Longitudinal data shows an encouraging trend over the past decades. Simon Kuestenmacher writes that collectively we are richer, healthier, more peaceful, more environmentally aware and intellectually more capable than ever before. Gen Z is outrageously well-educated, tech-savvy, and capable of thinking systemically (granted, they are young and don’t know much stuff yet, but their intellectual framework is impressive). Even considering the climate challenge the future is in good hands.https://thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2023/04/01/the-stats-guy-why-young-people-should-remain-optimistic-and-focus-on-reshaping-the-future/

Hatch: Taronga Accelerator Program aims to help drive innovative solutions to some of the world’s most pressing conservation and environmental challenges. If you have a brilliant idea or product that you think will be the next gamechanger for the planet, we want to hear from you!Learn about the six incredible teams for the 2023 HATCH Taronga Accelerator Program: Be the Future I Sally GiblinHabitat Pods I Alexandra CartheyLOAN I Emma Foster-GeeringScrunch I David RobertsRevival Cultural Burning I Rebecca Woods & Tara MercyOneFishTwoFish I Dr. Chris Gillieshttps://www.linkedin.com/posts/hatch-taronga-accelerator-program_acceleratorprogram-sustainability-conser

Florida A&M University alumna Tamia Potter is now the first Black woman to become a neurosurgeon resident at Vanderbilt University.Tamia Potter’s achievement marks the first in the university’s 148-year history.https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/hbcu-grad-first-black-female-neurosurgeon-resident-vanderbilt_n_641b8a6ae4b0cfde25c8e8dd

The premier production of a brand-new professional, all-wheelchair-user dance company, is to tour three venues across the Midlands. Propel Dance will tour its reimagined version of the fairy tale The Snow Queen in April.Led by an all-female leadership team, the company was instigated and founded by Helen Mason, a Birmingham-based Dance Artist with a track record of making dance for and with disabled people for over twenty years.https://www.livingwithdisability.org/post/uk-s-first-all-wheelchair-professional-dance-company-announces-tour

Allegra Spender is attempting to catalyse a conversation on holistic tax reform and get the government to move away from piecemeal change.   Jim Chalmers claims to use a “staged, methodical approach” to tax reform.   There is a problem for them both. The average Australian does not trust the political class or the elites to fairly and equitably manage tax reform.   We need to engage everyday citizens in a deliberative forum to answer the question: How do we fund the Australia we want? Then all can understand the required trade-offs to government services and taxes and the reasons for them.

Allbirds has just released Mo.onshot: The world's first Net Zero carbon shoe. How? Using Regenerative wool, carbon-negative sugarcane-based foam and carbon-negative bioplastic eyelets: https://www.allbirds.com/pages/moonshot-zero-carbon-shoes