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🌞 EV sales soar in Norway
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🗑️ New city initiative
A Portland-based non-profit has been running an initiative with a dual purpose: combat homelessness and trash collection issues.
Ground Score employs unhoused and formerly unhoused workers for trash collection on city streets. Workers make $US20-29 ($AU32-47) an hour through funding supplied by local government and advocacy groups.

Image credit: Ground Score
There are 55 workers employed under the scheme, 95% of whom were recruited when unhoused. Incredibly, over 70% have become housed since working with the group.
In 2024, 31,747 people participated and collected 9.5 million bottles and cans processed for recycling - how good is that?!

🚗 EV sales soar in Norway
Some good climate news this week, with Norway surging ahead with electrifying its vehicles. In Norway, EV sales have surged from less than 1% of total auto sales in 2010 to 88.9% in 2024. Now, new data released this week suggests 96% of new cars sold in the first few weeks of 2025 were EVs.

The progress is largely attributed to long-term policies designed to support consumers' uptake of EVs. Some of these policies include tax exemptions, discounts on road and parking tolls, access to bus lanes and improved infrastructure for public EV charging stations.
Putting Norway’s EV sales into context, in 2024, EVs accounted for 8.1% of total U.S. sales, whilst in Australia EVs totalled 9.7% of all car sales.

🎵 Feel good song of the week
![]() | DtMF - Bad Bunny (2025) This week’s feel good song of the week is courtesy of Skye, TDA’s Partnerships Executive. We’ve both become obsessed with this Bad Bunny song over the past few weeks, and were playing it on repeat in the office on Friday. Enjoy! |

🐅 Tiger population grows in India
A new report has found India’s wild tiger population has doubled over the past decade. In 2010, India was home to an estimated 1,706 tigers — by 2022, that number had increased to 3,682, according to the new data.

India is home to about 75% of the world’s tigers, with conservation efforts bolstered through strengthened anti-poaching laws, habitat conservation, and programs for reducing human-wildlife conflict.
The report found some communities have also economically benefited from this rise in the tiger population through ecotourism. The study says India’s success “offers important lessons for tiger-range countries that conservation efforts can benefit both biodiversity and nearby communities”.

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🏏 Cricket hall of famer
Moving onto some bright sporting news, Christina Matthews has become the 65th person inducted into the Cricket Australia Hall of Fame. Among her many achievements, Matthews is Australia’s most-capped women’s Test cricketer and a 1988 World Cup winner.

Matthews developed an ambition to play for Australian women’s cricket team at a young age and debuted for the side in 1984.
Following her playing career, Matthews has worked as a cricket administrator. In 2011, she was appointed as the chief executive of the Western Australian Cricket Association and remained in the role for 12 years. Last month, she was appointed as the chair of the Australian Cricketers' Association, an organisation created to serve as a voice for all of Australia’s professional cricket players.
On the recognition, Matthews said: “I'm really proud. I put my heart and soul into it – everything I did during that time was to allow me to play for Australia. So yes, it's such an honour."

😊 Community good news
Here’s some community good news! We received an email this week highlighting a new collaboration between six local charities and key industry bodies that will support new clinical trials for adolescents and kids with brain cancer.
The TarGeT trial will specifically use “precision medicine to deliver treatments tailored to each patient’s unique tumour genetics”.
The six not-for-profit organisations — The Robert Connor Dawes Foundation, Children’s Cancer Foundation, My Room Children’s Cancer Charity, The Kids' Cancer Project, Mark Hughes Foundation, and Cure Starts Now — have committed to annually funding the trial over the next seven years.
An incredible example of the coming together of science, research and philanthropy!
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