Money-Eating Dogs, Bird Conservation, and Fuel From Poo

0:03 Callaroga shark media. Good news. We got the four thousand dollars back. What's the story, Johnny Mackinhaw, I'm Johnny Mack with fuck good news stories. Well, the dog ate the four thousand dollars. Guess how the owners got it back? Think about it. Yeah. The couple said their dog, Cecil had never in all the seven years of life, got up on the counter. Clayton and Carrie had taken out cash to do a home improvement project. They left the envelope of money on the countertop. Cecil decided he was hungry. Clayton said, I just walked around the house doing stuff and came back, and then all of a sudden, I walked in on Cecil standing over a pile of mutilated cash. It was so out of character, it didn't seem real. The dog seemed fine at first till everybody was asleep, and then they heard that dog vomit sound. You know the sound if you haven't bet Clayton says, when you hear that, immediate reacts. I jumped out of bed and just made sure it didn't throw up anywhere. Not great, And then when I went to pick it up, there's like a lot of half eaten one hundred dollars and fifty dollars bills here. Then some more bills came out, you know, another system. The couple started trying to put the bills back together, and Clayton says, we hit this point of diminishing returns. We kind of called the quits. After two or three days, they pieced together as many bills as they could. They had to have more than fifty percent of each bill to get their money back, and the bank swapped them out. In the end, they were able to get back thirty five fifty. Clayton says, it was an expensive puzzle. Carrie, the wife, says the bank was really nice about it, and the bank says it happens all the time. They said, it actually happens quite a bit because money just picks up so many cents, especially if it's using

1:34 the food industry. I guess dogs pick up on that. They have such a good sense of smell, and something about it drove him crazy. Poor bankers. A conservation foundation in Ecuador protects ten percent of the world's bird species. The Jokotoco Foundation, established in nineteen ninety eight, has emerged as a formidable force in biodiversity conservation. The foundation started when they needed to safeguard the Joko Toto anti pizza bird species, discovered in nineteen ninety seven. The foundation now has fifteen reserves across Ecuador. In Australia, they're continuing to rehabilitate the populations of White's sea horse, referred to as an Australian icon. Hundreds of White's seahorses released into the waters north of Newcastle into specially made hotels as part of the largest release of captive bread to seahorses in history. Now It's Tidepool north of Sydney Harbor will become the latest release site for the sea horses.

2:27 They were bred at Sea Life Aquarium in Sydney. Swimmers at Clontarf may be able to see the seahorses clinging to the habitat net in the tidle pool, but are encouraged don't bunk the sea horses. Well yeah, very environmental today, especially after that first story with the dog and the money. An indie soul band is making danceable protest songs about climate change. The New York City based indie soul band Melt has taken a distinctive and earnest approach on TikTok. One of melts standout tracks is walk to Midnight, featuring their TikTok content. The lyrics are pointed, do you know what you did? Did you have a good time while I threw it away? You wanted to own own it? Honey? It ein't yours to take. Melt aims to infuse everyday contexts with heavy handed, yet accessible messages about climate change and related issues. We started with poop, Let's end with poop. A firm has developed jet fuel made entirely from human pooh. I guess this is kind of awesome, right, since we're generating a lot of that every day. James Highgate from Firefly Green Fuels said, we wanted to find a really low value feedstock that was highly abundant, and of course pooh was abundant. Highgate was looking for waste to make green jet fuel. He tried waste, oils, waste food, even agricultural scraps. Then they experimented with human waste. The sewage solids are chemically treated and end up as pure kerosene. The biocrude acts just like crude oil and can be converted into kerosene. He's done the math. Each human, he calculates, makes enough sewage in a year to produce four to five liters of biojet fuel. To fly a passenger jet from London to New York.

3:54 We need the annual sewage of ten thousand people and another ten thousand people to come back. That's just going to be amazing, isn't it. That's your five good news stories for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it, Share the episode link they might like the show. You know, appreciate you listening. Have a great day.