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Trucker loses 65 pounds and regains health by shifting to a plant based diet on the road
Okay, the story is from People magazine—not a usual and reliable source for The Optimist Daily. But here’s why this is an important story: Most health care expenses are spent on people who could have been much healthier if they would have followed a different diet. Just imagine what it means Read More...
Football is bringing some distraction to one of Argentina's most dangerous neighborhoods
Rival gangs can cause a lot of harm. The people in Villa La Carcova know this all too well. In what is one of Argentina's most dangerous neighbourhoods, dozens of people are killed here every month. At a local church, children are encouraged "to shoot ball not guns." Photojournalist Sebastian Read More...
Being a manager who is nice results in higher workers' productivity
So some of you still think a leader in the corporate world can get more things done by being rude? "After nearly a quarter century in Fortune 500 company management, I came to the firm conclusion," writes Victor Lipman, "that management civility is a difference maker – not because it’s somehow Read More...
India and Pakistan acknowledge shared responsibility to ensure peace
Tensions between India and Pakistan may soften a bit as their prime ministers sat down today to agree a shared responsibility to ensure peace and promote development. During a breakthrough meeting, India's PM Narendra Modi and his colleague Nawaz Sharif from Pakistan committed to a couple concrete Read More...
Facebook's newest data center to run on wind energy
Your social media use has a carbon footprint, too. Numerous servers in a steadily growing number of gigantic buildings called data centers require electricity to keep us all connected with others and, ideally, liked by them. So it's good news that Facebook's newest data center, in Fort Worth, Read More...
Startup is building a 3D-printed car which will require far less material and energy
Cars may be running more and more on cleaner energy sources like battery power and fuel cells, but some say the manufacturing is dirtier than ever. Divergent Microfactories is trying to change that by building what it has labelled "the world's first 3D-printed supercar." Founder Kevin Czinger Read More...
American Muslims are raising money to rebuild burned churches, giving support to Christian communities
A group of American Muslims started a crowdfunding campaign to help raise money for eight African-American Christian communities in the United States. In the past weeks, in the wake of what happened in Charleston, the church buildings of these communities burned down. Three are believed to arson; Read More...
The many benefits of a camping trip
"Is that weird, taking my Louis Vuitton bag camping?" Fashionista or not—the quote is from reality tv personality and singer Jessica Simpson—camping is good for you. It has a lot of benefits. For one, there are no reality TV shows around. But besides that, there are other perks. Like this Read More...
EU parliament backs reform of carbon market
The European Union in 2005 decided to put a cap on CO2 emitted by more than 11,000 large factories, power plants and other companies. Within the cap, companies receive or buy emission allowances which they can trade with one another. Back then, it was widely considered a key tool in combatting Read More...
Scientists take a significant step towards treating some forms of deafness
We all have tiny hairs inside of our ears, and these hairs are doing important work: they convert sounds into electrical signals that can be interpreted by the brain. If these hairs are not doing what they need to do, deafness is the result, and this problem is behind roughly half of cases of Read More...