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Here’s what you told us. No Matter Who Wins, Health Will Keep Improving on Common Ground. Positive developments in health are unfolding all around us, from the staying power of telemedicine to life-saving naloxone access. No Matter Who Wins, Workplaces Will Keep Getting More Equitable. Workplace conditions in the US have improved drastically ...
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Aug 24, 2019 · David Byrne Launches Online Magazine ‘Reasons to Be Cheerful’. Nearly two years after first announcing the project, David Byrne has launched an online magazine named Reasons to Be Cheerful that aims to be a “tonic for tumultuous times.”. As the former Talking Heads singer explains in the introductory video, he founded the website ...
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Aug 21, 2023 · The Great Recovery. The Great Recovery is a series examining how a surge in innovation, outreach, access and attention to equity is improving our mental health system. It is supported by a grant from Wellcome Trust. The narrative we’ve been given is that countries across the world are buckling under the weight of a mental health crisis.
The Year in Cheer - Reasons to be Cheerful
Jan 1, 2024 · Working Bikes donations at Doffa Shop in Tanzania. Credit: Working Bikes. Eighty percent of new cars sold in Norway are electric.. The biggest dam removal project in US history — currently underway on the Klamath River — will open up 400 miles of fish habitat.. A New York program switching public housing tenants from gas to electric stoves led to a 35 percent drop in indoor NO2 concentrations.
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Reasons to be Cheerful was founded by artist and musician David Byrne, who believes in the power of approaching the world with curiosity—in art, in music, in collaboration and in life. Under the banner of Byrne’s nonprofit organization, Arbutus, Reasons to be Cheerful embodies this sensibility, applying it now to the future of our world.
Is This the Unlikeliest Friendship in America? - We Are Not …
Oct 12, 2020 · Scott Shigeoka. Scott Keoni Shigeoka is a host and producer for We Are Not Divided. As the host for the project's video series, they're interviewing people who have deepened their relationships with others across lines of social and political differences.
We Are Not Divided
It has become conventional wisdom that we are hopelessly divided. But this narrative masks a larger truth: that we humans are incredibly skilled at overcoming division. We Are Not Divided is a collaborative multimedia journalism project dedicated to revealing that truth by telling the stories that show our capacity, and our deep desire, to ...
The World Is Changing — So Can We - Reasons to be Cheerful
Mar 28, 2020 · It became a social norm. What is happening now is an opportunity to learn how to change our behavior. For many of us, our belief in the value of the collective good has eroded in recent decades. But in an emergency that can change quickly. During the Great Depression, new policies to protect the public were introduced.
The Complicated World of Staten Island - We Are Not Divided
Oct 26, 2020 · D uring the pandemic I have gone on some fairly long bike rides with band members and friends, exploring parts of our city that some of us are somewhat unfamiliar with. Most of us New Yorkers have been trapped in our apartments, so getting out has been, for me at least, both enlightening and a life saver. I organized some rides to Staten Island recently, the island borough just south of ...
The Year in Cheer - Reasons to be Cheerful
Jan 1, 2021 · Credit: Pierre Prestat / Flickr. The hole in the ozone layer is expected to heal completely by 2030 in the northern hemisphere and mid-latitudes, by 2050 in the southern hemisphere and by 2060 at the poles.. In a 25 year period, homicides in North America and Western Europe fell by 46 percent.. In 2016, the only country in Europe to reimburse for PrEP, the once-a-day pill that can prevent HIV ...