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.
The message from today's linked article from Scientific American is clear: invest significantly now in tackling climate change and its worst impacts will likely be avoided
But cautious investments may well be wasted - they simply won't be enough to make a difference. This is the conclusion reached by researchers in Germany and the Netherlands, who studied how much it would take to limit global warming to 2 degrees...
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This is a great story of some young men trying to spread festive cheer. I found it in the UK's Independent newspaper.
The four men concerned are housemates in London, and some time ago they decided to try and brighten the lives of others by making their wishes come true. For example, they managed to persuade Yamaha to donate a red guitar to a child, and helped send people to see a...
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