Eddy's Good News: A touch of grace & marine biologists say kelp forests will save planet.

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22 Sep 2022, 09:20

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Thursday 22nd September 2022

Good news from here in the UK as a man who lost his wallet had it driven back to his house on the same day with everything still in there.

Say hello to Hayley Roberts who’s 33 years old and from Brighton. Hayley was working in an off licence in Portslade when she found a wallet on the floor of the shop. While some people would have taken that as a finders keepers windfall, not Hayley, she searched for a clue as to who the owner was, found his driving licence and decided the personal touch was best. After work that day she drove to his house and rang the bell. There was nobody home, so she posted the wallet through the letter box, with a note to say she had found it in the ‘offie’. Hayley was so selfless she didn’t even write her name down.

When she came into work the next day, it was to a huge smile from her boss who was holding a massive box of chocolates. “These are for you” he said, “from a very grateful customer who came in this morning, we know it must have been you who delivered his wallet to his home”.

Not all heroes wear capes and lovely Hayley is another inspiration for us all to be heroic.

Encouraging news from Australia where marine biologists have expanded their study of local kelp forests into a worldwide assessment of ocean kelp and they’ve confirmed that it’s these forests that will save our planet, much more than the ones on land.

Say hello to ocean kelp, it’s amazing stuff, all edible, really good for you and grows between four and eleven times faster than the fastest growing food crops on land, like wheat, corn, or rice.

And even if you don’t fancy eating the stuff, there’s an even bigger win here, which is CO2 sequestration. Kelp forests are thirty times more efficient at capturing CO2 than forests on land. So when you hear a company saying “buy something from us and we’ll plant a tree”, remember they’re doing nothing for climate change right now because a tree doesn’t hold onto CO2 for about fifty years, get them to plant kelp, or seagrass, the most productive ecosystems on earth for the total amount of carbon fixed. 

Via: goodnewsnetwork.org