There are smart people out there who are studying the art of happiness. Authentic Happiness is the homepage of Dr. Martin Seligman, Director of the Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania and founder of positive psychology, a branch of psychology which focuses on the empirical study of such things as positive emotions, strengths-based [...]
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Maybe You Can Teach Yourself Some Techniques That Will Help You Feel Better More Often
Posted in Web Sites, tagged happiness, research on January 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The Community of Helpers Is Growing
Posted in Web Sites, tagged nonprofits, philanthropy on August 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Idealist News. Social news for all things nonprofit.
Have You Perpetrated Any Pronoia Lately?
Posted in Web Sites, tagged travel on July 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Ethical Traveler website: Tips on moving through the world with grace Ethical Traveler is a nonprofit organization, founded to “empower travelers to change the world.” We seek to use the economic clout of tourism to protect human rights and the environment.
Practice Focusing on What Works
Posted in Web Sites, tagged happiness, Music on June 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
What are your favorite happy or optimistic songs? For example “Free Energy” by Free Energy or “Mr Blue Sky” by ELO. What songs make you feel alive and wanting to stay that way?
How Do You Feel when You Give Beauty?
Posted in Events, Web Sites, tagged earth, healing on May 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Heal a wounded place on the earth When the places and animals we love are damaged or endangered, we hurt too. But by going to these places, telling our stories, and making simple acts of beauty, we heal the land and claim our place in a world we create with beauty, meaning, and even joy
If You Think You Have It Bad, Tell It to the Medieval Peasants
Posted in Images, Web Sites, tagged inventions, time travel on October 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
What miracles to take with you if you go back in time
Cynicism Is Subservience
Posted in Web Sites on September 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Worldchanging.com Worldchanging.com is a nonprofit media organization headquartered in Seattle, WA, that comprises a global network of independent journalists, designers and thinkers. We cover the world’s most innovative solutions to the planet’s problems, and inspire readers around the world with stories of new tools, models and ideas for building a bright green future. We have [...]
Rebel Growers
Posted in Projects, Web Sites, tagged organic farming, urban renewal on September 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Turning an abandoned industrial building into an urban farm. In 2008, Sweet Water Organics began the transformation of an abandoned industrial building into a showcase of potential living technologies and urban agriculture. We strive to become a resource for job creation and use of urban settings.
Why Ignore the Hidden News?
Posted in Web Sites, tagged dreams on August 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
What if there was a newspaper that reported people’s dreams?
Tune in to Some of the People Who Are Conspiring in Your Behalf
Posted in Web Sites, tagged creativity, inspiration on July 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Manifesto of Encouragement
The Improvements Are Happening Faster Than the Collapse
Posted in Web Sites, tagged future, solutions, sustainability on July 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Not just angry complaints, but constructive solutions
I Dare You to Find Light in the Dark Places
Posted in Web Sites, tagged afghanistan, good news on June 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Is it possible that there’s some good news coming out of Afghanistan? You be the judge.
Pronoia Lifetime Achievement Awards
Posted in Web Sites, tagged hope, magazines, optimism on March 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
These two magazines continue to be wellsprings of crafty optimism and discerning hope and wild discipline: Ode magazine Yes magazine
Find the Hidden Treasures
Posted in Events, Web Sites, tagged obscura day on March 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Celebrate Wondrous, Curious, and Esoteric Places
Notice the Small Miracles
Posted in Web Sites, tagged mirabilia, science on March 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Rob says: “Lifetime Achievement Reward: The Daily Grail is a prime source for the steady flow of mirabilia. As defined in my book Pronoia, mirabilia means ‘events that inspire wonder, marvelous phenomena, small miracles.’”
Pronoia Says: the Future Is What You Make It
Posted in Web Sites, tagged future, letters on March 3, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Send a love letter to the future
Whoever or Whatever Created All This Is Definitely an Artist
Posted in Images, Web Sites, tagged Art, earth, nature on January 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Earth as Art Earth as Art 2
Do You Have the Discipline to Tune Into the Beauty and Truth?
Posted in Web Sites, tagged good news, news on December 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Good News Network I think the press, including TV journalism, has an ethical responsibility, a sacred responsibility, a service mission . . . to make good news just as entertaining (as we’ve made sexy the violence). — Marianne Williamson
What’s the Opposite of Muckraking? Digging up the Good News
Posted in Articles & Essays, Web Sites, tagged good news on December 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Rob says: There’s lots of good news out there. It’s just underreported. The violent crime rate has declined 50 percent since 1993. Every 24 hours, 200 million people make love on this planet. Levels of literacy and education and freedom are steadily growing everywhere. The world has become dramatically more peaceful since 1992, with wars, [...]
Had Enough of Fail?
Posted in Web Sites, tagged success on November 18, 2009 | 2 Comments »
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