September 28, 2026

Good News for Humankind 🌏
​The world's latest positive milestones for climate, justice, peace, health & more

Record 3,794 women are nominees across 2026 U.S. state legislative races

Women's presence in American state governments has climbed for decades, and this year's candidate pool is the clearest sign yet of how far that shift has come — more women are seeking state legislative office than at any point in U.S. history.

The gains aren't even, though: Democratic women set their own record, while Republican women actually fell short of their 2022 high, and women still hold just a third of all state legislative seats nationwide.

Whether this record of candidates becomes a record of winners won't be clear until Election Day in November.

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180+ organizations join massive effort to restore 4.4M acres of Brazil’s Cerrado

The Cerrado gets a fraction of the attention the Amazon does, despite being the world's most biodiverse savanna — and losing more than half its native vegetation already.

The coalition working to change that has built real infrastructure from scratch: seed banks, nurseries, trained technicians, land agreements. A separate Cerrado finance fund has quadrupled its investment in a year, growing from 32 to 122 participating farms. Neither effort has finished the job.

But real capacity and real capital are both now flowing toward saving it.

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Kentucky erases $250 million in medical debt for 130,000 residents

For tens of thousands of Kentuckians, medical debt just disappeared — no forms, no applications, just a letter in the mail.

Governor Andy Beshear directed $2.5 million to a nonprofit that buys medical debt for pennies on the dollar and cancels it. The first wave already erased $103 million for 46,000 people.

The money came from a fund originally set aside for housing assistance — a reminder that even well-designed relief still competes for limited dollars.

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South Korea’s forest wood volume has grown 30-fold since 1950s

South Korea's reforestation is often reduced to a single number: 10 billion trees.

The real story is what happened after planting day. A new study of over 9,000 archival records found tree survival rates were often below 50% in the 1950s — and only climbed above 90% once officials began systematically checking, and replanting, what failed.

By 2020, the country's forests held roughly 30 times more standing wood than in 1952, and now cover 63% of the country.

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Burkina Faso’s malaria vaccine rollout cuts cases 32%, deaths 44%

Malaria has killed more people in Burkina Faso than almost any other disease, hitting children under five hardest.

The country's malaria vaccine rollout, scaled to all 70 health districts by mid-2025, helped drive a historic single-year decline: total cases fell from over 10.8 million to 7.3 million, while deaths dropped 44%.

Still, 7.3 million cases in one year remains an enormous toll, and whether the pace holds amid funding pressures is far from settled.

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Remember Ain Ghazal rises as one of the ancient world's largest Neolithic towns (~7,250 B.C.E. ???) Ain Ghazal, a Neolithic town near modern Amman, Jordan, began taking shape around 7250 B.C.E. along the Zarqa River. At its height, it stretched across 37 acres and housed up to 3,000 people, who plastered their floors, buried ancestors beneath their homes, and shaped some of the oldest known monumental human figures ever found. ​Read more​

Imagine Global life expectancy reaches 75 years for first time ever (2035 C.E. ???) Global life expectancy is projected to cross 75 years by 2035, a threshold that once belonged only to the wealthiest nations. Sub-Saharan Africa has been closing the gap faster than almost anywhere else, adding roughly nine years of life expectancy since 2000 through gains in HIV treatment, malaria control, and maternal care. If the trend holds, it would mark one of the most broadly shared gains in human health in living memory. ​Read more​

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Help safeguard the upcoming election

From ACLU: President Trump and state lawmakers are trying to interfere in the 2026 midterm elections. The ACLU has a plan to keep power where it belongs — in the hands of the voters.

Across the country, we’re already organizing and mobilizing with our neighbors as part of our largest-ever election safeguarding initiative, investing more than $24.5 million to protect our right to vote and empower voters across the country to participate fully in our democracy.

Updates from Peter 👋

Hi beautiful people,

For a few weeks, I've been developing a presentation introducing my antihero philosophy and approach. It's meant to be something I can use as a webinar or in-person presentation for people who want to make a difference in the world, but know the way they've been doing it just isn't sustainable or fulfilling for them.

I know I'll be iterating this for a while, honing and tweaking it till it really lands and feels right.

Until then, I am going to test it however I can and, hopefully, offer folks like you some insights and guidance in the process.

So I have a favor to ask: Will you be my guinea pig for the very first iteration of this presentation?

It'll take place Tuesday, October 13 from noon to 1pm PT. It will be roughly 30 minutes of presentation followed by time for you to ask questions, offer feedback, and discuss. It's 100% free.

I would so appreciate your presence, support, and earnest critical feedback on this. Thank you in advance!

Love,
Peter

Peter Schulte Burnout & purpose coach, recovering hustle hero. ​​​

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