Do you find it hard to fit the gym into your schedule and you just can’t seem to find any time to workout? Don’t worry
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Things Are Good: A Community-Driven Map of Pre-Colonized Land
If you’ve ever wondered about the history of the land you’re on then this website (and app) is for you! The website Native-Land collects historical
Continue readingThings Are Good: Being Lazy Doesn’t Mean Your a Bad Person
Too many of us look at others and think they are no-good lazy people. Think about the person living on the streets or a friend
Continue readingThings Are Good: Economists: Improve the Economy by Empowering Workers
Attacks on unions isn’t anything new, even when workers are asking for safer conditions or a little job security. What is new is that economists
Continue readingThings Are Good: This New Paris Community Demonstrates Sustainable Cities
In the capital of France, the new Clichy-Batignolles development demonstrates how a city can have a carbon-neutral footprint while providing modern living. The development itself
Continue readingThings Are Good: Eating Yogurt Helps Reduce Inflammation
Eat more yogurt to help reduce inflammation inside your body. Yummy yogurt is also good for your tummy. Some recent research has concluded that yogurt
Continue readingThings Are Good: Diamonds Suck; De Beers Gives Up
Back in 2006 Josh Kaufman got married and during that process he discover the sham of modern diamonds – they aren’t that valuable. Kaufman created
Continue readingThings Are Good: Places Erupt Tackles Trolls in Their Newest Video
The Toronto-based band Places Erupt has put a lot of thought into the state of online discourse and decided to share their two cents. Their
Continue readingThings Are Good: Need a Job? Let’s Give Jobs to Everybody!
Underemployment runs rampant in too many sectors of our economy; and this contributes to a long-term unsustainable economic system. For example, people born in the
Continue readingThings Are Good: This Artist Wants You to Buy All His Personal Data on eBay
Oli Frost got inspired by companies earning profit from his data and decided to sell it directly to anybody who wants it. He’s downloaded all
Continue readingThings Are Good: Free Public Transit Throughout Estonia
We provide access to roads for free to car drivers so why don’t we match free access to movement to people who don’t drive cars?
Continue readingThings Are Good: Worker-Owned Companies can Save Capitalism
We’re all well aware of the harm caused by the box-box retailers on local communities and their international suppliers; indeed, the people hurt the most
Continue readingThings Are Good: How to Deal with Problematic Recyclables
Recycling programs still can’t recycle every consumer good, which means that we still need to think about what we put in the blue box (or
Continue readingThings Are Good: GDPR Might Make the Internet Better by Eliminating Shady Businesses
Now that the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is in effect companies are reacting. You may have noticed new messages on websites outlining that they
Continue readingThings Are Good: Science by People for People
To the average person it might look like scientists operate in an ivory tower away from reality, which, can make engaging in scientific issues intimidating.
Continue readingThings Are Good: Stick it to Straws
People are more aware than ever before about the damage to our planet caused by plastics. The whole life-cycle of plastics causes harm from collecting
Continue readingThings Are Good: Bus to the Future
Every couple of years some new-fangled technological solution pops up claiming to fix all of our transit woes. We’ve long been promised flying cars and
Continue readingThings Are Good: Costa Rica to Ban use of Fossil Fuels
Back in 2015 Costa Rica ran on only renewable energy for the first quarter of the year, and since then they have improved. The country
Continue readingThings Are Good: The Last Great Generational War
Baby boomers ensured that the economy, the planet, and their children are now all in a worse condition than when the boomers were born. This
Continue readingThings Are Good: How Oslo Builds for a Sustainable Transit Future
Oslo: The Journey to Car-free from STREETFILMS on Vimeo. Oslo’s transition from car-focussed to people focussed transportation is well underway and is causing ripples around
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