Instagram Page “The Happy Broadcast” Features Only Good News, Illustrated

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    Amanda C
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    Mauro Gatti is an Italian illustrator that decided to use his art “to spread some positivity”. His Instagram page called The Happy Broadcast is all about him illustrating the good news from around the world.

    “I wanted to create something positive as an anti-venom to the vitriolic rhetoric that pervades our media,” Gatti writes. “That’s why I want to share some of this year’s positive news from around the world in the hope that it brings you some happiness and inspires you to spread some good news yourself!”

    “Art, technology, food, science, animal rights, human rights… we have progressed in so many categories and it’s necessary to let the world know that, despite having much more to do, we’ve accomplished some amazing things in 2018,” he concludes.

    Below are his illustrations.

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    The number of prisoners in the Netherlands fell from 20,463 in 2006 to 10,102 in 2016. Too many empty cells left the Dutch government looking for other uses for its prisons. So they began to fill them with migrants. The refugees—who will live in the centers for at least six months while waiting to be granted asylum status—are free to come and go as they please, practice speaking the Dutch language and learn to ride bicycles. 🚲😄🏠 Source: World Economic Forum ⠀ #thehappybroadcast #love #instagood #photooftheday #beautiful #happy #cute #followme #picoftheday #motivation #art #instadaily #friends #repost #nature #fun #style #illustration #inspiration #goodnews #art #artist #illustration #goodmorning #goodnews #dutch #prison #immigration #europe

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    Over the past decade, more and more cities around the globe have adopted so called bike-sharing systems, which enable citizens and visitors to pick up bicycles at some point in the city, use them and leave them at another point in exchange for a small fee.⠀ ⠀ Bikeshares are a terrific opportunity for cities. They can help reduce car travel and parking demand, increase physical activity while providing extremely economical transport – historically 10-20% of the cost of a transit pass.⠀ ⠀ The 2 biggest bike sharing companies in China, Mobike and Ofo, can now complete a combined 50 million rides per day. They each boast 100 million registered users, offer their services in more than 100 cities and operate a combined fleet of more than 12 million bicycles. 🚲❤️🌿 Source: CityLab ⠀ #thehappybroadcast #love #instagood #photooftheday #beautiful #happy #cute #followme #picoftheday #motivation #art #instadaily #friends #repost #nature #fun #style #illustration #inspiration #goodnews #art #artist #illustration #goodmorning #goodnews #bike #bikeshare #bikes #bikelife #biker

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    Iceland Airwaves is one of many festivals that signed onto a worldwide Keychange accord to book lineups that are gender-equal by 2022. With more than 50% of Iceland Airwave’s confirmed acts as female, the event promises to be the first major festival to achieve the initiative’s 50/50 gender objective. Let's hope that big festivals like Lollapalooza and Glastonbury will join this movement towards gender equality! Source: The Reykjavik Grapevine #thehappybroadcast #love #instagood #photooftheday #beautiful #happy #cute #followme #picoftheday #motivation #art #instadaily #friends #repost #nature #fun #style #illustration #inspiration #goodnews #art #artist #illustration #goodmorning #goodnews #musicfestival #music #icelandairwaves #genderequality #equality

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    A team of researchers from the University of Maryland, the State University of New York and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center has found that new global tree growth over the past 35 years has more than offset global tree cover losses. By comparing daily readings, the researchers were able to see small changes occurring regularly over a relatively long period of time—which added up to large changes. Over the entire span, the researchers found that new tree cover had offset tree cover loss by approximately 2.24 million square kilometers—which they note is approximately the size of Texas and Alaska combined. Source: World Economic Forum I love all these new tree babies! 🌲❤️ #love #instagood #photooftheday #fashion #beautiful #happy #cute #like4like #followme #picoftheday #follow #me #selfie #summer #art #instadaily #friends #repost #nature #girl #fun #style #illustration #boobs #goodmorning #trees #nature #forest #deforestation #nasa

