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The world’s largest database of social change milestones, from the first fire to today’s good news.
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2023 C.E.
May 11 Australia’s parliament has passed the country’s most significant emissions reduction legislation in more than a decade. It requires that total emissions from major industrial facilities must come down, not just be offset.
2023 C.E.
May 11 Ecuador just pulled off the largest debt-for-nature swap ever signed, unlocking an estimated $450 million for Galápagos marine conservation over the coming decades. The deal works by trading expensive international bonds for a cheaper loan, then channeling the savings into a new independent fund overseen by a board that mixes government ministers with civil society voices. Roughly $12 million a year will flow to park rangers, fisheries monitoring, and enforcement across one of the...
2023 C.E.
May 10 “In our first treated case, we were thrilled to see that the aggressive decline usually seen after birth simply did not appear,” said lead author Professor Darren Orbach of Boston Children’s Hospital.
2023 C.E.
May 10 Wind power just crossed a historic line in the U.K., supplying 32.4% of the country's electricity in the first quarter of 2023 — narrowly beating gas at 31.7%. It's the first time on record that wind farms have outpaced gas plants over a full quarter, and renewables together delivered nearly 42% of Britain's power. Decades of offshore wind investment, falling turbine costs, and the urgency triggered by Europe's 2022 energy shock all helped get...
2023 C.E.
May 10 Electric bus fleets at this scale are rare, and Quebec just pulled off one of the largest in North American history. The nearly $2 billion Canadian investment — split between provincial and federal governments — will put battery-electric buses on roads across nine cities, replacing diesel vehicles that disproportionately pollute lower-income neighborhoods, while keeping manufacturing jobs local as the grid gets cleaner. Charging infrastructure and staff retraining still pose real challenges ahead. But when...
2023 C.E.
May 9 Oregon licensed its first three psilocybin facilitators in April 2023, making it the first U.S. state to formally authorize practitioners to guide adults through psychedelic sessions at regulated service centers. The approvals were part of a much larger pipeline, with more than 300 permit and license applications already submitted and the state's first psilocybin manufacturer licensed the month prior. Voters had approved this supervised-access model back in 2020, choosing a path that doesn't require...
2023 C.E.
May 9 5 million businesses were founded in the U.S. in 2022. 47% of those new businesses were founded by women. Before the pandemic, just 29% of American entrepreneurs were women.
2023 C.E.
May 9 Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court has given the green light to a bill seeking to decriminalize homosexuality in a move hailed as a “historic development” by campaigners.
2023 C.E.
May 5 “While other states are dead set on ripping away reproductive rights and attempting to erase the existence of trans and nonbinary individuals, we’re doing the opposite: We’re making Maryland a state that is welcoming, inclusive, and that safeguards the rights of all people.”
2023 C.E.
May 5 The WHO formally ended its COVID-19 global health emergency on May 5, 2023, more than three years after the designation first triggered a worldwide response. Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus pointed to over a year of declining transmission and deaths as the reason most countries can finally return to pre-pandemic rhythms. He didn't gloss over the loss — nearly 7 million deaths were officially reported, with the true toll likely closer to 20 million —...
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