This is Good News Friday, where we find some good economic, energy, and environmental news and share it with PP readers. Please send any positive news to dd@peakprosperity.com with subject header "Good News Friday." We will save and post weekly. Enjoy!
Economy
The World’s Best Places to Retire on $200K or Less (Thomas R.)
Life is affordable in Slovenia: A one-bedroom apartment in the capital, Ljubljana, rents for about $600 a month, according to the cost-of-living website Numbeo, and restaurants, entertainment and groceries also are reasonably priced.
All residents must pay for compulsory state health insurance, which provides access to good health care. It’s common to add on private, local health insurance for additional services.
The Optimist’s Guide to 2020 (TS)
>Populism. War. Pollution. Since 2014, Bloomberg’s Pessimist’s Guide has imagined a roadmap of the world’s coming worries. But this year, you can open up the newspaper on any given day and get all the negative news you need.
Are things really that bad? We don’t think so. This year, we’ve decided to take a different approach. Science, technology and changing social attitudes can plant the seeds for a brighter world. So instead of looking at what could go wrong, we’re asking you to look at what could go right.
After an amazing decade in space, these are humanity’s top achievements (TS)
As it turns out, building a rocket from scratch is difficult. Just one private company succeeded in flying a new small satellite launcher during the 2010s—Rocket Lab. After an initial test flight failed to reach orbit in 2017, the company has rattled off nine consecutive successful launches from its New Zealand spaceport. By the end of 2019, Rocket Lab was launching at a cadence of one mission about every month and a half. In fact, of US-based companies, Rocket Lab ranked second in total launches in 2019 with six—ahead of United Launch Alliance and only behind SpaceX.
In a Year of Notable Deaths, a World of Women Who Shattered Ceilings (jdargis)
Before 1972, an educational institution could discriminate against women and still receive federal funding, no questions asked. That changed with the passage of Title IX that year, encoding equity in law. And if there was one person to thank for that sea change, it was Bernice Sandler, who had once been told, in being denied a full-time university teaching job, “You come on too strong for a woman.”
‘It’s Not Christmas for Them Without Us’ (tmn)
Despite the restaurant’s history and the long history of Jewish families eating at Chinese restaurants on Christmas, Christmas at Princess Garden is only a 10-year-old tradition. It started when families, mostly Jewish, asked if the restaurant would open for them during the holiday. “I came to America and started working at 19, and now I’m 66,” Robert says. “I’ve seen customers get married, have kids, and then seen those kids bring in their own kids into the restaurant. We’ve fed people through birthdays, weddings, and funerals. Princess Garden is their family gathering restaurant.”
Be Paranoid About Privacy (tmn)
Yes, it’s up to us to protect ourselves, since there are no federal laws that actually do it. Europe has been far ahead on privacy with its General Data Protection Regulation, but things will finally start to change for Californians like me when the California Consumer Privacy Act goes into effect next week.
Christmas Day around the world – in pictures (jdargis)
Participants in festive costumes jump into the water during the 110th edition of the Copa Nadal (Christmas Cup) swimming competition in Barcelona’s Port Vell. The traditional Christmas swimming race attracted more than 300 participants on Barcelona’s old harbour.
Enjoy Views of a Snowy Yosemite Valley (jdargis)
Early on a Friday morning a couple of weeks back, I caught my first real glimpse of Yosemite Valley.
It was chilly, but not frigid. Silvery clouds blotted out the rising sun, until they were streaked with pale pink and orange. Jenna Schoenefeld, the photographer I was traveling with, and I drove along the Merced River admiring the snow-dusted peaks of El Capitan and Half Dome.
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