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    The state legislature passed a bill to make the sale of animal-tested cosmetics illegal within the state after 2020. Plenty of beauty brands worldwide are already 100% cruelty-free but this ban will give beauty brands across the USA a big reason to stop animal testing. The products will include makeup, skincare, shampoos, deodorants, and other personal hygiene products. Not only will the product have to be cruelty-free, but each individual ingredients must be free from testing too. Other countries with the ban include Israel, India, Norway and the EU. Source: Huffington Post #thehappybroadcast #love #instagood #photooftheday #beautiful #happy #motivation #art #instadaily #friends #repost #nature #fun #style #illustration #inspiration #goodnews #art #artist #illustration #goodmorning #goodnews #cosmetics #caifornia #usa #crueltyfreebeauty #crueltyfreemakeup #animalcruelty #beautycare #beautyproducts

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    Scotland became the first nation in the world to guarantee free sanitary products to all students at schools, colleges, and universities. It’s part of a £5.2 million ($6.7 million) government plan to fight “period poverty”—the problems faced by women who struggle to cover their basic needs while menstruating. In a recent survey, researchers determined that approximately one in four students at school, college, or university struggle to obtain period products. The Scottish government also says it intends to make period products free for everyone — not just students. Period poverty continues to be a serious global issue — one that can also lead to mental health issues, such as anxiety or depression. Hopefully more countries will take a step to fix this issue. Source: The Guardian #thehappybroadcast #love #instagood #photooftheday #beautiful #happy #motivation #art #instadaily #friends #repost #nature #fun #style #illustration #inspiration #goodnews #art #artist #illustration #goodmorning #goodnews #scotland #menstruation #tampons #tampon #hygene #school #college #university

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    France is at the forefront of a campaign against chemicals blamed for decimating critical populations of crop-pollinating bees. A radical step has been taken towards protecting its dwindling bee population by becoming the first country in Europe to ban all five pesticides that are killing off the insects. By enforcing the ban, France is going further than the European Union, which voted to outlaw the use of three pesticides in crop fields. Source: The Telegraph Let's all say together "'J'aime les abeille!" #thehappybroadcast #love #instagood #photooftheday #beautiful #happy #motivation #art #instadaily #friends #repost #nature #fun #style #illustration #inspiration #goodnews #art #artist #illustration #love #goodmorning #goodnews #bees #nature #france #enviroment #honey #pesticidefree #pesticides

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    A recent tiger population survey in Nepal has revealed that numbers of these iconic big cats have almost doubled in under a decade. This positive news means that Nepal is set to become the first country to double its national tiger population since the ambitious goal was set in 2010 – a goal to double tiger numbers in the wild 🐯 In 2009, Nepal’s tiger numbers were languishing at around 121 but government, conservationists and local authorities have worked for almost a decade to increase the tiger population in the Himalayan nation to a booming 235, and is all but certain to hit 242 in the next four years. Never forget that saving the planet’s wildlife is a cooperative exercise ❤️ Source: National Geographic #thehappybroadcast #love #instagood #photooftheday #beautiful #happy #motivation #art #instadaily #friends #repost #nature #fun #style #illustration #inspiration #goodnews #art #artist #illustration #goodmorning #goodnews #tiger #animals #animal #nepal #wwf #tigers #wildlife #nature

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    We're seeing an improvement among youth in terms of reading and writing skills and a steady reduction in gender gaps. 50 years ago, almost one quarter of youth lacked basic literacy skills compared to less than 10% in the last 3 years. However, 750 million adults – two-thirds of whom are women – remain illiterate and gender disparity in youth literacy remains persistent in almost one in five countries. The momentum of progress must be maintained and continuing efforts pursued in all countries to ensure that everyone, regardless of age and sex, acquires reading and writing skills ✊ Source: UNESCO #thehappybroadcast #love #instagood #photooftheday #beautiful #happy #motivation #art #instadaily #friends #repost #nature #fun #style #illustration #inspiration #goodnews #art #artist #illustration #goodmorning #goodnews #literacy #books #reading #kids #school #classroom #internationalliteracyday

