When Reasons to be Cheerful launched, a small group of generous individuals who believed in its mission helped get it up and running. We called them the Founders Club. Today, the Founders Club ...

On a blue-skied summer morning, Place Pasteur in the historic center of Besançon is abuzz with colorful market stalls selling trinkets and antiques. But it’s also here that residents bring a different ...

An initiative connecting African donors living in Europe with small businesses in their home countries is a boon for entrepreneurs.

Plug it in and switch it on — this simple renewables technology could open up the market to huge numbers of new citizens, including renters. Geothermal greenhouses are delivering what climate-minded ...

An initiative connecting African donors living in Europe with small businesses in their home countries is a boon for entrepreneurs.

No one on Earth has done more to promote the power of fungi than Paul Stamets, whose mycology work has earned him numerous patents, millions of followers and a Star Trek character.

‘Climate doulas’ prepare pregnant people for any curveball Mother Nature might throw their way, from flooding to storms to extreme heat. At the heart of this success story is a determined shift from a ...

Peter Yeung is a Contributing Editor at Reasons to be Cheerful. A Paris-based journalist, he also writes for publications including the Guardian, the LA Times and the BBC. He’s filed stories from ...

Greater Besançon has cut organic waste by more than 40 percent thanks to diverse policies — and a good dash of persistence.

See what stories caught our attention this week, including NYC’s mayoral elections and a radical experiment to bring a forest into a preschool. See what stories caught our attention this week, ...

In the vast majority of countries, landfills are growing at an unsustainable rate. According to the International Solid Waste Association (ISWA), 40 percent of worldwide waste ends up in open, ...

The first thing Kristine McDivitt Tompkins had to do when she arrived in Chile more than three decades ago was tear down fences. Demolishing 700 kilometers of barbed wire in the rough terrain that she ...