The pressure that has built up in the global financial system since the Fed’s historically rapid rate hiking policy is finally starting to release. The only question is the timing and severity of this problem in Japan and can it be contained? Especially before US election. https://t.co/8eogK2Fh6X — Edward Dowd (@DowdEdward) May 22, 2024

by Brian Shilhavy, Health Impact News: In an event that was barely covered in the western media last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin made a 2-day visit to China to meet with his counterpart, Chinese President Xi Jinping. A lot of the western media coverage seemed to be infatuated with the fact that the two […]

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. Giving back RTBC founding editor Christine McLaren calls Vancouver home, and this week she sent along an intriguing story from her neck of the woods: On Vancouver Island, residents are paying rent to First Nations, The Narwhal reports. The first batch of “voluntary rent” checks was distributed in March through the South Island Reciprocity Trust, which was established last year. One hundred and forty-two residents contributed. Similar programs have been successful elsewhere, including Australia’s Pay the Rent program, which dates back to the 1970s. “We’re living with the ramifications of all these explicitly racist and genocidal decisions,” Simon Owen, a resident who contributed to the South Island trust, told The Narwal. “If we’re serious about detoxifying that, land has to be part of that conversation.” Outdoor ventures California’s first Black-led land conservancy, the 40 Acre Conservation League, has both an environmental and a social mission, according to a story Editorial Director Rebecca Worby shared from the Los Angeles Times this week. The trust recently purchased a 650-acre parcel near Lake Tahoe. Becca says:   The idea is to help the state meet its conservation goals while also “helping humans who don’t see themselves as nature or wildlife lovers develop a new appreciation for California’s fragile ecosystem.” The name comes from the 40 acres that Union General William T. Sherman promised to grant to emancipated slaves after the Civil War. The 40 Acre Conservation League recently purchased 650 acres in Emigrant Gap, California. Credit: Joe Parks / Flickr What else we’re reading This Scientist Has an Antidote to Our Climate Delusions — shared by RTBC founder David Byrne from the New York Times Central Park introduces new pizza box recycling bin to curb rats — shared by Rebecca Worby from NBC New York  The Dream of a Texas Bullet Train Lives On — shared by Audience Engagement Editor Mariel Lozada from Bloomberg CityLab Elsewhere in our channels… A few months back, Contributing Editor Peter Yeung wrote for us about Medellín’s green corridors. It’s an astonishing success story: Thanks to a program that added cooling green spaces, temperatures in the Colombian city have fallen by 2°C, with a further decrease of 4 to 5°C expected over the next few decades. A green corridor in Medellín. Credit: Peter Yeung This week, we were delighted to see that the French magazine Courrier international translated and republished the story. Read the original here.   The post What We’re Reading: ‘Voluntary Rent,’ Outdoor Inclusivity and more appeared first on Reasons to be Cheerful.

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178 years ago today, the Associated Press organized in New York City as a nonprofit news cooperative to reduce the cost of covering the events of the Mexican American War. The original AP was agreed upon by senior members and editors of The Sun, the New York Herald, the New York Courier and Enquirer, The […] The post Good News in History, May 22 appeared first on Good News Network.

In recent weeks Ukraine has intensified its appeals to the Biden administration to lift the ban on using U.S.-provided weapons to strike targets inside Russia. Oleksandra Ustinova, a member of the Ukrainian…

For the last few days, we have been talking about what should absolutely disastrous testimony in Trump’s NYC trial. We say it should be disastrous, because it absolutely would be disastrous in…