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    Environmentalists have warned that the world's growing appetite for meat, particularly in emerging economies such as China, isn't sustainable because beef, pork and poultry require far greater resources than plant-based proteins. Cows in particular also produce large amounts of greenhouse gas that contribute to global warming. Replacing traditional meat production with cultured meat would have a huge impact on the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, it would free up a large amount of resources that are now used for meat production worldwide and will completely disrupt an old-established and currently unsustainable industry. A Dutch company that presented the world's first lab-grown beef burger five years ago said it has received funding to pursue its plans to make and sell artificially grown meat to restaurants from 2021. Lab-grown meat may be better for the environment and improve on several health aspects of conventional meat. But for now, at least, it can’t be exactly like regular meat and have no potential health downsides whatsoever. Source: CBS News #thehappybroadcast #love #instagood #photooftheday #beautiful #happy #motivation #art #instadaily #friends #repost #nature #fun #style #illustration #inspiration #goodnews #art #artist #illustration #goodmorning #goodnews #meat #vegan #science #labgrownmeat #food #foodporn #sciencerules #burger

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    In a world of global warming caused by our addiction to fossil fuels, there is an urgent need to find sustainable alternative sources of energy. From just one kilogram of deuterium extracted from water per day could come enough electricity to power hundreds of thousands of homes. It's the same process that powers the sun, and it's clean and – relatively – safe. There are no emissions. If we succeed the future will look much brighter for millions of people on this planet! Source: BBC News #thehappybroadcast #love #instagood #photooftheday #beautiful #happy #motivation #art #instadaily #friends #repost #nature #fun #style #illustration #inspiration #goodnews #art #artist #illustration #goodmorning #goodnews #sun #energy #future #electronics #phone #cleanenergy #renewableenergy #renewables

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    Changes in the American diet—lower consumption of not only beef, but orange juice, pork, whole milk and chicken—meant that the average American's diet-related greenhouse gas emissions dropped from 1,932 kilograms in 2005 to 1,762 in 2014. U.S. beef consumption fell by nearly one-fifth — or 19 percent — on a per capita basis from 2005 to 2014. Eating less beef resulted in pollution reductions equal to removing 39 million cars from U.S. roads. Products from livestock, whether beef or dairy, have come under increasing scrutiny in recent years for their emissions. Raising cattle requires large amounts of land and feed, mostly corn and soy, which is heavily fertilized. Processing and applying fertilizer releases nitrous oxide, a gas with nearly 300 times the warming potential of carbon dioxide. Meanwhile, methane is emitted from cattle through their digestive systems and from manure disposal and it has at least 25 times the warming potential of carbon dioxide over a 100-year period. Consumers should also waste less of the meat they do eat. About 20 percent of edible beef ends up in the trash so if we could cut beef waste in half, we'd improve the sustainability of the whole industry by 10 percent overnight. Source: American Public Health Association Love meat? Start with going meatless once a week 🙂 #thehappybroadcast #love #instagood #photooftheday #beautiful #happy #motivation #art #instadaily #friends #repost #nature #fun #style #illustration #inspiration #goodnews #art #artist #illustration #goodmorning #goodnews #vegan #diet #beef #cow #vegetarian #usa #pollution #govegan

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    China will invest 2.5 trillion yuan ($360 billion) into renewable power generation by 2020, as the world’s largest energy market continues to shift away from dirty coal power towards cleaner fuels. The investment will create over 13 million jobs in the sector and installed renewable power capacity including wind, hydro, solar and nuclear power will contribute to about half of new electricity generation by 2020. Source: Reuters #thehappybroadcast #love #instagood #photooftheday #beautiful #happy #motivation #art #instadaily #friends #repost #nature #fun #style #illustration #inspiration #goodnews #art #artist #illustration #goodmorning #goodnews #sun #energy #future #electronics #china #cleanenergy #renewableenergy #renewables

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    More than half of Asia's elephants are found in India, but the country's elephant population has dipped in the past few years – by nearly 10 percent across 23 states between 2012 and 2017. Last month, the South Asian country opened a hospital dedicated to the conservation of elephants. The facility is jointly run by the conservation group Wildlife SOS and Uttar Pradesh's forest department and is already treating nearly two dozen injured, sick and geriatric pachyderms, which were rescued and had been kept at a conservation and care center. So far, the elephant hospital is attracting both local and foreign tourists, eager to see all of the elephants that have entered into the facility. Source: Taiwan News / Reuters #thehappybroadcast #love #instagood #photooftheday #beautiful #happy #motivation #art #friends #repost #fun #style #illustration #inspiration #goodnews #art #artist #illustration #goodmorning #goodnews #india #elephant

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