Lifestyle
Alongside taking care of other people and the planet, make sure you take good care of yourself. The Lifestyle section at the Optimist Daily has solutions for everyday wellbeing on topics like food, beauty, fashion, and the latest trends. Curious about caring for houseplants, eating plant-based, or parenting tips? It’s all in there.
We get more violent when it gets hotter, we need to figure out why
Police departments across the world know that violence spikes in hotter months and is higher in hotter climates. There are several explanations that include the suggestion that people who live in warmer places spend more time outside, and therefore are offered more opportunity for other people to Read More...
Leading U.S. poultry producer raises animal welfare standards
Perdue, the fourth-largest poultry producer of the U.S. has announced that it will pay for its 2,000 growers’ animal welfare improvements. The company is footing the bill for the retrofitting of chicken houses to include such first-class amenities as windows, perches and more room for chickens to Read More...
A dating app for British Europhiles
It started as a British joke: the dating and social app for the 48 percent of the British voters who didn’t want their country to leave the European Union. But after receiving a huge number of sign-ups since the website went live last week, a real app is in the making. The website asks: Read More...
A soccer field flood lit by foot power
It requires energy to walk but your steps also produce energy. And innovative technology is able to harvest that energy. The soccer field in this picture is flood lit by the running of the players. The same technology can be used in busy streets, airport hallways, shopping centers or discotheques. Read More...
Vintage fashion from recycled cotton
Everyone has heard about the plastic waste ruining our planet by now. But who knows about the 13.1 million tons of textile waste (worth roughly USD 350 billion) the United States alone produce every year? And who knows that 11 million of that textile waste goes almost directly to landfills? Read More...
Colombia to offer tax breaks for development under peace deal
Colombia will offer tax incentives to companies that get involved in infrastructure and social service projects in areas left underdeveloped or scarred by the country's 50-year armed conflict, a government official said. The government and leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, Read More...
As a major zoo closes, 10 reasons to rethink the concept
After 140 years in operation, the Buenos Aires Zoo in Argentina's capital plans to move almost all of its 2,500 animals to natural reserves. Those animals too old or infirm to make the move will stay, but will no longer be kept on public exhibit. The zoo will become an educational eco-park where Read More...
California funds gun violence research because U.S. Congress refuses
The gun lobby in the U.S. is very powerful. Twenty years ago Congress even passed legislation that banned the Centers for Disease Control from conducting public health studies on the effects gun violence and ownership. So, it’s impossible to collect the data about the most effective methods to Read More...
Flying a kite for clean high altitude wind energy
Wind turbines are a wonderful invention, producing clean energy from an abundant natural resource: the wind. Since the oil crisis in the 1970s, we’ve continuously developed new and more efficient wind turbines. The key to an efficient wind turbine is a steady flow of… you guessed it, the wind. Read More...
Online learning offers refugees a first opportunity to enter their new world
Refugees face enormous challenges entering their new home countries. They need to learn a new language, and they have to make sure their skills fit legal and regulatory requirements. The US State Department is posing a solution through a partnership with online education platform Coursera that Read More...