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For Delivery Workers in Latin America, Affordable E-Bikes Are a Superpower
One day last November, Luis Maldonado celebrated his 50th birthday with a cake and people he considered his family around the table. A pretty normal scene, except for the setting: the office of Guajira, the start-up that gave Maldonado a loan for an e-bike that has fueled his work as...
The post ...‘Let the Fire Teach Us’: How L.A. Is Building Back Better
When the 2018 Woolsey fire reduced Carla and Kevin Fern’s modest house in the Malibu hills to ash, they knew they wanted to rebuild. “Where else would we go?” Carla Fern asks, having grown up in Malibu. “Being in a place with deep personal history is irreplaceable. But everyone must...
The post &...What We’re Reading: Air Pollution Is Falling Worldwide
Welcome back to our weekly behind-the-scenes glimpse at what’s getting our team talking. Let us know what you think at info@reasonstobecheerful.world. Clearing the air Global emissions of several harmful pollutants are falling — meaning, according to a story shared by RTBC Contributing Editor Mic...How Stockholm Is Sprouting Healthy Trees From Concrete
When Stockholm’s Traffic Office conducted a general assessment of street traffic in the Swedish capital in 2001, it came to the shocking conclusion that two-thirds of all trees in the city center were dead or dying. City authorities agreed that an urgent response was needed to nurse these leafy u...The Montana City Where Students Are on the Front Lines of Mental Health Support
This story was originally published by Montana Free Press at montanafreepress.org. This story contains discussions about suicide, anxiety and depression. If you or someone you know is struggling with mental health, the 988 hotline is available 24/7 by phone, text message, online chat or video pho...In Green Hydrogen, Experts See an Exit Ramp From Fossil Fuels
This is part two of a two-part series on ways that coal infrastructure is being repurposed to meet the needs of renewable energy. Read part one here. For four decades, the Oklaunion Power Plant has been a fixture on the landscape near rural Vernon, Texas, a town of about 11,000...
The post In Gre...Abandoned Coal Mines Are Becoming the Batteries of the Future
This is part one of a two-part series on ways that coal infrastructure is being repurposed to meet the needs of renewable energy. Read part two here. From Europe to North America, an energy revolution is breathing new life into empty, long-forgotten coal mine shafts — by repurposing them into pla...What We’re Reading: Sowing Seeds of Wildfire Recovery in L.A.
Welcome back to our weekly behind-the-scenes glimpse at what’s getting our team talking. Let us know what you think at info@reasonstobecheerful.world. Seeding change Since last month’s fires in Los Angeles, we have been thinking more than ever about what it means to rebuild — and replant — after ...Vienna’s Refugee-Run Hotel Is Thriving
Entering the lobby of Magdas Hotel around midday, the scene is one familiar from countless trendy hotels around Vienna — the cool-yet-cozy décor and quiet music in the background, locals on lunch break slowly filling the restaurant, a gaggle of tourists checking in at the reception desk, taking i...No Spare Parts: How Great Lakes Fisheries Are Creatively Minimizing Waste
A big lift of whitefish out of Lake Superior weighs about 2,000 pounds for Dennis VanLandschoot, the president of VanLandschoot & Sons Fish Market. But for the fifth-generation family business in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, only about half of that will generate any income. After removing the ...