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.
Help Greece and go there on a vacation
To help the Greeks go through their economic and political crisis, some have suggested to go there on a holiday. This will boost the Greek tourism industry. You won’t be alone. In the first three months of this year, more than 800,000 international arrivals, which is up 30% from the previous Read More...
Beyond violence: How a white supremacist became a civil rights activist
To bring some sense of balance and perspective around the tragic Charleston church shooting, here’s a story about a former Ku Klux Klan leader who overcame his hatred and moved on to become a community organizer for the civil rights movement. With a video in which Roman Krznaric, author of the Read More...
Obamacare works: Many more Americans have health insurance
The share of poor Americans with health insurance rose substantially in 2014, according to the first full year of federal data since the Affordable Care Act extended coverage to millions of Americans last year. The percentage of insured Americans increased from 61 to 68 percent. The increase is Read More...
Norway to go ahead with biggest coal divestment yet
The fossil fuel divestment movement, which has been taking off since the beginning of this year, just received its biggest boost yet. Norway’s Parliament agreed to sell off all coal investments from its $900-billion sovereign wealth fund. The move will affect some 122 companies to the tune of Read More...
Bitcoin to facilitate money transfers from developed to developing countries
Money transfers from developed countries to developing ones dominate the $582-billion global remittance market. In 2014 only 5 percent of transactions were digital, but the trend is shifting rapidly as mobile phones are becoming ubiquitous in developing countries. Digital transactions offer Read More...
Divestment from coal is good business for French insurance giant Axa
The international fossil fuel divestment movement has been growing steadily, ahead of the U.N. Climate Summit in Paris later this year. The most recent announcement comes from French insurance giant Axa, who is slated to sell $559 million of its coal investments, while having committed over $3 Read More...
The Artemis-effect: How Women are Changing the World
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NASDAQ marketplace experiments with Bitcoin technology
The digital currency Bitcoin is revolutionary because it operates as a decentralized system where transactions take place directly. No intermediaries require. “Blockchain” is the technology underlying the system, by which each transaction is recorded in a public ledger. A recent, fascinating Read More...
Bitcoin’s new competitor to be backed by gold
Digital currency Bitcoin has blazed a new trail away from the established monetary system. In its wake, metals and technology company Anthem Vault is to launch the Hayek on May 25. The new cryptocurrency will be valued at 1 gram of gold at the day's market price, serving “as a more secure store Read More...
Home loans in India help families excluded from formal banking system escape poverty
Informal workers make up more than four fifth of India’s labor force. Many struggle to make ends meet. For them, poverty typically perpetuates since banks don’t invest in poor people living off an informal income. Exclusion from home loans means being forever at the mercy of landowners in the Read More...