This Instagram Account Provides Only Positive News

Instagram account The Happy Broadcast features weekly positive news from around the world. It was created by Mauro Gatti, an Italian illustrator, and designer currently living in Los Angeles.

“I love to draw and I believe that a smile is the cheapest way to be happy, that’s why I am always trying to capture the more comical side of life and make it a simple but funny and rememberable work,” he wrote.

Through his art, he hopes to spread some love and positivity to everyone reading it. This year, he shared 2018’s good news from around the world to bring happiness and joy. Scroll down to see some of the amazing things that happened in the past 12 months.

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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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In Iceland, teenage smoking, drinking and drug use have been radically cut in the past 20 years. For instance, the percentage of 15- and 16-year-olds who had been drunk in the previous month plummeted from 42 per cent in 1998 to 5 per cent in 2016.⠀ ⠀ How? State funding was increased for organised sport, music, art, dance and other clubs, to give kids alternative ways to feel part of a group, and to feel good, rather than through using alcohol and drugs, and kids from low-income families received help to take part.⠀ ⠀ Parents were encouraged to attend talks on the importance of spending a quantity of time with their children rather than occasional “quality time”, on talking to their kids about their lives, on knowing who their kids were friends with, and on keeping their children home in the evenings.⠀ ⠀ A law was also passed prohibiting children aged between 13 and 16 from being outside after 10pm in winter and midnight in summer. It’s still in effect today.⠀ ⠀ How replicable Iceland's model really is remains an unanswered question but it's amazing to think how much sport, responsible parenting and the support from the government can do to shape up a more responsible generation.⠀ Source: Iceland Magazine ⠀ #thehappybroadcast #love #instagood #photooftheday #beautiful #happy #motivation #art #instadaily #friends #repost #nature #fun #style #illustration #inspiration #goodnews #art #artist #illustration #goodmorning #goodnews #iceland #nodrugs #drugs #alcohol #teenager #beer #sober

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