April 13 2026

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

Renewables now make up at least 49% of global power capacity

Renewable energy reached 49.4% of total global installed power capacity by end of 2025, up from 46.3% in 2024, according to the International Renewable Energy Agency's Renewable Capacity Statistics 2026.

The world added 692 gigawatts of new renewable capacity last year — the largest annual addition ever recorded — with solar alone contributing 511 gigawatts. Africa recorded its highest renewable expansion on record, and the Middle East its fastest-ever growth.

IRENA Director-General Francesco La Camera noted that countries investing in renewables are absorbing the current Middle East energy crisis with measurably less economic damage than fossil-fuel-dependent economies.

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Global suicide rate has fallen by 40% since 1995

A landmark study published in The Lancet Public Health by researchers at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington found that the global age-standardized suicide mortality rate fell nearly 40% between 1990 and 2021 — from 15 deaths per 100,000 people to nine.

The decline was driven by measurable interventions including restrictions on toxic pesticides, expanded mental health services, and national prevention strategies. Female suicide rates fell more than 50% globally over the period.

Roughly 740,000 people still die by suicide each year, and rates have risen in parts of Latin America and North America, underscoring that progress is real but uneven — and that further investment in evidence-based prevention can save more lives.

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Rhinos are reintroduced back into Uganda’s wild after 43 years

The Uganda Wildlife Authority have translocated the first southern white rhinos to Kidepo Valley National Park — 43 years after the last rhino in the park was killed by poachers in 1983.

The animals came from Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary, a breeding program established in 2005 with just six individuals that has grown Uganda's total rhino population to 61. Four more rhinos will follow by May, with a separate group already relocated to Ajai Wildlife Reserve in January 2026.

The reintroduction restores a key grazing species to one of Africa's most remote savannah ecosystems and makes Kidepo the only national park in Uganda where visitors can see all of the Big Five in a single landscape.

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U.K. cancer death rates down to their lowest level on record

Cancer Research UK data published in March 2026 confirms that UK cancer death rates have reached their lowest level on record — around 247 deaths per 100,000 people annually between 2022 and 2024, down 29% from the 1989 peak of 355 per 100,000.

The rate fell 11% in just the past decade, with stomach cancer deaths down 34%, lung cancer down 22%, and ovarian cancer down 19%. Cervical cancer death rates have dropped 75% since the 1970s, driven by NHS screening programs and the HPV vaccine introduced in 2008.

Researchers caution that liver, womb, and gallbladder cancer death rates are rising, and that NHS capacity pressures could slow future progress.

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California condors nesting in Pacific Northwest for first time in a century

A pair of California condors reintroduced by the Yurok Tribe appear to be incubating the first egg in the Pacific Northwest in more than a century, nesting inside a hollow old-growth redwood in Redwood National Park in early February 2026.

The female, named Ney-gem' Ne-chween-kah — Yurok for "She carries our prayers" — and her mate were among the first cohort released in 2022 as part of the Northern California Condor Restoration Program. The species fell to just 22 individuals in 1982 and has since recovered to 607.

The Yurok Tribe began working toward this moment in 2003, driven by the condor's sacred role in Yurok World Renewal ceremonies and a two-decade commitment to restoring ecological and cultural balance to their ancestral territory.

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Remember Humans create the first star chart, perhaps in modern-day Germany (~30,000 B.C.E. ???) In 1979, archaeologists recovered a tiny mammoth ivory tablet from a cave in the Swabian Alps of Germany. Decades later, researcher Michael Rappenglueck identified its carved figure as a depiction of the constellation Orion — potentially the oldest known star chart in human history, and possibly a calendar linking the night sky to human fertility. ​Read more​

Imagine One-third of the world’s nations are led by female heads of state for the first time (2039 C.E. ???) For the first time ever, more than 65 nations worldwide are led by female heads of state simultaneously. This inspires women and girls around the world to step up into leadership roles. As a result, the broader global community reaps the benefits of female leadership, running more effectively and equitably, and cultivating heightened empathy, collaboration, and creativity. ​Read more​

Take Action 💥

Reject Trump’s Anti-Voter Campaign

From Common Cause: Senate Republicans have all but admitted defeat on their so-called “SAVE America Act” – a reckless scheme to stop married women, naturalized citizens, and anyone else they don’t want voting from casting a ballot. But this fight isn’t over. After failing to pressure Congress to pass the SAVE America Act, Trump is now reportedly trying to change our voting laws through executive fiat. Let’s show Trump and Congress just how many of us are paying attention and demanding they protect our freedom to vote.

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The fake Stanford study

Over the weekend, I found myself in a doom-scroll vortex when a reel stopped me cold.

It cited a 12-year behavioral study from Stanford that claimed the number one thing holding people back from success wasn't a lack of focus, talent, or work ethic. It was "micro-avoidance" — nearly imperceptible moments of not doing something small but crucial, over and over, until the pattern becomes unconscious habit. Often, we replace it with something genuinely productive, hard, and even necessary. But something that lets us off the hook from that crucial missing link

This landed immediately.

I work hard. I focus. I have talent. And yet some of my most important projects haven't fully arrived the way I want them to. When I sat with why, the answer was uncomfortable: I often avoid basic social tasks. I'm great and have almost infinite energy for solo, introverted tasks. But reaching out to a prospective client, posting a video of myself on Instagram, or showing up in the Antihero Project community — these at times feel draining and confronting. So I find something else to do instead. Something real. Something productive. Something that isn't that. And so a key ingredient goes missing.

But then I spent five minutes researching the study.

Spoiler: It doesn't actually exist. The reel was completely fabricated — engineered to trigger exactly the response I had, and funnel people toward a coaching program sign-up. The neuroscience, the 12 years, the Stanford lab. All of it. Just more sleazy coach manipulation tactics.

I'm still sitting with what to do with that.

The concept itself isn't wrong — micro-avoidance is real. My self-recognition was real and accurate. The discomfort I felt reading it was real. But it was manufactured by someone willing to lie to get there.

Being authentic and real with people is probably not actually my clearest path to success in the usual sense of the word. But it feels like the only path to any kind of success I would want.

And if that means I'm never a millionaire or never go viral, so be it.

Love,
Peter

Peter Schulte Coach, writer, recovering hustle hero. ​​​

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