All Points of Progress
- Coping technologies, from ‘liquid trees’ to smart white canes
Progress roundup: Disability sector blossoms in Africa, a photobioreactor gives hope for city air quality, and stories about education and new laws.
- French drains, barrels for rain, and a wind-energy bullet train
Progress roundup: New Orleans citizens build green infrastructure, plus wind-fueled trains in Morocco and a win for coal-mine cleanup in India.
- Lowering burdens: Overdraft fees in US, plastic packaging in France
Progress roundup: Some U.S. banks end a practice that affects low-income people the most, France continues phasing out single-use plastics, and more.
- Shut the door, and stay out of the way: Strategies to help wild animals
Progress roundup: Hong Kong bans ivory trade, Costa Rica’s camera traps prove success of habitat protections, and the new “Great Blue Wall” of the Indian Ocean.
- City or country, policies that green the landscape
Progress briefs: Planted spaces yield benefits beyond the expected, from urban farms in Argentina to tree growth in Australia enabling species spread.
- Animal crossings, and other networks for safety
Progress roundup: A Canadian highway features paths that protect animals and people. In Bangladesh, cyclone preparation means layers of warning.
- Moms in school: From teens in Tanzania to college students in US
From teens in Tanzania to community college students in the U.S., mothers are getting more encouragement and help to stay in school.
- From around the world, a year’s worth of high notes
Our weekly roundups covered 257 moments of progress in 2021, evidence that humanity is capable of working together to advance a common good.
- Amid species loss, the ‘oh my’ mammals that are doing better
Progress roundup: Amid species loss, conservation and human attitude shifts are bringing back high-profile animals like mountain gorillas and jaguars.
- Workers’ well-being: Workweek laws and co-ops boost fairness
Progress notes: Workers’ quality of life improves as they gain control. For hourly earners, predictable schedules are increasingly a legislated right.
- Low-level traffic stops decrease; Saudi women in the workplace increase
Progress roundup: Governments are giving more freedom to those who’ve been denied it, from women in Saudi Arabia to Black drivers in U.S. cities.
- Feeling at home: Accessibility in US parks; rights for Thai forest dwellers
Progress roundup: legal protection for forest inhabitants in northern Thailand; and in the U.S., better park accessibility for people with autism.
- Shifting the conversation: From diverse boardrooms to hotlines for men
Our progress roundup highlights getting new voices into the conversation, from men who are calling hotlines to boardrooms increasing in diversity.
- Can courts be compassionate, in crime prevention and punishment?
Progress roundup: In Brazil, a court condemns a past dictatorship’s crimes. In the U.S., red flag laws are removing guns from hands deemed dangerous.
- From rainforest to row houses, honoring rights to home
Progress roundup: Australia returns land to Indigenous residents, and in U.S. cities, aggregated data helps citizens curb urban blight and evictions.
- Ways to weave a safety net: Free college and alternative justice
Progress roundup: Young adults aging out of foster care and repeat offenders needing treatment are two different groups targeted with more services.
- Conserving species and specimens, from tuna to trees
In our progress roundup, conservation measures are looking after an Italian tree with connections to St. Francis, and tunas fished around the world.
- Protecting the ‘Amazon of Europe’ and a small Aussie bandicoot
Animal gains: Our progress roundup includes a healthier marsupial, an animal-testing ban in Mexico, and a new UNESCO, five-nation biosphere reserve.
- Leaded gas dies. And carbon-free fusion power inches closer.
Progress roundup: Clean energy and air are featured in three briefs this week. In Iceland, the world’s largest carbon capture plant is up and running.
- New respect for Black hair in Illinois, and for Josephine Baker in France
Progress roundup: A preschooler’s mom who braided her son’s hair and the family of a Jazz Age icon both made their cases for respect – and won.