Never has there been a greater need for positive news. Record numbers of adults are being treated for anxiety and panic attacks, while the number of young people battling depression has doubled in the last fifteen years, and the mass media are fuelling the fear. Headlines for the past year have been unremittingly gloomy, fogged with recession, war, scandal and environmental apocalypse. Give us a reason to be cheerful, we cry!

Well, here’s one. The positive media movement is growing exponentially online and it’s coming from the grassroots, via green social networking communities, email lists and ...

 

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