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Reasons to be Cheerful is a nonprofit online magazine that is tonic for tumultuous times. We tell stories that reveal that there are, in fact, a surprising number of reasons to feel cheerful. Many of these reasons come in the form of smart, proven, replicable solutions to the world’s...

2025年1月2日 · Happy New Year! And welcome to our annual look back at the boldest, most surprising ways the world has changed for the better. This epic list is a treasure trove of hopeful facts, each linked to one of our stories from 2024. We hope it brings you joy and inspiration for the year ahead. (Note: Some ...

Living Paradigms A series about how the cultural practices of other societies, both past and present, can teach us how to prevent or solve problems.

2024年10月9日 · Let’s start with last night and work backward. At a packed theater in New York City, a raucous celebration shook the rafters to fête five years of Reasons to be Cheerful. For 90 surreal, peripatetic minutes, it was like watching our vibe pureed into a frothy, psilocybin-laced pineapple daiquiri. The performers were incredible. The crowd kept rising to …

2021年1月1日 · You could be forgiven for thinking that 2020 was little more than a slow-motion train wreck broken up into 365 individual units. But if you’re a regular RTBC reader, you know that’s not true. Yes, it was a most difficult year. But it was also a year of problems solved,...

2024年12月18日 · RTBC Staff Reasons to be Cheerful is a non-profit editorial project that is part magazine, part therapy session, part blueprint for a better world.

2024年10月31日 · This is part one of No Matter Who Wins, a three-part series about positive changes that will likely continue regardless of the outcome of the 2024 US election. Read part two here, and read part three here. Radically innovative geothermal plants in Nevada and Utah. A big bet on nuclear power from the world’s biggest companies. A 50 percent increase in electric car sales in Europe, a fully ...

2022年12月30日 · Happy New Year! And welcome to our annual year-end roundup of the brightest, boldest ways the world improved, evolved or otherwise changed for the better. It’s a randomized bingo-ball tumbler of a list, pulled straight from the pages of RTBC, and we hope it brings you some cheer as we...