doesn't cure my problems with my housing, but it does help me feel like everything will still be okay just by being somewhere I know is always there for me and is our responsibility to nurture. Thanks for asking, and thanks for being such a ray of sunshine for us that need it.
Love these videos . Since I'd already liked/subscribed I hit the notification bell
because I really don't want to miss a single video.
Thank you for bringing positivity to the world! I work in an intensive care unit as a nurse, and sometimes, it gets hard, especially with the news media these days.
Going into nature always lifts my spirits... like your posts 💯
More people need to see these videos!
LOVE these weekly posts!! Lets spread as much good news as we can!!
The same day I found you, a new video post. LOVE THIS CHANNEL! Such a breath of fresh air.
It’s so good to see good news like this! Especially glad to hear about the Peruvian indigenous owning their land now, every little bit of progress is worth celebrating!
Blessings to the tribes and people on the Klamath dam project. I live nearby and itself been so wonderful seeing the trees and native plants they put in grow and thrive!!
Thank you!! This channel is so important; it's so refreshing and encouraging to hear about such good things going on all over the world :)
I’ll get working on Octobers soon!
I love everything about this!!! Please keep making videos!
Cheers Josie I’ve got you!
I love good positive things and fully believe that we CAN make a difference! There are an incredible amount of GOOD people doing GOOD things in the world. (It all starts with One, yes?) But sometimes it feels as though there are not and that's only because we are so exposed in every media to the bad. THANK YOU so very much for showing me and mine that there are many more doing good things than not. I am PROUD to be a part of this as a subscriber and Liker! (I'm actually a 'lover' but youtube doesn't recognize that. haha.) Kudos to you and all subscribers and commenters here!! ❤
Couldn’t have said it better myself! I started this channel to add some much needed balance to what’s out there. Thank you for being here
Thank you for making these videos--truly from the bottom of my heart. This year I suffered deep depression and anxiety spirals which was partially exacerbated by the constant negative news (because unfortunately that's what sells the most). In addition to walking almost every day through my neighborhood and getting involved in local conservation efforts, I've been checking in with your channel and it helps me stay hopeful without feeling like I'm being unrealistic.
this helped me in a time where I feel like the bad news could swallow me up. I know you probably dont always feel like smiling in a video and all that, but I appreciate you doing it and hope you're caring for the less happy sides of yourself too.
Thank you for your videos full of joy and promise. So needed right now.
Right it’s chaos on the feeds constantly😫
@@itsSamBentley I agree. Whenever I think clickbait can't get any uglier or negative, I'm proven wrong. Thank you for your wonderful channel.
I'm a massive fan of Massive Attack (pun intended), so hearing this news made this good news segment even better. Go give Mezzanine a listen everybody!
When you could first add music to mobile phones I remember my best friend used to always play them! Classic band !
Product placement creeping into this channel this month.
Teardrop on the fiiiiiiire! 🔥 🎵
I go camping about three times a year between the start of June and end of September. I always feel so much more relaxed during the trip and for a period of time afterwards. I'm always at my worst in the winter when I'm stuck inside while everything outside looks dead, grey, and cold.
Your intro made me burst into tears, I've been struggling to find reasons to hold out and your channel genuinely helps. It's inspiring and beautiful, thank you for spreading some hope!
Let the good grow!
Awww. 🪴
I forget about a lot of negative things in the world just after taking a short walk so def a 8/10 which makes me super excited about the solar panels as my walks can be more productive now
Yeah it’s such a quick win gettting out in nature!
Love the little jokes you sneak in here :) 8:15
Love the story of the incarcerated men training hard-to-adopt dogs -- win-win-win!!!
More great stories, please, Sam!
Thanks for bringing some positivity to the world!
very happy to have this channel recommended to me - love some good news for a change!
i started working outside about 2 years ago, and even if im in the mud and rain, i feel much better for it too.
I'm a huge advocate for antidepressants and medications HOWEVER I will say in Spring when I'm gardening, going outside and going in nature, I am infinitely more happy. Some people need both, one or the other and that's okay.
This should be on open TV. So many people need positive vibes in their lives.
I LOVE THIS CHANNEL
Aww thank you!
These good news videos (and especially this one) makes me feel happy like having a walk in the forest :) Much appreciated!
Aww that’s amazing!
Thank you for making these videos, and please keep making them. It's the one but of news I look forward to every month and actually makes me cry and feel good.
Spending time in nature and meditation are amazing for mental health. Being present in nature keeps the attention out of useless negative thinking and we have a choice in how we think ❤
All of this is awesome!!
Leaving a comment to boost this in the algorithm.
You’re the best thank you!