With the American Southwest facing a drier future, cities from L.A. to Las Vegas are getting creative about wise water use.

To combat high HIV rates, the Wise Up Campaign is meeting young people where they are: at the raucous Calabar Festival and Carnival.

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Hannah Wallace writes about everything from regenerative agriculture and natural food trends to cannabis startups, maverick winemakers and food justice activists.

Mariel Lozada is the membership manager at Reasons to be Cheerful. When she writes, she mostly focuses on gender, climate and immigration. She splits her life between NYC and Latin America.

One day last November, Luis Maldonado celebrated his 50th birthday with a cake and people he considered his family around the table. A pretty normal scene, except for the setting: the office of ...

Since 2015, Magdas Hotel has helped refugees access jobs — while proving that a social business doesn’t have to sacrifice its bottom line. Companies across the region have vowed to find a use for the ...

As communities recover from the devastation of wildfires, rebuilding offers an opportunity to prioritize resilience to future disasters.

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 ...

Taking workshops in their home languages helps students see being bilingual as something to be proud of — both personally and professionally.

This is part two of a two-part series on ways that coal infrastructure is being repurposed to meet the needs of renewable energy. Read part one here. For four decades, the Oklaunion Power Plant has ...

“Gravity batteries” give former mines a second life — while offering an economic and environmental boost to communities once reliant on coal.