192 ways the world got better in 2021.
I whine about how quickly bad news spreads and how good news moves so much more slowly. So, as we step into a new year, I'm gathering and sharing as many examples of good news as I can.
This summary is from the David Byrne-affiliated Reasons to be Cheerful blog. Here are just three I pulled at random:
"After a town in Arizona converted a juvenile detention center into a youth hangout, juvenile arrests in the county dropped by 55%.
"The U.S. is phasing out HFCs in refrigerators, which could eliminate emissions equivalent to 4.7 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide by 2050, about as much as a billion cars emit in a year.
"In the past eight years, the number of worker-owned co-ops in the U.S. has increased 36%. The business model offers employees, on average, more than $7 more per hour than standard businesses."
There are 189 more.
Article: The Year in Cheer