Welcome back to our weekly behind-the-scenes glimpse at what’s getting our team talking. Let us know what you think at info@reasonstobecheerful.world. Green medal Paris is getting a lot of press for trying to host a more sustainable Olympics. (Whether they’re succeeding, as Contributing Editor Peter Yeung pointed out last week, depends on who you ask.) Turns out London pioneered similar efforts in 2012 with an athlete’s village that became private housing and an aquatics center and velodrome that were transformed into public amenities. Will says:   For those of us who love both the Olympics and the planet, it’s good to see a notoriously wasteful event at least attempting to be part of the sustainability solution. Keep it civil From Oregon to New York, unarmed civilian response teams are replacing police in certain dispatches to 911 calls. How’s that working out? Editorial Director Becca Worby takes a look at a report from The Marshall Project, which delves into the evidence and finds that, in at least two cities, only one percent of such responses ended up requiring supplemental police backup.  A Crisis Assistance Helping Out on The Streets (CAHOOTS) van, a non-violent emergency response call service in Eugene, Oregon. Credit: Larry Price / Flickr   Becca says:   This is a really interesting look at the successes and challenges of calling on unarmed civilian first response teams. And there’s a podcast about it too, which I look forward to listening to. What else we’re reading Inside the Arts Institution Turning Schoolchildren from the Bronx into Photojournalists (subscription required) Wind and Solar Energy Overtake Fossil Fuels to To Provide 30% of EU Electricity Elsewhere in our channels… Kea Krause’s RTBC story on the revival of Maine’s Penobscot River has been named a finalist in the annual Institute for Nonprofit News awards! Congratulations Kea! The post What We’re Reading: How London Pioneered a Greener Olympics appeared first on Reasons to be Cheerful.

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‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review JamesHoare Wed, 08/07/2024 - 09:01

History is littered with cases of people who, for whatever reasons, just seem to step off the face of the earth, to vanish into thin air. No one seems to be immune to this happening to them, with people of all ages and all walks of life just evaporating, while often leaving behind strange clues. Here we will look at a selection of perplexing cases of disappearances from Australia that have never been adequately solved. 

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