Eddy's Good News: New baby shoe invention & rare bird see's rare rise in numbers!

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26 Jul 2022, 09:12

Every day during his show on Virgin Radio, Eddy Temple-Morris brings you Good News stories from around the world, to help inject a bit of positivity into your day!Be sure to listen each day between 10am and 1pm (Monday - Friday) to hear Eddy's Good News stories (amongst the finest music of course), but if you miss any of them you can catch up on the transcripts of Eddy's most recent stories below:

Tuesday 26th July 2022

Good news from the USA as a husband and wife team of shoe designers invent a pair of baby shoes which dissolve in water when they come to the end of their life.

Say hello to Jessie and Meghan Milliken who’ve been working for years to design sustainable baby shoes which are part of the solution and not part of the problem.

Woolybubs, as they’re called are literally part of the solution because they’re made from a durable but ultimately soluble, edible, non toxic form of plastic that you’d find coating pills. These things are baby tested and approved, not fragile at all, they even last long enough to have hand-me-down potential and no amount of chewing or drooling will break them down. They will, however, dissolve to nothing at the end of their working and playing life. Around 300 million pairs of shoes end up in landfill in the USA alone every year, so this is a little step - pun intended - in the right direction.

Via: goodnewsnetwork.org

Good news from down under as the numbers of one of the world’s rarest and certainly funniest birds reaches the highest numbers since records began.

Say hello to the Kakapo, I found out about these wonderful green parrots via a good news story several years ago. They are flightless, green, about the size of a bollard, pleasantly chonky and with hilariously cute almost owl like faces.

You may have seen one getting very amorous with Stephen Fry on a wildlife program he presented. Their numbers fell to almost extinct after we stupidly introduced animals like rats, cats, foxes and stoats and the repopulation program has, since the seventies, been confined to a cluster of Islands off NZ that have been cleared of ground predators. During the lockdown I told you about the most successful breeding season on record, well that’s now been beaten, as fifty five chicks have survived to become juveniles, taking the overall kakapo population to 216 birds. It doesn't sound like a lot but they started with a handful. Another interesting kakapo fact is that these adorable chonksters can and regularly do live longer than 100 years!

Via: goodnewsnetwork.org