Reasons to Be Hopeful

Eazibee hails from the UK but now lives in New York, where she works as a consultant - focused on health and environmental issues in developing countries - alongside raising a young family. She devotes any free time she has left to screenwriting and blogging. Reasons to be Hopeful (RTBH) is her principal blog, which she started in October 2007 in an effort to counter the negativity dominating the mainstream newswires by finding and sharing really positive tales from different communities across the globe. By 11th October 2008, Eazibee had posted a leap-year's worth of good news stories - reviewing 366 hopeful articles (and some additional ones sent in by RTBH readers) from news outlets across the world. One for every single day... RTBH is no longer a daily endeavour, but Eazibee still posts good news stories from across the world on a regular basis and has new bloggers joining to expand the RTBH team. Reader submissions are also warmly encouraged! Please feel free to send any good stories you come across to eazibee(at)gmail.com for review. To read more about Reasons to be Hopeful, take a look at these HappyNews.com reports from February and November 2008.

Thanks very much to RTBH reader Oliver who sent this story from UK newspaper The Telegraph today, about an Austrian millionaire who decided to part with all his property and belongings, in return for a simpler life. Karl Rabeder had humble beginnings and worked hard to acquire his fortune. But when he realized that his many properties - and six gliders! - were not only not making him happy, but had become a kind of weight around his neck, he began to sell them off. All proceeds are going to... continue reading »

Getting Positively Younger

It's official! Reading RTBH slows the aging process! Well, not quite. But nearly. An article carried by the BBC today (and linked below) outlines research that appears to demonstrate that thinking positively, and specifically thinking and acting as you did in the past, can overcome some signs of aging. Harvard professor Ellen Langer's groundbreaking research was actually conducted in 1979, but was only partially reported, until now. Her experiments entailed building a 1950s-style enclave and... continue reading »

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