Things Are Good

You want to be happy? Well then pick up some crosswords or sudoku and get it done as fast as you can. No, don’t question it! Go!
According to some new study thinking fast will make you happy.
Results suggested that thinking fast made participants feel more elated, creative and, to a lesser degree, energetic and powerful. [...]

The Toronto Cyclist Union has started a new campaign to thank drivers who treat cyclists with respect. Watch their promo video below and you can read about it by clicking here.

The “Cyclists Paving the Way” campaign is meant to dial down some of the rhetoric being heard in the so-called “war on the car,” says [...]

The New Economics Foundation has declared Costa Rica as the happiest place on earth.
The New Economics Foundation looked at 143 countries that are home to 99 percent of the world’s population and devised an equation that weighed life expectancy and people’s happiness against their environmental impact.
By that formula, Costa Rica is the happiest, greenest country [...]

We all want a comfortable life and why not? Many people see the good life as a consumerist dream, but there’s no need for that. Here’s a nice article exploring ways to make the most of the world.
On waking
With less time spent working, the choice is yours — sleep in, go for a run, read [...]

“We’ve just seen the first big win in the fight to stabilise the world’s climate”
Green Futures has an interview with Lester Brown and Brown has a neat take on the current state of the human relationship with how we use the environment.
Sound business sense, says Brown. “Unlike the Texan oil fields, there’s no way they’re [...]